Manchester Metropolis’s reward for sealing their place within the Champions League knockout play-off stage is a tie with both Actual Madrid or Bayern Munich.
Pep Guardiola’s males went into Wednesday evening’s closing league section match exterior of the highest 24 – needing victory to progress into the following spherical.
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And so they seemed to be heading out as they went into the break 1-0 down courtesy of Raphael Onyedika’s strike simply earlier than half-time.
However they fought again within the second interval because of an equaliser from Mateo Kovacic, an personal objective from Joel Ordonez and a strike from substitute Savinho.
Metropolis’s 3-1 victory has seen them end twenty second within the standings, leading to them grouped in a pair with Twenty first-placed Celtic, who misplaced 4-2 away at Aston Villa.
The 2 British golf equipment will study their destiny over whether or not they are going to both face Actual or Bayern, who resulted in eleventh and twelfth place respectively in Friday’s draw.
As a result of Actual and Bayern completed between ninth and sixteenth, they are going to have the second leg of their play-off tie at residence [February 18/19], with the primary leg to happen on February 11/12.
Ought to Metropolis draw Bayern, it could see former captain Vincent Kompany return to the Etihad Stadium.
Whereas a gathering with Actual would see the Residents offered with the prospect to precise revenge on Carlo Ancelotti’s males, who dumped them out on penalties within the quarter-finals final time period.
Ought to Metropolis and Celtic emerge previous Actual and Bayern, they might then play both Atletico Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen within the last-16.
As for Liverpool, Arsenal and Villa, they’ve all sealed their place within the last-16 having completed within the high eight and won’t be competing within the knockout section.
However that does not imply they’ve been handed a straightforward route into the quarter-finals.
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Liverpool [paired with Barcelona], completed high of the 36-team desk regardless of dropping 3-2 at PSV Eindhoven.
The Merseyside outfit will now face the winner out of both Monaco/Brest vs Paris Saint-Germain/Benfica.
As for Arsenal [paired with Inter Milan], they completed third within the desk after coming from behind to beat Girona 2-1 in Spain.
Their reward shall be a last-16 tie in opposition to both Feyenoord/Juventus or AC Milan/PSV.
In the meantime Villa [paired with Lille] secured the ultimate automated last-16 spot by ending eighth with dramatic 4-2 win over Celtic which noticed Morgan Rogers fireplace in a hat-trick.
Unai Emery’s males will now be drawn in opposition to the winner of Sporting Lisbon/Membership Brugge vs Atalanta/Borussia Dortmund.
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Champions League matchday eight outcomes
- Aston Villa 4-2 Celtic
- Barcelona 2-2 Atalanta
- Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 Sparta Prague
- Bayern Munich 3-1 Slovan Bratislava
- Borussia Dortmund 3-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
- Brest 0-3 Actual Madrid
- Dinamo Zagreb 2-1 AC Milan
- Girona 1-2 Arsenal
- Inter Milan 3-0 Monaco
- Juventus 0-2 Benfica
- Lille 6-1 Feyenoord
- Man Metropolis 3-1 Brugge
- PSV 3-2 Liverpool
- RB Salzburg 1-4 Atletico Madrid
- Sporting Lisbon 1-1 Bologna
- Sturm Graz 1-0 RB Leipzig
- Stuttgart 1-4 PSG
- Younger Boys 0-1 Pink Star Belgrade
The Champions League draw to find out the knockout play-off spherical is on Friday from 11am.
Every of the golf equipment within the subsequent spherical will play as soon as on a Tuesday and as soon as on a Wednesday.
The draw for the last-16 takes place on February 21, the place the highest eight seeded groups will discover out which facet of the draw they are going to be in.
And people who completed from first to eighth will play their second leg at residence.