Manchester City, with its Spanish coach, Josep Guardiola, will get the chance to take revenge on Real Madrid, after they were drawn by the draw of the Champions League final against each other, while Liverpool return to the stadium where it crowned its sixth title in June.

The confrontation between Real Madrid, the record holder with the number of titles (13) and Manchester City, will be the most prominent in the final round, according to the draw that was drawn yesterday in the Swiss neon.

As a result of his ending the group stage in second place behind Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid was bound to take a difficult test in the final price against one of the teams that ended their groups in the lead, with the exception of Barcelona and Valencia, because they are from the same country, and Saint Germain, who was in the club group royalist.

And it will be facing the third final price between Real Madrid and Manchester City, in the main continental competition, as it faced it in the group stage 2012-2013 season, Real won 3-2 and then tied in Manchester 1-1, and in the 2015-2016 semi-final when they tied back without Goals before the Royal Club won 2-0, putting an end to the best adventure for the English team in the competition, on the way to winning its first title out of three in a row led by its current coach Zinedine Zidane.

City manager Texico Pagerstein acknowledged the difficulty of the Premier League champion in a statement to Britain's BT Sport, saying, "It's a tough lot, of course." Real Madrid have won the title 13 times, thus they are the best. We want to be the best, so we have to overcome them. It is always nice to go to (Real Madrid's) stadium and play in a big stadium like Bernabeu. ”

"We know what lies ahead, but they also know our team and our coach," he said, referring to Guardiola, who used to face Real, if the days of his professionalism as a player with Barcelona or as coach of the Catalan club, and then Bayern Munich to City.

Guardiola has met Real Madrid 18 times as a coach, more than any other team in his coaching career, winning nine and drawing four and losing four as well.

"All of the competitive teams are very difficult at this point," said Real's director of institutional relations at Real, former star Emilio Potraguinho. Of course, (Citi) is a big opponent, very strong in the full sense of the word. It will be an exciting confrontation for everyone who loves our game .. It should be remembered that we are used to this type of game. "It will be an attractive match for our fans."

Liverpool is back

And with the completion of the final price round of the five major European leagues for the first time in the history of the competition, it was inevitable that the heavy caliber confrontations, the most prominent of which, after Real-City, between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid in the summer of 2014 and 2016.

Liverpool and their German coach Juergen Klopp will return to the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium, which in June saw the Reds crowned their sixth continental title by defeating their compatriots Tottenham 2-0.

Atletico director Clemente Vieverde acknowledged the difficulty of the task against Liverpool, who has been marching steadily toward his first title in the English Premier League since 1990, explaining, "The task will be difficult, because we face an opponent who is the title holder. They are the champions and they have all the ingredients to be considered the best team in Europe. We know they will not make our mission easy. ”

The third confrontation will be between Atletico and Liverpool at the continental level, after they met in the group stage of the Champions League 2008-2009 season when they tied back and forth with one result 1-1, and the semi-finals of the competition «Europa League» 2009-2010 season when Atletico won 1-0 At home, he lost 1-2 home, and continued his career until winning the first title out of three, since then (he was also crowned champion in 2012 and 2018).

"We will face them without fear."

The other Spanish giant, Barcelona, ​​who became the record number of matches without defeat at home in the competition (35), is playing for the Italian Napoli for the first time in a difficult test for the southern team and its new coach, Gennaro Gattuso, who commented on facing Argentine Lionel Messi and his companions, saying: Wonderful, great challenge. Two games will be amazing. We will face them without fear. ”

The confrontation between Borussia Dortmund and his former coach Thomas Tochl, who currently oversees Saint-Germain, is evident in the final price, in the second continental confrontation between the two teams that previously faced them in the group stage of the Europa League competition 2010-2011 season when they drew 1-1. In Germany and back without goals.

The German giant Bayern Munich renews the appointment with Chelsea in the replay of the final in 2012, when the latter won the title through a penalty shootout after their equalization in the original and extra times, again beating the Bavarian club, which also lost in the quarter-finals of the 2004-2005 season (2-4 back in London) 2-3 again).

Bayern's veteran superstar Thomas Muller said that Chelsea "have great attacking players that everyone knows their abilities, such as Hudson-Odoi or Christian Polisic." But in football it is not about individualism. "We feel good at the moment, but we have to wait to see what it will be like when we go into the final price."

"We cannot complain."

Juventus and his Italian star Cristiano Ronaldo appear to be favorites to reach the quarter-finals at the expense of Lyon in a confrontation that completely satisfied the vice president of the "old lady", Czech Pavel Nedved, who told Sky Sport, that "certainly, we can feel satisfied with the lottery, because it is As we saw there are striking confrontations in the final price. "We cannot complain."

The door to qualification will be wide open between Tottenham Hotspur and the summer of the champion, German Leipzig on the one hand, and the newcomer Italian Atalanta and Valencia Spain on the other.

Teams ranked first are locked on home ground.

Match times

The first leg matches will be held in two consecutive weeks, on February 18 and 19, and on the 25 and 26 of the same month, with the return matches to be held in the same format, on March 10 and 11, and 17 and 18 of the same month.

The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals will be held on March 20.

- The Spanish giant Barcelona plays against the Italian Napoli for the first time.

Liverpool and his German coach Juergen Klopp to the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium.

- Juventus and his star Ronaldo are favorites to reach the quarter-finals at the expense of Lyon.