Champions League Round of 16 draw: live online
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My, oh my, here are the goals of the Group Stage. Enjoy them and come back quickly - there's only 10 minutes to go!
Here are the predictions from the FiveThirtyEight supercomputer
So, here's what the computer thinks is the most likely outcome - do you agree?
Just 20 minutes to go!
I reckon there are few teams who fancy an away trip to the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona this season. Napoli look seriously scary...
Speaking of Los Blancos, here are the teams they can face - some very interesting fixtures here:
Half an hour to go! Manchester City are the favourites for many - do you agree?
According to stats boffins FiveThirtyEight, they have a 40% chance of reaching the final.
14-time winners Real Madrid have an 18% chance. With the way things went last year, I'd say they think that's more than enough!
Four English teams remain.
Liverpool can only play against Bayern, Benfica, Porto or Real Madrid since three of the eight seeded teams are English and Napoli shared a group with them.
Safe to say it's going to be a fascinating tie!
There's the trophy! (it always shocks me to see just how shiny it is)
More goals from German teams, I hear you say! Here's a cracker from Choupo-Moting - perhaps we'll see one of these in the next round?
Safe to say they're pretty excited for the draw at the Estádio do Dragão...
Who doesn't love a Bernabéu screamer? Check out this one from Marco Reus. Lovely stuff.
Napoli 4-1 Liverpool
Can you remember this rampant Napoli victory in September? If not, here's the match report of the game...
Despite their slow start to the Premier League, Liverpool picked up 15 points in the Group Stage this season, losing only to Napoli (4-1) in the first match of the tournament.
Remember that away goals don't count as of now (despite the madness we saw when PSG came second in their group due to number of away goals scored!)
There could be some very tasty ties coming up...
So, who are the teams that we will see today?
We've got the Group winners as the seeded teams and those who finished second are in the unseeded category.
The two rules are that a team cannot face another team from the same country and they cannot play against if each other if they were in the same Champions League group this year.
Group winners (seeded)
Bayern (GER)
Benfica (POR)
Chelsea (ENG)
ManCity (ENG)
Napoli (ITA)
Porto (POR)
RealMadrid (ESP)
Tottenham (ENG)
Group runners-up (unseeded)
ClubBrugge (BEL)
Dortmund (GER)
Frankfurt (GER)
Inter (ITA)
Leipzig (GER)
Liverpool (ENG)
Milan (ITA)
ParisSaint-Germain (FRA)
The ties will be over two legs and the seeded teams will play the second leg at home.
This year's final will be held on Saturday 10 June at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Turkey.
The action takes place at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland at midday local time. That's 6am ET and 3am PT.
If you're one of the hardcore fans who is awake for this in the US - or anywhere else for that matter - let us know! Come and say hello on Twitter @English_AS - I promise I'll reply!
Hello and welcome to the AS English Champions League Round of 16 draw live feed. It's Joe here today and I'll be guiding you through it all as it happens.
LIVE: Follow all the action right here as Tottenham take on Liverpool in the Premier League at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham host Liverpool in the Premier League at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday evening
Tottenham host Liverpool in the Premier League at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday evening
Hello and welcome to live coverage of Tottenham's Premier League encounter against Liverpool.
It really is a big game for both teams in N17 as they look to try and put themselves in a good position ahead of the World Cup commencing.
Antonio Conte and his Spurs side will certainly go into the fixture in confident mood having won their last two games with stoppage-time winners in each.
Liverpool, on the other hand, have endured such a poor start to the campaign by their high standards but they did bounce back from their shock home defeat against Leeds United by beating Napoli 2-0 on Tuesday evening.
Tottenham correspondents Alasdair Gold and Rob Guest are covering the match with all the build-up and the action as it happens on the pitch from inside the stadium and reaction from the supporters and media.
Scroll down for all of our latest updates from Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
time
Tottenham lose 2-1 in N17.
18:16ROB GUEST
Added time
Four minutes added on.
