The Champions League quarter-last and semi-last draws have cleared the way to the last in Madrid. 

UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 

Ajax (NED) v Juventus (ITA) 

Liverpool (ENG) v Porto (POR) 

Tottenham Hotspur (ENG) v Manchester City (ENG) 

Barcelona (ESP) v Manchester United (ENG)* 


UEFA Champions League semi-finals

1. Tottenham Hotspur/Manchester City v Ajax/Juventus

2. Barcelona/Manchester United v Liverpool/Porto

The champ of semi-last 1 (Tottenham Hotspur/Manchester City v Ajax/Juventus) was drawn as the home group – for regulatory purposes – for the last in Madrid.

Quarter-last draw realities 

Ajax (NED) v Juventus (ITA) 

• A rehash of 1996 last, won by the Italian club on punishments after a 1-1 attract Rome. 

• No holds barred in UEFA rivalry: 6 Juventus successes, 2 Ajax successes, 4 draws 

Liverpool (ENG) v Porto (POR) 

• Liverpool defeated Porto 5-0 on the total in last season's round of 16, every one of the objectives coming in the primary leg in Portugal – Sadio Mané scoring a cap trap. 

• Straight on in UEFA rivalry: 3 Liverpool successes, 0 Porto successes, 3 draws 

Tottenham (ENG) v Manchester City (ENG) 

• This is the first run through Tottenham and Manchester City have secured horns UEFA rivalry. 

• City were 1-0 champs away to Spurs in the Premier League on 29 October. The arrival amusement in Manchester is planned for 20 April. 

• There has been nothing between the sides in residential football throughout the years. In 156 aggressive gatherings, City have won 61 to Spurs' 60, with 35 draws. 

Barcelona (ESP) v Manchester United (ENG) 

• This tie has been exchanged, with the principal leg at Old Trafford, in light of the fact that Manchester City and Manchester United are not ready to play at home on that night, nor on sequential evenings, following a choice made by the important nearby specialists. 

• Barcelona beat Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League last in both 2009 and 2011, Lionel Messi scoring in either diversion. 

• Barcelona and United have met in only one other two-legged challenge in UEFA rivalry, the English club toppling a 2-0 first-leg misfortune in Spain with a 3-0 Old Trafford triumph in the 1983/84 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals. 

• No holds barred in UEFA rivalry: 4 Barcelona successes, 3 United successes, 4 draws 

The way to Madrid 

9/10 April: Quarter-finals, first leg

16/17 April: Quarter-finals, second leg

30 April/1 May: Semi-finals, first leg

7/8 May: Semi-finals, second leg

Saturday 1 June: Final – Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid

Chelsea (ENG), Napoli (ITA), Valencia (ESP), Frankfurt (GER), Benfica (POR), Slavia Prague (CZE), Arsenal (ENG) and Villarreal (ESP) are the eight groups left in the challenge.

Weapons store conquered a 3-1 thrashing to Rennes in the main leg, to verify a 3-0 triumph at the Emirates Stadium on Thursday night.

Chelsea had an increasingly agreeable way to the quarter-finals, as they followed up a 3-0 prevail upon Dynamo Kyiv at Stamford Bridge, with a 5-0 win in Ukraine on Thursday.

Both Premier League sides could confront each other in the last eight of the Europa League, as the draw is currently open and groups are never again seeded or shielded from playing another side from a similar nation.

Napoli are the main Serie A left, after Inter's 1-0 thrashing to Eintracht Frankfurt at San Siro.

Valencia have booked their place following a 1-1 draw with Krasnodar, yet Sevilla smashed out to Slavia Prague in additional time.

Benfica additionally required additional opportunity to see off Dinamo Zagreb with a 3-0 triumph in Lisbon.

Jurgen Klopp says it is 'frantic' to think Liverpool Champions League exit would help title offer 

Supervisor Jurgen Klopp said it is "frantic" to recommend a Champions League exit could help Liverpool's offered for a first household title in 29 years.

The Reds are a point behind Manchester City in the Premier League and face Bayern Munich on Wednesday after a goalless attract the last 16 first leg.

"I don't think some other mentor needs to address this inquiry," said Klopp.

"It possibly occurs in case you're Liverpool supervisor and the intellectuals originate from Manchester United."

