Real Madrid or Bayern expect an attentive Man City in the Champions League playoffs | Football news
Real Madrid, Paris-Saint Germain and Manchester City avoid the banana skins of the Champions League ahead of the draw on Friday.
Real Madrid holders made sure they would be sown to play Champions League playoffs on Friday Beamentating Stada Brest 3-0 far in the last round of the first phase.
Rodrygo scored the first and last goals on Wednesday after 26 and 78 minutes, respectively, while Jude Bellingham scored the second at the age of 56 after the smart passage of Lucas Vazquez.
Despite the loss, Brest will also appear in the first European campaign and in a double -ended playoffs as an unusual team.
Real reached the Nokauta Champion phase for the 28th year in a row and expanded his winning streak to five matches in all competitions.
Man City made to sweat again but a bigger challenge to come
Manchester City flirted with a catastrophic output from the Champions League before gathering Club Brugge 3-1 in a mandatory victory game to advance the knockout phase.
City lag behind 1-0 at halftime and 26th place in the 36 team ladder before the winner of the 2023 title prompted replacement Savinho to avoid elimination. The city finished 22.
Paris Saint-Germain also secured his place in the Top-21 teams and will enter the Knockout playoffs, beating 4-1 in Stuttgart to eliminate the German club.
PSG re-impressed after a key 4-2 return over Man City a week ago and rose to 15th place. This puts PSG on the way to the meeting with Liverpool or Barcelona in the 16th round in March if it won all the French playoffs against Monaco or Brest.
Bayern Munich or Real Madrid await Man City in the playoffs
Bayern Munich also ended up outside the top eight, despite winning his last 3-1 game against Slovan Bratislava.
Only the first eight teams go directly in the 16th round, and Bayern finished 10th. One of them will be drawn against City on Friday.
Who will succeed to Munich? 💬#Ucl pic.twitter.com/g6lleyn1q4
– UEFA Champions League (@championsleague) 29. January 2025
Inter Milan, Arsenal and Atletico Madrid sealed the top eight final processing as expected-the reconstruction of Liverpool and Barcelona, progressing directly in the 16th round. Inter beat Monaco 3-0, Arsenal won 2-1 in Girona, and Atletico won 4-1 in Salzburg, which had a terrible campaign.
Bayer Leverkusen, Lille-Koji threw the Feyenoord 6-1 Aston Villa, ended the top eight.
Stuttgart fell to 26th place and was eliminated with Dinamo Zagreb, despite his 2-1 victory over AC Milan. Brugge took the 24th qualifying place in front of Dinamo on the midfielder goal -difference.
League phase is over ✅#Ucl pic.twitter.com/8IX7mvcqi4
– UEFA Champions League (@championsleague) 29. January 2025
