Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool all progressed to the Champions League quarter-finals after each team eased to victories over the course of two legs. The Blues defeated Lille on Tuesday by a 2-1 margin in the second leg that equated to a 4-1 aggregate score.
Meanwhile, Jurgen Klopp's side beat Inter Milan and Pep Guardiola's City knocked out Sporting Lisbon in different circumstances last week. Immediately, all talk has turned towards the draw on Friday, which takes place at UEFA's Nyom headquarters, with it now possible at this stage for the English giants to face each other.
Despite Blues fans hoping to avoid their Premier League counterparts, manager Thomas Tuchel isn't too bothered with who his side faces. The German's priority is shaping his side into an outfit that would be soon by rivals as one that rivals don't want to face.
"I want us to be the team nobody wants to play. This is the role we see ourselves in this round of eight. It's a big step to do it again, again, and again. We fight for the top four places in the toughest league maybe in the world right now and we fight in the last eight again [in the Champions League]," Tuchel said in his post-match press conference on Wednesday night.
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"So this brings out the best in us and we want to be the team nobody wants to play against. So let's see what happens." With all of this in mind, football.london decided to simulate the draw for the quarter-finals and here are the results we collated.
Quarter final ties
Liverpool vs Man City
Villarreal vs Chelsea (repeat of the 2021 UEFA Super Cup final)
Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid
Benfica vs Bayern Munich
Some really juicy ties there with a clash between two Premier League rivals on the cards if things were to unfold this way. On top of this, a Madrid derby between Carlo Ancelotti's and Diego Simeone's teams would certainly get pulses racing. The real winners from this simulated draw would certainly be Bayern Munich and Chelsea, who would face more favourable opposition. In fact, Rio Ferdinand himself predicted one of the outcomes correctly that unfolded in our simulated draw.
He delivered his dream quarter-final on BT Sport: "I'd go Liverpool vs Man City. I think there’s a league game between that and there would be three games in the space of a week. It would suit Chelsea too!"
