Champions League club-by-club profiles and key players as knockout stages arrive
The Champions League is back for the knockout stages, with both Arsenal and Manchester City hopeful of progressing.
The Gunners are up against Porto in the Last 16, while reigning champions City take on Copenhagen. The ties for the first phase of the knockouts will take place over the next four weeks across two legs.
The quarter-finals will then be held in April, before the semi-finals in June give us the two teams who will face off to win the trophy at Wembley Stadium. City will get the last 16 stage underway on Tuesday when they face Copenhagen in Denmark.
The Gunners will then travel to Porto a week on Wednesday to get their own knockout campaign started. Here Mirror Football profiles all 16 clubs in the knockout stages and their key players.
The Portuguese side are Arsenal’s next opponents and, without doubt, one of the rank outsiders in the last 16. Brazilian striker Evanilson has been in good form - eight goals and two assists in 15 league games - and scored a hat trick in the Champions League against Royal Antwerp.
He has been on the radar of a few clubs as Porto is such a strong breeding ground. But, interestingly, Porto have been behind Benfica and Sporting Lisbon in the title race which tells its own story.
Key man: Evanilson
It has been a testing season for Dortmund as they are battling for Champions League football rather than the Bundesliga title. That is probably why they did a loan deal for Jason Sancho to give them a boost.
Having said all that, Dortmund qualified from the Group of Death with Newcastle, Paris Saint Germain and AC Milan. They are battle hardened in Europe and will be a threat. Marco Reus is a terrific player - even now.
Key man: Marco Reus
They have taken the Dutch league by storm this year and have
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