Actual Madrid or Bayern await rattled Man Metropolis in Champions League playoffs | Soccer Information

Actual Madrid, Paris-Saint Germain and Manchester Metropolis keep away from Champions League banana skins forward of Friday’s draw.

Holders Actual Madrid made positive they might be seeded for Friday’s Champions League playoff draw by beating Stade Brest 3-0 away within the final spherical of the primary section.

Rodrygo scored the primary and final objectives after 26 and 78 minutes respectively on Wednesday, whereas Jude Bellingham netted the second within the 56th following a sensible cross from Lucas Vazquez.

Regardless of the loss, Brest can even characteristic within the two-legged playoffs as an unseeded staff of their first European marketing campaign.

Actual reached the Champions League knockout section for the twenty eighth consecutive yr and prolonged their profitable streak to 5 matches in all competitions.

Man Metropolis made to sweat as soon as once more, however larger problem to return

Manchester Metropolis flirted with a disastrous exit from the Champions League earlier than rallying to beat Membership Brugge 3-1 in a must-win recreation to advance to the knockout section.

Metropolis trailed 1-0 at halftime, and sat twenty sixth within the 36-team standings earlier than the 2023 title-winner was sparked by substitute Savinho to keep away from elimination. Metropolis completed twenty second.

Paris Saint-Germain additionally secured its place within the top-24 groups and can enter the knockout playoffs rounds, profitable 4-1 at Stuttgart to get rid of the German membership.

PSG impressed once more after an important 4-2 comeback win over Man Metropolis one week in the past and rose to fifteenth place. That places PSG on a path to fulfill Liverpool or Barcelona within the spherical of 16 in March if it wins an all-French playoff towards Monaco or Brest.

Bayern Munich or Actual Madrid await Man Metropolis within the playoffs

Bayern Munich additionally completed outdoors the highest eight regardless of profitable their final recreation 3-1 towards Slovan Bratislava.

Solely the highest eight groups go on to the spherical of 16, and Bayern completed tenth – one place forward of defending champions, Actual. A kind of two will probably be drawn towards Metropolis on Friday.

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Inter Milan, Arsenal and Atletico Madrid sealed top-eight finishes as anticipated – becoming a member of Liverpool and Barcelona advancing on to the spherical of 16 – with low-key wins. Inter beat Monaco 3-0, Arsenal gained 2-1 at Girona and Atletico gained 4-1 at Salzburg, which had a woeful marketing campaign.

Bayer Leverkusen, Lille – which thrashed Feyenoord 6-1 – and Aston Villa accomplished the highest eight.

Stuttgart dropped to twenty sixth place and was eradicated together with Dinamo Zagreb, regardless of its 2-1 win over AC Milan. Brugge took the twenty fourth qualification place forward of Dinamo on the tiebreaker of objective distinction.

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