Champions League draw in full

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12/18/2023

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00:00 First name drawn.

00:02 FC Porto.

00:06 This is FC Porto.

00:09 Winners of 1987 and 2004.

00:14 They can play all the opponents except one, FC Barcelona,

00:18 because they were placed in the same group, in the group stage.

00:22 So Porto, which is the most recent winner from Portugal, this trophy.

00:27 And they can pride themselves of having the oldest score scorer

00:32 of the competition with Pepe, which extended twice this record,

00:36 setting it finally 40 years and 290 days.

00:40 Arsenal.

00:43 And Porto will play against Arsenal, FC...

00:47 Napoli.

00:53 Now it is Napoli, the quarter-finalists of last season.

00:57 Best result in their history.

01:00 They can play all the remaining clubs except Real Madrid.

01:05 So in this case, the two clubs were together.

01:07 So six possible opponents for Napoli, who scored 10 goals in group phase.

01:12 All goals scored by a different player.

01:15 So, Napoli against...

01:25 FC Barcelona.

01:31 After Porto, Arsenal and Napoli, Barcelona.

01:34 Paris Saint-Germain.

01:39 And now the French champions, Paris Saint-Germain, finalists in 2020.

01:45 For Paris Saint-Germain, we must exclude Borussia Dortmund,

01:50 who played in the same group.

01:52 It is the 12th successive season that Paris Saint-Germain

01:57 appear in the UEFA Champions League knockout phase.

02:06 Let's see who will have to face Paris Saint-Germain in round of 16.

02:10 Real Sociedad.

02:19 Paris Saint-Germain versus Real Sociedad de Futbol,

02:24 which is back at this stage after 2004.

02:27 You can draw the next team, please, John.

02:32 And Real Sociedad, very strong defensively.

02:35 They only scored two goals in group phase.

02:37 The least of all the teams in the Champions League group phase.

02:41 Inter Milan.

02:45 Now it's Inter Nazionale Milano.

02:48 The finalists of last year.

02:51 For Inter, we have five options.

02:53 All options are possible.

02:55 They completed the group stage without a defeat

02:58 for the second time in their history, after 2004-2005.

03:03 And they, in Paris, have beaten Inter in the last eight home matches.

03:07 So, the opponents of Inter Nazionale are...

03:16 Atletico Madrid.

03:21 It's Atletico Madrid, three-time finalists.

03:25 Atletico de Madrid, nine times in the knockout phase

03:30 in the last 11 seasons.

03:33 17 goals scored in the group stage, not bad.

03:36 Mainly thanks to their two joint top scorers,

03:41 Varro Morata and Antoine Griezmann.

03:44 PSV Eindhoven.

03:48 And now we move to the Netherlands, with PSV Eindhoven,

03:52 winners of 1988.

03:54 We have three options possible for PSV Eindhoven.

04:01 It's Bayern, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester City.

04:06 Borussia Dortmund.

04:10 And it is Borussia Dortmund facing PSV Eindhoven.

04:15 Borussia won the trophy in 1997.

04:18 We have three options, pairings to go.

04:23 Again.

04:24 Lazio.

04:33 And this is now Lazio.

04:35 Quarter-finalists in 2000.

04:38 We can draw with Lazio only one club, and that is Bayern Munich.

04:46 So, Lazio has to face six-time winners of Bayern.

04:51 This means that we have only two pairings to complete.

04:55 John, please.

04:56 Let's go with the first one.

05:00 FC Copenhagen.

05:07 And now it's FC Copenhagen back to this stage after 2011.

05:13 For Copenhagen, we have only one option possible.

05:18 This is the title holders of Manchester City.

05:21 So, Copenhagen facing the winners of last year's final.

05:25 And we are left with one.

05:28 John, can you show us the final name for the final pairing?

05:34 First, the group runners-up, of course.

05:38 RB Leipzig.

05:40 And this is RB Leipzig, semi-finalists in 2020.

05:45 And for Leipzig, obviously, we don't have a draw because this is the last pairing.

05:50 Leipzig will face Real Madrid.

05:53 This completes the line-up and completes the round of 16 draw.

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