PSG and Barcelona get set to renew Champions League rivalry

It is the fifth time the sides have been drawn against each other in the knockout stage of Europe's elite club competition in the last 12 seasons, with those past meetings including an unforgettable encounter in 2017. PSG won 4-0 at home in the first leg only to lose 6-1 in the return in a stunning implosion against a Barcelona side coached by Luis Enrique.

He is now in charge of PSG, having joined the Qatar-owned club ahead of this season with the responsibility of delivering elusive European success. "It is a totally different game for me," Luis Enrique said on Tuesday, referring to the special nature of a fixture against the club with whom he starred as a player before going on to lead to Champions League glory in 2015.

"But I also played against Sporting (Gijon, where he began his career) and scored goals for Barcelona. "At the end of the day I am a professional. Of course I like Barcelona but I am pleased to be here at PSG and I must think about my job and my team. I think I'm capable of bringing trophies to this club."

PSG have never won the Champions League and had gone out in the last 16 in five of the last seven years before beating Real Sociedad to reach the last eight this time. The consequences of that 2017 meeting between the teams were huge. A humiliated PSG exacted revenge by signing Neymar from Barcelona a few months later by paying a world-record fee of 222 million euros ($264m at the time) to activate the Brazilian's release clause.

Barcelona panicked and blew all of that money, and more, in trying to rebuild their team. Among the players they signed was Ousmane Dembele, who cost an initial 105 million euros from Borussia Dortmund.

Fast forward to last year and Dembele was sold to PSG for just 50 million