Great away days await Man City if they avoid Liverpool FC and Chelsea in Champions League

After the Champions League round-of-16 concluded on Wednesday night, Manchester City and their supporters can now look forward to finding out who awaits them in the quarter-finals. Thousands of Blues will have Skyscanner and Booking.com at the ready for the minute they found out where they will be jetting (or training) off too.

With no restrictions in place for the last-eight, City could come up against Liverpool, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Villarreal, Bayern Munich or Benfica. Given City's record against English clubs in Europe, the Blues will be hoping to avoid the first two teams on that list.

Plus, the Champions League is all about following your team abroad and having a good time doing it. Here at MEN Sport, we thought we'd put together a short guide to the four continental destinations City fans could find themselves in next month.

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In some ways it feels like Blues have unfinished business with Madrid. The Spanish capital - more specifically the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu - was the scene of one of City's greatest European nights, a come-from-behind 2-1 win against Real Madrid in February 2020.

That was actually the last Champions League away day before the start of the pandemic, so heading back would bring things full circle. In addition, Madrid hosted the 2019 final that City arguably should have reached - there's some more unfinished business.

City could draw either Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid, but either way the Spanish capital is a fantastic city. Many see it as a destination purely for lovers of art and culture (it does boast some of the world's finest art museums after all) but above all else it is a city of