18:16ALASDAIR GOLD
Another Tottenham opportunity
So close to a Spurs leveller. Kane flicks on a Perisic cross and Bentancur is inches away from getting his head on it.
18:15ALASDAIR GOLD
Spurs change
Lucas replaces Bissouma, who has probably had his best performance in a Spurs shirt.
18:12ROB GUEST
Liverpool sub
Gomez on for Nunez
18:09ALASDAIR GOLD
Bentancur effort
Now a Bentancur header from Dier's cross but Alisson gathers.
18:05ALASDAIR GOLD
Lenglet chance
Chance for Lenglet as he heads a Perisic corner over the crossbar.
18:00ROB GUEST
Liverpool subs
Jones and Henderson on for Firmino and Elliott.
17:56KEY EVENT
Harry Kane scores
Spurs grab a goal back and the two subs combined, Doherty playing it to Kulusevski who slides in Kane and he finishes superbly into the bottom left corner.
17:55ALASDAIR GOLD
Spurs subs
Kulusevski and Doherty replace Sessegnon and Emerson. Spurs sticking with the 3-5-2 but with Perisic stepping back to wing-back and the Swede up front instead with Kane.
17:39ROB GUEST
Save
Lloris on hand to save from Salah.
17:38ROB GUEST
Wide
Sessegnon now curls a shot just wide of the right-hand post.
17:36ROB GUEST
Spurs chances
Eric Dier gets a head on Perisic's corner but Alisson holds it.
Perisic hits the bar after a Sessegnon cut back.
17:31ROB GUEST
Peep
We're up and running again.
17:19ROB GUEST
Alasdair Gold's thoughts on the first half
Spurs were incredibly generous hosts for Liverpool and Mohamed Salah in particular.
First they left the Egyptian in acres of space to take a simple pass from Darwin Nunez and turn before shooting low into the bottom right corner of the net.
That goal seemed to spark Spurs into life - a familiar sight this season - and they struck the post when a Harry Kane cross hit Alisson and bounced backwards.
However, the visitors were gifted a second goal when Eric Dier attempted to head a ball back to Hugo Lloris and instead it hit his shoulder and bounced straight to Salah who chipped it over the keeper. It was a poor moment from the experienced centre-back.
What will frustrate Conte as much as the defensive sloppiness is that Spurs have shown signs of finding a way through with Ivan Perisic causing problems for Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Ryan Sessegnon has been showing his age with some great movement and early touches before wasting opportunities to get into the box with poor decision-making. He did have one shout for a penalty when Alexander-Arnold appeared to push him over in the box but neither the referee nor VAR were moved.
Conte will have to decide whether he needs to throw Dejan Kulusevski into the fray earlier than expected or make Lucas Moura play through the pain because something needs to spark Tottenham into a path back in this game.
17:17ROB GUEST
Half-time
Liverpool lead 2-0 at the break.
17:12KEY EVENT
GOAL
It's 2-0 Liverpool after Salah punishes Dier for a big mistake.
Getting his header from Alisson's long kick all wrong as it hits his shoulder, it allows Salah to race through on goal and lifts the ball over Lloris.
16:49ALASDAIR GOLD
Penalty shout
Looked like Sessegnon was pushed over in the box there by Alexander-Arnold. The referee and VAR decide otherwise though.
16:46ALASDAIR GOLD
Woodwork
So close to the equaliser. First Emerson picks out Kane and he curls in a cross that Perisic can't quite get to but the ball hits Alisson and deflects on to the right-hand post and in the aftermath Hojbjerg had a low curling effort saved.
16:42ROB GUEST
GOAL
Salah finds the bottom corner with a low shot after Nunez picked him out in the area.
The Liverpool man who in bags of space to turn and get his shot away.
16:36ROB GUEST
Wide
Nunez curls an effort just wide after Alexander-Arnold picks him out with a sublime c
ross-field ball.
16:32ROB GUEST
Chance
First chance for Liverpool as Lloris saves well to deny Nunez.
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