Klopp guided Liverpool to the Champions League last season however previous United safeguard Gary Neville recommended losing in Germany could do them "some help" in their endeavors to win a first title in the Premier League period.

"They [pundits] talk always," included Klopp. "It doesn't mean they bode well, therefore. That is the issue.

"It is so natural to sit in an office or a studio and discussion about things like that.

"We don't draw up a season and express the most ideal approach through it is to leave all the container rivalries early.

"You do that and at that time similar individuals go for you like frantic.

"Presently it is nearer as far as possible of the period and it is permitted to leave the Champions League without attempting to experience? That is extremely distraught.

"I am not furious about it. It's simply so frantic that I always get faced by it."

'A cash tossing rivalry'

Klopp featured the Champions League's significance to his arrangements for building the club while portraying the competition as a "cash tossing rivalry".

A raced to a year ago's last earned the Reds about £72m, which added to a £106m world record benefit.

"We as a whole need to qualify always for the Champions League - that is the thing that gives us the cash to improve," he said.

"When we qualified [for the knockout phase] by beating Napoli I'm uncertain the amount we earned - a great deal in one amusement."

The whole was £8.1m notwithstanding about £23m, barring extra TV income, aggregated from their endeavors in the gathering stage.

On the off chance that Liverpool achieves the quarter-finals, they will get an extra £9m, and movement to the last would merit another £23.6m.

Klopp stated: "It is cash… what's going on here? It is a cash tossing rivalry and we must be in it as far as might be feasible in light of the fact that we need to improve the circumstance for the club.

"I didn't think a second prior to that diversion [against Napoil], 'Gracious my God, we need to procure this cash for the club.'

"We just needed to experience. After we traversed it resembled, 'Amazing, that is legitimate.'

"We need to win the vast majority of the cash for ourselves with the football that we play. That is actually what you can do in the Champions League."

 Sergio Aguero opened the scoring from the spot and included a second three minutes after the fact when Raheem Sterling's backheel set him up from six yards. 

Leroy Sane bored in the third and got a cap trap of helps after the break as City ran wild.

Sterling, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden, and Gabriel Jesus additionally scored.

In the wake of opening into the far corner in the main half, Sane set up Sterling with a superb twisting cross that England forward crushed into the best corner.

Silva jumped on Sane's reduced to make it 5-0 preceding substitute Foden adjusted the goalkeeper after he was played in by the German winger. Jesus ensured he had a cut of the pie with a late twisting strike.

City, who fought against eminent loss in the main leg in Germany to win 3-2, were thumped out in the quarter-finals of a year ago's opposition by Liverpool and have never won the Champions League.

City transitioning in Europe?

Administrator Pep Guardiola said before this match City were just "young people in the challenge" however they were heartless in this tie and showed the certainty of prepared European veterans.

Schalke never looked like scoring and the tie was comparable to over the minute Aguero unresponsively chipped the ball down the center from the punishment spot.

City were loaded with imagination and pizazz - characteristics exemplified by the fourth objective made by Sane, whose awesome, twisting cross was crushed home by Sterling.

The main hindrance to City's advancement was various tedious VAR surveys, which were met with boos from fans inside the Etihad.

Aguero's second objective was assessed for more than two minutes however Sterling was serenely onside when Ilkay Gundogan bolstered a dazzling ball in down the right.

Normal had an objective discounted after he adjusted the goalkeeper just to be regarded offside by VAR, and Sterling's booming fourth objective was additionally audited yet the right choice stood.

It was an exhibition that underlined why City are considered among the top choices to win the challenge out of the blue.

Various first class clubs have just been thumped out - Paris St-Germain were beaten by an enlivened Manchester United rebound and holders Real Madrid were dazed by Ajax at the Bernabeu.

Pep Guardiola trusts the previous club Bayern Munich beat Liverpool and join Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals. 

Schalke was mercilessly cleared aside by City at the Etihad as an unequivocal seven-objective pull saw them voyage into the last eight kindness of a 10-2 total triumph.

City's movement implies there will be somewhere around three English groups in the quarter-last of a Champions League battle out of the blue since 2010/11.

Liverpool will hope to make that four by exploring Wednesday's most recent 16-second leg at the Allianz Arena, however, Guardiola trusts City's title rivals falter at his old club.

"I'm sad for the English individuals yet I need Bayern to experience," Guardiola said. "I am a piece of this club. I cherish for Munich. I adore Bayern. I have a lot of companions there."

