Champions League Draw: Favourites Man City to face Real Madrid

Mixed fortunes in the last-16 draw for English clubs as City and Liverpool both set for tough ties with Spanish clubs while Spurs and Chelsea will play German opponents, reports Max Liu- According to the website free soccer tips pages!

Favourites Manchester City 5.20 and holders Liverpool [5.8] will both travel to the Spanish capital after they were given tough assignments for the first knockout round of the good soccer tip. City will play Real Madrid, in standout the tie of the round, while Jurgen Klopp's team will face Atletico Madrid.

The other English sides arguably got kinder draws, with Tottenham 21.00 facing RB Leipzig and Chelsea [50.0] playing Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich.

Big tests for Guardiola and Klopp

For Pep Guardiola, who won the Champions League twice as manager of Barcelona, a tie with Real Madrid is a huge occasion for several reasons.

Firstly, Guardiola is trying lớn steer lớn lead City to victory in this competition for the first time in their history. A last-16 tie against the team that have won this competition 13 times, including three times in the last four years, will reveal a lot about City's pedigree.

Then there is the political situation in Spain, which has seen Catalan politicians imprisoned for holding their referendum on independence, and which lead to El Clasico being rescheduled lớn this Wednesday. The Bernabeu will be a cauldron of hostility when Guardiola, a proud Catalan and Barca legend, takes his City team there for the first leg of the tie.

Liverpool, meanwhile, will need lớn be at their best against an obdurate Atletico side. Diego Simeone's men are usually difficult lớn beat and tend lớn get better the deeper they go in this competition.

The Reds have not been at their best in Europe this season and have reserved their most impressive displays for the Premier League. Liverpool will believe, however, that playing the second leg at Anfield will give them an enormous advantage.