Twitter Roundup: Fans react to Liverpool-Dortmund, PSG-City, Barca-Atletico, as European quarter-final draws confirmed

The draws for the UEFA Champions League and Europa League were held on Friday, and they threw up some mammoth encounters to look forward to in the quarter-final stage of both competitions. Fans of all the top clubs in Europe took to Twitter to share amazement, joy, disappointment and humour.

The Champions League has thrown up some pretty interesting encounters, as Barcelona face La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid, and cash-rich clubs Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City are scheduled to clash. The Europa League has thrown up a gem of a draw with Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool coming up against his former club Borussia Dortmund.

Klopp up against ex-club Dortmund. It just had to happen.

This is the one encounter that the otherwise exuberant Jurgen Klopp will have mixed feelings about. After Liverpool dumped Manchester United out of the Europa League and qualified for the quarter-finals, the German had even specifically said that he wouldn’t fancy facing ‘the strongest team’ in the race — Borussia Dortmund — at this stage of the competition.

However, Liverpool were drawn against the very team that Klopp led to such heady heights in his previous stint as a manager. The German now has a re-union to look forward to at the Signal Iduna Park in April.

Get ready for ‘El Cashico’ between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City

Although both PSG and Manchester City have had quite a lively history, they likely would not have been counted among the top clubs in Europe if it weren’t for extravagant cash transfusions that elevated them from the status of decent clubs to super clubs chock-full of global superstars.

Manchester City made history by making it to the quarter-finals for the first time this year, while PSG have become regulars in the UEFA Champions league quarter-finals of late. They have had problems getting past this stage though, and if they can see off City, it would be their first Champions League semi-final appearance in more than two decades.

An impostor masquerading as Gareth Bale has dubbed this match ‘El Cashico’ and most of Twitter agrees.

La Liga’s biggest fighters clash against the reigning champions

Faced with richer, more influential, more fancied opponents in Real Madrid and Barcelona, Atletico have proven time and again that they have the resilience and zeal to go for glory. This time around they face the club that they have been stalking domestically over the past couple of seasons — the seemingly unstoppable force that is Barcelona.

However, Diego Simeone remains a mastermind, Diego Godin is a boulder in defence, and Antoine Greizmann is the main man for Los Rojiblancos. This encounter could turn out to be the best of the lot.

All in all it looks like we’re in for some great action this April.

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