The eyes and ears of football fans will be on the UEFA headquarters in Nyon on Friday, where the draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Champions League will take place.
The last to cross the finish line were Real Madrid and Napoli, who routinely knocked out Liverpool and Eintracht respectively, and joined Bayern, Benfica, Chelsea, Inter, Manchester City and Milan.
For the first time in 17 years, there will be three Italian teams in the quarter-finals. At that stage, Juventus and Inter were eliminated, and Milan reached the semi-finals and lost to the later champions, Barcelona...
After the magical 5:2 at "Anfield", a spectacle was also expected at "Santiago Bernabeu", especially since Jurgen Klopp included Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez in the starting line-up.
It started off hot, with chances from Nunes, Vinicius Junior, a cross from Eduardo Kamavinga, a great shot from Luka Modrić...
But Thibaut Courtois and Alison Becker had a great motive to make up for the unusual mistakes in the first game, they defended phenomenally and are the biggest "culprits" that the nets did not shake until the 78th minute.
Then Vinicius first messed up, missed the ball, but then caught it while sitting on the grass he passed to Karim Benzema, who didn't have a hard time scoring.
After 2:0 in Frankfurt, Napoli sent a new message to the rest of Europe that they will not be satisfied with only the first place in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
Along with the Georgian phenomenon Hvič Kvaracheli, Lućan Spaleti's biggest asset is Viktor Osimen, who scored the 22nd and 23rd goals of the season.
The first time he shook Kevin Trapp's net was in stoppage time of the 1st half, when he phenomenally "jerked" his head, increased to 2:0 after an extraordinary action by the entire team in the 53rd minute.
Pjotr Želinski forced a penalty and took it himself for the final 3:0 in the 64rd minute.
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