Liverpool face True Madrid in Champions League last eight

Liverpool will face True Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Within the semi-finals, the winner of the True Madrid v Liverpool tie will face Porto or Chelsea and Manchester City or Dortmund will lift on Bayern or PSG.

The two-legged quarter-finals will lift situation on 6-7 and 13-14 April.

The most indispensable legs of the semi-closing will be on 27-28 April with the return ties on 4-5 May perchance perchance perchance also.

Liverpool and True Madrid met in the 2018 Champions League closing with the Spanish club, who maintain gained the competitors a file 13 instances, winning 3-1.

The two groups maintain played every lots of six instances in Europe's high competitors, with both winning three video games apiece, including Liverpool's 1-0 victory in the 1981 closing.

Their handiest outdated meeting in a knockout tie got right here in the last 16 in 2009, with Liverpool winning 5-0 on combination.

Premier League leaders Manchester City maintain handiest met Dortmund twice. These video games got right here in the group stage of the Champions League in 2012, with the English aspect drawing 1-1 at dwelling and shedding 1-0 in Germany.

City, who're aiming to remove the competitors for the predominant time, remain heading in the correct course for an exceptional quadruple and would possibly well well face England winger Jadon Sancho, who left the club in 2017 to affix the German aspect.

Haaland 'numbers communicate for themselves' - Guardiola

Norwegian striker Erling Braut Haaland, the son of dilapidated City midfielder Alf-Inge Haaland, also plays for Dortmund and he has scored 20 dreams in exact 14 Champions League appearances.

"The numbers communicate for themselves," talked about City boss Guardiola on Haaland. "He is with out doubt one of many ideal strikers in the world factual now at his age.

"I know the usual of this player, I heart of attention on all individuals knows."

On hypothesis linking City with a switch for the 20-365 days-outmoded, Guardiola added: "He's a player for Dortmund, I form now not prefer it when other folks focus on our avid gamers, you attach I cannot reply this query."

Dortmund are fifth in the Bundesliga and modified supervisor Lucien Favre with Edin Terzic in December.

"They (Dortmund) maintain a kind of quality there," talked about Guardiola. "They had been in a situation to war via in opposition to Sevilla, who in knockout competitors is with out doubt one of many strongest groups ever.

"Dortmund is now not easy nonetheless all of them would had been."

Chelsea maintain played Porto eight instances, winning five and shedding two, and beat the Portuguese aspect 3-2 on combination of their handiest knockout tie, which got right here in the last 16 in 2007.

Porto, who're 2d in the Portuguese high-flight, knocked out Juventus in the last 16.

"Clearly, many of us will presumably create us favourites in opposition to Porto nonetheless that will now not aid us," talked about Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel. "It is probably going you'll well well inquire in Turin if that helps you to be favourites.

"We are self-assured and that is strongly connected with our performances.

"We are assured that we face a resounding opponent and face them with appreciate, nonetheless now we are in the quarter-closing we heart of attention on about strategies on how to remove it."

Tuchel led PSG to last 365 days's closing nonetheless the French champions lost 1-0 to Bayern.

Kingsley Coman scored the winner because the German aspect gained the competitors for a sixth time, with Tuchel leaving PSG earlier this season and taking on from Frank Lampard at Stamford Bridge in January.

Quarter-closing design:

Manchester City v Borussia Dortmund

Porto v Chelsea

Bayern Munich v Paris St Germain

True Madrid v Liverpool

Semi-closing design:

Bayern Munich or Paris St-Germain v Manchester City or Borussia Dortmund

True Madrid or Liverpool v Porto or Chelsea