City's 10-2 total win over Schalke was the greatest ever by an English side in a Champions League knockout tie.

The vehement triumph was made even greater by City adapting to only one perceived focal safeguard, with Vincent Kompany, Nicolas Otamendi and John Stones out harmed.

Guardiola has indicated his side can achieve new statures when back at full quality, including: "We had a lot of nonappearances today, a ton of focal safeguards harmed. We simply had Danilo, who was extraordinary.

"I would have enjoyed us to indicate who were are in the initial 20 minutes yet I comprehend the circumstance some of the time, you can't hope to play like we were four or five ahead.

"We began the initial 20-25 minutes doing whatever it takes not to lose what we accomplished in Germany, that is the reason we didn't assault, and Leroy [Sane] and Raheem [Sterling] had no aim of being forceful towards their full-backs.

"Yet, we didn't lose what we accomplished and when we scored the first and the second objectives capability was nearly done.

"After that, we played in a decent dimension. We didn't yield shots, even over the most recent 15 minutes of the main hall, and in the second half we were great in the change and scored seven objectives.

"I realize that Schalke is in an extreme period since they lost the last diversion and their certainty was low, yet even with that circumstance you need to carry out your responsibility and we did it.

"A week ago we saw what occurred with great outcomes in the second leg, so we were not kidding, we did it and I'm staggeringly glad to be in Friday's draw."

The Portuguese star was continually going to figure out how to add objectives to his Champions League continue, as indicated by the Italian club's supervisor 

Juventus mentor Massimiliano Allegri hailed Cristiano Ronaldo, saying it was "difficult to think" the star had only one Champions League objective this season before Tuesday's heroics.

Ronaldo delivered an exceptional presentation, scoring a cap trap to control Juventus to a 3-0 prevail upon Atletico Madrid, sending them through to the quarter-finals 3-2 on the total.

The Portuguese star had scored only once in his six recreations earlier in the challenge this season, a run that astounded even Allegri.

"It's difficult to think Cristiano would just score one objective in this Champions League," he told a news meeting.

"He scored on the grounds that he played well in the container and his partners functioned admirably in the interactivity.

"An extraordinary match with a remarkable group supporting us and the players gave all Italian football fans a genuine show. That is the most vital thing."

Ronaldo's entry had apparently made Juve one of the top choices in the Champions League, which the Serie A champions last won in 1996.

Be that as it may, Allegri played down desires, saying his side were only one of a few contenders.

"Juventus isn't the most loved to win the Champions League. We are one of the contenders and the trophy is one of our objectives for this season, not surprisingly," he said.

"In the event that we were killed it would have not been a disappointment. Juventus consistently should play the Champions League and today, I rehash, we get to the following stage. In such a case that you don't pass the round, you don't get an opportunity to win. It is straightforward.

"You don't have to graduate at Harvard to comprehend it – on the off chance that you pass the gathering stage [you] have more possibilities, if not you play Europa League or watch the others from your couch."

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer demanded Manchester United can "go the whole distance" in the Champions League after his side's noteworthy 3-1 succeed at Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday. 

Having been discounted in their last-16 tie after a 2-0 first-leg thrashing to the French champions three weeks prior, United turned into the main group in Champions League history to meet all requirements for the following round having lost the primary leg of a knockout match at home by at least two objectives, incredibly beating PSG 3-1 at the Parc des Princes to advance on away objectives.

Two objectives from Romelu Lukaku and a late, dubious Marcus Rashford punishment sent United through to the quarter-finals without precedent for five seasons, with an elated Solskjaer resolute there is much more to originate from his side.

"We generally trusted," Solskjaer said. "The arrangement wasn't tied in with having the ball and beating them, in the event that you give this group an excess of reality they can hurt you.

"You saw two or multiple times in the main half when we passed up a major opportunity protective shape. The arrangement was to be in the amusement with five minutes to go and it worked.

"I have some phenomenal recollections, and that is the thing that it gives you. It is exceptional when you are a mentor, doing it with your staff and the players. The changing area was completely mind-boggling, just to see the entire club together, with proprietors, ex-players, previous directors.

