Soccer on TV: Atlético Madrid-Chelsea highlights Champions League schedule; SheBelieves Cup concludes

Tuesday, 3 p.m. (CBS Sports Network, UniMás, TUDN)

“The Champions League has stormed back in, and it has not been shy,” CBS play-by-play announcer Peter Drury declared last Tuesday at the end of Paris Saint-Germain’s astonishing 4-1 romp at Barcelona. What will this week bring us? A return trip to Spain leads off this week’s slate, for what should be the best of the four matchups.

Atlético has charged through La Liga for most of this season, in first place since November. But João Félix, Luis Suárez and company were shockingly beaten at home by Levante on Saturday.

Chelsea, meanwhile, still isn’t getting its glittering array of attacking stars — Timo Werner, Kai Havertz, Hakim Ziyech and Christian Pulisic — to click together. And Pulisic is once again battling a calf injury. He didn’t play in Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Southampton.

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Tuesday, 3 p.m. (Galavisión, CBS All Access)

Bayern’s 2-1 loss at Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday wasn’t the weekend’s most surprising result in Europe, but it was high up the list. The club’s standards are so high that going back-to-back games without a win makes people nervous. A loss here would really cause alarms, and not just because Lazio is clearly the underdog.

Led by phenomenal striker Robert Lewandowski, Bayern hasn’t lost a game in the Champions League since March 13, 2019, a run of 17 contests over two seasons. Not only that, the German superpower has just one tie in the streak — and over the last three campaigns, that aforementioned loss was the club’s only defeat in any European Cup game. Even Real Madrid’s three-peat squad from 2016-18 didn’t have a record that good.

Tuesday, 3:10 p.m. (beIN Sports)

France won the first game of this two-friendly set on Saturday, 2-0. It wasn’t a great watch, but Perle Morroni’s victory-clinching goal was worth waiting for. Melvine Malard showed why she’s one of Les Bleues’ top young prospects in helping to set up the play.

The big news came after the game. Veteran French defender Marion Torrent, who wore the captain’s armband for the evening, told reporters that she’s open to a move to a new club from her career-long home of Montpellier. NWSL teams should pay attention.

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Wednesday, 3 p.m. (Galavisión, CBS All Access)

For all of Manchester City’s dominance in the Premier League, the prize the club truly covets — especially its billionaire Emirati owners — is the European Cup. The group stage was a breeze, contributing to what’s now a 24-game unbeaten streak in all competitions.

Now the stakes get higher, though the caliber of opponent might not yet. Marcus Thuram and Mönchengladbach are on a woeful run of form, with two losses and a tie in their last three games. It’s a bad look for manager Marco Rose, who’s leaving at the end of the season to take over Borussia Dortmund.

Wednesday, 3 p.m. (UniMás, TUDN, CBS All Access)

This game would be must-see TV if Atalanta hadn’t sold star striker Papu Gómez to Sevilla last month. His departure combined with Real finally getting its act together in La Liga means the Spanish giant is the clear favorite.

Wednesday, 4 p.m. (FS1, TUDN.com)

Canada needed a 92nd-minute goal to beat Argentina on Sunday, 1-0. Brazil gave the U.S. fits and did everything but score in a 2-0 loss. Let’s see how Brazilian stars Marta and Debinha do against the Canadians’ stout midfield; and let’s see if Sky Blue FC’s Evelyne Viens gets to start for Canada after coming off the bench twice.

Wednesday, 7 p.m. (FS1, TUDN)

There’s no way around the fact that the SheBelieves Cup’s final game is almost certain to be a blowout. Hopefully Argentina’s players will do enough to keep impressing NWSL scouts, as they have throughout the tournament. And hopefully those scouts saw enough of Lorena Benítez before she suffered a torn ACL against Canada to know she’s worth bringing to the league.

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Thursday, 12:55 p.m. (TUDN, CBS All Access)

Arsenal didn’t look great in the first game of this Europa League series, a 1-1 tie on Benfica’s turf in Lisbon, Portugal. If you weren’t surprised, fans won’t blame you. But the Gunners ought to advance here, since they host the second leg in London.

Thursday, 12:55 p.m. (Galavisión, CBS All Access)

This is likely to be Brenden Aaronson’s last game in European competition for the season, since Villarreal beat Salzburg 2-0 in the first leg in Austria. Salzburg thus needs to win big in Spain, and with leading striker Sekou Koïta suspended for doping violations (albeit controversial ones), the deficit is likely too big to overcome.

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Thursday, 3 p.m. (CBS All Access, TUDN.com)

The first leg of this series produced the game of the day last Thursday, a wild 4-3 win for Young Boys at their home in Bern, Switzerland. YB went up 3-0 and blew the lead, then won the game in the 89th minute with American striker Jordan Siebatcheu’s second goal of the night. Here’s hoping for more fireworks, though Leverkusen will likely prevail at home in Germany.