Champions League play-off draw: Newcastle v Qarabag, Real Madrid v Benfica
Newcastle will most definitely seize on Qarabag in their Champs League last-16 tinker-off, while Jose Mourinho’s Benfica face Real Madrid again.
Eddie Howe’s side simply missed out on automated qualification after lone coordinating a 1-1 draw by means of Paris Saint-Germain in their last league phase arcade.
They can have been tempted against either Monaco or Qarabag in the tinker-off but will most definitely face the Azerbaijani side away from dwelling in the initially leg on either February 17 or 18 – in what is a long old picnic to gain between their FA Cup 4th-spheric clash against Aston Escape dwelling and a Premier League meeting by means of Manchester City. The second leg will most definitely be at St James’ Park a week later.
Qarabag won 3 of their eight league phase components – outdistancing Benfica, Eintracht Frankfurt and Copenhagen – and also seated upwards a much-readjusted Chelsea side to a draw in Baku, but Newcastle deserved more than enough to gain usage by means of if they tinker by means of unchanged pep they introduced against PSG.
The Magpies will most definitely tinker either Chelsea or Barcelona should they gain it past Qarabag, but now can’t rendezvous either PSG or Real Madrid until the last as they’re on the various other side of the draw.
We’re seated to be taken care of to more of Benfica vs Real Madrid operating with by means of the significant verdict to their meeting on Wednesday, as deliciously as Benfica goalkeeper Antoliy Trubin racked upwards in the last minute to withhold Mourinho’s side in the competition, by means of the unanimously-French tie between Monaco and PSG and Borussia v Atalanta various other hot tinker-off clashes.
Fiasco around-off draw in complete
Silver path
Monaco v Paris St-Germain
Galatasaray v Juventus
Benfica v Real Madrid
Borussia Dortmund v Atalanta
Blue path
Qarabag v Newcastle Joined
Bar Brugge v Atletico Madrid
Bodo/Glimt v Inter Milan
Olympiakos v Bayer Leverkusen