Updates & Quarter Finals

The teams that advanced through into the quarter finals were FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Wolfsburg, Benfica, Manchester City, Atletico Madrid, and Bayern Munich. Over the past six years FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich have been dominant in winning the trophy with the big ears with the exception of Chelsea FC's win in 2013. This quarter final sees defending champions FC Barcelona facing off against Atletico Madrid. Although Atletico went up early due to a brilliant strike from Fernando Torres, Luis Suarez of Barcelona showed why he is one of the worlds best strikers by scoring two goals for the Catalans. Bayern Munich defeated Benfica in their first leg with a goal from Arturo Vidal. The second legs for these matches should be exciting. Today, April 6th, we have Real Madrid facing Wolfsburg. Madrid are heavy favorites as they are every year but as the saying goes, "anything can happen in football." Paris-Saint Germain square off against Manchester City in a battle of the titans, financial titans that is. These two teams have some of the worlds highest payed footballers and have a lot of financial support from wealthy owners. At this point all the clubs remaining are giant clubs with great histories, but the footballing world knows which clubs have the money to buy the stars of today. After the end of next week we will know who advances into the semi-finals and is one step closer to Milan.