Bayer Leverkusen and Paris Saint-Germain are playing in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday and the match will be streaming online from the Fox Soccer 2Go website from BayArena at 2:45 pm ET for the first leg of the round of 16 match and comes on the same day as Manchester City takes on Barcelona to start things off for the knockout round.
PSG and Bayer play ahead of AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal and Bayern Munich on Wednesday and then the schedule takes off for a week again and picks up on Tuesday and Wednesday with Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Olympiakos. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani will be the leaders for Paris on Tuesday and they will be the favorites, but that does not mean the second place team in their league behind Bayern Munich in Bayer should not be considered dangerous.
Sami Hyppia said the team is not deterred at the match on Tuesday and despite losing against Schalke, another team in the Champions League mix, and that they will play hard against PSG to try and get a good result. The team lost at home ahead of this match and now Ibrahimovic comes in as the leading scorer for the team after he put in eight goals in the group stage and PSG comes in after a home league win 3-0 against Valenciennes and they remain atop their league table.
Bayer captain Simon Rolfes said that the team will be prepared to make noise in the round of 16 and now it's up to PSG to take care of business as they try to advance to play against one of the top teams in the Champions League. Leverkusen lost both their games to Manchester United earlier and scored just two goals in the process and now they play a team that many consider stronger than the Red Devils this season.
There are a ton of matches coming up for the round of 16 and Premier League teams like Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal still have matches to play and they come in looking to make some noise in the UCL. The Premier League is off during the week for the Champions League and comes as the Blues have moved into first place over Arsenal and Manchester City and those teams are in action this week as well.
The Blues have a one point lead over the Gunners and it comes after Arsenal was in first place for nearly the entire season and they are up over Man City. Liverpool is next on the table above Tottenham and Everton and beyond that is Manchester United and Southampton. The Champions League is one of the last chances for Man U to make good on this season and David Moyes has his team ready to play well against Olympiakos and that first leg starts at Karaiskaki Stadium before a return to Old Trafford.
Check here for the Paris Saint Germain and Bayer live coverage of the Champions League.