LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 17: Eberechi Eze of Arsenal celebrates scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Round of 16 Second Leg match between Arsenal FC and Bayer 04 Leverkusen at Arsenal Stadium on March 17, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
Arsenal have reached the last eight alongside Liverpool
Liverpool will have the chance to exact revenge on Paris Saint-Germain after they joined in the quarter-finals. side overturned their 1-0 first-leg defeat to by at Anfield in the second leg.
On Tuesday, Arsenal booked their place in the last eight with a comfortable 2-0 victory at home to , going through 3-1 on aggregate. Meanwhile, and both crashed out after failing to overturn heavy first-leg losses against and respectively.
followed them on Wednesday, as they were . And to cap a poor last 16 for the six English clubs, also couldn't recover from last week's 5-2 drubbing away to , despite .
Elsewhere, and breezed past with a 10-2 aggregate thumping, and pulled off an epic second-leg comeback by beating Bodo/Glimt 5-0. That's set up a mouth-watering quarter-final stage.
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will play PSG while Arsenal take on Sporting. Both sides will be away in the first leg and have home advantage in the second thanks to their superior league phase finishes.
PSG knocked Liverpool out of the competition last season before going on to win their first European Cup. Also in the 2024-25 edition, Arsenal travelled to Sporting in the league phase. The Gunners previously met the Portuguese giants in the knockouts three years ago.
Bayern and Real Madrid will face off for arguably the tie of the round. Finally, will have their own shot at revenge in against Atletico Madrid, who recently beat them in the semi-finals.
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Barca and Atletico will, coincidentally, play each other three times in four games next month. They're due to meet in on Saturday, April 4 at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid.
Last year's semi-finalists, Barcelona, produced the scoreline of the week as they obliterated Newcastle with four goals in the second half. A brace each from and were complimented by strikes by Marc Bernal and Fermin Lopez as well as a penalty from .
The bookies' favourites for the competition, however, remain Bayern and Arsenal. The two teams topped the league phase, although Arsenal got the better of the German heavyweights 3-1 when they met in November, as bids to guide the Gunners to an unprecedented quadruple.
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But what of Real Madrid? The 15-time European champions managed to beat City without for most the tie, and they'll be desperate to end a chaotic season with a 16th title.
The first legs will take place on Tuesday, April 7 and Wednesday, April 8. The second legs will follow on April 14 and April 15.
Champions League quarter-final fixtures
Liverpool vs Paris Saint-Germain
Bayern Munich vs Real Madrid
Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona
Sporting Lisbon vs Arsenal
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