The Hindu (Bangalore)

Real vs City headlines heavyweigh­t lasteight CL draw

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Real Madrid and Manchester City will meet in a heavyweigh­t Champions League quarterfin­al between the past two winners and the only two teams to win all eight games in this season’s competitio­n.

Madrid will host the first leg on April 9 or 10 and the return will be the week after in Manchester.

Kylian Mbappe’s path to a first Champions League title with PSG in his farewell season there will next go through Barcelona. PSG hosts the first leg.

Arsenal was drawn to play the first leg at home against Bayern Munich.

Atletico Madrid was paired with Borussia Dortmund in the other game.

The draw:

Champions League: Quarterfin­als: First leg: April 9-10: Arsenal vs. Bayern Munich; Atletico Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund; Real Madrid vs. Manchester City; Paris

SaintGerma­in vs. Barcelona (Second leg will be held on April 1617).

Europa League results (last 16, second leg):

Villarreal 3 (E. Capoue 32, Sorloth 54, Mosquera 85) bt Marseille 1 (Clauss 90+4) (Marseille wins 5-3 on aggregate); Rangers 0 lost to Benfica 1 (Rafa Silva 66) (Benfica wins 3-2); West Ham 5 (Paqueta 9, Bowen 32, Cresswell 52, Kudus

77, 85) bt Freiburg 0 (West Ham wins 5-1); Slavia Prague 1 (Jurasek 84) lost to AC Milan 3 (Pulisic 33, LoftusChee­k 36, Rafael Leao 45+6) (Milan wins

Liverpool 6 (Nunez 7, Clark 8, Salah 10, Gakpo 14, 55, Szoboszlai 48) bt Sparta Prague 1 (Birmancevi­c 42) (Liverpool wins

Brighton 1 (Welbeck 37) bt Roma 0 (Roma wins 4-1);

Atalanta 2 (Lookman 46, Scamacca 59) bt Sporting 1 (Goncalves 33) (Atalanta wins

Bayer Leverkusen 3 (Frimpong 72, Schick 90+3, 90+8) bt Qarabag 2 (Zoubir 58, Juninho 67) (Leverkusen wins 5-4).

Europa League:

Quarterfin­als: First leg: April 11: AC Milan vs Roma; Liverpool vs. Atalanta; Bayer Leverkusen vs. West Ham; Benfica vs. Marseille (Second leg on April 18).

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