Champions League: English clubs await last 16 draw

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Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United will find out their Champions League last 16 opponents when the draw is made on Monday.

Chelsea and United will avoid some of Europe's most illustrious teams as they will be among the eight seeded teams after finishing top of their group.

Arsenal and City are unseeded and could draw Bayern Munich, Barcelona or Real Madrid in the first knockout stage.

No team from the same country can draw each other.

Chelsea will face a two-legged tie against either AC Milan, Bayer Leverkusen, Galatasaray, Olympiakos or Zenit St Petersburg.

They cannot draw Schalke from the pot of runners-up as they were in the same group - while the other two teams are Arsenal and Manchester City.

"In the second position we have difficult teams," said Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.

"We have the Russian champions, we have the Greek champions.

"Leverkusen, as a German team, is always difficult. We have the Turkish champions with King Didier (Drogba).

"And Milan is Milan. They only won seven times. It's hard."

Manchester United's possible opponents are the same apart from the fact they can draw Schalke instead of Bayer Leverkusen, who were in the same group as the Old Trafford club.

United beat Shakhtar Donetsk to confirm top spot in Group A and manager David Moyes said: "I think we could be classed as one of the favourites.

"We'll have to improve in order to progress. A club like Manchester United has to be trying to win the trophy."

Arsenal will face Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, reigning champions Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain or Real Madrid.

City's list of opponents is the same apart from Bayern Munich, who finished above them in the group stages, are replaced by Borussia Dortmund, who pipped Arsenal to the top of their group.

City beat Bayern Munich 3-2 in their final Group D game and could have topped their group had they won 4-2.

"It shouldn't have been happening but it is very easy why it happened," said City manager Manuel Pellegrini on realising his mistake in calculating how many goals his team needed to score to win the group.

"After they scored the first goal, I continued [thinking] that 3-1 was not enough because they had a better goal difference, so I continued [to think] that we had to win by three goals, 3-0 or 4-1.

"After they scored the second goal, I didn't continue thinking about what happened if we scored four goals.

"That was my mistake, but not many teams score four goals against Bayern Munich.

"I tried to think better about how to arrange the game that we were losing 2-0.

"First of all I recognise absolutely my mistake but I don't have any guilty conscience about what we did because we always tried to score the fourth goal.

"I apologise for me and the team that we couldn't score four goals against Bayern Munich."

A 2-0 defeat against Napoli consigned Arsenal to the runner-up spot in Group F.

"To finish second makes the potential draw more difficult," said Gunners boss Arsene Wenger.

"In the last four or five years we had a difficult draw. Maybe this time we will be a bit luckier."