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Chelsea and Liverpool could face Atletico Madrid in Europa League last 32

Image: Radamel Falcao: Chelsea and Liverpool will hope to avoid facing the Atletico Madrid striker

Chelsea and Liverpool will be hoping to avoid Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan when the draw for the last 32 of the Europa League is made in Switzerland on Thursday.

Atletico, Inter and Leverkusen all sit second in their domestic leagues, while Ajax are in the thick of their own title battle and showed quality as they finished third in a Champions League group also containing the champions of Spain, Germany and England. For Tottenham and Newcastle, long trips appear distinctly possible, with seven of the 13 teams they are eligible to face being from Eastern Europe or Turkey. All unseeded teams will play at home in the first leg of the last 32. There will be no seeds for the last 16, with the ties being decided on a "Winner Match 3 v Winner Match 11" basis. Last-32 ties will take place on February 14 and 21, with last-16 matches following on March 7 and 14.
Round of 32 draw
Seeded teams
Liverpool, Viktoria Plzeò, Fenerbahçe, Girondins de Bordeaux, Steaua Bucureºti, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Genk, Rubin Kazan, Lyon, Lazio, Metalist Kharkiv, Hannover 96, Chelsea, CFR Cluj, Olympiacos, Benfica.
Unseeded teams
Anzhi Makhachkala, Atlético de Madrid, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Newcastle United, VfB Stuttgart, Napoli, FC Basel, Internazionale Milano, Sparta Prague, Tottenham Hotspur, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Levante, Dynamo Kyiv, Zenit St Petersburg, Ajax, BATE Borisov.

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