Liverpool faces Real Madrid in the round of 16 of the Champions League | Champions League

Liverpool will face a familiar and formidable obstacle in the Champions League Next year, after the draw for the round of 16, I put them against the hosts, Real Madrid.

Repetition Last season’s final The standout was from Monday’s draw at UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon, where PSG met Bayern Munich in another heavyweight competition. There have been more positive draws for the other England representatives in the round of 16, with Manchester City meeting RB Leipzig, Tottenham meeting AC Milan and Chelsea playing Borussia Dortmund.

This trio of Premier League clubs will all be away from home in the first leg, which will take place on February 14, 15, 21 and 22, having won their sets. The second matches will be played three weeks later on the 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th of March.

Liverpool finished second in Group A and got the toughest job out of the English clubs as a result. The last 16 match will be the fourth time Klopp’s side have met Real in six seasons, as the Spanish club had won the previous three times; The 2022 and 2018 finals, as well as the 2021 quarter-finals, are played behind closed doors. Vinicius Junior’s goal decided the last meeting in Paris, where he was Appalling treatment of supporters The European football event was canceled by the local authorities and the European Football Association (UEFA).

“I know we played Real Madrid “In the last two finals, but it wasn’t too much for the two teams to meet in a home and away match, so now we can look forward to that happening,” Klopp said. “Real’s European record is the best. We know this. But we also know that our country is not so bad. On top of that, we know we have Anfield and everyone knows what this means.

“It’s a really good draw. A really exciting draw. The matches themselves are still a few months away, but it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to think what the weather will be like in both matches.”

City will be confident to continue their quest to win the Champions League for the first time after drawing with Leipzig, who defeated them 6-3 at home in the group stage last season before losing 2-1 in Germany. Txiki Begiristain, City’s director of football, admitted Pep Guardiola’s side “don’t like” facing the German opposition in a box-to-box fashion, but noted that some of the title favorites will be out by the quarter-finals.

Begerstein said of RB Leipzig: “They are growing as a club and growing as a project. This is German football – a very open game, square to square, which we don’t like very much, because we always like to have control – so this kind of football is going to be difficult. We won the match at home, but we suffered a lot. We have to be very careful.”

He added: “Some of the big names and big clubs are already out – some are not playing now in Europe because they were the last time in the group. It shows how tough this competition is. Liverpool Real Madrid are two incredible teams who were favorites to win, but one of them will be absent. But those who made it to the quarter-finals still deserved to be there. We want to be one of them.”

Spurs face Italian champions AC Milan, whom Antonio Conte has defeated more times in his coaching career than any other club (10 in all competitions), while Dortmund should pose a tough test for Graham Potter in Chelsea The manager’s first campaign in the Champions League.

The other confrontations took place between Club Brugge, Benfica, Eintracht Frankfurt against Napoli, and Inter Milan against Porto.