Paris (AFP)
Barcelona, Bayern, Juventus, Liverpool ... Lyon may inherit a cador in the draw of the eighth in the Champions League scheduled Monday (12:00), while the Paris SG, seeded, can expect a more affordable opponent, such as the bizut Atalanta Bergamo.
Poured into the second hat, OL can not face another French club (so not the PSG), nor Leipzig, which was in the same group as Les Gones.
This leaves the Lyonnais a range of opponents scarecrows: Bayern Munich, author of a clear fault in this phase of pools, Manchester City, Juventus Cristiano Ronaldo, FC Barcelona Lionel Messi or Liverpool , the titleholder. Only Valencia seems slightly more within the reach of OL ...
For Paris, 1st group A in front of Real Madrid, it is probably his future opponent who can worry, even if the club of the capital has taken the bad habit of being friable as soon as knockout matches start ...
In the eighth, the Parisians can not fall on the Real, the highest opponent of the second hat, or Lyon.
But Tottenham, finalist last season and now coached by Jose Mourinho, Atletico Madrid, Naples, Dortmund or Chelsea are all possible. And all the big clubs of the first hat dream undoubtedly to fall on the modest Atalanta, which is about to dispute the eighths for the first time of its history ...
First of group:
Paris SG, Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Juventus Turin, Liverpool, FC Barcelona, RB Leipzig, Valencia CF
Second of group:
Real Madrid, Tottenham, Atalanta Bergamo, Atletico Madrid, Naples, Dortmund, Lyon, Chelsea
Relegated to the Europa League, whose draw for the Round of 16 should be held in the wake Monday (13:00):
FC Brugge, Olympiacos, Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkusen, Salzburg, Inter Milan, Benfica Lisbon, Ajax Amsterdam
Eliminated from any European competition:
Galatasaray, Red Star Belgrade, Dinamo Zagreb, Lokomotiv Moscow, Genk, Slavia Prague, Zenit St. Petersburg, Lille
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