Manchester City and Liverpool will meet in the Champions League quarter-final after the draw neither club wanted.
The Premier League’s hopes of an all-English final were dashed as City and Liverpool were the final clubs paired. Liverpool will play their home leg first, which will be a significant advantage to Pep Guardiola’s side.
It was certainly the meeting the Merseyside club wanted least, City the dominant force in English football this season.
City will be the more confident but also wary as Liverpool is the only team to have defeated Guardiola’s side in the Premier League in this campaign.
Meanwhile, two-time defending champions Real Madrid have been tasked with a clash against Juventus – a repeat of last season’s final – while Barcelona will tackle Roma and Sevilla’s reward for ousting Manchester United is a meeting with Bayern Munich.
It is, however, the clash between the two Premier League clubs that is the tie of the round.
The Reds swept past Porto 5-0 over two legs to reach the last eight of the competition while Pep Guardiola’s men defeated Basel with almost equal ease, seeing the Swiss off 5-2.
The clubs have played twice already this season, with City getting the better of Jurgen Klopp’s men 5-0 when the sides met in September – a match infamous for Sadio Mane’s challenge on home Ederson, which left the goalkeeper with a gruesome injury and saw the Liverpool attacker sent off.
