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UEFA Champions League Draw Breaking News, Friday December 17 2004 Premiership champions ****nal were paired with 2001 winners Bayern Munich and will play their first leg away. http://www.itv-football.co.uk/media...ho_lips150.jpeg Manchester United and Liverpool, who will both play at home first, were paired with AC Milan and Bayer Leverkusen respectively. Chelsea boss Mourinho claimed he wanted to play Primera Liga leaders Barca in the last 16. Mourinho worked as an assistant coach with the Catalan giants before moving into management and eventually going on to win the Champions League with Porto last year. The Portuguese coach had said: "For emotional reasons and because everyone says they are the best in Europe at the moment, I would like to play Barcelona. "In football, top people are never scared. We always want to play against the big teams, the big managers, players always want to play big players. We always want these things for our careers." ****nal last came up against Bayern in the group stages of the Germans' successful 2000-01 campaign, drawing at Highbury but losing at the Olympic Stadium. United are also coming up against opposition they have met before having been beaten by the Italian club in the semi-final in both 1958 and 1969. It is a draw United boss Sir Alex Ferguson predicted and will see him come up against defender Jaap Stam for the first time since he left Old Trafford in 2001. Liverpool's draw offers them the chance to avenge their quarter-final defeat by Leverkusen in 2002. The Reds were beaten by the Germans in the last eight despite taking a lead into the second leg. Leverkusen went on to reach the final. Elsewhere in the draw, Real Madrid will face a testing tie against Juventus and champions Porto will play Inter Milan. Werder Bremen take on Lyon and PSV Eindhoven were drawn against last year's runners-up Monaco. UEFA Champions League draw: Real Madrid v Juventus FC Porto v Inter Milan Barcelona v Chelsea Werder Bremen v Lyon Liverpool v Bayer Leverkusen PSV v Monaco Man Utd v AC Milan Bayern Munich v ****nal |