The hosts qualified for the quarterfinals after overcoming
Cypriot champions Apoel Nicosia with an aggregate score of 2 - 0 in the Round of 16.
That leaves the Belgian and
Cypriot champions, Anderlecht and APOEL Nicosia respectively.
Ten of the teams in the playoff are from the latter route and will play one another: this includes such familiar group stage faces as
Cypriot champions APOEL, Swiss champions Basel and Belarusian champions BATE Borisov, who will all be seeded for the draw.
Not exact matches
Tottenham hit three past
Cypriot side APOEL Nicosia at Wembley tonight, as Mauricio Pochettino's side ended their
Champions League group stage in style.
Real Madrid beat APOEL 5 - 2 in their
Champions League quarter - final second leg at the Bernabeu with another convincing victory over the
Cypriot side, booking a last - four meeting with Bayern Munich in the process.
There would not have even been many
Cypriots who would have fancied their team to be top, and undefeated, after four games against the calibre of recent quarter - finalists Porto and Shakhtar Donetsk, plus the Russian
champions, Zenit St Petersburg.