the best and the worst draw of the Champions League quarter-finals

Paris Saint-Germain will find out. After dismissing FC Barcelona in the round of 16 (5-2 over all two games), the club from the French capital will be at the rendezvous of the draw for the quarter-finals of the Champions League this Friday midday. A draw which will also be full, since the potential semi-finals of the European competition will also be drawn. To reach the Atatürk Olympic stadium in Istanbul on May 29, Paris will therefore know the procedure to follow and the path that awaits it. As in each draw, the European vice-champion club could inherit the very heavy or be spared.

Homecoming?

Let’s start with the very heavy one. Worst draw for PSG would look like a shock to the Bayern Munich. This same Bayern dream breaker on August 23, in the final of the Lisbon Final 8 (0-1). Winners thanks to a goal from the former Parisian Kingsley Coman, the Bavarians this season keep the impressive pace imposed during the previous exercise. A real war machine, the German formation, falling from Lazio Rome during the previous round (6-2), appears as the scarecrow of this draw. The Manchester City Pep Guardiola, irresistible in the Premier League, is also to be avoided.

If nothing will be simple either, Paris Saint-Germain should battle with the Real Madrid by Zinedine Zidane or the Liverpool of Jurgen Klopp, not necessarily serene or sovereign this season. The Borussia Dortmund of Erling Haaland, dismissed in the hot round of 16 last season, and especially the Chelsea ex-Parisians Thomas Tuchel and Thiago Silva, would not be gifts either. On the other hand, the FC Porto undoubtedly looks like the best possible draw for the champions of France. Opponent of Olympique de Marseille in the group stage, the Portuguese club, winner of the Old Lady in the round of 16, is now perceived as the Petit Poucet of the competition.

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