The most anticipated draw for the football fanatics was held by the Europe’s ruling body UEFA for the Round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League on Friday 17 December, 2010 at the Ville de Nyon in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Switzerland-c3016. The European league
teams had to battle each other in the group stages to get spared from elimination and the draw was out for the first round of the knockout stage.
Three teams shall be making their debut at the Round of 16 stages. Winners from one group could only be drawn against the runners up in a different group and the seeding lead that the clubs from the same country could not play
one another either.
The rules for the Round of 16 involved a two-legged knockout with away goals counting double if the teams stay locked on a tie after two 90-minutes games. If the tie sustains, the second leg will go to extra time and then into
a penalty shoot-out if necessary.
The UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Draw in Full is described below including seven former winners with nine teams that made it to this stage last year as well and three clubs to debut to the knockout stage of the Champions League
before.
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There shall be a number of captivating encounters among the eight ties. Most exciting of which include the rematch as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan and FC Bayern Munchen face each other so as they did in the last year’s final. FC Munchen lost 0-2
in the match in Madrid on two http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-Milito-c11166 goals.
Also the match between Arsenal FC and FC Barcelona would be a treat for the fans in the bloodbath for this season, keeping in view that Arsenal were eliminated by Barcelona in the quarter-finals last season 6-3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid CF, the record champions with nine titles, have not won since 2002 and losing in the last 16 for the past six seasons would be a huge pressure on the Spanish giants. Still the Madridistas will be pleased with a trip
to Olympique Lyonnais as they shall be the favorites to win that.
Chelsea would also be comfortable having their trip to Copenhagen whereas the other London team Tottenham Hotspur would be facing one of the tough games of the season against AC Milan. AC Milan, the six-time winner, have not won
since 2003 and facing the two times UEFA Cup crowns would be a heavy duty responsibility to the line-up.
There are in a total of seven nations representing in the Champions League’s Round of 16 with English Premier League compiling their four teams, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur. Italy with AC Milan, Inter
Milan and Roma while http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 with Barcelona, Real Madrid and Valencia both have three clubs remaining.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032 are coming with Shakhtar Donetsk.
The Round of 16 group winners will play their away legs on Feburary 15/16 and 22/23 while the home legs planned for the 8/9 and 15/16 of March. After these matches, a draw would be held on 18th in Nyon again for the
quarter-finals and semi-finals with the final of the tournament to be held at London’s Wembly Stadium on May 28, 2011.
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