The 2021-22 UEFA Champions League is reduced to the last four teams and the competition is fierce.
Two Spanish clubs meet two English clubs as the competition’s two most decorated nations battle for another crown.
The Premier League sends its two top clubs, Man City and Liverpool, into the semi-finals in a bid for glory on the European stage. La Liga, on the other hand, has leaders Real Madrid and seventh-placed Villarreal, who are in the semi-finals of the Champions League for the second time in their history.
Villarreal’s excitement against Bayern Munich was one of the most amazing results of the season, with Robert Lewandowski and Bayern scoring just a single goal in the 180 minutes of the quarter-finals and Samuel Chukwueze’s 88th-minute goal put the Spanish side 2-1 ahead on aggregate .
Man City and Real Madrid meet in a repeat of the 2019-20 Champions League quarter-finals as Zinedine Zidane’s side are eliminated from the competition with City’s two 2-1 wins.
The other semi-final, meanwhile, marks the first Champions League clash between Liverpool and Villarreal. The two have only met twice in history, both coming together in the two legs of their Europa League semi-final match in 2016.
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Champions League semifinals schedule
The semi-finals will be held on April 26-27 (Leg 1) and May 3-4 (Leg 2).
first leg
| date | Game | time (ET) |
| Tue, April 26 | man city 4real Madrid 3 | highlights |
| Wed, April 27th | Liverpool 2villa real 0 | highlights |
second leg
| date | Game | time (ET) | TV channel | stream |
| Tue, May 3rd | villa real 2Liverpool 3 | highlights | ||
| Wed, May 4th | Real Madrid versus Manchester City | 3 pm | CBS, Univision, TUDN | fuboTV, Paramount+ |
Champions League Final
| date | Game | time (ET) | TV channel | stream |
| Sat, May 28th | Liverpool versus Manchester City/Real Madrid | 3 pm | CBS, Univision, TUDN | fuboTV, Paramount+ |
Liverpool, in the final after beating Villarreal 5-2 on aggregate, will technically be the home side for the final on May 28 at the Stade de France north of Paris, despite being a neutral venue.
Nominating a home team for a final at a neutral venue is an important formality for matters such as bench assignments, shirt assignments, and other procedural, competitive, and administrative considerations.
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Champions League quarterfinal results
The quarter-finals were played over two stages in April, with two English and two Spanish clubs progressing to the semi-finals.
| Result first leg | Result of the 2nd stage | overall score |
| Chelsea 1-3 Real Madrid | Real Madrid 2-3 Chelsea | real Madrid 5, Chelsea 4 |
| Manchester City 1-0 Atlético Madrid | Atlético Madrid 0-0 Manchester City | man city 1, Atlético Madrid 0 |
| Villarreal 1-0 Bayern Munich | Bayern Munich 1-1 Villarreal | villa real 2, Bayern Munich 1 |
| Benfica Lisbon 1:3 | Liverpool 3-3 Benfica | Liverpool 6, Benfica 4 |
How to watch the UEFA Champions League
The 2021-22 UEFA Champions League will be broadcast in the United States by CBS (English) and Univision (Spanish) across a range of TV and streaming platforms.
- Events: 29 game days from September 2021 to May 2022
- TV channel: CBS, CBS Sports Network-CBSSN (select games only)
- Spanish Language TV: Univision, TUDN, UniMas, Galavision, TUDNxtra (TUDNxtra available through select cable, satellite and streaming providers)
- Stream (English): Outstanding+
- Streaming (Spanish): fuboTV, PrendeTV, TUDN.tv, TUDN app (authenticated users)
CBS Sports has a live studio show before the game, at halftime and after the game (UEFA Champions League Today) that airs on CBS Sports Network and streams on Paramount+. Univision reflects this coverage with its own pre-game show (Fútbol Central) and post-game show (Misión Europa).
Any remaining Champions League game can be streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial for new subscribers. The streaming platform transmits all channels of the Univision family: Univision, TUDN, UniMas, Galavision and TUDNxtra.
Univision streams select games on its free ad-supported platform, PrendeTV, which is available for free on mobile and connected TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Apple (iOS and tvOS), Google (Android phones and TVs), Roku, and across the web Prende.tv.