Barça now knows its path to the Champions League final, which this season will be held in Budapest on May 30. After narrowly missing out on last season's final in a heartbreaking tie against Inter Milan, the Catalan club will be looking to reach a European final again eleven years later. But to achieve this, they will first have to overcome Newcastle, another tough opponent. "It's a draw where we could have faced two very different teams, but both have their difficulties. Newcastle is a tough side, and it's a difficult ground where we've already struggled," said sporting director Deco from Switzerland.

This Monday's draw is the first Christmas Lottery draw after the ruling that has proven the negligence that occurred in 2021The inspectors failed to immediately report, as required by the regulations, the numbers that the children of Sant Ildefons had incorrectly called out. In total, there were 56 smaller prizes, amounting to 9.6 million euros. The correction was made directly to the official list sent to the lottery offices, meaning that all those who believed they had won while watching the draw live were never able to claim their prize.

El Vendrell has sold all 35 winning tickets for the top prize in the New Year's Eve lottery, number 1379. The winning number is drawn on the last day of the year. A total of seven million euros has been distributed across the 35 series sold from a tobacconist's shop on Café Street in the capital of the Baix Penedès region. Winners will receive 200,000 euros for each ticket played. The winning combination demonstrates, once again, that chance doesn't discriminate based on numbers, and that all the balls in the lottery drum have the same chance. "It's a number that not everyone buys because it has a zero in front of it, and it's one you wouldn't normally choose, but sometimes those numbers that we're not used to buying come up," explained Marc Latorre, who owns the shop with his mother. Rosa Sabater has been running the shop for forty years and had never sold such a large winning ticket before. "I'm semi-retired, but I still do a little work, and the other day, jokingly, I said, 'I'll retire the day I win the jackpot,'" she exclaimed. For now, part of that prediction has come true.

The El Niño lottery has showered Catalonia with good fortune this year. The first prize in the Three Kings' Day raffle went to 06703, a number widely distributed throughout Spain and especially in Catalonia, where winning tickets were sold in a dozen municipalities, including Barcelona, ​​Mataró, Sabadell, and Terrassa. The lucky winners will take home €200,000 per ticket.

Neighbors queuing inside the butcher shop while others are already passing through with their shopping bags. Some are braving the freezing cold of this Monday in Madrid and going out for a stroll. And only a few, very few, are going specifically to number 8 Ricardo Ortiz Street, in the La Elipa neighborhood of Ciudad Lineal, to see who the lucky winner was who took home a few cents from the Christmas Lottery jackpot. Because this year luck has smiled on the Spanish capital: not only has the first prize been won in its entirety (except for a tiny bit in León), but the second prize has also been won.

Barça already knows the first part of the road to reaching the dream Champions League final, which will be played on May 30 at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest (Hungary). Hansi Flick's team, who lost last season in a traumatic semifinal against Inter Milan, will begin the top continental competition in mid-September with a match away from Barcelona due to the unavailability of the Camp Nou and Montjuïc stadiums.

The Sant Jordi Gordo is here. 64139 from series 33 is the number that won the special prize in this Sunday's Sant Jordi Grossa draw. Whoever presents this ticket will have won a prize of 2,000,000 euros.

The sentence took almost two years to arrive, but it was finally ruled in favor. at the Barcelona law firm that in 2021 brought 56 errors in the Christmas Lottery draw to court. that had not been corrected immediately, as the regulations state. Those who heard the children of Sant Ildefons call out their number as the winner of a minor prize never collected it: they were incorrect, and the official list sent to the authorities includes the correct numbers, not the ones actually called out. However, during the live drawing, no one reported the error, nor did they focus in detail on the consolation prize balls with the correct number, as is the case with the big prizes. Now, a judge in Madrid has noted the "negligence" of the draw workers who, just a few centimeters from the wires, were supposed to supervise the children calling out the numbers: "They neglected their duty to supervise the drawing operations," she states, adding that none of the fifty errors were corrected live.

There are only sixteen candidates left to lift the most coveted trophy for all football clubs: the Champions League. This Friday we will find out all the pairings for the round of 16 of the competition. Remember that, after the change of format this year, the top eight teams in the preliminary round have had to wait two weeks to find out who their possible opponents will be. Who could be Barça's rivals? And Madrid's?

Barça's path in the Champions League knockout stages 24-25 has been set. Hansi Flick's team will face Portuguese side Benfica in the round of 16, with the return leg at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on March 11 at 6:45 p.m. The first leg will be on the 5th at 9 p.m. The Lisbon side were the Blaugrana's opponents a few weeks ago in the league phase of the top continental competition. The match ended 4-5 at Da Luz in favour of the Barcelona team. The other big news from the draw that took place this Friday in Nyon is that there will be a Madrid derby in the round of 16. Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid will wear each other out in the continental fight, which could have positive effects for Barça in the League.