Both first and second club in Spanish Primera division table -FC Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid- will transport their rivalry to the European stage for the second time in three seasons when they meet in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals (19:45 GMT). Atletico come into the game in good shape after enjoying a comfortable 5-1 win at home over Betis -Torres scoring the opener- and title holders Barcelona will try to forget their Clasico defeat against Real Madrid behind them and recover quickly from their tired legs.

Fernando Torres is ready for another Champions League tie against a well-known opponent. The number ‘9’ has scored ten times against Barcelona in 14 matches. Nine of those goals came for Atlético, while he struck for Chelsea FC in a 2-2 draw at the Camp Nou in the 2012 UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg. After that Blues won their first trophy ever in this competition beating FC Bayern on own soil through penalty shoot-out.

The teams’ sole previous European tie came at the same stage of the 2013/14 competition. Then, as now, the first leg was at the Camp Nou, where Neymar’s 71st-minute strike cancelled out Diego’s 56th-minute opener for Atlético. A week later, a fifth-minute goal from Koke was enough to give Atlético a 1-0 win and a place in the semi-finals – ending Barça’s six-year run of reaching the semi-final or better.

Atlético are the only team to prevent Barça from reaching the semi-finals in the past eight seasons and one of only three clubs to have eliminated them in a UEFA Champions League quarter-final, along with Paris Saint-Germain in 1994/95 and Juventus in 2002/03.