RECAP: Champions League and Europa League draws - Barça v Bayern

RECAP: Champions League and Europa League draws - Barça v Bayern

Pep Guardiola is coming back to Barcelona. His Bayern Munich sidewill play Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final.

Juventus will play Real Madrid in the other tie. Full reaction to the draw to follow on SPORT.

12.26: Barcelona and Juventus will the home teams in the first leg.

12.25: Now we have the second semi-final, too: Juventus vs. Real Madrid. That all happened so quickly. 

12.24: Barcelona vs. Bayern Munich!

12.23: And BARCELONA are first out.

12.20: Sorry for the delay, we had to wait for the montage to end. "Four of the greatest clubs in Europe," as the presenter says, will now find out their semi-final opponent.

12.17: CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW TIME! Go, go go.

12.16: Europa League draw concludes with the news that winners of semi-final 1 (Napoli or Dnipro) will be the home team in the Europa League final.

12.14: Just in case you missed it, the draw for the Europa League last four is: Napoli vs. Dnipro; Sevilla vs. Fiorentina. 

12.13: Which means we have Sevilla, the holders, against Fiorentina. 

12.12: Napoli vs. Dnipro

12.11: Karl-Heinz Riedle is helping with the Europa League draw. He looks happy about it. First out is... NAPOLI

12.10: Still chatting...

12.07: Sevilla, who knocked out Zenit last night, will draw either Napoli, Fiorentino or Dnipro. Napoli were very impressive in their first leg win over Wolfsburg. 

12.05: We're going to have the Europa League draw first. UEFA probably worried that if they do the Champions League draw first, everyone will then switch off and not watch the Europa League draw. 

12.02: Things are beginning to get underway in Nyon. Lots of talk, though, to be done before the draw starts. 

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The Champions League is getting very serious. 

Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Juventus will find out their last hurdle on the way to Berlin on Friday.

There are no easy ties at this stage of the competition (cliche alert, but it's true), but the Barça dressing room know who they want to face...

....Pep Guardiola's Bayern (they have their reasons). 

Will they get their way? Or will we end up with Luis Suarez vs. Giorgio Chiellini and Patrice Evra. Or will we get Barça against Real Madrid?

Meanwhile, Sevilla are set to find out who they will face in the Europe League.

Last season's winners can draw either Napoli, Fiorentino or Dnipro. 

 

Advance reading...

Here are the dangers that will face Barcelona in the semi-final.

Here is how Sevilla scraped through with a late goal.

Barca, Bayern and Madrid have dominated the semis.