The battle for Europe's biggest club football prize hits the semi-finals with the four top teams of this year's competition set to lockhorns to determine who the final two will be.
Liverpool will face Roma in the Champions League semi-finals, with Real Madrid taking on Bayern Munich.
The Reds stunned Premier League leaders Manchester City in the last eight, and have been rewarded with a meeting against Serie A opponents who caused their own shock at the quarter-final stage.
Roma trailed La Liga giants Barcelona by three goals heading into the second leg of a heavyweight encounter, but produced a stirring fightback on Italian soil to progress on away goals .
Jurgen Klopp’s side won 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium after a stunning 3-0 victory at home to remain in the hunt for a sixth European crown.
A meeting with Roma will see the Reds reunited with a side they faced in the 1984 final and a foe they last met at the second group stage back in 2001-02.
Mohamed Salah will also find himself up against familiar faces, with the 39-goal Liverpool forward having left Stadio Olimpico for Merseyside in the summer of 2017.
On the other side of the draw, reigning champions Real Madrid continue to chase down a remarkable hat-trick.
Zinedine Zidane’s side have conquered the continent in each of the last two seasons, and three times in four years.
Cristiano Ronaldo has remained a talismanic presence for the Blancos, with his European goal haul for 2017-18 taken to 15 .
The latest of those efforts fired Real past Juventus in dramatic fashion , with a stoppage-time penalty downing the Serie A leaders following a surprise collapse by the Spanish giants on home soil.
They got over the line in the end and now have Bayern blocking their path to the final in Kiev.
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