{"id":16182,"date":"2026-02-26T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/?p=16182"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:47:37","slug":"the-road-to-budapest-round-of-16-draw-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/the-road-to-budapest-round-of-16-draw-preview","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Budapest: Round of 16 Draw Preview Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/en-us\/football\/league\/uefa-champions-league-572\">Champions League<\/a> Play-offs are over, the field is set, and tomorrow, the bracket is locked. On <strong>Friday, February 27<\/strong>, the &#8220;Elite Eight&#8221; seeded giants\u2014including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/en-us\/football\/team\/arsenal-104\">Arsenal<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/en-us\/football\/team\/liverpool-108\">Liverpool<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/en-us\/football\/team\/bayern-munich-331\">Bayern Munich<\/a><\/strong>\u2014will finally learn which battle-hardened survivors they\u2019ll face in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the &#8220;New Era&#8221; format, the draw isn&#8217;t just about the next game; it&#8217;s about the entire path to the final in <strong>Budapest<\/strong>. With heavyweights like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/en-us\/football\/team\/real-madrid-131\">Real Madrid<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/en-us\/football\/team\/psg-480\">PSG<\/a><\/strong> lurking in the unseeded pot, tomorrow&#8217;s results will determine who has a clear run and who is stepping into a minefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Think you understand the new bracket? Take our Champions League Quiz to prove your tactical IQ before the balls are drawn tomorrow!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"riddle2-wrapper\" data-is-qzzr=\"false\" data-rid-id=\"cgPfAO3R\" data-auto-scroll=\"true\" data-is-fixed-height-enabled=\"false\" data-bg=\"#fff\" data-fg=\"#00205b\" style=\"margin:0 auto; max-width:100%; width:640px;\" ><script src=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/build-embedjs\/embedV2.js\"><\/script><iframe title=\"New Riddle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/a\/cgPfAO3R?lazyImages=false&#038;staticHeight=false\" allow=\"autoplay\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Champions League Play-offs are over, the field is set, and tomorrow, the bracket is locked. On Friday, February 27, the &#8220;Elite Eight&#8221; seeded giants\u2014including Arsenal, Liverpool, and Bayern Munich\u2014will finally learn which battle-hardened survivors they\u2019ll face in the Round of 16. Under the &#8220;New Era&#8221; format, the draw isn&#8217;t just about the next game; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":16685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Budapest","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_robots":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2509],"tags":[1126,108],"content-tags":[],"article_type":[3329],"entity_type":[3334],"inspiration":[3337],"class_list":["post-16182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer","category-champions-league","tag-champions-league","tag-soccer","article_type-news","entity_type-competition","inspiration-365s-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16689,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions\/16689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"content-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-tags?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"entity_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity_type?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"inspiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.365scores.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiration?post=16182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}