UEFA Champions League. Place in the last four of the Champions League with the program a Real Manchester City and a Liverpool Villarreal.
After the surprise elimination of Bayern Munich, the qualification with the forceps of Real Madrid of Karim Benzema, Manchester City and Liverpool qualified Wednesday April 13 for the semi-finals of the Champions League 2022. Hooked by Atlético Madrid 0-0, the men of Pep Guardiola pass without really shining, enough to leave a bitter taste to Diego Simeone. “I’m very disappointed because we’ve been knocked out, and I always want to win, no matter how. Because victories are celebrated, and that’s the most important thing in football. Like everything in life, I I have priorities. My absolute priority is to win. And then it’s to be proud of what my team produces. I’m proud of this Atlético team, because they fight. We have our way to play, good or bad, but we fight. Football has many facets, I’m not going to judge the way the opponents play. We played with our weapons, against what is possibly the best team of the world. I’m not happy at all to have been eliminated…”.
In the other match, Benfica had a crazy end to the match to hold the 3-3 draw at the lawn of the Liverpool Reds. Not enough to spoil the joy of Jurgen Klopp who was simply aiming for qualification. “If one day I qualify for a Champions League semi-final and I’m not satisfied, you can hit me. It wouldn’t make sense. We made seven changes (in the starting XI) for good reasons. We had a very good first half, I liked a lot of things, we scored goals, we led 3-1. But the back line had never played together and it is played on details and it was perhaps difficult to stay focused” he analyzed.
Now it’s time for the Champions League semi-finals with Manchester City – real Madrid on April 26 with a return scheduled for May 4 and a Liverpool – Villarreal on May 27 for a return on May 3.
The group stage of the Football Champions League is played from Tuesday September 14, 2021 to Wednesday December 8, 2021 while the knockout stage will be played from Tuesday February 15, 2022 to Wednesday May 4, 2022. As for the final, it is scheduled for Saturday, May 28, 2021 at Saint Petersburg Stadium, Russia. The calendar was then drawn up as follows by UEFA:
- Group stage
- September 14 and 15
- September 28 and 29
- October 19 and 20
- November 2 and 3
- November 23 and 24
- December 7 and 8
- Knockout stage
- Round of 16
- February 15 and 16 (one way)
- February 22 and 23 (return)
- Quarter-finals
- April 5 and 6 (one way)
- April 12 and 13 (return)
- Semi-finals
- April 26 and 27 (one way)
- May 3 and 4 (return)
- Final
- Saturday May 28, 2022
The TV rights battle continued to rage for this new 2021/2022 season. UEFA has awarded the French TV rights for the “Big Ears Cup” to beIN Sports and Canal+, which will ensure the broadcast of the 2021-2022 Champions League. RMC Sport will co-broadcast with Canal the two best Champions League posters until 2024 and beIN SPORTS will offer all the remaining matches. TF1 will broadcast the final scheduled for May 28, 2022.
As the knockout stages of the Champions League begin on Tuesday March 8 and end on March 16, Robert Lewandowski, Bayern’s Polish striker, is currently the competition’s top scorer ahead of Ivorian Sébastien Haller and Egyptian Mohamed Salah. Classification :
- Robert Lewandowski, Bayern Munich, 12 goals
- Karim Benzema, Real Madrid, 11 goals
- Sebastien Haller, Ajax Amsterdam, 11 goals
- Mohamed Salah, Liverpool, 8 goals
- Christopher Nkunku, Leipzig, 7 goals
- Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United, 6 goals
- Riyad Mahrez, Manchester City, 6 goals
- Leroy Sané, Bayern Munich, 6 goals
- Kylian Mbappé, PSG, 6 goals
- Lionel Messi, PSG, 5 goals