They met in the past year's Champions League semifinals, but will they get the opportunity to do so again in this year's tournament? Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti should be two of the competition's untouchables, but the pair could be playing for their very futures in their current jobs, even though we're only at the quarterfinal stage of this year's edition.
In the case of Guardiola, his own tricky situation this week is still clearly influenced by that meeting between his Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the last four in spring 2014. Bayern had been disappointing in the first leg at the Bernabeu, and they were marmalised, to use cricketing parlance, in the return leg in Germany with the Catalan's tactics deemed to lack the necessary poise in some quarters.