PARIS — Holders Barcelona
will face rivals
Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of this season's
Women's Champions League after the sides were paired together in Monday's draw for the
knockout phase.
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Barcelona, with new Women's Ballon d'Or
winner Alexia Putellas, hammered Chelsea 4-0 in last season's final and also
won a domestic league and cup double.
They won all six games in this season's
inaugural
Champions League group stage, scoring 24 goals and conceding just
one.
Real, meanwhile, finished second in their
group behind French champions
Paris Saint-Germain.
The winners of the all-Spanish tie will go
through to a quarter-final against either
Arsenal or
Wolfsburg.
The Germans piped
Chelsea to qualify for the
last eight, while Arsenal -- the only English club ever to have won the title
-- came second in their section behind Barcelona.
The other half of the draw is set up for a
potential all-French semi-final showdown between PSG and record seven-time
European champions Lyon.
PSG will take on
Bayern Munich in the
quarter-finals, with the winner of that going through to play Lyon or
Juventus in the last four.
Juve are hoping to go all the way to the
final which will be played at their home ground in Turin at a date to be
confirmed.
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