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Actual Madrid drew Liverpool within the Champions League round-of-16 stage on Monday in a rematch of final season’s remaining.
Los Blancos beat Liverpool 1-0 in Paris in Could to win their 14th European Cup.
The 2022 remaining was overshadowed by chaos exterior the stadium and there was widespread criticism in direction of the remedy of followers by the hands of the French authorities deployed for the sport in Could.
Monday’s draw additionally pitted Paris Saint Germain and Bayern Munich in opposition to one another.
The Parisians completed second of their group behind Benfica after the ultimate matchday and should now face the crew that beat them in PSG’s solely ever remaining look in 2020.
Elsewhere Antonio Conte will return to Italy to face AC Milan along with his Tottenham Hotspur facet whereas Chelsea will tackle Borussia Dortmund.
Pep Guardiola will proceed his pursuit of the Champions League trophy that has eluded him for 11 years as his Manchester Metropolis facet face off in opposition to German’s RB Leipzig.
The draw is prone to please Actual Madrid President Florentino Perez who just lately complained about how occasionally prime groups in soccer face one another and stated midweek European competitors ought to provide followers matches between “the strongest groups and with the very best gamers on the planet” all year long.
“If we have a look at the final Champions League finalists, Liverpool, a historic crew with six European Cups, it seems that we’ve got performed them solely 9 instances in 67 years.”
If Actual and Liverpool will play for a tenth time in 2023, the 2 groups have met twice within the remaining of the competitors within the final 5 seasons with the Spanish facet popping out on prime each instances.
Actual additionally beat Liverpool over two legs within the 2020/21 season as properly and haven’t misplaced a match to the Reds of their earlier six conferences.
That final victory got here within the spherical of 16 on a well-known night time at Anfield in in 2009 when Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres impressed the house facet to a 4-0 win.
Actual might be favorites to achieve the quarterfinals given’s Liverpool’s stuttering begin to the season – Jurgen Klopp’s crew is properly off the tempo within the Premier League title race – whereas the European Cup holder has received their Champions League group with ease and is already in management in La Liga.
The primary legs are scheduled for 14/15/21/22 February, with the second legs on 7/8/14/15 March.
Champions League last-16 draw:
Paris Saint-Germain vs Bayern Munich
Inter Milan vs FC Porto
Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea
Eintracht Frankfurt vs Napoli!
AC Milan vs Tottenham
Liverpool vs Actual Madrid
Membership Brugge vs Benfica
RB Leipzig vs Manchester Metropolis