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    Get Involved - Man City draw Real Madrid; Celtic draw Bayernpublished at 11:32 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January

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    So Man City's run of fixtures will be Madrid, Newcastle, Madrid, Liverpool, Spurs. Ouch.

    Ben

    Champions of Scotland vs champions of Germany! You never know what can happen...

    Chris King, Plymouth

    Well Chris, Bayern Munich are not the reigning champions of Germany, for a change, but they look to be well placed to regain their title, so we know what you mean.

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    Right, coming up is an interesting explanation about how the top half and bottom half of the draw will look.

    Liverpool, Arsenal, Aston Villa - which side would you like to end up on?

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    And our final match out of the hat...

    Sporting v Borussia Dortmund

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    Club Brugge v Atalanta

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    And that means it's Celtic v Bayern Munich

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    Well... you just knew it was going to happen!

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    Breaking

    Manchester City v Real Madrid

    Ooomphh!

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    Feyenoord v AC Milan

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    Juventus v PSV Eindhoven

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    Monaco v Benfica

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    All French tie to kick things off! Brest will take on Paris St-Germain

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    We are almost ready to pick an actual tie. Bear with us...

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    Right then, here we go...

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    Get Involvedpublished at 11:17 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January

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    The two additional matches each team played in the league phase was against a team from their own seeding pot. For example, the extra matches played by a team in pot 4 would have been against fellow pot 4 teams. This makes the competition fairer, shown by the number of 'big' teams missing out on the top 8.

    Steve, Bristol

  15. Real Madrid 'turn up' for Champions Leaguepublished at 11:16 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January

    Stephen Warnock
    Former Aston Villa and Liverpool defender on The Football News Show

    Real [Madrid]'s history with the competition, it's what they turn up for isn't it? When the Champions League music comes on.

    People will say where did they finish in the group, look at the history of where they finish in the group, they always get over the line, then they kick-off at the second stage.

    You'd rather face Bayern Munich, the quality they've got is phenomenal but they've been hit or miss this season.

  16. Postpublished at 11:15 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January

    They are explaining how the draw will work, here's a post on that we made earlier.

    Read it - it's quicker than listening to the official explanation.

    You don't want to fall asleep and miss the draw...

  17. 'You need that backing of your fans'published at 11:13 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January

    Stephen Warnock
    Former Aston Villa and Liverpool defender on The Football News Show

    On home and away legs: It can be huge, it really can. You can go to Celtic Park or somewhere like Anfield, if Liverpool were in the knock-outs. You need that backing of your fans, you need to make it hostile, you need to make it so difficult.

    How many times have we seen that in European Cups or competitions where it's gone to the second leg, they've been trailing and then teams have come from behind. It makes a big difference having that home advantage.

  18. Postpublished at 11:11 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January

    Former Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Barcelona man Thiago Alcantara is being invited on to the stage now.

    He knows a thing or two about playing in and winning this competition...

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    Get Involvedpublished at 11:09 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January

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    To be the best, you've got to beat the best. Absolutely no reason why we can't see off Madrid or Munich. Khusanov will be settled, Marmoush will be scoring, we'll give them a hell of a game, and they should be just as worried about playing us.

    Chris, Manchester

  20. 'Are we diluting the quality of football?'published at 11:08 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January

    Stephen Warnock
    Former Aston Villa and Liverpool defender on The Football News Show

    Are we diluting the quality of football we are seeing? Because players are getting burnt out, there's a lot of football, a lot of travelling within that time frame, it's not ideal.

    You could see the delight on Andrew Robertson's face, it's a situation where you can go 'I can sit back and rest now and we can enjoy this moment'. There will be other teams looking at it, thinking it's more cash in the bank.