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Right here’s the entire list of Champions League quarter-finalists.
🏴 Arsenal
🇪🇸 Barcelona
🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain
🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid
🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund
🇩🇪 Bayern Munich
🏴 Manchester Metropolis
🇪🇸 True Madrid
Should smooth Spurs followers be hoping Arsenal enact successfully in this competition?
Properly… perchance. Right here’s why.
The chances for the Champions League, courtesy of Betfair
Man Metropolis – 6/4
Arsenal – 4/1
True Madrid – 9/2
Bayern Munich – 6/1
PSG – 11/1
Barcelona – 14/1
Atletico Madrid – 19/1
Dortmund – 25/1
One day at the present time, we’ll doubtlessly hear about UEFA’s revamps of the match.
From 2024/25, the competition might well presumably presumably delight in 36 teams competing in a team allotment. Right here to sigh, right here’s FFT’s Adam Clery…
Right here’s a quiz to preserve you busy…
Are you able to name the 50 English gamers with the most Champions League appearances?
By the manner – now not pleasing the quarter-finals that procure drawn at the present time. The semis will be drawn, too.
Right here is the major time in 14 years that Arsenal delight in reached a quarter-final of the Champions League. Assist then, the Gunners had been knocked out by four Lionel Messi targets.
Mikel Arteta was as soon as smooth an Everton player at the time, Bukayo Saka was as soon as eight years extinct and Messi himself had easiest been awarded one of his eight Ballons d’Or. Oof.
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The main scorers of this season’s Champions League will attain as a shock to pleasing about absolutely nobody.
Erling Haaland, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe all lead the charts with six targets a-piece. In diversified recordsdata, bears enact their industry in the woods.
The semi-finals are going to be drawn at the present time alongside the quarter-finals at the present time, and clearly you don’t wish to enact a scheme for the ultimate. That will presumably presumably be tiring.
With adjustments afoot every in the competition format and in how UEFA enact their attracts, make obvious you savour this competition of pungent self-congratulation as we understand it for the ultimate time.
The team stage is being entirely overhauled into one sizable league of 36 teams, with all facets playing eight diversified opponents.
With so many diversified permutations to take note, UEFA are on account of this truth going to regulate to at the least a partly-computerised computerized scheme, rather then support us all placing on for four tiring hours whereas they work through 900 (sure, 900) diversified balls.
The knockout phases will then be seeded so the discontinuance four facets in the sizable league desk stage can’t play every diversified till at the least the semi-finals.
And to think, extinct Guinevere is pleasing sitting in London’s Science Museum, going to waste. Shame.
It wouldn’t in reality be the Champions League with out True Madrid in the scheme.
The file 14-time champions of Europe delight in won twice as many European Cups/Champions Leagues because the following-easiest performing team in the competition’s prolonged historical past, at the side of worthwhile the major 5 in a row from 1956 to 1960.
The La Liga leaders delight in reached at the least the semi-finals of the Champions League in 11 of the past 13 seasons, worthwhile it 5 times.
True delight in won the entire past eight finals they delight in reached; as such, they delight in now not been runners-up since Alan Kennedy’s gradual strike earned Liverpool a gradual victory in Paris in 1981.
Arsenal aren’t the most easy ones playing a uncommon quarter-final. PSG are through to the ultimate eight for pleasing the third time since 2016. Both diversified times they got that a long way, the Parc Des Princes was as soon as empty, on account of COVID-19. It’s easiest taken them just a few billion to procure this a long way.
5 minutes till the scheme!
With pleasing two English clubs left in the Champions League and country security removed from the quarters onward, it’s a real likelihood that Arsenal will meet Manchester Metropolis in this scheme.
Assist in 1978/seventy nine, we saw the major-ever all-English clash when Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forst knocked out Bob Paisley’s Liverpool – however it’s been a fashioned incidence since UEFA delight in opened the Champions League as much as, err, non-champions. Arsenal’s Invincibles had been knocked out by Chelsea in 2004, Mourinho’s Chelsea by Liverpool in 2005, and Liverpool confronted Chelsea another time in 2005/06, for 2 thrilling 0-0 fits in the team stage (thanks, guys).
In the gradual 2000s, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United all facing every diversified grew to change into more overall (take note the sizable four?) prior to the gradual 2010s saw more all-Prem clashes for the ages – mostly at Manchester Metropolis’s expense. Liverpool knocked out Pep Guardiola’s males in 2018, Tottenham eliminated them in 2019 (prior to shedding the ultimate to Liverpool), whereas Chelsea beat Metropolis in the 2021 final.
