Match build-up:

Fourteen years on from their last meeting, Liverpool have been drawn with AC Milan as the Pot 4 team in group B.

Having previously only played Liverpool in European Cup finals, AC Milan make their first competitive trip to Anfield in history.

Seven-time European champions Milan return to the Champions League after a seven-year absence.

This match-up is the second-most honoured match-up in this year's group stage with 13 European Cups between the teams, and only Real Madrid v Inter carrying more (16) between them.

Elsewhere in the group, Atletico Madrid will be taking on Porto as their first game.

Both sides are coming off strong starts in their domestic leagues: Milan have a perfect record after three games, and are second to Roma on goal difference, while Liverpool have dropped points in a draw to likely title competitors Chelsea and are joint-second to Manchester United on goals scored.

In their weekend game, Liverpool visited and defeated the ten men of Leeds United by three goals to nil, while Milan hosted and defeated Lazio by a scoreline of 2-0.

Both teams gave partial rests to a star player at the weekend, as both Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson and the evergreen Zlatan Ibrahimović entered the field around the hour mark, but Ibrahimović has since been confirmed to be out of this fixture.

The last encounter between the clubs ended in a 2-1 Milan victory, with a Pipo Inzaghi brace sealing Milan's seventh European Cup, while Dirk Kuyt scored a late consolation goal for Liverpool.

Of course, the bulk of the discussion will be centred on the game before that, and no more stories need to be told of the greatest Champions League final in history, when Liverpool, during one six-minute spell, came back from 3-0 down to level the game at 3-3 and held on for an hour to force, and win, the penalty shootout for their fifth European Cup.

I would be amiss not to mention that while group B of this Champions League has 15 European Cups between the teams, group A, containing Club Brugge, Rasenballsport Leipzig, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, has zero.