Dates for August's Champions League mini-tournament drawn up
The games will be one leg and the final will take place on Aug. 23
UEFA's executive committee will meet on Wednesday to confirm plans for the resumption of this season's Champions League. The idea has already taken shape, with a final eight to be played in Lison, and Sky Italian have already reported when the games will take place.
The remaining last 16 games will be played on Aug. 7, 8 and 9 at the venues where they were supposed to be played. That means Barça will host Napoli at Camp Nou, following a 1-1 draw in the first leg. The other games to be played are Manchester City vs. Real Madrid, Bayern Munich vs. Chelsea and Juventus vs. Lyon.
Atletico Madrid, Leipzig, Atalanta and Paris Saint-Germain are the four teams already through to the final eight in Portugal.
The quarter-finals, instead of being two-legged ties, will be one-off affairs played across four days: Wednesday, Aug. 12, Thursday, Aug. 13, Friday, Aug. 14 and Saturday, Aug. 15.
The semifinals, also one-off games, will then be played on Tuesday, Aug. 18 and Wednesday, Aug. 19, leaving the final to be played on Sunday, Aug 23 at the Estadio de Da Luz.
Meanwhile, the European Super Cup will be played on Sept. 24.
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