{"id":317458,"date":"2026-02-26T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:08:08","slug":"confirmed-liverpools-two-possible-opponents-in-ucl-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317458\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Liverpool&#8217;s two possible opponents in UCL last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Confirmed: Liverpool's two possible opponents in UCL last 16\" title=\"Confirmed: Liverpool's two possible opponents in UCL last 16\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/champions-league-trophy-160226_5f5d634a2343f48dbb45ec0079de1506.webp.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 3 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Glenn Price<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Liverpool now know they will meet either Atletico Madrid or Galatasaray in the last 16 of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray emerged as the winners from their two-legged knockout play-off tie with Juventus on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico, meanwhile, had secured their place in the Round of 16 by overcoming Club Brugge on aggregate on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds progressed from the league phase as a seeded qualifier in third place and will, therefore, be paired with either the Spanish or Turkish club during the draw on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The first leg of the last-16 tie is scheduled to be played on March 10\/11 and the return fixture at Anfield on March 17\/18.<\/p>\n<p>Published 3 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 3 hours ago By Glenn Price Liverpool now know they will meet either Atletico Madrid or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10015,10016,5851,61,60,10011,10006,10017,10019,10018,1547,10010,10009,5859,10014,10007,10012,112,10008,10013],"class_list":{"0":"post-317458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-klopp","14":"tag-lfc","15":"tag-lfc-news","16":"tag-lfctv","17":"tag-lfctv-go","18":"tag-liverpool-fc","19":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","21":"tag-liverpool-football-club","22":"tag-mane","23":"tag-reds","24":"tag-salah","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-the-reds","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}