Champs League last eight pits Gunners against Liverpool
Saturday, 15 March 2008
NYON (Switzerland), Mar 14 (AFP): Arsenal will meet fellow giants Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-finals following the draw made here on Friday.
Four English clubs are in the final eight and Arsene Wenger's side were the first out of the hat for their first leg at home on April 1-2, with the return leg against the 2005 champions at Anfield on April 8-9.
The tie means that Arsenal and Liverpool, last season's finalists, will play each other three times in one week as the two European legs sandwich a Premier League game.
Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry told Sky Sports: "We'd hoped to avoid the English teams at this stage but statistically there were bound to be two coming together and unfortunately it's us.
"We play Arsenal in a league game in between so we'll be playing them three times in a week."
"It'll be very similar. We know them extremely well and they know us.”
Four English clubs are in the final eight and Arsene Wenger's side were the first out of the hat for their first leg at home on April 1-2, with the return leg against the 2005 champions at Anfield on April 8-9.
The tie means that Arsenal and Liverpool, last season's finalists, will play each other three times in one week as the two European legs sandwich a Premier League game.
Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry told Sky Sports: "We'd hoped to avoid the English teams at this stage but statistically there were bound to be two coming together and unfortunately it's us.
"We play Arsenal in a league game in between so we'll be playing them three times in a week."
"It'll be very similar. We know them extremely well and they know us.”