"We can go the whole distance. Obviously we extravagant ourselves. We need to sit tight for the draw. We had heaps of wounds and suspensions yet that was possibly something worth being thankful for here today, as we had a crisp group with bunches of vitality. We realized we needed to protect and be sufficiently modest to buckle down. Every one of the groups that are through are quality groups."

Since Solskjaer's first match in control on December 22, just Manchester City (15) have won a larger number of matches in all rivalries than United (14) among groups in the best five European leagues, with this most recent accomplishment escalating theory overseer chief Solskjaer will land the position on a full-time premise as soon as possible. Solskjaer, however, would not be drawn on such talk.

"I am arranging, with the club, for the future," Solskjaer said. "It doesn't make a difference on the off chance that I am here or not. I am as yet giving my recommendation and sentiments for next season. I am a supporter too, and I need the best for Man United.

"I continue carrying out this responsibility admirably well each and every day and we will see where it takes us. It has been an incredible time with the players, with the staff I have. I am simply going to appreciate this activity as long as I have it. On the off chance that it is an additional two months, three months, at that point I will appreciate it. I am going to grin."

The punishment that skilled United the opportunity to win the tie came after official Damir Skomina pronounced Presnel Kimpembe to have taken care of in the punishment territory, having viewed the episode on the pitch-side screen.

Solskjaer, however, demanded he is yet to have seen the occurrence once more.

Neymar's indecent tirade

Neymar took to Instagram to seethe about the punishment that thumped PSG out of the challenge, expressing: "This is a disrespect, they put four individuals that think nothing about football responsible for taking a gander at the replay for VAR. There is no punishment. How might it be a handball when it hits his back! Go **** yourselves!"

"I trust it is the correct one," Solskjaer said. "I didn't see it. I was simply helping the official to quiet my staff down, however, there is nothing we can do about it now. They state it was the correct choice."

The late VAR punishment choice was as disputable as it was definitive with Neymar taking to Instagram to express his skepticism at the granting of a spot kick. He stated: "There is no punishment. How might it be a handball when it hits his back!"

Is it safe to say that it was a punishment?

The key minute in the match was the late VAR-granted spot-kick, yet would it say it was the correct choice? Both Joleon Lescott and John O'Shea thought so.

"It is a punishment and the way that the official has had the capacity to go and see it again and settle on that choice, he appears to have settled on the correct choice. I don't figure numerous individuals will contend it was anything but a pen, however, I would feel hard done by," the previous Man City safeguard revealed to The Debate.

"He [Presnel Kimpembe] has gone somewhat unnatural by the way he has turned noticeable all around to square it," was O'Shea's perspective on the occurrence.

PSG mentor Thomas Tuchel in the interim said he was as yet a promoter of VAR regardless of the late choice and was additionally left paralyzed by his group's unexpected exit guaranteeing Manchester United advanced to the following round without assaulting.

"They had three objectives without assaulting, without making an opportunity. It's hard, perhaps difficult to examine this," he said.

The group that completes fourth in the Premier League toward the finish of the period may pass up Champions League capability, says UEFA.

Two English groups would need to complete outside of the Premier League top four multiplied with them winning both European rivalries in 2018/19 for that situation to occur.

For instance, Manchester United completing fifth and winning the Champions League and Arsenal completing 6th and lifting the Europa League - which would result in the fourth-put group being gone into the last competition.

Tottenham were downgraded to the Europa League in 2012 in spite of completing fourth after 6th set Chelsea won the Champions League.

Notwithstanding who wins the Premier League, Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup or Carabao Cup, England can just have seven clubs speaking to them over the two European rivalries.

On the off chance that the groups that complete fifth and 6th in the best flight win the Champions League and Europa League individually, the main three will meet all requirements for the Champions League nearby the two European competition victors.

The protecting Champions League victors went behind right on time as the Dutch club dazed the Santiago Bernabeu swarm 

Real Madrid incredibly fell behind against Ajax at Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday, and many rushed to take to internet-based life to both express their skepticism and criticism the shielding champions.

The Dutch side entered Tuesday's match trailing, having been on the finish of a 2-1 rout in the principal leg that unquestionably felt complimenting to Madrid.

In any case, when the last whistle blew, it was the Dutch side that developed and pushed through to the quarter-last round by means of a 5-3 total triumph on account of a 4-1 frolic at the Bernabeu.

Ajax opened the scoring in the seventh moment through Hakim Ziyech, who completed first-time to level the score at 2-2 on the total.

