It's the most stellar line-up of Champions League games involving English clubs that I can remember.
It might only be the last 16, but, crumbs, these are games that are redolent of the old European Cup when you had the big names of European football going head to head.
You have to wait a long time for things to warm up in the Champions League, but this is where it really happens.
For the tie of the round, I don't think you can look past Inter Milan and Manchester United, and, of course, Jose Mourinho versus Sir Alex Ferguson.
Mourinho has the sign over Ferguson - I think it's one win for Ferguson in 11 meetings against Mourinho.
I just think it's fascinating because Mourinho is a possible future Manchester United manager.
He'll feel he has a point to prove to some at Chelsea, particularly after the circumstances surrounding his departure - and what better way to prove a point than to knock Manchester United out of the Champions League?
Inter are a very good team and, in Ibrahimovic and Adriano, they've got two strikers who are both firing. Adriano seems to have had a second wind in his career and has really responded to Mourinho's methods. Ibrahimovic is arguably the finest forward in the world right now.
It's made all the more intriguing by the lack of fit defenders available to United. I hope it doesn't have an effect from Manchester United's point of view, but I do believe that Ferdinand and Vidic are a wonderful marriage of silk and steel. When one part is missing the other is bound to be more vulnerable whoever's playing alongside him.
I think it was unfortunate what happened to Jonny Evans on Saturday. I think one or two of us before commentating on the game against Blackburn were asking why the risk was taken of playing Evans alongside Ferdinand when it wasn't a risk that needed to be taken because Vidic wasn't going to be able to play tonight, particularly as Evans clearly hasn't recovered from his original injury which has now recurred.
It very nearly cost United in the league and it will cost them tonight. It's rebounded on Ferguson.
I was surprised at the changes that made. I thought the goalkeeper was another surprise choice. Playing Van der Sar against a team like Blackburn, who are good at set-pieces, rather than Kuszczak who was not at his best would have made more sense I think.
There again I would have to add a rider - if you look at Sir Alex's managerial record over the last 23 seasons, it's difficult to argue with him!
They ought almost to rename the Champions League the Anglo-Italian Cup the way it's gone this season, with three ties pitting English teams against Italian ones.
I think Serie A is on the up again, but we'll know more in two weeks' time after all the games have been played which is the stronger league.
Arsenal isn't the happiest camp at the moment and they could struggle against Roma. Chelsea and Juventus is very diffcult to call.
I still don't think Serie A is anywhere near The Premier League in terms of quality, but they are heading in the right direction again after probably six or seven years of heading very much in the wrong direction.