{"id":445957,"date":"2026-02-26T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445957\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:51:09","slug":"confirmed-liverpools-two-possible-opponents-in-ucl-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445957\/","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\/uk\/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 5 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 5 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 5 hours ago By Glenn Price Liverpool now know they will meet either Atletico Madrid or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[607,608,59,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,599,604,101,600,56,54,55,605],"class_list":["post-445957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-gb","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}