How grand enact you understand about the Champions League?
Right here’s our ultimate Champions League quiz to check your recordsdata.
It’s time to welcome Pedro Pinto. The Portuguese-American journalist is Chief of Press at UEFA and abet over another time for the attracts – despite the indisputable truth that it stays to be seen if we’ll see him next at the team stage next season: UEFA are automating the attracts for the league stage. Boo.
One supercomputer reckons Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis delight in wonderful chances this yr.
In step with OCB Ratings, Metropolis are given a 32.5 per cent likelihood of victory. That’s pretty impressive.
Those clubs as soon as another time…
🏴 Arsenal
🇪🇸 Barcelona
🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain
🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid
🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund
🇩🇪 Bayern Munich
🏴 Manchester Metropolis
🇪🇸 True Madrid
Pinto is joined by Deputy Overall Secretary of UEFA, Giorgio Marchetti. Giorgio was as soon as beforehand Director of Competitions at UEFA, accountable for all formative years and skilled membership and national competitions previously.
Marchetti explains that this might well well presumably be the ultimate scheme of its form prior to the match revamp ultimate yr, welcoming on stage, Manchester United Chelsea epic, John Obi Mikel!
We’re about to launch. Vamos!
🏴 Arsenal first out
🏴 Arsenal vs 🇩🇪 Bayern Munich
Kane returns to North London
🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid vs 🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund
🇪🇸 True Madrid vs 🏴 Manchester Metropolis
🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain vs 🇪🇸 Barcelona
The scheme in fat:
🏴 Arsenal vs 🇩🇪 Bayern Munich
🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid vs 🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund
🇪🇸 True Madrid vs 🏴 Manchester Metropolis
🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain vs 🇪🇸 Barcelona
Now for the semis…
Semi-final 1:
🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid or 🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund
vs
🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain vs 🇪🇸 Barcelona
ARSENAL CAN PLAY CITY IN THE SEMI!
Semi-final 2:
🏴 Arsenal or 🇩🇪 Bayern Munich
vs
🇪🇸 True Madrid or 🏴 Manchester Metropolis
Oh, man. What a scheme.
Winners of Semi-final 1 often is the ‘house facet’ of the ultimate.
Which implies that one of Dortmund, Atletico, PSG or Barcelona will be house team, getting the preference to place on their house kit against one of Arsenal, Bayern, Man Metropolis or True Madrid.
That is a marvelous scheme. All four favourites on one facet of the scheme, too.
This is in a position to presumably presumably be a seventh consecutive quarter-final look for reigning Champions League holders Manchester Metropolis, who moreover reached the semi-finals in 2015/16 (prior to that constant mosey on the latter phases began in earnest).
Right here’s how they’ve fared in every of these campaigns:
- 2017/18: Misplaced in quarters to Liverpool (1-5 on aggregate)
- 2018/19: Misplaced in quarters to Tottenham (4-4 – Spurs won on away targets)
- 2019/20: Misplaced in quarters to Lyon (1-3 in a one-legged quarter-final on account of covid)
- 2020/21: Misplaced in final to Chelsea (0-1)
- 2021/22: Misplaced in semi-finals to True Madrid (5-6 on aggregate after beyond fashioned time)
- 2022/23: WINNERS: Beat Inter in the ultimate (1-0)
Reminder that the Europa League scheme is next up, with Liverpool and West Ham in the hat (or bowl)
Kylian Mbappe will be playing his final Champions League advertising campaign for Paris Saint-Germain – a membership who had been absolutely desirous to snort the one completion that has eluded them all through the previous couple of seasons – and they delight in a mountainous likelihood, now.
The French critical person is, for sure, sure for True Madrid. Yeah, they’re somewhat greater at worthwhile it. Ethical yowl, Kylian.
He’s 12th on the list of all-time high-scorers in the competition, by the manner, with 46 strikes in 69 appearances. Good. Four more and he’ll equal his hero Thierry Henry in eighth field – despite the indisputable truth that he has a prolonged manner to head to compare 140-goal file-holder Cristiano Ronaldo.
Despite his exploits and the hundreds of thousands PSG delight in spent, reaching this stage has been more of a rarity than they would like. They delight in crashed out in the round of 16 5 times previously seven seasons.
