Manchester City will face French champions Paris St-Germain in their first Champions League quarter-final.
City, the sole English club remaining in the competition, avoided
incoming manager Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich and holders Barcelona,
who have knocked them out in the past two seasons.
Barca face Spanish rivals Atletico Madrid, Bayern meet Benfica, while Real Madrid take on Wolfsburg.
PSG, who have won the Ligue 1 title with two months to spare, will welcome City to the French capital in the first leg.
The teams have met only once before - a goalless home draw in the 2008-09 Uefa Cup.
Both
clubs are barely recognisable from that meeting, when City were still
in the infancy of Sheikh Mansour's reign and PSG almost three years away
from their Qatari takeover.
Laurent Blanc's side have gone on to dominate the French game, winning four successive league titles.
But,
like City, the Parisians have not managed to conquer the Champions
League, losing in the quarter-finals in each of the past three seasons.
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