Manchester City scraped into the Champions League play-offs and Liverpool finished at the summit despite losing to PSV Eindhoven. Aston Villa sank Celtic to finish in the top eight and go straight through to the last 16,

Manchester beat Club Brugge to advance to the playoffs of the Champions League 2024-25 while Liverpool and Barcelona were the only teams already guaranteed a place in the top eight and automatic progress to the round of 16 as they stayed first and second.

All the pre-match chat had surrounded the futures of Ollie Watkins and Jhon Duran, but it was Morgan Rogers - an £8million signing from Middlesbrough this time last year - who stole the show and fired Aston Villa into the last-16 of the Champions League...

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery was asked about Ollie Watkins after being the subject of a shock bid from Arsenal this week

Manchester City survive a huge scare as they have to come from behind to beat Club Brugge and reach the Champions League play-offs

Manchester City scraped into the Champions League play-offs and Liverpool finished at the summit despite losing to PSV Eindhoven. Aston Villa sank Celtic to finish in the top eight and go straight through to the last 16,

There were storylines across all 18 simultaneous kick-offs – not to mention 64 goals in total – but Aston Villa and Lille securing automatic qualification for the round of 16, as well as Manchester City coming from the elimination zone to reach the knockout phase play-offs, were among the headlines. UEFA.com rounds up all the action.

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The Champions League is down to 24 teams, and yes, giants such as Man City and Paris Saint-Germain made it through in the end. Let's review the league phase and the best XI, and project who's winning it all.

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City avoided Champions League humiliation. Now back to the job of salvaging the Premier League season. Manager Pep Guardiola admitted this week he could not imagine City going on to be crowned champion of Europe for the second time in three years with a playoff against Real Madrid or Bayern Munich awaiting.

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City will face one of those two European heavyweights in the Champions League next month after scraping through to the play-off round on Wednesday.