Barcelona could not have it easy after letting the first group place slip away on the last day of the league.
So the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League that took place this Monday in Nyon was relentless with the Catalans.
His rival will be PSG, a classic enemy, current runner-up in the competition and one of the clubs that aspires to hire Leo Messi from next summer.
It is there where Neymar says to wait for him, who is still pending the diagnosis of the ankle injury suffered last Sunday.
The Parisians, who continue with the controversial Thomas Tuchel at the helm, have yet to solve the future of their other great star, Kylian Mbappé.
Real Madrid, meanwhile, will meet one of the great agitators of the competition last year, Atalanta de un Gasperini facing the team's franchise footballer, Papu Gómez.
The Italians, who have reduced their performance this season (they are eighth in Serie A, ten points behind Milan), continue to be a team of extremes.
For example, that league in which he was beaten mercilessly at home by Liverpool (0-5) and then assaulted Anfield (0-2) at the cornet call of Josip Ilicic.
The other two Spanish teams that were opposing to face the great favorites of the tournament, Atlético and Sevilla, did not turn out badly.
The rojiblancos will face Lampard's Chelsea, a team that is completing a notable Premier (it is fifth, three points behind the leader, Tottenham), but which continues with the reconstruction process undertaken by the oligarch Abramovich.
The Germans Timo Werner and Kai Havertz this summer underpinned a group in which Ziyech and Pulisic also make a difference.
The veteran Giroud, by the way, scored four goals at Pizjuán.
While Sevilla will have the Borussia Dortmund of striker Haaland as their rival.
However, the German team is going through a serious game crisis.
He has just fired his coach, Lucien Favre, and has replaced him with his former assistant, Edin Terzic.
The draw was completed with the Borussia Mönchengladbach-Manchester City, Lazio-Bayern, Leipzig-Liverpool and Porto-Juventus matches.
The first leg matches of these round of 16 will be played on the 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th of next February.
The return, on March 9, 10, 16 and 17.
The semifinals are scheduled for April 27-28 (one way) and May 4-5 (return).
Istanbul Ataturk Olympic Stadium will host the final on Saturday May 29, 2021.
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