Ready the knockout stages of the Champions League

The Manchester City- Arsenal- Barcelona and Bayern Munich are the most prominent battles of the knockout stages of the Champions League , according to the draw on Monday in Nyon (Switzerland ) .

The City , coached this season by Chilean Manuel Pellegrini and has in its ranks stars such as Sergio Aguero , the Ivorian Yaya Touré or the Spaniards, David Silva , Jesus Navas and Alvaro Negredo will be a tough opponent for Barcelona Argentine Gerardo Martino .

Arsenal , meanwhile , will face Bayern Munich champions , coached this season by the Spanish Josep Guardiola. In this tie will face the current leaders of the English and German leagues.

The two Madrid teams were more fortunate , a priori, that the Barcelona. Atletico Madrid , who has done a superb group stage , finishing with five wins and a draw , will face a Milan that is sunk in his championship and qualified with many problems crossings for the title.

Real Madrid , meanwhile , should have no problem against Schalke , but the white team is given bad traditionally German rivals .

In the rest of the playoffs will face Bayern Leverkusen Paris SG , Olympiacos against Manchester United , Galatasaray will face Chelsea and Zenit Russian Borussia Dortmund .

Seeded (Barcelona , Real Madrid, Atletico, Bayern , Dortmund , Manchester United, Chelsea, and Paris SG ) played away -leg knockout on 18 /19 and 25/26 February and will be local in the second leg of the 11/12 and 18/ 19 March.

The draw for the quarter-finals will be held on March 21 and the semifinals will take place on April 11.

The tournament will conclude at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon on May 24 .