All eyes are on the two matches of the second group at the end of the group stage of the Champions League, to discover who will accompany Liverpool to the final price of the continental competition.
With Liverpool - who is ranked second in the English Premier League - already guaranteed to qualify for the round of 16 as leaders in Group B, and with the Premier League matches continuing, coach Jurgen Klopp will make several changes to his team, which will play against Milan tonight in Italy.
While Milan - the Italian league leaders and third place in the group (4 points) - is playing the match with all its weight and with all its stars to win against the "Reds" and wait for the outcome of the second match between Porto (second-placed in Group B with 5 points) and its guest, Atletico Madrid, bottom Group ranking by 4 points.
Liverpool had defeated Milan 3-2 in England in the first match of the group stage.
In the first group, both Manchester City and Saint Germain secured their qualification - as the leader of the group and second place, respectively - to the final price.
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Tonight's matches between Leipzig and Manchester City, and Paris Saint-Germain and Club Brugge, will be a matter of duty.
The Citizens have already qualified for the Champions League playoffs, along with the top of Group A, after beating Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 in the previous match.
In the fourth group, it was not only known who qualified for the final price of the continental championship, but also the third place, as Real Madrid (the current group leader), Inter Milan (currently second place), and Sherif Tiraspol of Moldova (third place), while Shakhtar Donetsk rose. The Ukrainian was eliminated from both competitions.
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Real Madrid and Inter Milan meet tonight, while coach Carlo Ancelotti's team leads the group's standings by two points over the "Nerazzurri", which has not achieved any victory over a Spanish competitor in the European championships since October 2004.
Real Madrid won their last 3 Champions League matches against Italian teams, so the focus on the match was on the next stages of the continental championship at a time when Real Madrid seeks to achieve the 14th title in its history in the competition.
The situation of the third group is not different from the fourth, as the teams of Ajax (the group leader) and Sporting (the second group) qualified for the final price of the tournament, and Dortmund (the third group) went with a resounding surprise to the European League, and the Turkish Besiktas was excluded from the two championships.
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Despite this, German coach Marco Rose said that his team aims to end its participation in the European Champions by defeating Besiktas.
Dortmund can no longer qualify for the playoffs after losing 1-3 in the last match against Sporting Lisbon in Portugal.
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However, the team secured third place in its group, which gives it the opportunity to face one of the teams that ranked second in the European League in search of a place in the round of 16 in the second European Championship.
But Rose still wants to achieve a good result against his Turkish guest, who lost his five matches in the group stage.
In the second match in the group, Ajax, the leader with a full score (15 points) and runner-up in the group, hosts Sporting (9 points).