With three away goals and a two-goal aggregate advantage in hand, Manchester City take on FC Copenhagen in the second leg of their Champions League Round of 16 matchup today. It seems only a formality that The Citizens will reach the UCL quarters for the seventh consecutive year, but the Danish side will nevertheless be determined to make this a competitive match.
The match is starting soon, at 3:00 p.m. ET, and will be broadcast on both Paramount+ and CBS in the United States, but there are also several different ways you can watch a free live stream.
We’ll start with Paramount+, which includes every Champions League game, because it makes sense both as a short- and long-term option. Not only does it come with a free seven-day trial, but it’s just $6 per month after that, meaning you’d only have to pay a total of $18 to watch the rest of the Champions League this season.
If you’ve already used that free trial, you can also get Paramount+ through Amazon Prime Channels. This gives you all the same live and on-demand content. You need to be a Prime subscriber for this option, but Prime comes with a 30-day free trial and the Paramount+ channel comes with a seven-day free trial.
Not only does DirecTV Stream have CBS as a part of its live-TV channel package, but it offers “Paramount+ with SHOWTIME” as an add-on. Most streaming services actually offer this as an add-on, but DirecTV Stream is unique in that you can sign into the Paramount+ website or app with your log-in credentials. The free trial lasts for five days, and you can include any channel packages and add-ons you want.
Finally, Fubo and YouTube TV also include CBS in their channel packages. Like DirecTV Stream, these are more expensive long-term options, as they include 100-plus live-TV channels, but they both come with free trials if you just want to watch this match without needing to pay anything. They also both come with TUDN, Univision and UniMas, so you’ll be able to watch every Champions League match, though some will be in Spanish only (whereas Paramount+ has them all in English).
If you want to watch the match on one of the aforementioned streaming services from outside of the United States, you’ll need to use a virtual private network (VPN), which masks your location and bypasses location-restrictions.
NordVPN is reliable, fast and works with all of the above streaming services, so that’s what we would go with here. But there are a lot of good options, so if you want to shop around, you can also check out our guide to the best VPN services or the best VPN deals.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.