{"id":789658,"date":"2026-02-26T06:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789658\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:17:17","slug":"confirmed-liverpools-two-possible-opponents-in-ucl-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789658\/","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.europesays.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 8 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 8 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 8 hours ago By Glenn Price Liverpool now know they will meet either Atletico Madrid or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1144,1042,1047,712,1043,16,15,1048,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-789658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-salah","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-the-reds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-van-dijk","33":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116135477113506281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}