Real Madrid draws Man City in heavyweight Champions League quarterfinal

Real Madrid and Manchester City will meet in a heavyweight Champions League quarterfinal between the previous two winners and the one two groups nonetheless unbeaten in this season’s competitors.

Madrid will host the primary leg on April 9 or 10 and the return would be the week after in Manchester.

Kylian Mbappé‘s path to a primary Champions League title with Paris Saint-Germain in his farewell season there’ll subsequent undergo Barcelona.

PSG hosts the primary leg as coach Luis Enrique faces his former membership, which he led to the 2015 title with a Barcelona workforce that included Lionel Messi and Neymar — who have been later reunited in Paris for 2 seasons.

Arsenal was drawn to play the primary leg at house towards Bayern Munich, whose star striker Harry Kane will return to north London after leaving the Gunners’ archrival Tottenham this offseason. Bayern followers are banned from that sport as a part of a UEFA punishment for supporters setting off fireworks and throwing them towards the pitch at two earlier video games this season.

Atletico Madrid was paired with Borussia Dortmund in the opposite sport.

UEFA additionally made the draw for the semifinals which ensured Mbappé and PSG can not meet Real Madrid — the workforce he’s anticipated to hitch in the summer season — till the ultimate.

That draw arguably put the 4 strongest groups in the identical half. When the new Champions League format takes effect next season, the 2 strongest groups in the expanded eight-game first part shall be seeded in a tennis-style knockout bracket and couldn’t meet till the ultimate.

This time, the winner between Real Madrid and Man City — who have been the one groups to win all six video games in the group stage — shall be away in the primary leg towards Arsenal or Bayern.

Atletico or Dortmund will host the primary leg towards PSG or Barcelona.

There was a well-known and highly effective look to the draw. It featured 5 European champions — who’ve mixed to win 27 of the earlier 68 titles — and three crushed finalists: Arsenal, Atletico and PSG.

The semifinals are performed between April 30 and May 8. The last is on June 1 at Wembley Stadium in London.

Reporting by The Associated Press.