When will Arsenal learn last-16 opponents?
Arsenal's automatic progression to the last 16 of this season's Europa League means they will have to wait for the conclusion of the play-off round before learning who they will face next in the competition.
The draw for the last 16 of the Europa League will take place on February 24, 2023, a day after the play-off second legs, with the last-16 ties held on March 9 and March 16 respectively.
Europa League key dates
- Play-off ties: February 16 and February 23
- Last-16 draw: February 24
- Last-16 ties: March 9 and March 16
- Quarter-final and semi-final draw: March 17
- Quarter-final ties: April 13 and April 20
- Semi-final ties: May 11 and May 18
- Final: May 31 at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary
Bayer Leverkusen vs Monaco
Ajax vs Union Berlin
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Rennes
Juventus vs Nantes
Barcelona vs Man United
Nearly time for the Europa League play-off draw
Right, time to focus on the Europa League play-off draw which involves Manchester United.
Erik ten Hag's finished second in their Europa League group behind Real Sociedad, meaning United have to play a two-legged tie to join Arsenal and other teams in the last-16.
United will be drawn against one of the teams who dropped down from the Champions League via a third-place spot in their groups. And there are some big teams in that group.
Here's who they could face:
Ajax, Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Juventus. RB Sazlburg, Sevilla, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting Lisbon
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Champions League 2022/23 Round of 16 Draw: live online, teams, fixtures, dates
Joe Brennan
Update: November 7th, 2022 05:48 EST
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Champions League Round of 16 draw: live online
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My, oh my, here are the goals of the Group Stage. Enjoy them and come back quickly - there's only 10 minutes to go!
Here are the predictions from the FiveThirtyEight supercomputer
So, here's what the computer thinks is the most likely outcome - do you agree?
Just 20 minutes to go!
I reckon there are few teams who fancy an away trip to the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona this season. Napoli look seriously scary...
Speaking of Los Blancos, here are the teams they can face - some very interesting fixtures here:
Half an hour to go! Manchester City are the favourites for many - do you agree?
According to stats boffins FiveThirtyEight, they have a 40% chance of reaching the final.
14-time winners Real Madrid have an 18% chance. With the way things went last year, I'd say they think that's more than enough!
Four English teams remain.
Liverpool can only play against Bayern, Benfica, Porto or Real Madrid since three of the eight seeded teams are English and Napoli shared a group with them.
Safe to say it's going to be a fascinating tie!
There's the trophy! (it always shocks me to see just how shiny it is)
More goals from German teams, I hear you say! Here's a cracker from Choupo-Moting - perhaps we'll see one of these in the next round?
Safe to say they're pretty excited for the draw at the Estádio do Dragão...
Who doesn't love a Bernabéu screamer? Check out this one from Marco Reus. Lovely stuff.
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
Can you remember this rampant Napoli victory in September? If not, here's the match report of the game...
Despite their slow start to the Premier League, Liverpool picked up 15 points in the Group Stage this season, losing only to Napoli (4-1) in the first match of the tournament.
Remember that away goals don't count as of now (despite the madness we saw when PSG came second in their group due to number of away goals scored!)
There could be some very tasty ties coming up...
So, who are the teams that we will see today?
We've got the Group winners as the seeded teams and those who finished second are in the unseeded category.
The two rules are that a team cannot face another team from the same country and they cannot play against if each other if they were in the same Champions League group this year.
Group winners (seeded)
Bayern (GER)
Benfica (POR)
Chelsea (ENG)
ManCity (ENG)
Napoli (ITA)
Porto (POR)
RealMadrid (ESP)
Tottenham (ENG)
Group runners-up (unseeded)
ClubBrugge (BEL)
Dortmund (GER)
Frankfurt (GER)
Inter (ITA)
Leipzig (GER)
Liverpool (ENG)
Milan (ITA)
ParisSaint-Germain (FRA)
The ties will be over two legs and the seeded teams will play the second leg at home.
This year's final will be held on Saturday 10 June at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Turkey.
The action takes place at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland at midday local time. That's 6am ET and 3am PT.
If you're one of the hardcore fans who is awake for this in the US - or anywhere else for that matter - let us know! Come and say hello on Twitter @English_AS - I promise I'll reply!
Hello and welcome to the AS English Champions League Round of 16 draw live feed. It's Joe here today and I'll be guiding you through it all as it happens.
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