The UEFA Champions League’s spherical of 16 motion begins to come back to a detailed this week when a number of event favorites purpose to punch their tickets into the quarterfinals.
Whereas Kylian Mbappe’s Paris Saint-Germain farewell tour resumes on Tuesday, the headlining act of the day is Bayern Munich’s tie with Lazio after the German champions misplaced 1-0 within the first leg. Wednesday’s motion, in the meantime, will see Manchester Metropolis and Actual Madrid purpose so as to add to their first-leg benefits after respective wins over Copenhagen and RB Leipzig.
Forward of one other fascinating spherical of fixtures, this is what you might want to know earlier than tuning in.
Learn how to watch
Each minute of Champions League motion, together with the UEFA Champions League Immediately pre-game and post-game reveals, will stream dwell on Parmount+. CBS may even carry pre-game protection and air one match a day in the course of the spherical of 16, whereas CBS Sports Network may even present the post-game present.
CBS Sports activities Golazo Community may even be house to a number of hours of protection, together with CBS Sports activities Golazo Matchday, which can start earlier than the matches and run till the ultimate whistle. Scoreline will deal with post-match protection with reveals every night, whereas The Champions Membership will present extra updates. CBS Sports activities Golazo Community will cap off Tuesday’s protection with one other episode of Kickin’ It, this time with retired NFL participant Ryan Clark, a Tremendous Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Spherical of 16 TV schedule
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*one match on March 12 and March 13 may even air on CBS
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Storylines for the spherical of 16
Can Bayern bounce again?: The primary legs had been clean crusing for a lot of regional heavyweights, however Bayern weren’t amongst them. The Lazio defeat was sandwiched between losses to Bayer Leverkusen and Bochum in Bundesliga play, main supervisor Thomas Tuchel to announce his end-of-season departure in an effort to cease the bleeding.
The outcomes have been blended since that announcement a fortnight in the past. Bayern beat Leipzig due to a brace from Harry Kane however conceded 11 photographs and had fewer photographs on course than the opposition and adopted that up with a 2-2 draw at Freiburg on Friday. They’ve scored six objectives of their final three video games is a powerful response after a mini dry spell for Bayern and a less-than-ideal run of kind for Kane, who at one level posted no photographs on course in three out of 5 video games.
Regardless of the deficit, Bayern are rightfully the favorites after they host Lazio on Tuesday and may be one in every of a number of top-tier sides within the quarterfinals. The large query following the German champions, although, is that if they’ll go a lot additional than that — and if they are going to end the season and not using a trophy for the primary time since 2011-12.
Bellingham’s impression: Whereas Actual Madrid had been amongst those that carry a bonus heading into the second leg, they picked up a slim 1-0 win at Leipzig final month and are beneath a bit of little bit of stress to widen the hole.
The excellent news for Los Blancos is that Jude Bellingham is again after lacking the primary leg with a minor ankle harm. He made his return in Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Valencia however even in his absence, Actual Madrid have relied on a variety of goalscorers. Vinicius Junior has three objectives within the crew’s final 5 video games, whereas even Luka Modric and Brahim Diaz have bailed the crew out of troubles on days when the margin was tight. All eyes, although, will little question be on Bellingham as soon as once more on Wednesday to see if he can proceed to take the Champions League by storm in a powerful debut season in Madrid.
