UEFA Champions League Quarter and Semifinals Draw Live!

The draw is about to take place shortly for the Champions League's business end of the season. Just a reminder of the teams in the draw that will take place from 11:45am local time:

Olympique Marseille
APOEL Nicosia
Bayern Munchen
AC Milan
FC Barcelona
SC Benfica
Real Madrid
Chelsea

Will post the full draw up quicker than Michel Platini himself.. What? Am I saying the draw has been fixed already? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Interesting facts -
- There are 6 Adidas sponsored teams in the draw - Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Marseille, AC Milan, Benfica and Chelsea. Barcelona are sponsored by Nike, APOEL by Puma.

- In terms of number of countries involved at this stage of the competition, this is the most open in Champions League history post 1997 - UEFA gave more berths to the bigger leagues of England, Spain, Italy & Germany from 1997 onwards.

The quarterfinal draw is as follows:
APOEL v Real Madrid
Marseille v Bayern Munich
Benfica v Chelsea
Milan v Barcelona

Semifinal draw is:
Marseille/Bayern Munich v APOEL/Real Madrid
Benfica/Chelsea v Milan/Barcelona

(2nd legs are reversed)

My thoughts?
-Pick of the ties in the quarterfinals has to be Milan v Barcelona - the two have already played each other twice this season and there's quite a bit of history between these two giants of European football. Everyone wants Barcelona to win but don't write off the Milanese.

-If Barcelona and Real Madrid make it through, everyone will be craving for an Superclassico final in Munich. To be honest, anything other than that wouldn't really appeal to me.