{"id":14172,"date":"2015-12-14T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=14172"},"modified":"2015-12-14T13:45:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:45:02","slug":"champions-league-draw-arsenal-face-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/14\/champions-league-draw-arsenal-face-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League draw: Arsenal face Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal will face holders Barcelona in the Champions League last 16.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have been drawn against Paris St-Germain for the third consecutive season in the tournament, and Manchester City face Dynamo Kiev.<br \/>\nRoma versus Real Madrid and Juventus, last year&#8217;s beaten finalists, against Bayern Munich are two of the standout matches in the draw.<br \/>\nFirst legs are scheduled to take place on 16-17 and 23-24 February. Return legs are on 8-9 and 15-16 March.<br \/>\nThe winners of each group, including Chelsea and Manchester City, are at home in the second legs, while Arsenal will host their first leg.<br \/>\nThe draw for the quarter-finals will be held at 11:00 GMT on 18 March with the semi-final line-up drawn on 15 April, also at 12:00 GMT.<br \/>\nBarcelona v Arsenal is a repeat of the 2006 final, which the Spanish champions won 2-1 thanks to two late goals in Paris.<br \/>\nPSG, who are 17 points clear at the top of the French league, beat Chelsea on away goals at this stage last season, while the Blues beat them on the same rule in the quarter-finals the previous year.<br \/>\nDynamo Kiev beat Manchester City in the 2010-11 Europa League last 16, with Mario Balotelli sent off for the English side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gent \u00a0v \u00a0Wolfsburg<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Roma v Real Madrid<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Paris St-Germain v Chelsea<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Arsenal v Barcelona<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Juventus v Bayern Munich<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>PSV Eindhoven v Atletico Madrid<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Benfica v Zenit St Petersburg<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dynamo Kiev v Manchester City<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal will face holders Barcelona in the Champions League last 16. Chelsea have been drawn against Paris St-Germain for the third consecutive season in the tournament, and Manchester City face Dynamo Kiev. Roma versus Real Madrid and Juventus, last year&#8217;s beaten finalists, against Bayern Munich are two of the standout matches in the draw. First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}