Liverpool has avoided chaos-offs of the Champions League play-off over the past week, but will not take long before they return to the most important European competition.
Red still await knowledge of their last 16 oppositions ahead of the terrifyingly two -legged ties in March, but they will not be afraid to go to the next round after they have run into the first league with seven wins of eight Champions League Excursions.
The Premier League leaders will be among the favorites for Detrone who ruled the Real Madrid champions and secured the seventh European Cup, but will have to move with a challenging last 16 duel if they want to taste continental fame.
Here’s a side Liverpool He could face the 16th round of the Champions League.
Liverpool still do not know their last 16 opponents, but they will lock the horns with one of two teams: Paris Saint-Germain or Benfika.
There was always a high probability that Liverpool would face the opposition of Ligue 1 in his first European knockout under Arne, with PSG Dealing with the surprise of Brest superiority in a play-off circle. Monaco could have been potential opponents for Reds, as well as on the basis of the position of the League of Phase, but the Portuguese giants of Benfica beat them with two legs each.
Liverpool faced Lisbon color 14 times before, recently in 2021/22. On the way to the finals. The last fought with the Parisians in 2018/19. During the group stage of the Champions League.
It is quite obvious that Liverpool will want to avoid PSG in the last 16th. The French side began an unconvincing start to their Champions League campaign, but have since found their feet under Luis Enrique, who, despite the exit of Kylian Mbappe, forced the terrible team, despite the release of Kylian Mbappe Summer.
PSG scored 11 goals in the last three league phases to qualify for play-offs and continued to beat Brest 10-0 on the aggregate during their knockout opening. With Ousmana Dembele and Bradley Barcol in a devastating form and similar Khvich quartetskhelia, Vitinh and Achraf Hakimi in support, Liverpool will desperately want to avoid the ruling Ligue 1 champions.
Former Darwin Nunez Benfica employers would show a much easier test for Liverpool, although former chief of chief-wolverhampton Wanderers, Boss Bruno Lage, helped stabilize Portuguese clothing since he had previously replaced Roger Schmidt.
This season they put four last Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in Europe – although they still lost to the ex – and beat Juventus in the League phase. There will still be clumsy opponents for Reds.
Liverpool don’t have to wait much longer to discover their fate, and the last 16 draws are going on 11:00 GMT on Friday, February 21 At the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw will be transmitted live UEFA’s official website.
Red will play the first game of their last 16 tie 4-5 ties, and the reverse fixture on Anfield 11-12. March.
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