While the last four matches of the last 16 games ended this weekend, the final of the made over Champions League kicks off this week with the quarter-finals to a match in Portugal.
The last 8 clubs head to Lisbon, where a script will follow the name. At the end of the race from 12 to 23 August towards the final, the European club champion will be crowned in circumstances. The coronavirus pandemic put the Champions League on hold as the national seasons ended, and the result is a changed format, where the 8 groups are in a city for one-legged clashes instead of the two maximums of the same age played at the original venues. Training
The quarter-finals will come with a match played for 4 days from Wednesday, with the matches, in the following order: Atalanta vs PSG, Atletico Madrid vs RB Leipzig, Barcelona vs Bayern Munich, Manchester City against Lyon.
The winner of the first two matches and the last two matches, respectively, will face off in the semi-finals on 18 and 19 August before the final on 23 August.
Here’s how the 8 contenders compare, and who is the best productive placed to lift the trophy and crown the maximum seasons in Europe:
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Quarter-final match: vs Barcelona, Friday at 3 p.m. ET
Saturday’s 4-1 victory over Chelsea Bayern’s 26th win in their last 27 games. Since Hansi Flick replaced Niko Kovac, the ruthless, blustery old man has returned, and Bayern turn out to be by far the most productive team in Europe.
Every branch of the team looks strong. Manuel Neuer may not be the player he was, but he is still a wonderful goalkeeper. David Alaba and Jerome Boateng rejuvenated the move of Alaba towards the middle after alphonso Davies emerged as a left-back. Joshua Kimmich and Thiago Alcantara own the possession, and there is a super-speed in the feed speeds, in addition to the most productive forward center of the global in its current form, Robert Lewandowski. Bayern press harder than anyone. His direction is complicated – Barcelona and potentially Manchester City will triumph at the top – but there is no denying that it is the top aspect that remains and the one that has a hat-trick in sight.
Quarter-final match: vs Lyon, Saturday, 3:00 p.m. ET
With the ball, Manchester City remains a perfect team, possibly lacking the cruelty in the face of the purpose that Sergio Aguero would have fully recovered from his knee surgery.
In two rounds, Man City absolutely dominated Real Madrid, with Gabriel Jesus leading the press while Kevin De Bruyne pulled the strings in the middle of the field. The doubt lies in his defensive position. The city has glass jaws opposite groups that can break its press. Pep Guardiola’s groups have become accustomed to wasting important matches for the balls played on the baseline, and this season this challenge has also happened against low- and middle-table groups.
Quarter-final match: vs RB Leipzig, Thursday, 3:00 p.m. ET
The two positive coronavirus tests revealed on Sunday, in Sime Vrsaljko and Angel Correa, are an imaginable complication, but assuming they do not presage a wider infection within the team, Atletico is in a much larger position than it would have been if the fourth -The finals had originally disappeared as originally planned in March.
He had gone through another season of frustrating attempts to transition to a supposedly more progressive technique and seemed in danger of lacking the most sensible four in La Liga. However, since he resumed the game, he has won seven games and tied 4 of 11 games and once back he seems his solid family, subsidized through a third place in Spain. Given how often it was dismissed via Real Madrid, it will also have to be a condiment to have gone further at the festival than its local rival for the first time since 1996-97. Facing an RB Leipzig team that has wavered to the bottom line in the Bundesliga and will not have Timo Werner and will avoid Bayern, Man City or Barcelona until the end are also benefits for Diego Simeone’s team.
Quarter-final match: vs PSG, Wednesday, 3:00 p.m. ET
Although only two former champions remain, Atalanta is the only team that really opposes mega-microfinance, and there is also a romance in the way it plays. Gian Piero Gasperini’s enthusiastic pressures and attacks may not be viable in the long run, but it’s a laugh for the duration, and it’s simple to believe that Paris Saint-Germain is shaken by Atalanta’s intensity, partly because everyone is, and partly. because no team from France would dare play like that in front of them.
Quarter-final match: Atalanta, Wednesday 3pm ET
PSG has never reached the champions of the Champions League and has never been complicated beyond the quarters under its Qatari ownership. Perhaps no aspect feels the stress of waiting for success. The PSG is almost ridiculously dominant in France: there has not been a single French national triplet until six years ago, since the PSG won 4, and that turns out to pass against them, opposed to the first-class European opposition, because it is only being used. be challenged. There is no doubt that his team is strong enough to win the Champions League, even with doubts about Kylian Mbappé’s injury; the question is whether Thomas Tuchel fixed it and disciplined him enough to deal with an unknown threat.
Quarter-final match: vs Bayern Munich, Friday, 3:00 p.m. ET
Although Lionel Messi exists, anything is possible, however, it is as weak as a Barcelona that there has been for at least a decade and a half. The team, in which huge sums of cash have been spent, is inconsistent, the midfielder strained through a line of attack that no longer can or no longer needs to press.
Antoine Griezmann probably intended to speed up to this third striker, but he didn’t care about Messi and Luis Suarez and is less effective from the left. The coach, Quique Setien, Array at best, third team after Ernesto Valverde, who had won the name of La Liga in his last two seasons at the club, was fired while Barcelona was the most sensitive of the standings at the time. Increasingly, it turns out that the challenge is less for the coach than for the players and coaches who signed them.
The road to Portugal is also very difficult, with a first against Bayern Munich.
Quarter-final match: vs Atletico Madrid, Thursday, 3:00 p.m. ET
Leipzig has been very good at sending Tottenham in the last 16 games and may have taken on a serious challenge in the Bundesliga this season, but without being used to tying matches, he has won.
This failure to prove his luck was not helped by Werner’s departure, sold to Chelsea and, shamefully, allowed to leave to sign for his new club before the end of this season with the previous one. Julian Nagelsmann is still a very smart coach at the helm of a wonderful team, but without Werner coming from the left, Leipzig will not have the same threat.
Quarter-final match: vs Manchester City, Saturday, 3:00 p.m. ET
Lyon finished seventh in Ligue 1 last season, which shows how unexpected it is that it has come this far, and also how bad it has been for Juventus in the round of 16. Rudi Garcia created a defensive team. (less than a purpose consistent with the game awarded in the league and no more than two leaks in a Champions League game this season), and the postponement of the festival means that Memphis Depay, who suffered a serious knee injury in December, will participate.
The abandonment of the French league season means that Lyon has played little recently, but the two matches he controlled: a loss in the penalty shootout against PSG in the League Cup final after a 0-0 draw, and a 2–1 loss to Juve. . who took the club through the tiebreaker of visitor goals – I recommend some resolution. However, this can lead to a team so far, and a quarter-final opposed to Man City will check that resolution.