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Four-time defending champion Lyon has been drawn to play Bayern Munich in the Women’s Champions League quarterfinals.Lyon , which will play the first leg at home in March, has won its four games so far by a combined score of 27-0, with forward Ada Hegerberg scoring nine of the goals.Glasgow City , the only independent women’s club left in the draw, was paired with Wolfsburg. The German club’s back-to-back European titles in 2013 and ’14 are the only times Lyon did not win in the past eight seasons.Also, Atlético Madrid will face Spanish rival Barcelona , and Arsenal will meet Paris Saint-Germain.The quarterfinal matches will be played on March 24-25 and April 1-2.In the semifinals, Lyon or Bayern will face Arsenal or PSG, while either Glasgow or Wolfsburg will take on Atlético or Barcelona.The final is set for May 24 in Vienna , Austria. Asia’s reigning player of the year has been banned for five months for confronting a referee in the Asian Champions League semifinals.The Asian Football Confederation banned Abdelkarim Hassan, the left back of Qatari champion Al Sadd, from all its club competitions until March 20.FIFA says Hassan will be able to play at the Club World Cup in Qatar in December , which will include Al Sadd. He can also play in domestic games.Hassan reacted aggressively after being shown a yellow card for a foul in the first half of Al Sadd’s 4-1 first-leg loss to Saudi club Al Hilal in Doha on Oct. 1.The AFC says the defender “was expelled by the referee for an act of violent conduct against a match official.”The five-month ban removes Hassan from this year’s Asian Champions League and three group games in the 2020 edition. Al Sadd already qualified as Qatar league champion, which also earned a Club World Cup place as the host nation’s domestic title winner.Hassan won the AFC’s 2018 award as the best player based in Asia. He helped Qatar win the 2019 Asian Cup in February and played in the 2019 Copa America in Brazil.
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