After finishing eighth, the Champions League quarter-final draw is expected to bring Bayern Munich to Barcelona

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After deciding to hold the Champions League decision stages in a short tournament that includes the "Big Eight", and will be held all in Lisbon in a one-game format, last Friday's quarter-final and half-final meetings were announced in Neon, Switzerland.

The lottery divided the remaining teams into two distinctly different tracks, with the big headline being that in the Champions League 2020 final there will surely be one team that has never won the factory. This team will come from the quarter-finals between Atlanta and PSG and Atletico Madrid and RB Leipzig, and the victors in those meetings will cross in the semifinals. 

In contrast, on the other side of the lottery are all the empires left in the factory this season, holding together 26 joint titles. Real Madrid, who are dreaming of No. 14 title, still need to wipe out a 2: 1 home loss against Manchester City, who still do not know what will be their fate next season and if they can attend the factory again. In any case, the winner of this meet will play in the semifinals against Juventus or Lyon, where the eighth finish was stopped after 0: 1 for the French, who have not played an official game since March 8.

Barcelona's road to the quarter-finals begins first with Napoli in Camp Nou (1: 1 in Italy's first match), but even if you pass Jenaro Gatoso's team, her chances of wiping out last year's semifinals are significantly reduced. In the quarterfinals, assuming Chelsea will not be amazed and wiped out at Allianz Arena 3: 0 loss from the first meeting, will wait for a team of freshman German double Kieren Stein Bayern Munich and who is considered the big favorite.

Despite Bayern's supremacy, the fitness of Real and the presence of Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, there is a feeling that the prospect of a "new" champion, first since Chelsea in 2012, is higher this season than ever. The Champions League will resume about five months after being stopped, in neutral pitches, with no home advantage, no interplay, and when some teams have already finished the season. 

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime game," Atletico President Antonio Parkasi said ahead of his team's historic quarterfinals against PSG, while RB Leipzig coach Julian Nagelsman declared, "I think we have a good chance of winning the title." He explained the situation best: "We are suddenly only three games away from the most important trophy in the world."

A Champions League quarter-final draw

August 12: Atalanta - Paris Saint-Germain

August 13: R.B. Leipzig - Atletico Madrid

August 14: Barcelona / Naples - Bayern Munich / Chelsea

August 15: Real Madrid / Manchester City - Lyon / Juventus

European League Quarterfinal Draw

Wolfsburg / Shakhtar - Frankfurt / Basel

LASK / UN - Istanbul in Shakespeare / Copenhagen

Inter / Hijapa - Rangers / Leverkusen

Olympiacos / Wolves - Seville / Rome

The Games will take place in West Germany on August 11th.