Ahmed al-Sibai

Although the Champions League final price matches will take place after more than two months, the identities of the teams facing in this round and their ranking in their local championships and levels provided so far this season give indicators of the teams that may cross to the quarter-finals of the main continental competition.

No two differ in the fact that confronting Real Madrid and Manchester City is the most difficult, because it is between two of the strongest teams in the world, and they offer remarkable levels in recent years, and this will make the confrontation close and resolve small details, and speculating the identity of the winner is an almost impossible task.

The king holds the record by winning the title of the main continental competition with 13 titles, including three consecutive titles won under the leadership of the current coach Zinedine Zidane, and he occupies second place in the League table, compared to a team coached by Spanish Pep Guardiola, who searches with his team for the first first titles of the last in the competition The mainland continent, and the team that won two consecutive Premier League titles has retreated, ranking third in the table, 14 points behind leaders Liverpool.

The two teams are locked in a confrontation that will revive Saddam's memories of the two teams in the semi-finals of the championship in 2016, and Al-Malaki qualified its time for the final by winning with a clean goal in the first leg of the home and away matches.

The second match in terms of strength and competition is facing the defending champions Atletico Madrid and Liverpool, that is, the meeting of the strongest attack line in Europe and the world at present with one of the best teams that implement defensive plans led by Diego Simeone, and the confrontation tends to the European champion and the leader of the Premiership table, which is moving steadily towards his title. The first in the championship since 1990.

Although "Roquebelancos" reached the final of the competition three times (twice in the new system), it failed to raise the cup with two ears, as it offers a volatile level this season and occupies the fifth place in the table of the League, with a difference of six points from the riyal and Albersa dual lead.

Chelsea and Bayern Munich face third in terms of the degree of difficulty, although the difference is clear in the level that favors the Bavarian giant, but the history of the "Blues" who won the title once may create a problem for Bayern.

Bayern Munich, who won five titles, offers a stable and local performance, including the continent, as it is the only team that qualified for the final price of the full score, achieving six wins, including a round-trip win over Tottenham, Chelsea, coach by Frank Lampard, and the confrontation will bring back the memories of the 2012 final, where Lampard was the leader of Chelsea who He beat Bayern Munich in his home match in the final to crown the title.

The London team is fourth in the Premier League table, twenty points behind leaders Liverpool.

In an open match on surprises, German coach Saint-Germain Thomas Tochel returns to Dortmund to meet his former team, the Parisian team devoured the teams in the domestic league and qualified well from the top of the group that included Real Madrid, while Dortmund offers a level that is not fixed locally, but rose For the final price of the death set that included Barcelona and Inter, the Parisian team tops the French league table with a comfortable lead, while "Black Festival" takes third place in the German league table, four points behind leaders Leipzig.

Sports experts, analysts and followers believe that facing Napoli and Barcelona will be within the reach of Messi companions who lead the League table against a locally volatile team, dismissed his former coach Ancelotti and appointed his Italian Gattuso, who lost to Parma in his last game in the league and fell to eighth.

The Juventus confrontation, which has been described as the most fortunate in this role, as the French technically dilapidated Lyon team will face the eighth and afflicted with the injuries of its star players, is led by Dutch Memphis Depay.

As for the confrontation of Atlanta and Leipzig, it is the most balanced between the two teams that reach the price of the final of the competition for the first time in their history, they are similar in level and their history is modest in the round witch, the first occupies sixth place in the Italian League, while the German team leads the domestic league with great surprise.

The first-legged matches will be played on February 18, 19, 25 and 26 next February, and the return matches on 10, 11, 17 and 18 March. The rest of the tournament will be drawn on March 20, and the final match of the tournament will be held in Istanbul on May 30.