The draw for the round of sixteen of the Champions League for the 2025-2026 season, which took place yesterday in the city of Nyon, Switzerland, resulted in a heavy-caliber confrontation with the English team Liverpool.

The draw placed the Liverpool “Reds” team in a direct confrontation with the Turkish club Galatasaray, which managed to reach the round of 16 in the Champions League after defeating the veteran Italian team Juventus in the playoff with an aggregate score of (7-5) in the two-legged matches.

The match against Galatasaray is considered a major challenge for the “Reds” team and requires intense preparations, especially since knockout matches do not tolerate mistakes, and require seizing the slightest opportunities to ensure advancement to the next round.

According to the tournament system, Liverpool will have a difficult road ahead if they surpass the Turkish team in this round, as they will face in the quarter-finals the winner of the match between Chelsea of ​​England and Paris Saint-Germain of France.

If the “Reds” manage to reach the semi-finals, they will meet the winner of the confrontation that brings together the winner of the match between the Spanish poles, Real Madrid and England’s Manchester City, against the winner of the confrontation between the Italian Atalanta and the German Bayern Munich.