After three months without continental club football in Europe, the Champions League is back. We have reached the Round of 16, the business part of the competition.
This round will feature recent final rematches, some first time clashes, and, as always, high stakes matches.
This is a thread for the Round of 16 of the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League season, Join the discussion and share your views on the various matches.
Tuesday’s fixture will be the fifth competitive meeting between AC Milan and Tottenham Hotspur, with the north Londoners unbeaten across each of the previous four (W2 D2).
Tottenham Hotspur have played at San Siro on three previous occasions in the UEFA Champions League, with their one victory coming against AC Milan (two defeats vs Inter Milan). Gareth Bale has scored 60 per cent of their goals (3/5), with the Welshman’s hat-trick in October 2010 versus Inter one of only two instances of a visiting player netting a treble at the Giuseppe Meazza (also Rivaldo for Barcelona in 2000).
Antonio Conte has won eight of his last nine games as a manager against AC Milan (L1), between 2013 and 2021. He has seen his side win and keep a clean sheet in his last three trips to face the Rossoneri away from home (2-0 in 2014, 2-0 in 2019 and 3-0 in 2021 – all in Serie A).
AC Milan will play in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League for the first time since the 2013/14 season when Atletico Madrid beat them 5-1 on aggregate in the Round of 16. They have failed to score in nine of their last 14 matches in the knockout stages of the competition.
Olivier Giroud has been directly involved in six goals for AC Milan in the UEFA Champions League (four goals and two assists). The last player with more in a single campaign in the competition for the Rossoneri was Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2011/12 (nine – five goals and four assists).
Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich have faced each other 11 times in the past, with all of the meetings coming in the UEFA Champions League. The teams are separated by only one win (six for PSG and five for Bayern).
PSG have only lost one of their five UEFA Champions League home games against Bayern Munich.
Bayern Munich have won all six of their games in the UEFA Champions League so far this term, firing 18 goals and conceding only twice in response.
Paris Saint-Germain are the only team to have reached the knockout stage of this season’s UEFA Champions League without keeping a clean sheet.
Messi enters this clash in fine form, having netted 10 goals across his last 13 games for club and country.
UEFA Champions League is back with a bang — it’s PSG v Bayern at Parc des Princes! 
Kylian Mbappé only makes the bench, but Lionel Messi is in the hosts’ XI, while Yann Sommer and João Cancelo make their first #UCL starts for the visitors.
16-year-old Warren Zaïre-Emery, who was born in 2006, is the youngest PSG player in history to start a Champions League match.
He’s doing it against Bayern Munich.
The future is here 
1 - Paris have only attempted one shot against Bayern, their fewest tally in the first half of an UEFA Champions League game since 12 April 2016 at Manchester City (also 1). Harmless.
16-year-old Warren Zaïre-Emery, who was born in 2006, is the youngest PSG player in history to start a Champions League match.
He’s doing it against Bayern Munich.
The future is here
THINGS TO KNOW FOR AC MILAN vs SPURS
Spurs have never lost in four meetings vs Milan
Conte has won eight of his last nine games vs Milan
Milan have just TWO wins so far in 2023
◎ 2020: PSG lose 1-0 to Bayern in the #UCL final thanks to a 59th minute Kingsley Coman goal.
◉ 2023: PSG lose 1-0 to Bayern in the #UCL R16 thanks to a 53rd minute Kingsley Coman goal.
Haunting his old club. 
PSG have now lost THREE straight matches
It’s the first time in the Messi, Neymar and Mbappe era that this happens 
AC Milan’s last two wins in the knockout rounds of the Champions League:
Feb 13th 2013: 2-0 vs Barcelona
Feb 14th 2023: 1-0 vs Tottenham
They’ve waited 10 years for this moment. 
39 - Kingsley Coman netted the winner for Bayern Munich tonight in his 50th UEFA Champions League appearance. It’s the 39th time he’s ended on the winning side, the most wins by a player in their first 50 appearances in the competition’s history. Habit.
HALF-TIME 
Who’s scoring next?
