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Tyrone Marshall

UEFA make decision on venue for Man City vs Real Madrid Champions League second leg

Manchester City will play the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie with Real Madrid at the Etihad Stadium, UEFA have confirmed.

The Blues won 2-1 at the Bernabeu in March before the competition was halted as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak across Europe.

Plans have since been unveiled to finish the Champions League in a final eight tournament in Portugal in August, with quarter-finals, semi-final and final all played over one leg.

But City were determined not to lose home advantage for the second leg of their tie with the La Liga leaders and UEFA have confirmed the remaining ties will be played at home venues, as long as that league is back up and running and there are no travel restrictions in place.

A UEFA statement said: "Consistent with the principle of sporting fairness and considering that current conditions - all clubs due to play at home the return leg of the Round of 16 are currently playing the remaining matches of their domestic leagues in their own stadiums and that travelling is possible without restrictions for the visiting clubs – the UEFA Executive Committee decided that the remaining UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League Round of 16 second-leg matches will be played at the home teams’ stadiums.

"As already communicated in June, the ties FC Internazionale Milano v Getafe CF and Sevilla FC v AS Roma, whose first leg was also postponed, will be played as a single leg in Germany.

"UEFA will continue to monitor the situation and reserves the right to reassign any such matches to the venues of the final tournament of the relevant competition should new events occur that would make it impossible to play one or more matches at the original venues.

"The respective fixture lists will be communicated after tomorrow’s draws at UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon."

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