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Real Madrid's path to different Champions League title volition person to spell done Chelsea successful the quarter-finals for the 2nd consecutive year.

The gully takes Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti backmost to look his erstwhile club, which was eliminated by a extremity from Karim Benzema successful other clip a twelvemonth ago.

This time, the archetypal limb betwixt the past 2 Champions League winners volition beryllium successful Madrid alternatively of London — connected April 12 oregon 13 (AEDT).

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola besides has a reunion with a erstwhile club.

The English champions were drawn to look Bayern Munich, which has won each 8 of its games successful the contention this play and volition play the archetypal limb successful Manchester.

Bayern doubly kept Paris Saint-Germain forwards Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe from scoring successful the circular of 16.

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The squad volition present look the tournament's starring scorer successful Erling Haaland, who had 5 goals connected Wednesday (AEDT) successful City's 7-0 rout of Leipzig.

"Our squad has shown it tin grip him," Bayern manager Michael Gerlinger said of Haaland, who was with Borussia Dortmund for the erstwhile 2 seasons.

"There are players similar Erling that you tin ne'er 100 per cent neutralise truthful helium is inactive very, precise dangerous."

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The victor betwixt City and Bayern volition spell connected to play Madrid oregon Chelsea successful the semi-finals.

That fractional of the gully includes 4 of the apical 5 teams successful the UEFA rankings by results successful European competitions implicit the past 5 years.

The different fractional of the gully is dominated by Italian clubs with the anticipation of a Milan derby successful the semi-finals.

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AC Milan volition archetypal look Napoli, the runaway Serie A person which is making its debut successful the quarter-finals of the Champions League oregon the aged European Cup.

The archetypal limb is astatine San Siro. Inter Milan volition play astatine Benfica successful the archetypal leg, returning to the state wherever it eliminated Porto successful the circular of 16.

Inter is playing astatine this signifier of the contention for the archetypal clip successful 12 years, portion Milan is ending an 11 twelvemonth wait.

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Inter is ranked No.12 by UEFA and seven-time European champion Milan is down astatine No.36.

Six erstwhile champions who person combined for 34 titles successful the 68 twelvemonth past of the contention were successful the draw.

Only Napoli and Man City person yet to beryllium European champions.

The instrumentality games are scheduled for April 19 and 20 (AEDT).

The semi-finals volition beryllium played betwixt May 10-18 (AEDT) and the last is acceptable for June 11 (AEDT) astatine the Ataturk Olympic Stadium successful Istanbul.

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In the Europa League quarter-finals, Manchester United volition play its 4th Spanish hostile successful the competition.

After facing Real Sociedad successful the radical stage, United eliminated Barcelona and past Real Betis and volition instrumentality to the aforesaid metropolis to adjacent look Sevilla — a grounds six-time champion of the competition.

The victor volition look either Juventus oregon Sporting Lisbon successful the semifinals.

The different fractional of the gully paired Feyenoord and Roma — a rematch of the inaugural Europa Conference League last past twelvemonth won by the Italian squad — and Bayer Leverkusen with Union Saint-Gilloise.

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Belgian nine Union is successful its archetypal play of European contention and is utilizing Anderlecht's stadium for location games arsenic its ain crushed doesn't conscionable UEFA standards.

The Europa League quarter-finals volition beryllium played connected April 14 and 21 (AEDT), with the semifinals connected May 12 and 19 (AEDT) and the last acceptable for June 1 (AEDT) astatine the Puskas Arena successful Budapest.

Anderlecht has its ain location crippled connected April 14 (AEDT) successful the third-tier Europa Conference League quarter-finals, against AZ Alkmaar.

Another Belgian club, Gent, hosts West Ham successful the archetypal leg.

Lech Poznan was paired with Fiorentina and Basel plays astatine location archetypal against Nice.

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