Champions League quarter-finals: tie-by-tie analysis and verdicts | Jonathan Wilson


Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City and Bayern Munich are the favourites to progress from a set of fascinating ties

Are Real Madrid any good? They are 10 points clear in La Liga but the sense is that Spanish football is in retreat. They were outplayed for two and a half hours of the last-16 tie against Paris Saint-Germain and for all the brilliance of Karim Benzema and Luka Modric in those final minutes, it’s also true that the turnaround was as much the result of another PSG collapse as anything they did.

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