The two exceptions had been the queer one-legged mid-covid knockout phases of 2019/20, when they executed as runners-as much as Bayern Munich; and the largely in the abet of–closed-doors edition the following season, when they misplaced of Manchester Metropolis in the semis.
Let’s pivot to the Europa scheme, now.
Right here’s the entire list of Europa League quarter-finalists.
🏴 Liverpool
🇫🇷 Marseille
🇮🇹 Roma
🇵🇹 Benfica
🏴 West Ham United
🇮🇹 Atalanta
🇮🇹 Milan
🇩🇪 Bayer Leverkusen
The Europa League scheme will procure underway at noon UK time, and just like the Champions League (and easy white bread), this stage of the competition will be entirely unseeded.
Which implies any aggregate of the 16 teams can play every other, at the side of facets from the the same country…now not that there’s many combinations that apply now.
Liverpool all however booked their field in their quarter-finals by worthwhile 1-5 away to Sparta Prague in the major leg prior to emphatically finishing the job ultimate night.
Right here is the Reds’ first look in the Europa League since they executed as runners-as much as Sevilla in Jurgen Klopp’s first season at the membership, abet in 2015/16.
If Liverpool had been to attain the ultimate in Dublin on twenty second May per chance well, it can presumably presumably also be successfully discontinuance up being Klopp’s final game responsible of the membership – despite the indisputable truth that he would for sure favor to log out at Wembley in the FA Cup final three days later.
The Europa League is the one and easiest competition that Klopp has managed Liverpool in with out guiding them to victory. We whisper it depends on your membership loyalties as to how nice you’re thinking that it can presumably presumably be for him to bookend his time at the membership by sooner or later clinching it, eight years on from shedding in their first final below his price.
There’s a pleasing likelihood we are in a position to be crowning a first-time winner in this yr’s edition of the Europa League: the most easy facets left who delight in beforehand won it are Liverpool (three times) and Bayer Leverkusen (as soon as).
Liverpool are three-time winners of the UEFA Cup, because the Europa League was as soon as identified prior to being rebadged in 2009.
Their ultimate triumph came in dramatic vogue in 2001, when Alaves’ Delfi Geli place through his delight in safe gradual on in beyond fashioned time after the edges drew 4-4 in the rules 90 minutes. It’s miles likely to stay the most easy time well-known European membership competition has ever been settled by a golden goal. (Query your other folks, children).
That victory done a treble of cup wins for Gerard Houllier’s facet that season, alongside the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup. May per chance well historical past repeat itself this yr?
Ensuing from West Ham United, there might well presumably presumably also be six (6) Champions League spots given to English teams next season
FourFourTwo’s Chris Flanagan explains more…
West Ham are turning into more and more conscious of reaching the kind of stage of European competition, with their two-legged comeback victory over Freiburg placing David Moyes’ facet into the hat at the present time.
The Hammers reached the semi-finals of the Europa League two years previously, overcoming Sevilla and Lyon in the earlier knockout phases prior to shedding to eventual champions Eintracht Frankfurt.
They are abet in the competition in spite of finishing 14th in the Premier League ultimate yr on account of having won the second-ever edition of the Europa Convention League, with Jarrod Bowen’s ultimate-minute strike sealing a famed victory over Fiorentina in the ultimate.
10 minutes to head!
Closing yr’s winners, Sevilla, are now not eager this yr.
The Europa League champions for sure create a Champions League field for the following season, and they executed backside of their team, that potential they didn’t even procure abet in as a mosey-off facet.
With no doubt, they might well presumably presumably also below no conditions procure it ever another time, on account of UEFA…
A success it can presumably presumably be severely cathartic to Marseille, who delight in reached the ultimate three times since 1999 however executed runners-up on every occasion; and Benfica, who did likewise in 1983, 2013 and 2014. Continuously the bridesmaid…
Right here is Fernando Llorente to abet with the scheme!
We’re about to kick off as soon as another time…
A lickety-split reminder: initiate scheme, house team drawn first, then we’ll scheme the semis and settle who will ‘house team’ in the ultimate in Dublin. Ready?
🇮🇹 Milan vs 🇮🇹 Roma
🏴 Liverpool vs 🇮🇹 Atalanta
🇩🇪 Bayer Leverkusen vs 🏴 West Ham United
🇵🇹 Benfica vs 🇫🇷 Marseille
What a lineup.
