The Champions League lives today a historic day, because something like this had never occurred before in this competition. It is a final superjorn of the league phase with eighteen games at the same time in which all pending unknowns are going to clear. There are eighteen teams already classified, so there are six names left to meet. Then, you have to order the survivors. The first eight pass directly to the round of 16 and the following sixteen will match a double game with a field advantage for those who end between 9th and 16th.
In that strip of the classification is where most of the crumb of tonight meetings are. Obviously starting with Manchester City, who needs to win the witches to be in the next phase and avoid historical elimination. If the Belgians score they load those of Guardiola, who at the same time depend on themselves after a league in which they have done many things wrong. «This is not a problem, it is an opportunity, a challenge and we will face it as such. For the club it would not be good (not qualifying), but I am not thinking about it.
The keys
►18 teams are already mathematically classified for the next round, whether directly or with the reverpage.
► On this last day, with 18 games at the same time, the six classified positions that are pending will be defined.
►The Friday’s draw It will decide the pairings of the play and on what side of the painting go both the first eight and those of the “play in”.
►The teams classified for the playback are paired in four keys that defines the draw: (9º/10º-23º/24), (11th/12º-21º/22), (13º/14º-19º/20º) and (15º/16º-17º/18º).
I know that people are concerned that we are classified or not, but I don’t think about it. I have played this kind of game many times since I started my career. We are here for the reasons we already know, because we have not done it well enough, ”he said in the previous Guardiola. His team is one of the atomic bombs that can be found by the “play in” serial heads, something similar to what happens with Paris Saint Germain, which is inside right now and lacks a single point to certify its presence in Friday’s draw.
Those of Luis EnriqueAnd they play in Stuttgart and a draw in that game would suffice both teams to be mathematically inside.
The teams that do not reach the “Top 8” but the “Top 24” will have to use the calculator during the ninety minutes, because depending on what happens in the other games they can choose their near future scoring a goal more or less To fall into one position or another, which may mean avoiding a great in the play and even the first two (Liverpool and Barcelona almost certainly) in the round of 16.
At some point in the second part and as the other results go, it may be interested . Finish between 11 and 14th allows you to avoid the first two to semifinalsbut there is the danger that a coconut appears in the “play in” like the PSG or the City.