article_snippet: the Champions League holders Real Madrid will face local rivals Atletico Madrid - the team Champions League holders Real Madrid beat in last season's final - in the quarter-finals of this season's competition.
article_snippet: Los Blancos needed extra-time to beat Diego Simeone's men in Lisbon May but the two Madrid sides will face each other again next month as the two Madrid sides look to make it all the way to Berlin.
highlights_snippet: Real Madrid draw Atletico Madrid in UEFA Champions League
highlights_snippet: The two sides met in last season's final, with Real coming out on top .
  
highlights_snippet: The two sides have met twice before in the Champions League quarter-final stage.
highlights_snippet: The two sides have scored in six of the seven previous meetings between the sides in European competition.
highlights_snippet: Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid have already met six times this season with Atleti remaining unbeaten, winning four (including both league clashes) and drawing two.
  
highlights_snippet: Atletico Madrid have scored exactly once in all four previous European meetings with city rivals Real, winning just once and losing three.
  
highlights_snippet: Including this season, there has been at least one Spanish team in the Champions League quarter-final for the last 10 campaigns.
  
highlights_snippet: For only the third time in European Cup history, a quarter-final tie will feature two Spanish sides; however it is the second season in a row that this has happened (Real Madrid v Sevilla in 1958 and Atletico v Barcelona in 2014).
  