UEFA Champions League 2020-21 Quarter-final and semi-final Draw Highlights: The UEFA Champions League quarter-finals and semi-finals draws are out. Defending champions Bayern Munich will take on Paris Saint-Germain in last year’s UCL final replay. While English Premier League leaders Manchester City will take on German club Borussia Dortmund. Another EPL club Chelsea will take on FC Porto, who stunned Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus in the pre-quarters and finally 13-time UCL champions Real Madrid will play 6-time champions, Liverpool.
With just eight teams left in the UEFA Champions League, the quarter-final draw is set to take place on Friday (March 19) at Nyon, Switzerland. For the first time since 2004-05, neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Lionel Messi will be a part of the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals stage. While Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus were stunned by FC Porto, Lionel Messi and Barcelona succumbed to a heavy defeat at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain after failing to pull off another ‘remontada’ in the last 16 stages.
It’s the second successive year that Juventus and Cristiano Ronaldo went out in the round of 16 on away goals after its loss to Lyon last season. Barcelona, on the other hand, were blown away by Paris Saint-Germain as the French team won the last-16 tie 5-2, which meant that for the first time since 2006-07 the Catalan Giants did not qualify for the last eight stages of Europe’s most elite club competition.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ SEMI-FINAL DRAW ⭐️⭐️⭐️
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) March 19, 2021
Liverpool/Real Madrid 🆚 Porto/Chelsea #UCLdraw | #UCL pic.twitter.com/oknivCSceW
Bayern or Paris 🆚 Man. City or Dortmund#UCLdraw pic.twitter.com/tIArn7lxw0
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) March 19, 2021
Here are the UEFA Champions League Quarter-final ties:
The road to Istanbul is set! 😍
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) March 19, 2021
Which 2 teams will make the final? 🤔#UCLdraw | #UCL pic.twitter.com/HdgWQRCMHQ
Who will face the wrath of Erling Braut Haaland next?
Who would you like to see Haaland come up against? 🔥#UCLdraw | #UCL
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) March 19, 2021
Along with Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, reigning champions Bayern Munich are certainly the team to beat this season, yet again. This is also for the record 19th time that the German giants are a part of the UCL quarters.
In the quarters for the 19th time 🙌#UCL #MiaSanMia pic.twitter.com/CM30QEmhwU
— 🏆🏆🏆FC Bayern English🏆🏆🏆 (@FCBayernEN) March 18, 2021
The round of 16 was quite interesting and saw big names like Barcelona and Atletico Madrid go out. Among the eight remaining teams, England has the highest representation with three clubs — Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea. While most of the remaining teams are dangerous, one would like to avoid the current champions Bayern Munich and Pep Guardiola’s high-flying, Manchester City.