The draw for the third qualifying round of the 2020/2021 UEFA Champions League has been conducted at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon on Monday. Benfica will take on PAOK Thessolanika, while Gent clashes with Rapid Vienna.
Former unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has delivered a seventh-round knockout of Robert Helenius in their heavyweight affair making it his first KO win since he defeated Kubrat Puliev on December 12, 2020.
Uefa hope to resume the Champions League and Europa League knockout stages on August 7, 2020, as games would then be played twice a week. The semi-finals will be held between August 18 and 22, 2020, before the final is hosted on August 29.
Premier League giants Chelsea could land a Champions League nightmare draw as they have been paired against Barcelona in the Champions League knockout stage as the round of 16 ties have been simulated by the UK Sun.
Hazard will start for the first time in Euro 2020 in Belgium's last Group B match against Finland on Monday. But the 28-year-old admits he might not be ready to complete the full 90 minutes.
He made it to the final in 2020 but couldn't find a way through as PSG suffered a 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Lisbon final. Haaland is two years younger and burst onto the scene a few years later.
This means that just like in the current Champions League knockout phase in the 2019/2020 season, teams will have to settle the game through extra time and possibly penalties if the game ends in a stalemate 4.
"The top two teams in each group will reach the round of 16; from then on, the knockout system will continue. The final is scheduled for July 13, 2025."
The race for the finals has seen some of Europe's biggest teams playing in the knockout stage in UEFA's secondary club crush, with things already starting to heat up as the competitors reduce to the last two.
The knockout games beginning with the round of 16 will be single-legged but the twist is there will not be a third-place play-off unlike the FIFA World Cup.
withdrawn from the competition by Borussia Dortmund because prior to the World Cup kicking off, an agreement was reached where Sancho would be available for the group stages, but his participation was not guaranteed if England progressed to the knockout