FC Porto and Benfica, with rare top-seeded status, face their rivals in the round of 16 of the Football Champions League on Monday, in a draw in which they can still catch a shark.

The two teams, located in pot 1, as winners of the respective groups of the first phase, will cross paths with pot 2, knowing that eagles cannot be drawn with Paris Saint-Germainof Danilo Pereira, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes and Renato Sanches, and dragons with Club Brugge, their rival in the group stage.

Otherwise, Benfica and FC Porto can meet Liverpool, by Diogo Jota and Fábio CarvalhoProbably the most feared rival of pot 2, the Italians of Inter Milan and AC Milan, of Rafael Leão, or the Germans of Eintracht Frankfurt, of Aurélio Buta, of Leipzig, of André Silva, or of Borussia Dortmund, of Raphaël Guerreiro.

Benfica can also face Brugge and FC Porto against Paris Saint-Germain, with the sole exception of the impossibility of the eagles against the French, since they have already faced them, and the Belgians against the dragons, in the same context.

Among the top seeds of the series, and therefore, for now out of the way of FC Porto and Benfica, are the champion Real Madrid, the Italians of Napoli, of Mário Rui, the English of Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City , by Rúben Dias, João Cancelo and Bernardo Silva, and the Germans from Bayern Munich.

The draw for the Champions League is scheduled for 11:00. (Lisbon time), just before the draws for the Europe League (12:00)with Sporting in the playoffs, and Europa Conference League (13:00)with Sporting de Braga.

Sporting, eliminated in the Champions League, third in their group, enters the Europa League play-off, in which they will draw with the remaining third parties to find one of the second in the second UEFA competition, to try be present in the round of 16. end.

The scenario means that Sporting can meet Roma, José Mourinho and Rui Patrício, PSV Eindhoven, Rennes, Union Berlin, Diogo Leite, Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo, Bruno Fernandes and Diogo Dalot, Midtjylland, Nantes or Monaco, by Gelson Martins.

In the Europa League, Sporting de Braga, relegated to third place in the Europa League group stage, will play the play-off to access the round of 16 against a team that finished the group stage of the third competition in second place in his group.

On Braga’s path are Fiorentina, Anderlecht, by Fábio Silva, Partizan Belgrade, Dnipro, Gent, Cluj, by Zé Gomes, Basel and Lech Poznan, by João Amaral, Joel Pereira, Pedro Rebocho and Afonso Sousa.

Drums Draw (Eighth Finals):

Champions League:

Pot 1: Napoli (Ita), FC PORTO (POR), Bayern Munich (Ale), Tottenham (Ing), Chelsea (Ing), Real Madrid (Esp), Manchester City (Ing) and BENFICA (POR).

Pot 2: Liverpool (Ing), Club Brugge (Bel), Inter Milan (Ita), Eintracht Frankfurt (Ale), AC Milan (Ita), Leipzig (Ale), Borussia Dortmund (Ale) and Paris Saint-Germain (Fra ) .

Europa League (play off to access the round of 16):

Pot 1: PSV Eindhoven (Hol), Rennes (Fra), Union Berlin (Ale), Roma (Ita), Manchester United (Ing), Midtjylland (Din), Nantes (Fra) and Monaco (Fra).

Pot 2: Ajax (Hol), Bayer Leverkusen (Ale), FC Barcelona (Esp), SPORTING (POR), Salzburg (Aut), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ucr), Sevilla (Esp) and Juventus (Ita).

Europa Conference League (play off to access the round of 16):

Pot 1: Fiorentina (Ita), Anderlecht (Bel), Lech Poznan (Pol), Partizan Belgrade (Ser), Dnipro (Ucr), Gent (Bel), Cluj (Rom) and Basel (Sui).

Pot 2: Bodo/Glimt (Nor), AEK Larnaca (Chp), Ludogorets (Bul), SPORTING DE BRAGA (POR), Sheriff (Mol), Lazio (Ita), Qarabag (Aze) and Trabzonspor (Tur).