{"id":494438,"date":"2026-02-27T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494438\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:23:07","slug":"champions-league-last-16-draw-manchester-city-face-real-madrid-chelsea-get-psg-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494438\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League last-16 draw: Manchester City face Real Madrid, Chelsea get PSG | Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

The draw for the Champions League<\/a> last 16 has produced some intriguing, heavyweight clashes featuring the renewal of old rivalries. If Manchester City\u2019s meeting with Real Madrid arguably ranks foremost among them, Chelsea\u2019s engagement with the holders, Paris Saint-Germain, and Newcastle\u2019s duel with Barcelona are certainly not lacking in glamour.<\/p>\n

Or, in the case of Chelsea and PSG in particular, edge. The tie is a repeat of last summer\u2019s Club World Cup final in New Jersey, which Chelsea won 3-0<\/a> thanks to two goals from Cole Palmer and with a team under the management of Enzo Maresca.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited,\u201d said Liam Rosenior, Maresca\u2019s successor. \u201cPSG are fantastic. I\u2019ve experience of playing them in France [as Strasbourg manager] and I\u2019ve always admired them. Luis Enrique has done a fantastic job there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the games you live for, games that you come into football for. It\u2019s going to be a great tie.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Rosenior\u2019s three fixtures against PSG at Strasbourg he won one, drew one and lost one.<\/p>\n

Liverpool, meanwhile, will return to Istanbul as part of a tricky rematch with Galatasaray. Arne Slot\u2019s side lost 1-0 in Turkey<\/a> in a September league-phase meeting.<\/p>\n

Arsenal have been handed a somewhat kinder draw in Bayer Leverkusen as they continue to compete on four fronts \u201cWe\u2019re really excited,\u201d said Mikel Arteta. \u201cLet\u2019s try to be there until the last stage of every competition. And then we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

How the Champions League shapes up from the last 16 all the way to the final on 30 May. <\/a><\/p>\n

A Tottenham team likely to be prioritising Premier League survival will meet Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, meaning a swift reunion for Conor Gallagher, who joined Spurs from the Spanish club in January<\/a>. With all 16 teams provided with a route map to the semi-finals, Atl\u00e9tico\u2019s Diego Simeone and Tottenham\u2019s Igor Tudor also know their sides are playing for a quarter-final date against either Barcelona or Newcastle. Should Spurs keep progressing, a north London semi-final against Arsenal is a possibility.<\/p>\n

If Arsenal overcome Leverkusen, they will meet the winner of Bod\u00f8\/Glimt versus Sporting in the last eight while Liverpool<\/a> could face Chelsea, which would no doubt reignite memories of their Champions League battles from previous decades.<\/p>\n

Should Manchester City<\/a> make it past Madrid in what will be a fifth Champions League knockout meeting in five years, Pep Guardiola could be set for a potential reunion with Bayern Munich on the basis that they overcome Atalanta, Italy\u2019s remain representative in the competition, in the last 16.<\/p>\n

Newcastle\u2019s meeting with Barcelona will reprise evocative memories of Sir Bobby Robson, who managed both clubs, as well as Faustino Asprilla\u2019s treble at St James\u2019 Park during a 3-2 Champions League win over the Spanish giants in 1997. The two sides also met at St James\u2019 Park in September, with Hansi Flick\u2019s side winning the league-phase encounter 2-1 thanks to two goals from Marcus Rashford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the Europa League, Nottingham Forest have been drawn against Midtjylland with the Danes doubtless bolstered by memories of their 3-2 win at the City Ground<\/a> in the league phase in October. With Aston Villa, who face Lille, in the same side of the draw as Forest, there is no prospect of an all-English final, although they could clash in the semis.<\/p>\n

Villa and Lille crossed swords in a Conference League quarter-final two years ago, with Villa prevailing follow a rather chaotic penalty shootout<\/a> featuring some theatrics from Argentinian goalkeeper Emiliano Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace will face AEK Larnaca of Cyprus in the last 16 of the Conference League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The draw for the Champions League last 16 has produced some intriguing, heavyweight clashes featuring the renewal of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-494438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}