These are eight clubs we expect to reach the Champions League quarterfinals as the fixture lasts today, Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
After the high-intensity Champions League ended, the 16 rounds of one of Europe’s largest club football matches also began immediately on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
The excitement of the new format of the game reached a new peak as planned as some of the worst fixtures in this game.
The clubs in UCL’s 16 rounds were forced to conduct rigorous tests to ensure a place in this round, which made fixtures on this knockout stage essential for all football fans.
Champions League 16 matches
Here are all Champions League knockout playoff sets that will be played on two legs (at home and far):
- Club Brugge vs Aston Villa
- Borussia Dortmund vs Lille
- PSV Eindhoven and Arsenal
- Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid
- Feyenoord vs Inter Milan
- Bavaria Munich vs Bayer Leverkusen
- Benfica vs Barcelona
- Paris Saint-Germain vs. Liverpool
16 matches in the Champions League today
- Feyenoord vs Inter Milan
- Bavaria Munich vs Bayer Leverkusen
- Benfica vs Barcelona
- Paris Saint-Germain vs. Liverpool
Club is expected to qualify for the 2025 UCL quarterfinals
After looking at the current form of all clubs in the Champions League rounds, we have been able to analyze clubs we hope to qualify for the quarterfinals of the 2025 Championship. Here are the following clubs:
Club Bruges
Arguably the best defensive team in the 2025 Champions League, the Bruger Club is our first draft pick to qualify for the season. The Brugge club is expected to play against Aston Villa in 16 rounds of the UCL, while Portugal’s only advantage in the UK led by experienced Unai Emery is their defensive setup, a significant aspect of Aston Villa’s game.
Things are expected to be tight which is one factor that makes this fixture tough to call but with a competition like the Champions League, the tiniest of margins matter a lot and given how compact Club Brugge have shown themselves to be in the round of 16 knockout stage playoff fixture against the Europa League champions Atalanta, it is expected that they step into this fixture with an extra limp to their walk and with a sharper and stronger confidence.
Dortmund Boron
Borussia Dortmund managed to save their season, especially in the Champions League, with nothing else to fight for except for UCL titles and we hope this German giant can have a tough fight and get a spot in the quarterfinals of the tournament.
Dortmund, still riding in the wave of a new manager’s rebound, will hopefully leverage its offensive capabilities and secure much-needed results to ensure eligibility.
PSV Eindhoven
Given the speed and agility of PSVs, we hope they exploited and qualified for the Champions League quarterfinals in the turnovers led by Mikel Arteta. Arsenal continued to encounter injuries and struggle to get stuck in the second half of the 2024/2025 season. PSV will seek to exploit this weakness and seize the most important opportunity, which is the goal.
Despite the strong defensive aspect of Arsenal, we can’t rule out that they are more likely to be hit than they can handle. In particular, this will be a test of patience and resilience in Mikel Arteta.
real Madrid
If one side knows how to play in the Champions League, it is Real Madrid, which is why the Los Blancos side is why we qualify for the quarterfinals of the match. Although they face a daunting task in the form of the revitalized Atletico de Madrid, many cannot bet on the side of Carlo Ancelotti to complete the work of the weapons in the form of players they have at Arsenal.
The current champions are likely to defend at least the title of the UCL semifinals so we hope they can go all out.
Inter Milan
Inter Milan is one of the biggest losers in the 2025 Champions League and is our draft pick to enter the quarterfinals of the match. Inter Milan gradually found itself in the 16 rounds of UCL and was fully prepared to win one of eight tickets in the 16 rounds of the match.
Their opponent Feyenoord will seek to mitigate the attack ability of Inter to enter this fixture. We saw them playing for their pride at home, leaving Milan, who picked up the tickets in San Siro and were beaten by the narrowest profits.
Bayer Leverkusen
German giant Bayern Munich has been trying to see good results for them since Xabi Alonso took over Bayer Leverkusen, and Leverkusen leads with a win or a draw.
The same pattern continues under the club’s new coach Vincent Kompany, and we don’t see any changes in the Champions League. Bayer Leverkusen is our sixth pick in the 2025 UCL quarterfinals.
Barcelona
It’s no surprise that it’s no surprise that Hans Flick built a winning and goal-scoring machine using the current team in Catalan, and it’s no surprise that we want to win one of the clubs in the Champions League quarterfinals.
Barcelona are ruthless in the face of goals, even if they may lack the fact that their offense can surpass other clubs in defense and goalkeepers, which makes it hard to ignore.
Benfica will go all out into this fixture and we hope they implement a defensive setup to mitigate the risk or threat from Barcelona before scoring. The question shouldn’t be “Will Barcelona score?” But it’s more like “How much will Barcelona score?”
Paris Saint-Germain
In the battle of wisdom and the quarrel in the field of competition, involving the most legal clubs in the 2024/2025 club football season, PSG is the club we see and we see the final quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League.
They are expected of Liverpool games for many, but there is a little coaching experience in this game, and Liverpool’s team flexibility is currently unaffordable, and we see a little advantage on Liverpool’s Liverpool in terms of Luis Enrique.
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