After overseeing a 6-2 aggregate win against Liverpool, Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti reunites with his former club while Chelsea overturned a first-leg defeat by Borussia Dortmund to progress into the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Ancelotti has been rumored to be one of the brilliant football minds being considered by Chelsea's hierarchy to take over the reins as head coach following the recent sacking of Graham Potter. Frank Lampard has been contracted to be the caretaker manager until the end of the season. Ancelotti, the four-time Champions League-winning manager typically showed no signs of panic when Liverpool roared into a 2-0 lead at Anfield during their last-16 first leg, as Los Blancos left the Anfield crowd shell-shocked by scoring five without reply before a slender 1-0 win at the Bernabeu got the job done with minimal fuss.

A 3-2 defeat of the Los Blancos to Villarreal over the weekend might just have handed Barcelona an edge over their bitter rivals in the race to be crowned the La Liga champions. The Catalan giants' victory over Girona on Monday night meant that they are now 15 points clear at the top of the table. As their Catalonia counterparts busk in the La Liga glory, Real Madrid who are also in the Copa del Rey final and will face Osasuna have earmarked Champions League title number 15 as priority number one as they look forward to get the job done in the first leg on home soil tonight against their English opponents. They can take confidence from the fact that not since an astonishing 3-0 defeat to CSKA Moscow in 2018 have they failed to score in a Champions League home game. Additionally, each of their last five UCL games played at Santiago Bernabeu has ended in victory. 

Frank Lampard will be taking baptism by fire tonight when he leads the Chelsea troops to face the reigning continental champions tonight. There was no room for a glamorous homecoming for the caretaker Chelsea manager on Saturday as Wolves ruined the Englishman's Premier League party. The 2022-23 season marks the third consecutive time that Chelsea have appeared in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League. The Blues have remarkably not lost to the defending champions since being put to the sword by FC Porto in the 2004-2005 season. They have went ahead to win two and draw in four of the games that they have been drawn up against the continental champions making them have the longest-ever unbeaten streak against the European title holders. 

Football fanatics were treated to a blockbuster UCL quarter-final between Real Madrid and Chelsea last season where a 3-2 Bernabeu win was in vain for Chelsea as the Los Blancos advanced with a 5-3 aggregate to end the Blues' defense for their crown. Will Chelsea be successful in their revenge mission to knock-out the reigning champions out of the competition?