Attention, shocks in sight: Real Madrid find Liverpool on Tuesday in the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League, in a reissue of the 2018 final poster, while Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City are measured against Borussia Dortmund.
Defending champion Bayern Munich will host their 2020 runners-up, Paris SG, on Wednesday, while Porto will host Chelsea. Three years after the Real Madrid-Liverpool final, Zinedine Zidane and Jürgen Klopp meet in Madrid on Tuesday.
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In the meantime, the French left, then found the bench of the White House, current 2nd in La Liga.
And the German technician brought Liverpool back to the big leagues, with a Champions League, a European Super Cup and a Club World Cup in 2019, and in 2020 the English Championship that the Reds had coveted for three decades.
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This poster between two clubs which add up 19 European crowns (13 for Real, 6 for the English) remains a classic, even if this year, they appear not very dominant in their respective champions. Real have raised the bar, remaining on an 11-game unbeaten streak. The same goes for Liverpool which, after a catastrophic start to 2021, remains on three consecutive successes.
The stakes will also be high for Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City team: to cross, against Dortmund, the stage of the quarter-finals in C1, an unbeatable milestone since the arrival in England of the Catalan coach.
In the eighth, the Citizens let their ambitions filter by outclassing Mönchengladbach. And will come with the best European defense (26 goals conceded since the start of the season) against the Ruhr club, which remains on an elimination against Paris SG in the round of 16 last season.
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Quarter-finals program
Tuesday April 6 (return matches April 14)
(21h00) Manchester City (ENG) – Dortmund (GER)
Real Madrid (ESP) – Liverpool (ENG)
Wednesday April 7 (return matches April 13)
(21h00) Porto (POR) – Chelsea (ENG)
Bayern Munich (GER) – Paris SG (FRA)
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