Reigning champions Actual Madrid will face 2023 winners Manchester Metropolis within the plum tie of the play-off spherical of this season’s Champions League, following Friday’s draw.
It’s the fourth yr working by which the perimeters have been drawn in opposition to one another in a knockout tie, with Actual rising victorious in a penalty shoot-out within the quarter-finals final season.
Metropolis, who scraped by means of after ending twenty second within the league section on this first season of the brand new format for Europe’s elite membership competitors, can be at residence within the first leg earlier than going to Spain for the return.
Elsewhere, Celtic will face six-time European champions Bayern Munich, after the Scottish champions reached the knockout stage for the primary time in 12 years.
Paris Saint-Germain will play shock bundle Brest in an all-French tie, whereas Juventus play PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord tackle AC Milan in two ties between former winners of the competitors.
Final season’s Europa League winners Atalanta, who completed one place exterior the highest eight which supplied a direct path to the final 16, will face Membership Brugge of Belgium.
Sporting of Portugal have been drawn in opposition to final season’s runners-up Borussia Dortmund, whereas Monaco will tackle Benfica having misplaced at residence to the Portuguese membership within the league section.
The play-off ties will happen subsequent month, with the eight winners going by means of to the final 16 together with the eight highest-placed sides from the league section.
Liverpool, Barcelona, Arsenal, Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lille and Aston Villa are the perimeters already by means of to the final 16.
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