The six Premier League sides on this season’s have all certified for the knockout stage of the event with one match to spare.
However there may be nonetheless all to play for in subsequent Wednesday’s closing spherical of league-phase fixtures, with solely Arsenal presently assured a spot within the last-16.
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Right here Telegraph Sport assesses the prospects of every of the English golf equipment:
Arsenal (1st) v Kairat
Arsenal have a 100 per cent file within the competitors after profitable all seven of their matches – Getty Photographs
Tuesday evening’s despatched them by means of to the final 16 and put them on the point of turning into the primary aspect to win all their matches within the league section after Liverpool misplaced their closing sport final season. Few would wager towards Mikel Arteta’s Premier League leaders succeeding the place the present champions of England failed subsequent Wednesday once they host rock-bottom Kairat, towards whom they solely want some extent to safe high spot after beating second-placed Bayern Munich in November. Ending first backfired on Liverpool final season once they ended up being drawn to play eventual champions Paris St-Germain within the final 16 and Arsenal shall be hoping for a better opponent come March.
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Liverpool (4th) v Qarabag
Liverpool’s 3-0 victory towards Marseille was their second-straight away victory within the competitors – Getty Photographs/Xavier Laine
They nonetheless want a win of their closing match towards Qarabag at Anfield to ensure qualification for the final 16, though some extent shall be sufficient except nearly all 9 groups on 13 or 14 factors win their very own video games. A second-straight after their victory at Inter confirmed nice tenacity after their shock 4-1 dwelling humiliation by the hands of PSV Eindhoven, a defeat that, together with their tame loss at Galatasaray, threatened to wreck their total marketing campaign. They’re now unbeaten in 13 video games for the reason that PSV debacle and though they’ve been removed from their finest, no group will wish to face them at Anfield within the knockout stage.
Tottenham Hotspur (fifth) v Frankfurt (a)
Tottenham, who beat Borussia Dortmund final day out, want one other victory towards Eintracht Frankfurt – Getty Photographs/Rob Newell
Like Liverpool, they should win their closing sport at Eintracht Frankfurt to ensure a top-eight end, and shall be cautious of drawing in Germany given the variety of golf equipment only one level behind them. As with the Europa League triumph that received them into the Champions League, Europe is proving one thing of a salvation for Spurs and amid what has been one other wretched Premier League season. They’re considered one of solely 4 golf equipment to be overwhelmed as soon as or much less within the Champions League this season and have received all 4 of their dwelling matches. However they’ve but to take three factors on the highway.
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Newcastle United (seventh) v Paris St-Germain (a)
Newcastle face defending champions PSG of their closing league-phase match – Getty Photographs/Lee Parker
Regardless of being above each Chelsea and Manchester Metropolis, they face arguably the toughest activity of all English golf equipment to keep away from a play-off given their closing match is away to holders PSG. Each golf equipment are degree on factors and have to win to ensure a last-16 spot and Newcastle’s away kind has not been good this season. Wednesday evening’s has nonetheless left their destiny firmly in their very own palms with one match to go, one thing supervisor Eddie Howe and his gamers would undoubtedly have taken in the beginning of the season.
Chelsea (eighth) v Napoli (a)
Liam Rosenior’s Chelsea face a tricky-looking sport away to Italian champions Napoli – Shutterstock/Tolga Akmen
In addition they face a horrible-looking closing sport away to Italian champions Napoli, who themselves have to win to keep away from crashing out of the competitors altogether. Chelsea’s on Wednesday evening will hardly encourage confidence that they will go to some of the hostile stadiums in Europe and get the victory they should assure a last-16 spot. In addition they misplaced on their final journey to Italy final month at Atalanta. However they did beat Barcelona 3-0 at Stamford Bridge in November so nothing could be dominated out.
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Manchester Metropolis (eleventh) v Galatasaray
Degree on factors with Newcastle and Chelsea, they might nicely want each to slide as much as rescue themselves from a second successive season in a play-off spherical they didn’t progress from final yr after drawing Actual Madrid. They’ve the simplest fixture of the trio on paper courtesy of a house match towards Galatasaray however even a win will not be sufficient given the variety of groups above them. They may solely have themselves guilty in the event that they end exterior the highest eight after turning into the primary aspect to lose within the Champions League this season to .
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