Semi-final 1:
🇵🇹 Benfica or 🇫🇷 Marseille
vs
🏴 Liverpool or 🇮🇹 Atalanta
Semi-final 2:
🇮🇹 Milan or 🇮🇹 Roma
vs
🇩🇪 Bayer Leverkusen vs 🏴 West Ham United
Finally, it’s been drawn the ‘house team’ in the Europa League final often is the winner of semi-final 1.
Which implies one of Milan, Roma, Liverpool or Atalanta will be named first, with Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham, Benfica or Marseille ‘away’.
Which implies that the 2 finals that contributors are most likely most alive to on… are smooth on.
Liverpool are clearly red-hot favourites and they can play both Leverkusen or West Ham in the ultimate. It might well well in point of fact presumably presumably also be the Xabi Alonso derby… or an all-English clash.
An all-Italian clash to stare ahead to in the Europa, too.
Daniele De Rossi faces one of his trickiest tasks yet, as he takes his Roma facet to Milan. With no doubt, all three Italian facets are on the the same facet of the scheme, that potential at the least one will be in the semi – and one will be in the ultimate if any of them can topple Liverpool.
Let’s flip our attention to the Europa Convention League, next.
Right here’s the entire list of Europa Convention League quarter-finalists.
🇨🇿 Viktoria Plzen
🏴 Aston Villa
🇧🇪 Club Brugge
🇹🇷 Fenerbahce
🇬🇷 PAOK
🇫🇷 Lille
🇮🇹 Fiorentina
🇬🇷 Olympiacos
Right here is pleasing the third edition of the Convention League following its introduction to the UEFA calendar in 2021/22.
Roma had been the inaugural champions, with Jose Mourinho’s facet defeating Feyenoord in the ultimate after Nicolo Zaniolo scored the most easy goal of the sport.
One other extinct Manchester United boss, David Moyes, won the following edition too: his West Ham facet beat Fiorentina in ultimate yr’s final.
If easiest Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had been abet at Molde. We might well presumably presumably even delight in gone three for 3.
Right here is the ultimate time the UEFA Europa Convention League will be contested below this name: from next season this might well well presumably presumably be called merely the UEFA Convention League.
That’s the major time Europa has been taken away since Zeus grew to change into himself correct into a bull and carried her away on his abet, we think.
Aston Villa delight in now not got this a long way in European competition since reaching the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1997/98.
The competition was as soon as a straight knockout in as of late, when we smooth had a glimmer in our eyes and our entire lives prior to us, and efficiently navigated past Bordeaux, Athletic Bilbao, and Steaua Bucharest prior to sooner or later being vanquished by Atletico Madrid on away targets.
Ian Taylor was as soon as in severely elegant fee in that advertising campaign, scoring at Villa Park against Athletic, Steaua and Atletico.
Right here’s a thing: Fred (sure, that Fred, formerly of Manchester United) has four assists for Fenerbahce in this yr’s Europa CONFERENCE League.
UNITED WERE HOLDING HIM BACK. Properly, that and now not playing the likes of Nordsjaelland, Spartak Trnava and Ludogorets every week.
5 minutes till the scheme.
OLBG’s odds on the 2023/24 Europa Convention League winner
Aston Villa – 7/4
Fiorentina – 7/2
Lille – 5/1
Fenerbahce – 7/1
Club Brugge, Viktoria Plzen – 12/1
PAOK Thessaloniki – 20/1
Olympiakos – 25/1
🇧🇪 Club Brugge vs 🇬🇷 PAOK
🇬🇷 Olympiacos vs 🇹🇷 Fenerbahce
🏴 Aston Villa vs 🇫🇷 Lille
🇨🇿 Viktoria Plzen vs 🇮🇹 Fiorentina
No longer the top scheme for Villa, there.
Semi-final 1:
🏴 Aston Villa or 🇫🇷 Lille
vs
🇬🇷 Olympiacos or 🇹🇷 Fenerbahce
Semi-final 2:
🇨🇿 Viktoria Plzen or 🇮🇹 Fiorentina
vs
🇧🇪 Club Brugge or 🇬🇷 PAOK
One thing left to enact…
The ‘house team’ in the ultimate will be from semi-final 1.
Which implies that one of Villa, Lille, Olympiacos or Fenerbahce often is the ‘house team’ in the ultimate, with the ‘away facet’ being one of Club Brugge, PAOK, Viktoria Plzen or Fiorentina.
And that pleasing about wraps everything up – thanks for becoming a member of us!