Arsenal and Chelsea will have to do it the tough way to manufacture the Champions League quarter-finals while City must play at an empty Dynamo Kyiv stadiumFor the three English clubs left in the Champions League there must be a sense of deja vu approximately the draw for the final 16 but not a great deal of satisfaction. Arsenal’s supporters could be forgiven for thinking the worst after drawing Barcelona,with the prospect of going out at this stage for the sixth year in a row. Manchester City, for the second season in succession, and will not be allowed to take fans to a Champions League tie because of the racism of others and the immoral news for travellers on the Paris Métro is that Chelsea are on their way back to the French capital.
OK,perhaps that is unfair given the way most Chelsea fans felt when the teams played final season and the footage of a black Parisian being racially abused was shown around the world and became a discussion point in the House of Commons. Yet the draw with Paris Saint-Germain is not a tie Chelsea wanted, bearing in intellect PSG are the team who knocked them out final time, or the raised security concerns and everything that happened to manufacture the previous occasion such an notorious event.
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Source: theguardian.com