The women of PSG, currently leading the French Championship, will go first to Prague before receiving the Czechs from Sparta for the second leg in the round of 16 of the Champions League.
The first leg will take place on March 3 or 4 and the return on March 10 or 11: "If we do not put the right ingredients, we can get our feet in the carpet", warned the Parisian coach Olivier Echouafni, on the club website.
“Sparta Prague lead their championship, are unbeaten this season and have twice beaten Glasgow City in the previous round.
This demonstrates the quality of this team.
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The Lyonnaises, five-time reigning European champions, will face the Danes of Brondby, a team they had easily eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 2011-2012 edition (4-0 at each meeting).
The OL players, big favorites, will play the first leg at home before a trip to Denmark.
"There are always matches where you have to be hyper focused, serious, applied above all, to avoid the pitfalls of these first rounds of the Champions League", commented coach Jean-Luc Vasseur in a video uploaded by the Rhone club .
The draw at UEFA headquarters this Tuesday behind closed doors resulted in a clash between Pauline Peyraud-Magnin's Atlético de Madrid and the ambitious English Chelsea, worn by Pernille Harder.
The first leg will be played in London.
The Germans from Wolfsburg, unfortunate finalists in the Final 8 played last summer in the Spanish Basque Country, will host the Norwegians from LSK Kvinner in the first leg.
The Austrians from St. Pölten, the only team to survive qualifying, will have to deal with the Swedes from Rosengard.
The final of the 2021 edition is scheduled for May 16 in Gothenburg (Sweden).
