Champions League QF draw: Best & worst outcomes for Arsenal & Man City

Manchester City and Arsenal will be part of a heavyweight Champions League draw as Europe's top competition reaches the business end.

Each of the eight quarter-finalists have a strong European pedigree with the Gunners recently rejoining the continent's top table after years away. Their dramatic success over Porto means their young side continues to develop and will mix it with European aristocrats like Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Barcelona.

City meanwhile have become regulars in the latter stages - making at least the last four in each of the last three years before they claimed Champions League glory last year. Pep Guardiola's side have carried themselves impressively with the champion tag by no means weighing them down.

They made light work of Copenhagen, which they were always expected to do, in the last 16. The Premier League champions will be among the teams everyone else wants to avoid, but even they themselves will have teams they'd rather not be paired with on Friday.

It is difficult to label any team as the outfit you'd want to face. Without doing much you've handed one team some serious motivation - and they'll feed off that. Among the remaining eight though the team that could be identified as the most beatable would be Borussia Dortmund.

If you go off league form alone, the German giants are placed as low in their domestic league than any other team - albeit Atletico Madrid also sit fourth in La Liga. Dortmund though are far less than gritty to face than the Spanish side, who are known for their confrontational nature.

Real Madrid are seen as the only team who can stop City with many hoping the two teams to battle in the final. They've faced in the past two semi-finals and, although Guardiola's side hammered