Liverpool winger Albert Riera admits he'd like to avoid Barcelona in tomorrow's Champions League quarterfinals draw.

He said: "In these kind of matches you can never say that one team is the favourite.

"In the last round we played Real Madrid and a lot of people were saying that they were the best in the world because in their previous 10 games they had won eight or nine of them, and they had been playing really well also.

"But Liverpool played a really good match against them and were able to beat them.

"Barcelona are playing unbelievably well this year, their football is really good and I think people are expecting a lot from them and perhaps expecting them to win 5-0 in every game.

"It is not possible to keep this kind of level for a whole season though, but they are a team who I would prefer not to get in the Champions League draw."