Manchester City to face Real Madrid in pick of Champions League play-off ties
Sports, Football: Elsewhere, Celtic will face six-time European champions Bayern Munich, after the Scottish champions reached the knockout stage for the first time in 12 years.
ReigningchampionsReal Madrid will face 2023 winners Manchester City in the plum tie of the play-off round of this season'sChampionsLeague, following Friday's draw.
It is the fourth year running in which the sides have been drawn against each other in a knockout tie, with Real emerging victorious in a penalty shoot-out in the quarter-finals last season.
City, who scraped through after finishing 22nd in theleaguephase in this first season of the new format for Europe's elite club competition, will be at home in the first leg before going to Spain for the return.
Elsewhere, Celtic will face six-time EuropeanchampionsBayern Munich, after the Scottishchampionsreached the knockout stage for the first time in 12 years.
Paris Saint-Germain will play surprise package Brest in an all-French tie, while Juventus play PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord take on AC Milan in two ties between former winners of the competition.
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Last season's EuropaLeaguewinners Atalanta, who finished one place outside the top eight which offered a direct path to the last 16, will face Club Brugge of Belgium.
Sporting of Portugal were drawn against last season's runners-up Borussia Dortmund, while Monaco will take on Benfica having lost at home to the Portuguese club in theleaguephase.
The play-off ties will take place next month, with the eight winners going through to the last 16 along with the eight highest-placed sides from theleaguephase.
Liverpool, Barcelona, Arsenal, Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lille and Aston Villa are the sides already through to the last 16.
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