The brand new-look Champions League heads into the ultimate spherical of group-stage fixtures this night with every part nonetheless to play for. Right here’s what every of the British groups must do to succeed in the subsequent spherical.
Manchester Metropolis
Pep Guardiola all the time anticipated Manchester Metropolis’s try to keep away from Champions League “relegation” to go to the ultimate recreation – they usually want a win towards Membership Brugge to remain within the competitors.
, regardless of going 2-0 up by Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland, means they dropped to twenty fifth place within the desk. In the event that they end there, they are going to be eradicated.
The excellent news for Guardiola’s workforce is that victory towards Brugge on Wednesday will take them to 11 factors and can nearly actually be sufficient to safe them a play-off spot – as they’ll leapfrog the Belgians – to succeed in the knockout phases of this season’s competitors.
Information firm Opta Analysts ran a simulation of the brand new “Swiss Mannequin” format and in 99 per cent of checks 10 factors is sufficient to safe a play-off place, which sees the groups ending between ninth and twenty fourth battling to succeed in the subsequent spherical. Different outcomes this week imply a draw towards Brugge will no longer be sufficient for Metropolis to progress.
Liverpool
Uefa modified the format of the competitors this season with groups enjoying eight video games within the group stage and getting ranked between one and 36. The highest eight go straight by to the final 16, with Liverpool already securing their place after ot the league stage of the match.
Arsenal
Arsenal are nearly assured of a top-eight place after .
Aston Villa
Villa are assured a play-off place and may seal a top-eight slot .
Celtic
The Scots assured themselves of a play-off spot after beating Younger Boys 1-0. Who would have thought they’d be seven locations above Metropolis?
Present standings and probabilities of progressingWhat are the ultimate spherical of fixtures?
All tonight’s matches are being proven on TNT Sports activities. Each recreation kicks off at 8pm. Right here’s the total channel itemizing
TNT Sports activities 1 – Villa vs Celtic
TNT Sports activities 2 – Man Metropolis vs Brugge
TNT Sports activities 3 – PSV vs Liverpool
TNT Sports activities 4 – Girona vs Arsenal
TNT Sports activities 5 – Objectives Present Further
TNT Sports activities 6 – Brest vs Actual Madrid
TNT Sports activities 7 – Bayern Munich vs Slovan Bratislava
TNT Sports activities 8 – Stuttgart v PSG
TNT Sports activities 9 – Inter vs Monaco
TNT Sports activities 10 – Barcelona vs Atalanta
Discovery+ – Bayer Leverkusen vs Sparta Prague, Borussia Dortmund vs Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo Zagreb vs AC Milan, Inter Milan vs Monaco, Juventus vs Benfica, Lille vs Feyenoord; Purple Bull Salzburg vs Atletico Madrid; Sporting Lisbon vs Bologna; Sturm Graz v RB Leipzig; Younger Boys vs Purple Star Belgrade
When is the playoff draw?
The play-off draw can be held on Friday, January 31 in Nyon. The groups ending ninth to sixteenth can be seeded, and can be drawn towards the unseeded groups ending seventeenth to twenty fourth. As an illustration, ninth and tenth can be drawn to play both twenty third or twenty fourth.
Groups might be drawn towards one other from the identical nation or an opponent they confronted throughout the league part.