European Leagues.

[J70]

And all four Champions league games this week were away wins and none of them won the 1st leg. So much for home advantage.

Did Chelsea not win their first leg at home?

Villareal would be the only REALLY surprising one, I would have thought, and that's partly going on respective reputations as opposed to the current strength of Villareal and Juve.

Benfica and Ajax, I would think, would have been well matched going into it, although I guess we'll get a chance to see how Benfica do against Liverpool.

[Captain Obvious]

Champions League quarter-final draw
Chelsea v Real Madrid

Manchester City v Atletico Madrid

Villarreal v Bayern Munich

Benfica v Liverpool

Champions League semi-final draw
Manchester City or Atletico Madrid v Chelsea or Real Madrid

Benfica or Liverpool v Villarreal or Bayern

Should be a Liverpool v Manchester City final from those draws. A few upsets would make the competition a bit more interesting.


Europa League quarter-final draw
RB Leipzig v Atalanta

Eintracht Frankfurt v Barcelona

West Ham v Lyon

Braga v Rangers

Europa League semi-final draw
RB Leipzig or Atalanta v Braga or Rangers

West Ham or Lyon v Eintracht Frankfurt or Barcelona


Harder to call and with their form in this competition i wouldn't rule out West Ham or Rangers from reaching the final however the Barcelona v RB Leipzig is the likely final pairing with the punters.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

W Ham Rangers tie be tasty....

[Main Street]

Liverpool v Ajax would have been of great interest, Benfica should be dispatched with some ease.

[Hound]

W Ham Rangers tie be tasty....

Highly unlikely that will be the final!

Great QF draw for Rangers, but hard to fancy them getting by the semi. Would love to see the Hammers win it.

[dec]

El Classico is one way traffic

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Barca are back baby!!

[Captain Obvious]

El Classico is one way traffic

That Real Madrid side could beat PSG 3-1 recently and then get hammered by Barcelona at home. I think that set of results night say more about PSG as they lost 3-0 to a mid table ligue 1 Monaco yesterday.

[laoislad]

Gareth Bale on fire tonight. Two brilliant goals.

[gerrykeegan]

Brian Kerr suggesting that keeper should have done better for the first. FFS it went in the top corner off the upright!

[laoislad]

Good win for Wales.
In other news Italy are out, losing 0-1 to North Macedonia!

[Captain Obvious]

No World Cup for the European champions Italy. Knocked out by North Macedonia 

[rory]

So this week Wales soccer team are better than their rugby team and Italys rugby team are better than their soccer team

[Milltown Row2]

There was always going to be a top team missing out.

[RedHand88]

There was always going to be a top team missing out.

But yet again it's Italy. Sandwiched in between a Euro win. Its strange.