Legia won the competition in group L and thus secured a place among the 16 seeded. In addition to the 12 winners of the groups assigned to this basket of four teams that finished third in groups of deposits Champions League: Olympiakos Piraeus, Sporting Lisbon, Athletic Bilbao and Zenit St. Petersburg.
Second basket to form teams of second places in the LE group, and another four the third position in the group Champions League: Anderlecht, Ajax Amsterdam, FC Liverpool and AS Roma. Each of these teams can be an attractive opponent for the Legion, like eg. The winner of the previous edition LE – FC Sevilla Grzegorz Krychowiak or … Celtic. Scottish rival club was “Military” in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League and lost twice (1: 4, 0: 2), but still advanced to the next round with the statutory reasons (in Polish team at the end of the second game played ineligible player Bartosz Bereszyński).
The teams will be seeded dolosowane the second basket, but with the caveat that they can not hit each other rivals in the same group in the previous phase (in the case of the Legion – Turkish Trabzonspor) from the same country.
Matches 1 / LE 16 finals will be held 19 and 26 February 2015 year. Seeded will enjoy the benefit of playing the second leg match in front of their audience, but in the case of Polish champion now everything points to the show at the empty stands, what is the effect of the penalty imposed by UEFA for the improper conduct of their supporters in Lokeren.
LE finale of this edition will be held May 27 at the National Stadium in Warsaw.
The National Stadium in Warsaw
from 12.00 draw for the Champions League 1/8
The winners were seeded eight groups, and in the second basket teams were runners. The same rules apply as in the LE can not come to confront opponents of the same group in the previous phase and from the same country. Seeded have home field advantage in the second leg.
First 1/8 final matches will take place on 17/18 and 24/25 February and the second leg match – 10/11 and 17/18 of March. Final – June 6 in Berlin.
Baskets breakdown reflects quite accurately the current hierarchy in European football. Among the giants were spaced Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Barcelona. Aspiring to the role of the Paris Saint-Germain, who was seeded in the 1/8 finals in the two previous seasons, this time finished the group stage for Barcelona. Manchester City was not able to stay ahead of Bayern and Juventus – finalist of the last edition of the Champions League Atletico Madrid.
Currently strongest team seems to Real, with its big star Cristiano Ronald o. Portuguese, favorite for the second consecutive FIFA Ballon d’Or, the award for the best player of 2014 goals shot as if on cue. After winning the May 10th in the history of the club European Cup (in the final against Atletico Madrid 4: 1 after extra time) “Whites” are continuing the great streak. In the group stage of the Champions League won all six matches, and a total of up to 20 have had their victories in a row, which is a record of all time among Spanish clubs.
Great in their group also wrote down Bayern Munich, incorporating a six football players eleven basic German national team, the current champion of the world. In addition, coach Josep Guardiola is still available in this class of players, as Franck Ribery, Arjen Robben and Robert Lewandowski.
Addition Lewandowski, 1/8 finals matches Polish fans can see four more white and red: Łukasz Piszczek, James Błaszczykowski (both Borussia Dortmund), Wojciech Szczesny (Arsenal) and Sebas tian Boenisch (Bayer Leverkusen).
baskets before 1/16 finals draw LE:
cart No. 1: FC Salzburg, Dynamo Moscow, Inter Milan, Everton, Fiorentina, FC Brugge, Borussia Moenchengladbach, Besiktas Istanbul, Feyennord Rotterdam, FC Napoli, Dynamo Kiev, Legia Warszawa, Olympiakos Piraeus, Zenit St. Petersburg, Sporting Lisbon, Athletic Bilbao
cart No. 2: Celtic, PSV Eindhoven, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Tottenham Hotspur, Villarreal, AS Torino, VfL Wolfsburg, Young Boys Bern, Aalborg, En Avant Guingamp, Trabzonspor, FC Sevilla, Anderlecht, AS Roma, Ajax Amsterdam, FC Liverpool
baskets before the draw 1/8 finals LM:
cart No. 1: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, FC Porto, AS Monaco
cart No. 2: Arsenal, Manchester City, Paris SG, Juventus, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Schalke 04, Bayer Leverkusen, FC Basel.
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