Do you know the date of the Champions League final draw? Will Messi and Ronaldo face each other?

On Monday, attention turns to the European Football Association headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, where the draw for the Champions League final round is drawn, with the inevitability of heavy confrontations due to the names of some unranked teams.

And it was inevitable since the group stage draw was withdrawn that the price of the final would witness heavy-caliber confrontations after last season’s runners-up Manchester City placed Paris Saint-Germain (Group I), Liverpool with Atletico Madrid, Italian Milan, and even Porto (second), Real Madrid, Spain with Inter, the Italian (fourth), Bayern Munich with Barcelona (the fifth), and Chelsea, the English champion, with Juventus, the Italian (eighth).

In the group stage, Barcelona failed to qualify for the final price for the first time since the 2003-2004 season, while Milan fell victim to its strong group that Liverpool and Atletico qualified for.

And since Saint-Germain, Atlético, Inter and Chelsea teams qualified for the final price in second place, they naturally face the risk of a tough confrontation while respecting the principle of not meeting two teams from the same country, or two teams that were together in the group stage.

It is certain that all the group leaders, whether City or Ajax of the Netherlands, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester United and French Lille, are a surprise in the first round, and Juventus hope to fall on teams such as Sporting of Portugal and his compatriot Benfica and Villarreal of Spain, the “European League” champion last season, and Red Bull Salzburg of Austria .

As for the coach of Lille, the French champion, Jocelyn Gorvenick, "whatever the draw is on Monday, this is a historic process for our club," who came back from afar and topped his group seven against Austrian Salzburg, with a victory in the last round away from Wolfsburg, Germany, 3-1, to reach the playoffs for the first time since the 2006 season. 2007, when his career ended at the hands of Manchester United.

Gorvinnik, who took over supervision of the night last summer as a result of the departure of Christophe Galtier, who moved to Nice, preferred to celebrate the achievement of qualifying for the final price instead of thinking about the difficult task that may await his team in the price of the final against Inter, Chelsea or Atletico Madrid.

But he may be lucky and put him in a less difficult confrontation against Sporting, Benfica or Villarreal, which will enhance his chances of following in the footsteps of teams such as Germany's Leipzig or Italy's Roma and his compatriot Monaco, which deviated from expectations in the past few years and reached the semi-finals.

Messi vs Ronaldo?

In contrast to the night, which is self-conscious by avoiding adults, his compatriot Saint-Germain will be on the contrary, that is, all the ranked teams hope to avoid the Parisian club, which is reinforced this season by Argentine star Lionel Messi, whose impact of his departure was very clear on Barcelona with the latter’s failure to overcome the group stage after his humiliating defeat In the final round by Bayern Munich, 3-0.

And after, in the past few years, he used to face teams such as Barcelona, ​​Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United and Real Madrid in the final price, Ajax will be the least harsh option among the other options for Saint-Germain in the final price as a result of being satisfied with his victory and the status of his group.

Messi, Brazilian Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and their companions face difficult choices other than that, as the French capital club may meet again with Real Madrid in a meeting that will carry a special flavor not only for Messi and Neymar, but for the other newcomer Sergio Ramos because he will face his former team if he is the heart of the defense .. recovering .

There is also the possibility of meeting Bayern Munich or Liverpool, who are considered the favorites to win the title, after the two teams finished the group stage with a full mark, similar to Ajax, but the latter was in a less difficult group that includes Dortmund, Besiktas and Sporting.

Fans of the game, who are neutral, hope that Saint-Germain will face United in a meeting that will bring together Messi with his Portuguese rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, who returns this season to the “Red Devils” after the departure of the former Real legend from Juventus, which will also be an option for the French capital club in a confrontation that constitutes a knot for the latter, He has never defeated the giants of Turin in the previous eight matches (6 defeats and two draws).

Regardless of the identity of the competitor, the goal of Saint-Germain and its Qatari owners is to go to the end and win the title that escaped the club in 2020 by losing in the final to Bayern, according to what his new Moroccan player, Achraf Hakimi, stressed by saying, "Our goal is to go to the end, no matter what competitor we face." .

As for the Argentine coach of Saint-Germain, Mauricio Pochettino, "there are big teams (as a possible competition in the final price). We will see what fate has in store for us. But we are Paris Saint-Germain and we have to beat all the clubs."

The eight-final matches will be held on February 15, 16, 22 and 23, first-leg, and March 8, 9, 15 and 16 back.

Barcelona in the draw .. "European League" supplement

On Monday, the draw for the playoffs of the European League "European League" with its new system will also be drawn.

And 16 teams will participate in the draw for the supplement, including eight runners-up in the group stage of the second continental competition, and the same from the Champions League after finishing third in their groups, led, of course, by Barcelona.

The winning teams in the continental supplement, whose matches are scheduled for February 17, first-leg and a week later, qualify for the final price to join the teams that topped their groups in the "European League" and qualified directly to this round.

The teams participating in the lottery as seeded are Real Betis and Real Sociedad of Spain, Braga of Portugal, Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia, Lazio and Napoli of Italy, Olympiacos of Greece and Rangers of Scotland.

As for the unranked teams coming from the Champions League, they are Barcelona, ​​Atalanta of Italy, Dortmund and Leipzig of Germany, Porto of Portugal, Seville of Spain, Zenit St Petersburg of Russia and Sheriff Tiraspol of Moldova.

Also, Monday, the draw for the playoffs of the newly created “Conference League” competition will be drawn with the participation of 16 teams, eight of whom were runners-up in their groups and the same from the “European League” after finishing third in their groups.

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