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Holders Chelsea will face Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Manchester City will play Atletico Madrid, while Liverpool tackle Benfica and Bayern Munich take on Villarreal.

In the semi-finals, the winner of the Chelsea v Real Madrid tie will face Atletico Madrid or Manchester City, while Benfica or Liverpool will play either Villarreal or Bayern Munich.

The two-leg quarter-finals take place on 5-6 April and 12-13 April.

The first legs of the semi-finals will be on 26-27 April, and the second legs on 3-4 May.

The Stade de France in Paris will host the final on Saturday, 28 May after it was moved from St Petersburg after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Quarter-final draw

Chelsea v Real Madrid

Manchester City v Atletico Madrid

Villarreal v Bayern Munich

Benfica v Liverpool

Semi-final draw

Manchester City or Atletico Madrid v Chelsea or Real Madrid

Benfica or Liverpool v Villarreal or Bayern Munich

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/60793139

Amazing that English teams avoided each other and also Spanish teams avoided each other.

Atletico Madrid may not be the same team as they once where, however they are an absolute thorn to any side coming up against them. They physically and psychologically strangle opponents with their play acting, dirty underhand tactics and will definitely give Citeh a few nightmares having to play them knowing they play that huge game v us which could be a PL title decider, sandwiched inbetween.

I'm glad we won't potentially get to play Citeh until the Final.
Lady luck has shone on us for once in CL draw, playing at home in 2nd leg v Benfica. I can definitely see Villareal giving Bayern a difficult 2 legs.

Come on Redmen, quadruple is on!

Good draw for us, Benfica are one of the weaker teams.

Good for us with City also, AM are a dog of a team as we know and will make them work and frustrate them, which may impact their performances in the PL around those games, we all know Man City are desperate to win the CL, so psychologically they have to deal with that.

UEFA must be chewing knowing there is a very good chance that 2 English Premier League sides contest the Champions League Final again, getting to be quite a regular (and much pleasing) occurrence

But for me a Liverpool v Real final would be good a little bit of payback from the last couple of times we have met - with no dirty Ramos!

For the quarter finals it was done on purpose I think, nothing amazing