[M]anchester City will face French champions Paris St-Germain in their first Champions League quarter-final.
City, the sole English club remaining in the competition, avoided incoming manager Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich and holders Barcelona, who have knocked them out in the past two seasons.
Barca face Spanish rivals Atletico Madrid, Bayern meet Benfica, while Real Madrid take on Wolfsburg.
The quarter-finals will take place on 5-6 April and 12-13 April.
The Europa League draw – featuring Liverpool – takes place at 12:00 GMT.
Champions League quarter-final
Wolfsberg vs Real Madrid
Bayern München vs Benfica
Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid
Paris St. Germail vs Manchester City
Europe’s nouveau riche go head-to-head
PSG, who have won the Ligue 1 title with two months to spare, will welcome City to the French capital in the first leg on Wednesday, 6 April.
The return leg at Etihad Stadium will take place on Tuesday, 12 April.
The teams have met only once before – a goalless draw in Manchester in the 2008-09 Uefa Cup.
Both clubs are barely recognisable from that meeting, when City were still in the infancy of Sheikh Mansour’s ownership and PSG almost three years away from their Qatari takeover.
Laurent Blanc’s side have gone on to dominate the French game, winning four successive league titles.
But, like City, the Parisians have not managed to conquer the Champions League, losing in the quarter-finals in each of the past three seasons.
All-Spanish clash the pick of the rest
Barcelona, attempting to become the first side to win back-to-back Champions Leagues, face an Atletico side that they have enjoyed playing in recent seasons.
The Spanish champions are eight points clear of second-placed Atletico in La Liga, having beaten them in both league matches this season.
The Catalans have been victorious in their past six meetings, although Diego Simeone’s team won 2-1 on aggregate in the 2013-14 Champions League quarter-finals on their way to finishing runners-up.
“I don’t think there was a tougher opponent. They are the side who defend better than anyone,” said Barcelona board member Javier Bordas.
Culled from BBC
