Today, the first sixteen matches of the UEFA Champions League, which will be held over two days, will start today, as the teams that ranked first in the league stage will meet with the eight teams that qualified from the qualified attachment for the round of 16.
Today, the attention will be directed towards the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, which hosts the Spanish capital Derby match between Real and Atletico.
Atletico must overcome the burden of history against Real Madrid, where he had previously lost the final match against him, and only three out of ten confrontations against Real in European competitions (tied in two games and lost 5).
Also on the same day, Aston Villa meets with its Belgian host Club Bruges, and the French night will be a guest of Borussia Dortmund, and the Dutch Eindhoven plays with his guest Arsenal.
The confrontation that brings Bayern Munich and its guest Bayer Leverkusen will be one of the most prominent confrontations of tomorrow, as this match is of great importance in Germany because it brings together the German league champions Leverkusen, and Bayern Munich, the leader of the current ranking table.
Bayern failed to beat Leverkusen in the last six games, specifically since Xabi Alonso took over the team in the fall of 2022, and is looking forward to ending this whirlpool and winning and progressing another step towards reaching the final match that will be held at its home on May 31.
The meeting, which brings together Paris Saint -Germain with its Liverpool guest, will attract attention, especially after the French capital team beat its compatriot Prest (10 – zero) in the total of the first leg and return matches in the qualified attachment for the round of 16, which was a message to the competitors that the team will appear completely different in the exclusionary rounds of the tournament, but it must cross the Liverpool obstacle, which leads the league stage and was the best team in that stage.
Dutch Feneord also meets Inter Milan, and Benfica, Portuguese with Barcelona.