Be that as it may, Real Madrid still had a favorable position on away goals before Dusan Tadic made Ajax's second, turning past Casemiro before setting up David Neres as Ajax led the pack.

With Neres' goal, Ajax took a 3-2 lead on total inside 18 minutes in the wake of ruling extensive parts of the principal leg.

And keeping in mind that Ajax was d facilitating past Real Madrid's backline, Twitter rushed to delight in and dismember the Spanish side's battles.

Tadic and Lasse Schone added the completing contacts to the triumph in the second half, with Marcos Asensio's strike simply a comfort before Nacho was sent off in stoppage time.

The veteran focus back's activities in the Second leg of the Champions League conflict had a dreary view assumed control over them by UEFA 

Sergio Ramos is no more interesting to contention, however, it has cost him the opportunity to play in Real Madrid's Champions League last-16 experience against Ajax on Tuesday because of a two-coordinate suspension.

The Blancos commander, who stood blamed for elbowing Lionel Messi amid the end of the week's 3-0 Clasico annihilation on account of Barcelona, made remarks after the principal leg of the knockout tie, which occurred at the Johan Cruijff ArenA on February 13, which showed he had intentionally gotten a booking.

Objectives from Karim Benzema and Marco Asensio gave the Spanish side a sound 2-1 preferred standpoint to bring home, yet soon after the victor, which was scored in the 87th moment, Ramos got a yellow card on the event of his 600th appearance.

It was an alert that took him over the disciplinary limit and, along these lines, set off a programmed one-coordinate boycott, which means he would miss a match in which his side were solid top choices.

The 32-year-old, in any case, made silly remarks to the press after the amusement that saw UEFA open an examination concerning his lead.

"Taking a gander at the outcome, I'd lie in the event that I said I didn't constrain the booking," he told columnists after the amusement.

"It isn't to disparage the rival nor to feel that the tie is finished, yet in football, you need to settle on extreme choices."

Ramos later backtracked from his remarks with a post via web-based networking media.

"I need to clarify that it harms me more than anybody. I have not constrained the card, as I didn't against Roma in my past Champions League coordinate," he told his fans on Twitter.

"I will bolster from the stands as one more fan with the hallucination of being in the quarters."

This was short of what was needed, for UEFA, which reacted by expressing: "A disciplinary examination has been started dependent on Article 31(3) of the UEFA Disciplinary Regulations regarding the announcements made by Real Madrid player Sergio Ramos.

"Data in regard of this examination will be made accessible at the appropriate time."

Article 31(3) falls under the flag of morals and control in the amusement and shows that named auditors have the ability to "start disciplinary examinations".

On February 26, under about fourteen days after the principal leg, Ramos was charged by UEFA's Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) and after two days its decision was known.

"The CEDB has chosen to suspend the Real Madrid CF player Sergio Ramos for two UEFA rivalry matches for which he would be generally qualified for plainly accepting a yellow card deliberately. The two-coordinate suspension incorporates the programmed one-coordinate suspension for the rehashed alerts," an announcement from UEFA read.

It implies that Ramos is prohibited for Real Madrid's arrival leg against Ajax yet it will likewise guarantee that he misses the primary match of the quarter-finals should the three-time shielding champions advance as foreseen.

The news is the reason for certainty for Ajax, whose manager, Erik ten Hag, stated: "Sergio is the supervisor on the contributions and the backline.

"His nonappearance isn't just a strategic misfortune for them, yet in addition rationally.

"His nonappearance is a misfortune to Madrid. Unmistakably without Ramos, they are not going to be a superior group."

Ramos isn't the primary player to have gotten a 'strategic' booking to enable him to miss a match and, along these lines, lessen the danger of sitting out a progressively significant experience because of a boycott.

Madrid partner Dani Carvajal was declared to have been blameworthy of a similar offense when he sat idle in the last moment of a 6-0 prevail upon APOEL, with that suspension implying that he missed an unimportant gathering match against Borussia Dortmund.

Furthermore, Valencia midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia was given a comparable sentence a month ago to have been esteemed to have purposely grabbed a second reserving in a Europa League first-leg experience against Celtic in which his side was winning 2-0.

Valencia advanced through that tie and Ramos will trust his Madrid partners can appreciate a likewise peaceful section through to the last eight.