{"id":509224,"date":"2026-02-27T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509224"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:26:32","slug":"real-madrid-vs-man-city-and-psg-vs-chelsea-top-ucl-playoffs-draw","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/real-madrid-vs-man-city-and-psg-vs-chelsea-top-ucl-playoffs-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid vs. Man City and PSG vs. Chelsea top UCL playoffs draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The draw for the Champions League playoffs took place today in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting clash at the 1\/8 finals will be between Real Madrid and Manchester City. The 2 teams will face each other again in the playoffs in the UCL, as that happened in the past season also.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2025-26 UEFA Champions League knockouts are set \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa\ud83d\udd12 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5qdLUUvX8Y\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5qdLUUvX8Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Prime Video Sport UK (@primevideosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/primevideosport\/status\/2027342812614729894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another very interesting tie will be that between PSG and Chelsea. The reigning champs will face the Blues as the 2 giants will fight for a place in the \u00bc finals.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona will face Newcastle as the sides already played during the main phase of the competition. Another matchup between Spanish and English clubs will be Atletico Madrid against Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray, who eliminated Juventus after extra time, will face Liverpool, while Atalanta will be an outsider in their tie with Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>FK Bod\u00f8\/Glimt, who shocked Inter and beat them twice, will play against Sporting Lisbon, while the Premier League leaders Arsenal, who top the main stage of the UCL, will have a German opponent \u2013 Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> matches from the playoffs are on March 10<sup>th<\/sup> and 11<sup>th<\/sup>, while the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> legs are a week later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw for the Champions League playoffs took place today in Switzerland. The most interesting clash at the 1\/8 finals will be between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509225,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18072],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18073],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The draw for the most prestigious European tournament didn\u2019t disappoint.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509227,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509224\/revisions\/509227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509224"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509224"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}