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Report Clubs await Champions League draw

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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE & UEFA CUP
Quarter-final and semi-final draws in Nyon, Swtizerland

Date: Friday, 20 March
Times: Champions League from 1100 GMT, Uefa Cup from 1200 GMT
Coverage: Live text commentary on BBC Sport website from 1030 GMT. Audio commentary from 1100 GMT. Commentary on BBC Radio Five Live, TV coverage on British Eurosport and Sky Sports News

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and holders Manchester United will find out their Champions League quarter-final opponents on Friday.
Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Porto and Villarreal are the other teams in the draw, which will also decide the line-ups for the semi-finals.
The English teams are not protected from meeting each other as has been the case in previous rounds.
The first legs will be on 7 and 8 April and the return legs on 14 and 15 April.
The draw will be held in Nyon, Switzerland and includes four English teams for the second successive year.
United beat Chelsea on penalties last year and disposed of Inter Milan in the last round.
They also beat Bayern Munich in the 1999 final and winger Cristiano Ronaldo is wary of being paired against the German team, who beat Sporting Lisbon 12-1 on aggregate in the last 16 round.
"Bayern Munich are very strong," said Ronaldo. "I watched them play against my old team, Sporting Lisbon, and I was very sad because I didn't expect Sporting to lose so heavily.

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"But this can happen in football. Bayern are very good. They have mature players, strong players and quick players. Franck Ribery and Miroslav Klose are very impressive.
"Bayern play like a team and they look very difficult to beat."
If Bayern were drawn against Liverpool it would pit their manager Jurgen Klinsmann against Rafael Benitez, who signed a new five-year deal with the Reds on Wednesday.
Klinsmann, who led Germany to the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup, was sounded out as a possible successor to Benitez in November 2007.
Liverpool humbled Real Madrid 5-0 on aggregate in the previous round and currently top Uefa's rankings, which is based on results over the past five years, as the top team in Europe.
And Football legend Johan Cruyff, who guided Barcelona to European Cup success in 1992, believes that Liverpool, who won the competition in 2005, are the team to be avoided.
Reds skipper Steven Gerrard, who is the joint-top scorer on seven goals with Miroslav Klose in this year's campaign, said: "We're not running scared of anyone. We'll take who we get and believe that we're going to go through.

"It would be nice to taste success against one of the English clubs"
Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola


"If we could hand-pick an opponent then maybe we'd want someone like Villarreal or Porto but at this stage of the competition there are no easy games. It might be a cliche, but it's true.
"Everyone who's got to this stage of the competition has done well. They'll all believe in themselves.
"But we've shown - the players, the manager and the fans - that we're a force to be reckoned with when we pull it all together.
"So we'll sit down on Friday and see who we get and take it from there."
Barcelona, who won the competition in 2006, currently top the Spanish League and coach Pep Guardiola says he would have no qualms about challenging the domination of the English contingent.
"If you want to win the Champions League you have to play with the best in Europe. So we'll take the challenge," said Guardiola, who was part of Barcelona's 1992 European Cup-winning side.
"It would be nice to taste success against one of the English clubs. If we have to play one of them, it will definitely be a good match."
He added: "It will be difficult for us but they have to come here to play, so I'm sure it will be difficult for them too.
"Whoever our opponents are, we will study them closely and try to pinpoint their weaknesses."
Spanish club Villarreal overcame Panathinaikos to reach the quarter-finals, but are still haunted by their exit to Arsenal in the semi-final stage of the tournament in 2006.
"In our last campaign we didn't deserve to go out as semi-finalists," said coach Manuel Pellegrini. "We should have been in the final.
"That is in the past, though. We now have to focus on our next opponents and try to beat them."
If Liverpool's second leg is scheduled for 15 April they are unlikely to be made to play on that date by Uefa as it is the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy.
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