The ultimate League Section video games of the revamped Champions League have been performed and the play-offs groups are set forward of this week’s draw.
Liverpool and Barcelona had been the one two sides assured to be via to the final 16 with one sport to go.
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However six different groups joined them on Wednesday evening, together with Arsenal and Aston Villa who gained their final video games.
From ninth all the way down to Twenty fourth, the groups have needed to accept the lottery of the play-offs and so they’ll be a part of Friday’s draw.
One of many groups concerned might be Manchester Metropolis who saved themselves from elimination with a 3-1 win towards Brugge.
Becoming a member of Metropolis might be some extra of Europe’s elite together with Actual Madrid, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain.
Champions League draw: Date and begin time
The Champions League knockout part play-off draw might be held on Friday, January 31.
It can happen on the Home of European Soccer in Nyon, Switzerland.
Proceedings will get began at 12pm native time which is 11am within the UK.
Followers can tune in to the draw stay on the UEFA.com web site – extra particulars can be found right here.
The draw may even be proven on UEFA’s YouTube in addition to on TNT Sports activities.
talkSPORT and talkSPORT.com may even have all of the build-up and response.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 via the web site, click on HERE for the stay stream. You can even pay attention through the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, via your sensible speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
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Champions League draw: How does it work?
The draw will embody the groups that completed from ninth all the way down to Twenty fourth within the league.
These 16 groups might be separated into two teams of eight, with groups ranked ninth to sixteenth being seeded and groups seventeenth to Twenty fourth unseeded.
Seeded sides will then be paired up, whereas it’s the identical within the unseeded group of groups.
So, Twenty fourth and twenty third will kind a pair, twenty second and twenty first will kind a pair and so forth…
The pairs might be positioned in a complete of eight bowls which can correspond to their league part rankings, so twenty third and Twenty fourth-ranked groups might be within the bowl marked 23/24.
The draw will start with the unseeded groups, with a ball taken from their corresponding bowl and that point being positioned on one aspect of the bracket.
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On this new format, there’s a blue bracket and a silver bracket, and pairs will already be given predetermined locations (as proven by the picture above).
The primary groups drawn from the unseeded bowls might be on the silver aspect and the second takes a spot on the blue aspect.
As soon as all pairs from twenty third and Twenty fourth to seventeenth and 18th and drawn and of their locations within the play-off bracket, the draw continues with the seeded groups.
In the identical style, the seeded groups might be drawn from their corresponding bowls and positioned into their predetermined locations, with the primary drawn in silver and second in blue.
The draw will end with the seeded groups who completed ninth or tenth being drawn and slotting in to face the twenty third or Twenty fourth-placed finishers respectively.
Seeded golf equipment will play the primary leg of their play-off away and the second leg at house.
Knockout part play-off dates
First legs
- Tuesday, February eleventh
- Wednesday, February twelfth
Second legs
- Tuesday, February 18th
- Wednesday, February nineteenth
Champions League draw: Groups
As talked about, the match-ups have been predetermined so the groups know who they might face.
And Man Metropolis have been handed a nightmare draw with both Actual Madrid or Bayern Munich awaiting them within the play-offs.
- Monaco or Brest v Paris Saint-Germain or Benfica
- Sporting CP or Membership Brugge vs Atalanta or Borussia Dortmund
- Celtic or Manchester Metropolis vs Actual Madrid or Bayern Munich
- Feyenoord or Juventus vs Milan or PSV Eindhoven
- Juventus or Feyenoord vs PSV Eindhoven or Milan
- Manchester Metropolis or Celtic vs Bayern Munich or Actual Madrid
- Membership Brugge or Sporting CP vs Borussia Dortmund or Atalanta
- Brest or Monaco vs Benfica or Paris Saint-Germain
In the meantime, Liverpool and Arsenal additionally know who they’ll face within the Spherical of 16.
Liverpool will tackle one among Monaco, Brest, Paris Saint-Germain or Benfica.
And Arsenal will face one among Juventus, Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven or AC Milan.
Champions League desk
| Pos | Membership | MP | W | D | L | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Liverpool | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 21 |
| 2 | Barcelona | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 19 |
| 3 | Arsenal | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 19 |
| 4 | Inter | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 19 |
| 5 | Atletico Madrid | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 6 | Leverkusen | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 7 | LOSC | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 16 |
| 8 | Aston Villa | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 16 |
| 9 | Atalanta | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 15 |
| 10 | Dortmund | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 15 |
| 11 | Actual Madrid | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 12 | Bayern | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 13 | Milan | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| 14 | PSV | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| 15 | PSG | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 16 | Benfica | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 17 | Monaco | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| 18 | Brest | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 13 |
| 19 | Feyenoord | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 13 |
| 20 | Juventus | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 21 | Celtic | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | -1 | 12 |
| 22 | Man Metropolis | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 23 | Sporting | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 24 | Membership Brugge | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 11 |
| 25 | Dinamo Zagreb | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | -7 | 11 |
| 26 | VfB Stuttgart | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 10 |
| 27 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -8 | 7 |
| 28 | Bologna | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 6 |
| 29 | Crvena zvezda | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -9 | 6 |
| 30 | SK Strum Graz | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -9 | 6 |
| 31 | Sparta Praha | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | -14 | 4 |
| 32 | RB Leipzig | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 3 |
| 33 | Girona | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | -8 | 3 |
| 34 | RB Salzburg | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | -22 | 3 |
| 35 | Slovan Bratislava | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -20 | 0 |
| 36 | Younger Boys | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | -21 | 0 |
9 to 24 entered into play-off
25 to 36 eradicated