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Champions League draw: All you need to know

The draw for the Champions League quarter-finals takes place on Friday morning, following a round of 16 that broke a record for goals at that stage of the competition (62 over 16 matches – count 'em).

What time? 11am (well, ish – you know what they're like)

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Where? Nyon, Switzerland

From here on in it's an open field – that means no seedings, and teams from the same nation can now play each other. Unfortunately for the Premier League, that won't be an issue – Leicester are the only side flying the flag from England after Arsenal and Manchester City were knocked out by Bayern Munich and Monaco respectively.

The teams

Atletico Madrid (ESP)

  • How they got here: Bayer Leverkusen 2-4 Atletico Madrid (2-4, 0-0)

  • Competition best: Runners-up x 3 (1974, 2014, 2016)

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Lest we forget that the three-time losing finalists blitzed their group, winning five of their six matches to finish three points clear of Bayern Munich (who they beat 1-0 at the Vicente Calderon, and had already won the group by the time they lost the reverse fixture).

Notoriously stubborn and seemingly impossible to break down at times, they only conceded two goals before the knockouts and then saw out a goalless second leg against Leverkusen after a comfortable first-leg win.

Barcelona (ESP)

  • How they got here: PSG 5-6 Barcelona (4-0, 1-6)

  • Competition best: Winners x 5 (1992, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015)

A brilliantly mental game against PSG handed a lesson to us all: don't ever turn off that telly, even if one team needs three goals and only has about three minutes of normal time plus extras to get them. (It also raised expectations, so you know who to blame next time you watch a straightforward romp expecting a comeback).

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That Barcelona are here is a miracle – but now they are, they'll be keen to give Luis Enrique the send-off he deserves before leaving at the of the season.

Bayern Munich (GER)

  • How they got here: Bayern Munich 10-2 Arsenal (5-1, 5-1)

  • Competition best: Winners x 5 (1974, 1975, 1976, 2001, 2013)

Arsenal haven't reached the Champions League quarter-finals since 2009/10, and Bayern are largely to blame – the Bavarians have beaten the Gunners at the last 16 stage in three of the following seven seasons, and got the cans of whoop-ass out not once but twice this year.

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As usual, this is the competition by which great seasons are measured in Bavaria – Bayern top the Bundesliga, albeit only by a point, and this is the trophy they're so desperate to get their hands on each year. No final since 2013, though.

Borussia Dortmund (GER)

  • How they got here: Benfica 1-4 Borussia Dortmund (1-0, 0-4)

  • Competition best: Winners (1997)

The 1997 victors made sure a dodgy (if dominant) first leg against Benfica was wiped out with a thoroughly convincing thumping in the second leg at Signal Iduna Park. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has 29 goals in 32 games for Dortmund this term – seven in seven in the Champions League after his recent hat-trick – and hopes will be largely resting on him when Thomas Tuchel's side come up against the elite.

Juventus (ITA)

  • How they got here: Porto 0-3 Juventus (0-2, 0-1)

  • Competition best: Winners x 2 (1985, 1996)

"Who do I prefer not to play? Leicester. They are a dangerous and passionate team who can cause trouble for opponents who take the initiative. We would have everything to lose."

The words of 39-year-old Gigi Buffon, who's been there and seen a few things during his near-16 years at Juventus – but never laid his hands on Ol' Big Ears. How he'd love to rectify that this year. Juventus made light work of Porto and look typically mean at the back, having conceded just twice all tournament – making them a positively unappealing draw.

Leicester (ENG)

  • How they got here: Sevilla 2-3 Leicester (2-1, 0-2)

  • Competition best: Quarter-finals (2017)

So it turns out Leicester wouldn't be ruining England's UEFA coefficient, what with them being the last Premier League side standing and all. It didn't look like that would be the case after a first-leg 2-1 defeat in Sevilla which could have easily been 4-0 to the Spaniards by half-time, but then we should all know not to write off the Foxes. They tore into Sevilla with a stunning display at the King Power Stadium under new boss Craig Shakespeare, and ultimately deserved what they got via goals from Wes Morgan and Marc Albrighton. Will they be quaking in their boots at the prospect of a big gun? We're guessing not – and rightly so.

Monaco (FRA)

  • How they got here: Man City 6-6 Monaco (5-3, 1-3; away goals)

  • Competition best: Runners-up (2004)

Arguably the most exciting team in Europe this season, Monaco stayed true to type by squeezing through on away goals against Manchester City after a thrilling 12-goal tie over two legs. Their three net-ripplers in Manchester were only good to keep the first-leg deficit to two, but they'd made that up inside 30 minutes at the Stade Louis II. Unsurprisingly, they had an answer for Leroy Sane's late effort and got the goal they needed via Tiemoue Bakayoko. Monaco have scored 84 goals in Ligue 1 this season. The next best? Lyon... with 58.

Real Madrid (ESP)

  • How they got here: Real Madrid 6-2 Napoli (3-1, 3-1)

  • Competition best: Winners x 11 (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016)

After a 12-year wait to land La Decima, Real Madrid have got pretty good at lifting the Champions League trophy again – twice in the last three seasons, in fact. And who'd bet against them to do it again in 2017? Zinedine Zidane's side might never look like dominating any competition they play in these days, but they're well poised to win a first La Liga title since 2012 and would love nothing more than a Double with another European triumph. They've got this far with a comfortable 6-2 aggregate win over Napoli. In short: there's more to come.

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