Road to Wembley..

UEFA Champions League Quarter-final & Semi-final draw just held 2 hours ago. Gary Lineker, the Engliah legend picked the draws as he's the ambassador for this year's final.

 

Here are the Draws -

Quarter-final draw:

Real Madrid vs Tottenham

Chelsea vs Manchester United

Barcelona vs Shakhtar Donetsk

Inter Milan vs Schalke 04

 

Semi-final draw:

Inter Milan or Schalke 04 v Chelsea or Manchester United

Barcelona or Shakhtar Donetsk v Real Madrid or Tottenham

 

*Teams drawn first play first leg at home

 

The matchdays are-

Quarter-finals: April 5, 6 and 12, 13

Semi-finals: April 26, 27 and May 3, 4

Final (Wembley): May 28

 

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho to Sky Sports: “I’m happy not because it's easy, because I love to play in England.”
Another hint at a move back to the Premier League in the summer?

 

Should Real beat Spurs (Tottenham to face a first-leg trip to nine-time champions Real Madrid, with Spurs star Rafael van der Vaart given the opportunity to return to his former club), they open up the possibility of a mouthwatering all-Spanish semi-final against favourites Barcelona. The Catalans will take on Shakhtar Donetsk in the last eight - a tough draw for the Ukrainians, who have reached the quarter-finals for the first time in their history.

United has been drawn 4 times against English Clubs in the UCL & they won all 4 times! That's a relief for United fans before the reapeat of 2008 final. The winner of the Chelsea v United clash will face whoever emerges victorious from Inter Milan v Schalke, with the reigning European champions handed a seemingly favourable draw after their dramatic last-16 defeat of Bayern Munich.

 

Europa League draw is up as well. I'm not putting it up here as I don't see anyone following that here now. Some people would but after Red's fall last night at Anfield, they wouldn't I presume.

That's all for now.