{"id":586471,"date":"2021-03-12T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=586471"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:12:32","slug":"chelsea-manchester-city-womens-champions-league-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/03\/12\/chelsea-manchester-city-womens-champions-league-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea and Manchester City Learn Their Fate in Women\u2019s Champions League Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/03\/07\/womens-super-league-chelsea-lead-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/28\/manchester-city-cut-chelseas-lead-at-the-top-of-the-womens-super-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> learned of their next opponents in the Women\u2019s Champions League after the draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals was made on March 12.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea and Manchester City Find Out Next Opponents in the Women\u2019s Champions League<\/h2>\n<h3>Chelsea Take on Wolfsburg in Women&#8217;s Champions League<\/h3>\n<p>Chelsea will face the two-time winners Wolfsburg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/56266225\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after overcoming Atletico Madrid 3-1 on aggregate in the last-16.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blues have bad memories of facing Wolfsburg in recent years<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/56372920\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> after being knocked out by the German side on three separate occasions<\/a>, which included a semi-final defeat in 2017\/18.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Wolfsburg overcame Norwegian side LSK Kvinner 4-0 on aggregate in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>If Emma Hayes\u2019 side win the tie, they will go on to face either Rosengard or Bayern Munich in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Face Barcelona<\/h3>\n<p>Gareth Taylor\u2019s team have a mouth-watering quarter-final tie against Barcelona to look forward to after sweeping aside Fiorentina with an 8-0 aggregate victory in the previous round.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish club also cruised to this stage of the competition with a 9-0 aggregate win over Danish side Fortuna Hj\u00f8rring.<\/p>\n<p>The reward for City should they get past <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/03\/08\/laporta-opportunity-barcelona-new-era\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> would be a semi-final tie against either Sparta Prague, Lyon or Paris Saint Germain.<\/p>\n<p>The first legs of the last-eight ties will be played on March 23-24, and the second legs will take place on March 31 and April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the semi-finals are set to take place on April 24-25 and May 1-2, ahead of this year\u2019s final in Gothenburg on May 16.<\/p>\n<p>The full quarter-final and semi-final draw can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<h3>Quarter-Final Draw<\/h3>\n<p>Bayern Munich (GER) v Rosengard (SWE)<\/p>\n<p>Sparta Prague (CZE) or Paris Saint Germain (FRA) v Lyon (FRA)<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona (ESP) v Manchester City<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea v Wolfsburg (GER)<\/p>\n<h3>Semi-Final Draw<\/h3>\n<p>Sparta Prague or Paris Saint Germain or Lyon v Barcelona or Manchester City<\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich or Rosengard v Chelsea or Wolfsburg<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"jr3qvVBzSmVOl1FUSRv_VA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1306593934\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'jr3qvVBzSmVOl1FUSRv_VA',sig:'9yY_h0ojCN3s2fqH8m13U8-mFG7Gfap4RtnwNZmGwKg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1306593934',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea and Manchester City learned of their next opponents in the Women\u2019s Champions League after the draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals was made on March 12. Chelsea and Manchester City Find Out Next Opponents in the Women\u2019s Champions League Chelsea Take on Wolfsburg in Women&#8217;s Champions League Chelsea will face the two-time winners Wolfsburg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3766,"featured_media":586479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7007,1365,11,17,1367,7008],"tags":[5089],"class_list":["post-586471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-football","category-barcelona","category-chelsea","category-manchester-city","category-paris-saint-germain","category-womens-super-league","tag-womens-champions-league"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}