Atletico Madrid will take on RB Leipzig in the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Friday night as they looked to address their Lisbon nightmare.

Los Rojiblancos lost the 2014 Champions League final to Real Madrid in the Portuguese capital and now, six years later, they can start to write a new story in Lisbon.

Only three games separate both Leipzig and Atletico from lifting the Champions League, and just two will see Diego Simeone's side return to the final.

The final is the furthest that Los Colchoneros have got in the competition, having ended their European campaign as runners-up in 1974, 2014 and 2016.

The latter two both came against Real Madrid, with Sergio Ramos' 93rd-minute header sending the first to extra time before Los Blancos went on to win 4-1. The second ended in Real Madrid winning the penalty shoot-out two years later.

This would have been an unsurmountable blow for any club in the world, but not with Simeone as coach.

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"If I fall, I get back up," he said.

However, no one knows as well as Simeone how damaging it would be to come up short once again, yet he is making sure his players think on a game-by-game basis; they are forbidden from thinking beyond the Leipzig tie.

Anfield was the setting for Atletico's last Champions League match, when they knocked out the holders in Liverpool, all the way back on March 11.

Now, Simeone's side are on an 18-game unbeaten run and they will want to clip Leipzig's wings en route to the semi-finals.

MARCA