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18th Mar 2016

Fans react as Liverpool draw Borussia Dortmund in tough Europa League quarter-final

Matt Tate

Liverpool’s victory over Manchester United in the first ever competitive European fixture between the two North West giants means that Jurgen Klopp’s team have a place in the last eight of the Europa League.

Before the draw, much of the Twitter chat from Liverpool fans centred around how much they wanted to avoid Klopp’s old club, Borussia Dortmund, who emphatically defeated Tottenham in the last 16…

https://twitter.com/MyNaughtySide7/status/710798959640498176

Unfortunately, many of those mystic Liverpool fans were proved to be absolutely correct, as they were left with only the German giants in the hat.

Some Reds fans were excited at the news…

https://twitter.com/PapaBeats/status/710805052068405248

https://twitter.com/Mark_Dunphy/status/710801794864123904

Not all shared those sentiments, however…

https://twitter.com/TomArthur21/status/710803036407513089

And it’s fair to say Manchester United fans think they may have had a lucky escape…

https://twitter.com/Dan_Check8/status/710803031651192832

Jurgen Klopp’s return to Dortmund will take place on April 7, with the second leg at Anfield a week later.