Champions League 25/26

[Insidious]

Arsenal fans will be pretty happy. They can play Atalanta, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund or Olympiakos in the last-16. They should have enough to overcome any of them.

They’re guaranteed to play all second legs of knock-out ties at Home for the rest of the Tournament.

They're at the Emirates for the second leg every time. Which side is going to step up?

Could be Heart-in-Mouth stuff if we end up facing them in the quarters or semis. No matter our League form, you'd think the Anfield atmosphere would be pretty nuts in the first leg.

[JockStrap]

Arsenal fans will be pretty happy. They can play Atalanta, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund or Olympiakos in the last-16. They should have enough to overcome any of them.

They’re guaranteed to play all second legs of knock-out ties at Home for the rest of the Tournament.

They're at the Emirates for the second leg every time. Which side is going to step up?

Could be Heart-in-Mouth stuff if we end up facing them in the quarters or semis. No matter our League form, you'd think the Anfield atmosphere would be pretty nuts in the first leg.

That's as good a draw as you can hope for at this stage. Certainly better than a rampant PSG last year.

[JockStrap]

Slot saying in the post match presser that he thought our team could have won the CL last season. I think that's why he keeps bringing up the PSG game.

[Steveo]

So - After Benfica’s heroics v Real the other night - they’ve been drawn against…. Guess who - Real Madrid. Should be some fireworks for that tie.

[teesred]

So - After Benfica’s heroics v Real the other night - they’ve been drawn against…. Guess who - Real Madrid. Should be some fireworks for that tie.

Haha, mental that keeper scoring the other night. Great moment. Mourinho loved it.

[Insidious]

Juventus and Atletico, you would think, will navigate their ties.

I'd be really keen to avoid Atletico. There's a very real possibility that if we want to be in next season's Tournament, we'll have to win this one.

What will be will be though - the list of teams I'd rather not play seems to have grown of late

Hopefully we can return to "let's stomp these tw*ts" levels of confidence again soon.

[Nineteenx]

His comment about only being in the Europa league as a means of making excuses for himself was a new low even for him tbh

[JockStrap]

His comment about only being in the Europa league as a means of making excuses for himself was a new low even for him tbh

It’s also a fact. We got dumped out of the Europa League by Atalanta.

I would prefer Slot to focus on the upcoming games and not hark back to the past though. There wasn’t any need for that comment.

[JockStrap]

These are the play off ties to get into the last 16

Dortmund v Atalanta
Olimpiakos v Leverkusen
Galatasaray v Juventus
Brugge v Atletico
Qarabag v Newcastle
Monaco v PSG
Benfica v Madrid
Bodo/Glimt v Inter

First leg played 17-18th Feb, second leg 24-25th Feb.