Man City learn their Champions League play-off opponents as Celtic face Bayern Munich
Individual Metropolis will face Real Madrid in the Winners League play-off round in a mouth-watering clash, while Celtic have attracted Bayern Munich.
The Householders protected their promotion into the play-off phase as one of 16 sides coating in between nine and also 24th in the brand-contemporary Winners League group stage table.
A 3-1 win over Nightclub Brugge administered sure Pep Guardiola’s side administered the play-off round in midweek using Individual Metropolis coating a lowly 22nd in the standings.
Their payoff is a match versus attaching Winners League winners Real Madrid, who have won the occasion 15 times to the Householders’ one.
Elsewhere, Scottish winners Celtic will face one of the tougher assailers in the play-off draw using Brendan Rodgers’ side yanking German titans Bayern Munich out of the hat.
Brest vs Paris Saint-Germain (Liverpool or Barcelona in round of 16)
Nightclub Brugge v Atalanta (Lille or Aston Villa)
Manchester Metropolis vs Real Madrid (Atletico Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen)
Juventus vs PSV Eindhoven (Arsenal or Inter Milan)
Feyenoord vs AC Milan (Arsenal or Inter Milan)
Celtic v Bayern Munich (Atletico Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen)
Showing off Lisbon vs Borussia Dortmund (Lille or Aston Villa)
Benfica vs AS Monaco (Liverpool or Barcelona)
Individual Metropolis peak pooch Pep Guardiola hinted at a priority using the brand-contemporary Winners League layout after the Householders protected their detect in the play-off phase.
Guardiola asserted: “I favor, as a watcher, how plenty of things, nobody’s sure, severely easy to understand teams can be out, and also it’s superb. The priority is we play more galleries in September, October, November… in the future severely easy to understand teams will probably stay what we stay this season. We were 45 minutes from being out… nothing is for provided.
“Sometimes you are joyful 2-0 or 3-0 and also you are spooked to lose what you are joyful, and also as subconsciously as you are 1-0 down, you’re out of the Winners League using nothing to implement… in the correct moment we position the purposes. It’s been a truly truly difficult group, brand-contemporary layout stage, truly truly lively because the arcade versus Inter Milan we play truly extensive, and also specifically Feyenoord.
“Yet we did it, we are there, in two weeks we will be much closer than we are correct currently because brand-contemporary players reappeared, brand-contemporary finalizings. Against these two titans, one of them we’re attending play, and also we’ll explore what happens, how we immigrate.”