FC Porto and Benfica, with rare heads of series, face their rivals this Monday in the round of 16 of the Football Champions League, in a draw in which they can still ‘catch’ a ‘shark’ ‘.
The two teams, located in pot 1, as winners of the respective groups of the first phase, will meet in pot 2, knowing that the ‘eagles’ will not be able to tie with Paris Saint-Germain, of Danilo Pereira, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes and Renato Sanches, and ‘dragons’ with Club Bruges, their opponent in the group stage.
For the rest, Benfica and FC Porto can find Liverpool, led by Diogo Jota and Fábio Carvalho, probably the most feared rival in pot 2, the Italians from Inter Milan and AC Milan, led by Rafael Leão, or the Germans from Eintracht Frankfurt, by Aurélio Buta, Leipzig, by André Silva, or Borussia Dortmund, by Raphaël Guerreiro.
Benfica can also face Club Brugge and FC Porto against Paris Saint-Germain, with the exception of the impossibility of the ‘eagles’ against the French, since they have already faced them, and of the Belgians against the ‘dragons’, within the same context.
Among the top seeds of the series, and therefore, for now out of the way of FC Porto and Benfica, are the champion Real Madrid, the Italians of Napoli, of Mário Rui, the English of Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City , by Rúben Dias, João Cancelo and Bernardo Silva, and the Germans from Bayern Munich.
The Champions League draw is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. (Lisbon time), just before the draws for the Europa League (12:00 p.m.), with Sporting in the playoffs, and the Europa League (13 :00 hours), with Sporting de Braga
Sporting, eliminated in the Champions League, third in their group, enters the Europa League play-off, in which they will draw with the remaining third parties to find one of the second in the second UEFA competition, to try be present in the round of 16.
The scenario means that Sporting can meet Roma, José Mourinho and Rui Patrício, PSV Eindhoven, Rennes, Union Berlin, Diogo Leite, Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo, Bruno Fernandes and Diogo Dalot, Midtjylland, Nantes or Monaco, by Gelson Martins.
In the Europa League, Sporting de Braga, relegated to third place in the Europa League group stage, will play the ‘play off’ to access the ‘eighth’ against a team that finished the group stage of the third competition in second position of your group.
On Braga’s path are Fiorentina, Anderlecht, by Fábio Silva, Partizan Belgrade, Dnipro, Gent, Cluj, by Zé Gomes, Basel and Lech Poznan, by João Amaral, Joel Pereira, Pedro Rebocho and Afonso Sousa.
Drums Draw (Eighth Finals):
– Champions League:
Pot 1: Napoli (Ita), FC PORTO (POR), Bayern Munich (Ale), Tottenham (Ing), Chelsea (Ing), Real Madrid (Esp), Manchester City (Ing) and BENFICA (POR).
Pot 2: Liverpool (Ing), Club Brugge (Bel), Inter Milan (Ita), Eintracht Frankfurt (Ale), AC Milan (Ita), Leipzig (Ale), Borussia Dortmund (Ale) and Paris Saint-Germain (Fra ) .
– Europa League (play off to access the round of 16):
Pot 1: PSV Eindhoven (Hol), Rennes (Fra), Union Berlin (Ale), Roma (Ita), Manchester United (Ing), Midtjylland (Din), Nantes (Fra) and Monaco (Fra).
Pot 2: Ajax (Hol), Bayer Leverkusen (Ale), FC Barcelona (Esp), SPORTING (POR), Salzburg (Aut), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ucr), Sevilla (Esp) and Juventus (Ita).
– Europa Conference League (access to the playoffs of the round of 16):
Pot 1: Fiorentina (Ita), Anderlecht (Bel), Lech Poznan (Pol), Partizan Belgrade (Ser), Dnipro (Ucr), Gent (Bel), Cluj (Rom) and Basel (Sui).
Pot 2: Bodo/Glimt (Nor), AEK Larnaca (Chp), Ludogorets (Bul), SPORTING DE BRAGA (POR), Sheriff (Mol), Lazio (Ita), Qarabag (Aze) and Trabzonspor (Tur).
Source: TSF
