It is reduced to the last eight teams in the UEFA Champions League, which return to action this week in Paramount+ while the group continues to assault its path to the end of May 31 at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
Real Madrid’s tie with Arsenal is possibly the main act of the quarterfinals, although each confrontation comes with its own convincing narratives. The reigning champions are technically in Treble Watch, like Barcelona, their competitor for the three titles that will face the finalists of the Champions League last season, Borussia Dortmund. Paris Saint-Germain and Inter are also in search of acute, although with very different tasks ahead. A young and exciting PSG faces Aston Villa, who is in the midst of a memorable season after four decades of the Champions League, while Inter faces a Bayern Munich team that must try its winning value of the title after some ups and downs in the European game.
Two -legged ties begin on Tuesday and extend until April 16, with equipment advancing based on the aggregate score. As always, extra time and penalties will come into play in the second stages as necessary.
This is what you need to know before another round of matches of the League of High Risk Champions.
How to look
As usual, Paramount+ will serve as a unique window for the entire coverage of the Champions League this week, with supplementary coverage in CBS Sports Network, CBS Sports Golazo Network and YouTube. The program prior to the UEFA Champions League match will be broadcast on Paramount+ and CBS Sports Golazo Network both on Tuesday and Wednesday, while Paramount+ will broadcast the four games, as well as the goal show. The coverage after the game will be broadcast on Paramount+ and CBS Sports Network, while CBS Sports Golazo Network and YouTube will have a new episode of the Champions Club. The coverage of each day is completed with a new episode of CBS Sports Golazo Network.
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Stories for the quarterfinals
1. Real Madrid, Arsenal Meet in the middle of the imperfection season
Each week of the Champions League forces the same question: What version of Real Madrid will appear? This season has been far from direct from the reigning champions, especially during the phase of the league when they lost three times. Things have returned to their favor since then, with the whites beating Manchester City and Atlético de Madrid on the way to the quarterfinals. He creates an argument that Carlo Ancelotti’s side is reaching its maximum point at the right time, but this month’s link against Arsenal will test that theory.
Real Madrid has not maintained a clean sheet in its last eight and has been involved exclusively in the games that were decided by a goal, except a draw, during that section. They have been defensively vulnerable frequently and have needed the total power of their All-Star attack to balance things, although that has not always been a winning strategy: they lost 2-1 against Valencia on Saturday after Vinicius Junior lost a penalty. However, no one has the strange ability to survive disappointing games such as Real Madrid, which keeps them among the favorites to win everything.
While Real Madrid seems to have drawn the difficult way of the quarterfinals, Arsenal has taken the softest path towards this round at the end of the first eight in the phase of the League and hitting the PSV in the 16 Round of 16. A confrontation against Real Madrid will be the first real test of the gain potential of the title of the Gunners, although they will not be with full strength for these games. Although Bukayo Saka has returned, but Gabriel and Jurien Timber will lose the quarterfinals due to injuries. It raises real questions about the Arsenal’s ability to do a big enough test for Real Madrid, especially the gunners aim to reach the semifinals of the Champions League in the first time in almost two decades.
2. PSG, Aston Villa Battle for a place in the semifinals
It may have been difficult to imagine Paris Saint-Germain or Aston Villa as a possible semifinalist of this competition once, but both parties have done hard work to be on the cusp of a place in the Final Four. However, they will have to go through each other first, preparing one of the most fascinating ties in the schedule in the quarterfinals.
The PSG beat Liverpool in the 16 round and proved to be one of the most entertaining teams in Europe along the way, demonstrating that Mbappe Post-Kylian’s vision of Luis Enrique for the team is very in a trend in the right direction. Villa, in theory, presents a less discouraging task than Liverpool, but the side of the Osai Emery has improved since it added Marcus Rashford and Marco Ascensio to the fold in the winter. A couple of competitive weeks could be reserved for these two teams, and that is without the entire narrative involved: Emery and Ascencio face their old club (or parent club, in the case of the latter), while Emery lost to Enrique’s Barcelona in Los Angeles comeback in 2017, when Enrique’s side returned from a 4-0 deficit to advance.
3. Inter, Bayern aims to demonstrate its value
Inter’s clash with Bayern Munich It carries the feeling of a classic confrontation of the Champions League Between two of the most successful clubs in the competition, although this draw could reveal which of these teams really has that brightness.
The Italian side has been the image of the consistency this season, even in Europe, where they achieved a position of the eight best in the phase of the League and handled their 16 draw against Feyenoord with relative ease. It must be argued that this current group comes with the seriousness of the reputation and the aspirations of the club, especially because they only have two years of appearance in the final. It could be said that the responsibility is in Bayern to maintain their end of the offer, although they went through Bayer Leverkusen in the 16 round and have a dominant advantage of the Bundesliga, so far they have had a campaign of the Champions League above and down. This draw will be the perfect test for the Vincent Kompany team to demonstrate how serious they are, or how much work should be done to address last year’s failures.
