Champions League and Europa League draws await: football news – live

Right, I’ve been Dave Tindall and that’s my warm-up stint done. Please return to your seats and give a big hand for today’s headline act … Mr Simon Burnton.

How the bookies see it. Latest odds here. Should Arsenal really be second favourites?

Champions League: 13/8 Man City, 4/1 Arsenal, 9/2 Real Madrid, 6/1 Bayern Munich, 11/1 PSG, 14/1 Barcelona, 18/1 Atletico Madrid, 25/1 Borussia Dortmund.

Europa League: 11/10 Liverpool, 10/3 Bayer Leverkusen, 6/1 AC Milan, 11/1 Roma, West Ham, 12/1 Atalanta, 18/1 Benfica, Marseille.

Obviously, these could all change significantly after the draws are made.

Here’s how Liverpool and West Ham eased into the quarter-finals of the Europa League last night. And also how Rangers didn’t.

Oh, and let’s not forget how Villa walloped Jordan Henderson’s Ajax in that thingy West Ham won last season.

Back to domestic matters and here’s what you should have your beady eyes on over the next couple of days.

Beady Eye – whatever happened to them? Anyway, here’s the lead singer dedicating a song to Jack Grealish in Birmingham last night.

Europa League draw:

And coming up at midday, the ‘everyone wants to avoid Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen’ draw. Klopp v Alonso is surely best saved for the final but it could happen in the last eight. Here’s who’s left: three from Italy, two from England and one each from Portugal, Germany and France.

Atalanta
Benfica
Leverkusen
Liverpool
Marseille
Milan
Roma
West Ham

Champions League draw:

These are the eight teams still battling for glory. And, yep, it’s an open draw. No country protection means we could have Arsenal v Man City, Real Madrid v Barcelona and Bayern v Dortmund in the last eight. Imagine that! We’ll also get the semi-final match-ups drawn out too.

Arsenal
Atlético Madrid
Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Manchester City
Paris Saint-Germain
Real Madrid

Good morning! It’s a big one. Not only the Ides of March but also the day of quarter-final draws in the Champions League and Europa League.

Adding to those draws which begin at 11am, we’ll be looking ahead to quarter-final weekend in the FA Cup and building up to a somewhat reduced Premier League programme: as on-the-ball fantasy managers know, there are just four games.

Righty, let’s get this thing started.