Champions League: Souness names best teams in Round of 16

Liverpool legend, Graeme Souness has tipped either Arsenal or Manchester City to win the Champions League this season.

This is because rival European leagues are “nowhere near as good as the Premier League.”

Souness was reacting to the Round of 16 draw conducted on Monday.

Holders City will take on FC Copenhagen, while Arsenal face FC Porto.

They are the two English clubs left in the competition after Manchester United and Newcastle finished bottom of their groups.

“Maybe this is an enormous compliment to the Premier League but I look at Spanish football and Italian football and German football – then there’s PSG who are not the same team – and I’ve got question marks about the leagues.

“They’re nowhere near as good as our league. There’s not the same intensity and I’m not sure if they’ve got that desire that our players show.

“I think that with Arsenal and Man City, we’ve got the best teams. Looking at them, I think that our league is so good now that most of our teams are the outstanding favourites. Maybe first and second or first and third,” Souness told talkSPORT.

This season’s Champions League final will be played at Wembley in London.

There have been three all-English Champions League finals in history: Manchester United vs Chelsea in 2008, Liverpool vs Tottenham in 2019, and Chelsea vs Manchester City in 2021.