Review On The Champions League Round Of 16 And Europa League Round of 32 Draws

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It's all done and dusted at UEFA headquarters, Nyon, Switzerland , and every team through to the next round of both the Champions League and Europa League now know who they will be going up against.

Let's go through the draws together, shall we?

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UEFA Champions League Round Of 16 Draw:
Looking at the strength of all the teams out there, I would say each team got a fair opponent based on their general performance in all competitions so far although, Lazio vs Bayern and Porto vs Juventus might look to be an exception.

The cruncher ties in this Round, however, will most likely be matches between Athletico Madrid vs Chelsea, Leipzig vs Liverpool, and Barcelona vs Juventus.

The first leg of the Champions League is scheduled to take place on the 16th-17th and 23rd-24th of February 2021, whilst the second leg will take place on the 9th-10th and 16th-17th of March, 2021.

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UEFA Europa League:
Unlike the Champions League where we have almost all the teams facing off against opponents of equal strength. We have teams here that I feel should get easy passage into the next round and they include: Tottenham, Leicester city, AC Milan, Bayer Leverkusen, Hoffeheim, and Shakhtar Donesk.

We will definitely get to watch some cruncher ties as well eg Banfica vs Arsenal, Real Soceidad vs Manchester United, Granada vs Napoli, Lille vs Ajax, and Olympiacos vs PSV Eindhoven.

The first leg of the Europa League is scheduled to take place on Thursday, 18th of February, 2021, whilst the second leg will take place on Wednesday, 24th of February(Tottenham vs Wolfsberger), and Thursday, 25th of February, 2021.

In all, we most likely can't draw our conclusions on which and which teams are likely to move to the next round based on their performance at the moment as a lot can change within the 2 months break available before these teams square off. We can only wait till then whilst we observe their performance during our period of waiting.

Thanks a lot and feel free to drop your opinions and comments.

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