Arsenal and Chelsea face familiar foes in the Champions League after they were once again drawn against their European nemeses Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain.
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Chelsea would lose to the French champions in the same stage last season – with David Luiz, a former Chelsea man, scoring a late equaliser which would eventually spell disaster for Jose Mourinho’s men.
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The only guarantee we have is that we’ll have two great teams playing two great games.
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Barcelona are celebrating after drawing Arsenal in the Champions League.
“We ousted them in 2012-13 when we won the Champions League”.
“The Champions League is about details, too, like previous year; if we had everyone available to play against Barcelona in both games it would have been totally different”.
Barcelona should be wary of the counter by Arsenal as that is lethal.
Manchester City booked their place in the knockout stages for the first time in their history after topping their group and they’ve been handed a favourable tie against Dynamo Kiev.
In other ties, PSV Eindhoven will take on Atletico Madrid and Benfica will be against Zenit St Petersburg.
PSG may be unbeaten in a record 14 Ligue 1 games, rocketing to a greater lead at the top of the domestic table than Chelsea have points in the Premier League, but form goes out of the window over two legs.
The Gunners, who reached the last 16 with a memorable victory at Olympiacos in their final group game, knew they could have faced Barca or 10-times winners Real Madrid.
“We might have hoped to be luckier in this draw but I like our team in Europe so far”, Juventus vice president and former player Pavel Nedved said.
“You only know if it’s a good draw after the tie”.
“We wanted to avoid the strongest teams”.
“Juventus are a very attractive opponent, whom we all know very well”, he said.
Still, there was one fresh look in the eight pairings as the two newcomers to the knockout rounds were drawn together: Gent will host Wolfsburg first in Belgium.
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Barcelona travel to Emirates Stadium for the first leg on 23 February with the second leg at the Nou Camp on 16 March.
