Champions League: Real Madrid to play Chelsea in quarterfinals

Champions League: Real Madrid to play Chelsea in quarterfinals
UEFA Champions League quarterfinal line-up. Photo: AFP/Fabrice Cofrini

Defending champions Real Madrid will play 2021 winners Chelsea in the quarterfinals of the Champions League while Manchester City's Pep Guardiola will face his former club Bayern Munich after they were drawn together in Nyon on Friday.

Real, who beat last year's finalists Liverpool 6-2 on aggregate in the last 16, will be up against another English side after Graham Potter's Chelsea handed Borussia Dortmund their first loss of the year and qualified with a 2-1 aggregate win.

City, who were runners-up in 2021, will face 2020 champions Bayern who were managed by Guardiola for three seasons from 2013. Under Guardiola, they were perennial Bundesliga champions but fell at the Champions League semifinal stage each year.

Reigning Serie A champions AC Milan will face this season's runaway leaders Napoli in an all-Italian clash while Inter Milan play Portuguese side Benfica.

The semifinal draw was also made with all three Italian sides on one side of the draw and both English teams in the other half.

Quarterfinal draw

Real Madrid v Chelsea; Benfica v Inter Milan; Manchester City v Bayern Munich; AC Milan v Napoli.

First legs: April 11-12

Second legs: April 18-19.

Semfinal draw

Semifinal 1: Milan/Napoli v Benfica/Inter

Semifinal 2: Real/Chelsea v City/Bayern

Team drawn first hosts the first leg

First legs: May 9-10

Second legs: May 16-17

Europa League quarterfinal draw

Manchester United v Sevilla; Juventus v Sporting; Bayer Leverkusen v Union Saint-Gilloise; Feyenoord v AS Roma

Team drawn first hosts the first leg

First legs: April 13

Second legs: April 20

Semfinal draw

Semifinal 1: Juventus/Sporting v United/Sevilla

Semifinal 2: Feyenoord/Roma v Leverkusen/Union

Team drawn first hosts the first leg

First legs: May 11

Second legs: May 18

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