Will Real Madrid and Barcelona meet in the new Champions League?
New champions, new draw, new conditions. This Thursday afternoon, a revolutionary draw awaits us, in which the innocent hand of life will unite with the power of technology. The innocent hand that will lay the opponents on itself will be a computer. The solution that UEFA has found for the increasingly complex draw, which would require a thousand balls and more than three hours if it were done manually. Will Real Madrid and Barcelona be able to face each other in the new Champions League phase, given all the changes? The general answer is yes… but not this year..
There are two main conditions of the draw. The first is that Each team plays two opponents from each basket in one match: one at home and one away.The second is that Each team can play only against two opponents from the same country.Given the complexity of the draw, UEFA left itself an escape route: If necessary (we emphasize: if necessary) to fulfill the first two conditions in the new format, teams from one country can meet each other at the league stage.. But in this release, since the reels are set up, there is no need to resort to this protection to prevent the draw from being blocked.
AND What might require pairing teams from the same country?? Well, let’s take as an example the extreme case where one of the baskets is filled with five teams from one country and four from another.
In which round can teams from the same country meet?
Until the last edition, clubs from the same country could not meet in either the group stage or the round of 16. In the new competition format, that country’s protection disappears from the intermediate round after the league stage. That is, Teams from the same country can meet in any of the playoff rounds, starting with the Round of 32, as well as in the Round of 16..
How many times have Real Madrid and Barcelona met each other in the Champions League?
Real Madrid and Barcelona have met in four European Cup qualifiers. throughout the nearly seventy-year history of the leading continental competitions. The last time was twelve years ago, in the semi-finals of the 2010-2011 season.. Barça won (0-2) in the controversial first leg at the Bernabéu (the one with Mourinho’s famous “why?” after finishing the game with ten men due to Pepe’s sending off) and achieved a good result with a 1-1 scoreline in the return leg at the Camp Nou.
In 2001–02, Madrid also knocked out the Blaugrana in the semi-finals on their way to a ninth-place finish, 0–2 in the first leg at the Camp Nou and 1–1 in the return leg at the Bernabéu.. More than four decades have passed since the last encounter, in the last 16 in 1960-61. The Blaugrana qualified thanks to a 2-1 win in the return leg at the Camp Nou after a 1-1 first leg at Chamartin. The previous campaign (1959-60), In the fifth edition of the European Champions Cup, Madrid, on the eve of their fifth title in a row, got rid of Barça in the semi-finals. with a double 3-1 win in both the first leg at the Bernabéu and the return leg at the Camp Nou.
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