Liverpool and Atletico Madrid will meet for only the fifth time competitively tonight as their duel for a place in the Champions League quarter-finals begins.
Despite rich respective histories in European football, the clubs have often evaded facing each other directly – with this tie the first since four clashes in the space of 18 months a decade ago.
Atletico have had the better of the previous encounters but Jürgen Klopp’s team head to Estadio Metropolitano having lifted the European Cup there just last June.
Here’s a look back on the four showdowns so far between the Reds and Los Rojiblancos…
Champions League group stage – 2008-09
This double-header at the midway point of the Champions League group stage 11 seasons ago could easily have been about one issue and one man – Fernando Torres, the boyhood Atletico fanatic and striking sensation who had left Estadio Vicente Calderon to make Anfield his new home in the summer of 2007.