The reaches its first climax on Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET. All 36 groups will play to conclude the “league part.” CBS Sports activities, which can in the USA, has been billing it as “Matchday Mayhem.”
That is as a result of, over two chaotic, complicated hours, dozens of targets will probably be scored, and every one will tweak the . Groups will leap and fall, above and under varied cut-lines. And by the top, a number of urgent questions will probably be answered, specifically:
? The 2023 champions of Europe, and , should beat Membership Brugge to advance to the knockout rounds.
Will PSG survive? A draw at Stuttgart can be adequate. A loss would put them on the mercy of Man Metropolis, Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal. (If Metropolis wins, neither Portuguese membership loses, and PSG does lose, the Parisians can be out.)
Who will declare the six out there byes to the Spherical of 16? Liverpool and Barcelona have locked up two of eight. A whopping 18 groups are nonetheless in competition for the remainder.
For these not but aware of the , a refresher: The 36 groups are all tussling in a single desk. The highest eight finishers will advance straight to the Spherical of 16. The following 16 — these in positions 9-24 — will advance to a playoff spherical. The underside 12 will probably be eradicated.
After seven of eight matches apiece, the tiered desk appears like this:
Clinched bye to Spherical of 16: Liverpool (21), Barcelona (18)
Clinched knockout rounds, in competition for bye: Arsenal (16), Inter Milan (16), Atlético Madrid (15), AC Milan (15), Atalanta (14), Bayer Leverkusen (13), Aston Villa (13), Monaco (13), Lille (13), Brest (13), Feyenoord (13), Borussia Dortmund (12), Bayern Munich (12), Actual Madrid (12), Juventus (12), Celtic (12)
In competition for knockout rounds: PSV (11), Membership Brugge (11), Benfica (10), PSG (10), Sporting Clube de Portugal (10), Stuttgart (10), Manchester Metropolis (8), Dinamo Zagreb (8), Shakhtar Donetsk (7)
Eradicated: Bologna (5), Sparta Prague (4), RB Leipzig (3), Girona (3), Crvena Zvezda (Crimson Star Belgrade) (3), Sturm Graz (3), RB Salzburg (3), BSC Younger Boys (1), Slovan Bratislava (0)
The matchups for Matchday 8, or “Matchday Mayhem,” .
The reside standings, which can replace throughout video games and grow to be the ultimate standings round 5 p.m. ET, . (The .)
And we at Yahoo Sports activities will enable you to make sense of all of the twists and turns, the highlights and controversies, under.
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