Insights: Champions League Round of 16 1st Leg Previews

Jack | Operations & Media Manager

Mon 3 Mar 2025

This article contains a match preview for each of the Champions League Round of 16 first legs.

Following the play-off round, we are left with 16 teams battling it out for a place in the quarter-finals. The Round of 16 draw has thrown up two monster ties between domestic rivals - Real Madrid vs. Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich vs. Bayer Leverkusen - while PSG vs. Liverpool is the pick of rest.

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Champions League Round of 16 - 1st Leg Previews:

Club Brugge vs. Aston Villa

Both of these clubs will see this tie as a great opportunity to reach the quarter-finals of the European Cup for the first time in decades, and this first leg in Belgium is particularly hard to call because although Aston Villa are favourites to progress from the tie overall, their away form isn't great and they've already lost at Jan Breydelstadion this season. During the league phase of this tournament, we…

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