Real Madrid, Paris-Saint Germain and Manchester City avoid banana skins from the Champions League before Friday draw.
Real Madrid holders have assured that they would be assembled for the draw of the Champions League eliminations on Friday Beat stadium Brest 3-0 Far from the last round of the first phase.
Rodrygo scored the first and last goals after 26 and 78 minutes respectively on Wednesday, while Jude Bellingham scored the second of the 56th after a smart pass from Lucas Vazquez.
Despite the defeat, Brest will also appear in the two -legged playoffs as a non -series team in their first European campaign.
Real has reached the KO phase of direct elimination of the Champions League for the 28th consecutive year and extended his sequence of victories with five games in all competitions.
Man City has been sweating once again, but a bigger challenge to come
Manchester City flirted with a disastrous outing of the Champions League before rallying to beat the 3-1 club Brugge 3-1 in an essential match to go to the direct elimination phase.
City dragged 1-0 at halftime and sat 26th in the classification of 36 teams before the title winner in 2023 was triggered by the replacement Savinho to avoid elimination. The city finished 22nd.
Paris Saint-Germain has also obtained its place in the Top-24 teams and will enter the playoffs of the playoffs, winning 4-1 in Stuttgart to eliminate the German club.
PSG once again impressed after a crucial victory back 4-2 on Man City a week ago and went to 15th place. This puts PSG on a path to meet Liverpool or Barcelona in the round of 16 in March if he wins all French playoffs against Monaco or Brest.
Bayern Munich or Real Madrid are waiting for Man City in playoffs
Bayern Munich also finished out of the top eight despite their last 3-1 game against Slovan Bratislava.
Only the eight best teams go directly to the 16 final, and Bayern finished 10th – a place in front of the reigning champions, Real. On Friday, one of these two will be attracted to City.
Inter Milan, Arsenal and Atletico Madrid have sealed the eight finishes as planned – by joining Liverpool and Barcelona progressing directly at 16 years old – with disseminated victories. Inter Beat Monaco 3-0, Arsenal won 2-1 in Girona and Atletico won 4-1 in Salzburg, who had an distressing campaign.
Bayer Leverkusen, Lille – who beat Feyenoord 6-1 – and Aston Villa finished the first eight.
Stuttgart fell in 26th place and was eliminated with Dinamo Zagreb, despite his 2-1 victory over AC Milan. Brugge took the 24th place of qualification before Dinamo on the break in equality of the difference in goals.
