Properly, that is a wrap.
It has been a gruelling few months of UEFA Champions League motion – presumably approach an excessive amount of of factor for many people – however the group levels are lastly full.
The standard suspects are via in Actual Madrid and Bayern Munich, whereas another large hitters have been knocked out of the match on the very first hurdle (this is taking a look at you Juventus and Barcelona).
This is a fast have a look at the destiny of each workforce within the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group levels:
1) SSC Napoli
2) Liverpool
3) Ajax
4) Rangers
Napoli have been the feel-good story of the Champions League group levels, dazzling followers with the sheer quantity of objectives they scored – 20 in simply six video games.
Liverpool completed with 15 factors – stage with Napoli however with a worse head-to-head file – and can be quietly happy with their progress in Europe regardless of their disastrous begin to their home season.
Ajax clearly dropped into the Europa League as a result of they have been clearly the third greatest workforce on this group.
Rangers now maintain the file for the worst workforce to ever play the UEFA Champions League having misplaced all six video games, conceded 20, and scored two.
1) Porto
2) Membership Brugge
3) Bayer Leverkusen
4) Atletico Madrid
Atletico Madrid dropped out of European competitors altogether regardless of being handed, on paper at the least, a reasonably sort group stage draw.
And shoutout to Membership Brugge for being a fairytale of a f**kin’ soccer workforce within the Champions League this season. Nice stuff.
1) Bayern Munich
2) Inter
3) Barcelona
4) Viktoria Plzen
FC Hollywood lived as much as their nickname large time by profitable each single one among their group video games – the one workforce within the competitors to take action.
The actual story of the Group C nevertheless was Barcelona who, regardless of spending roughly a trillion euros on gamers in the summertime, nonetheless managed to drop into the Europa League for a second consecutive season.
1) Tottenham Hotspur
2) Eintracht Frankfurt
3) Sporting CP
4) Marseille
The tightest group of all was, as anticipated, determined by a final minute aim. That aim could be scored by Tottenham, who topped the standings after gameweek six.
1) Chelsea
2) Milan
3) RB Salzburg
4) Dinamo Zagreb
Arms up if you happen to guessed that Group E would end this manner. That is proper, everybody put your arms up as a result of it was extremely apparent how this group would pan out.
1) Actual Madrid
2) RB Leipzig
3) Shakhtar Donetsk
4) Celtic
The Champions League holders cruised via to the spherical of 16 with a sport to spare.
Celtic, however, can take some solace in at the least not being as unhealthy as Rangers.
1) Man Metropolis
2) Borussia Dortmund
3) Sevilla
4) Copenhagen
In fact Manchester Metropolis received their group and remained unbeaten all through.
And, sure, after all Sevilla will win the Europa League regardless of being a reasonably horrible workforce this yr.
1) Benfica
2) PSG
3) Juventus
4) Maccabi Haifa
Yep, you learn that proper.
Benfica topped Group H forward of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Lionel Messi’s Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus (perhaps the Juventus half is not that spectacular).
Regardless of PSG profitable their ultimate group sport 2-1, Benfica’s unimaginable 6-1 win over Maccabi Haifa in Isreal ensured that the Portuguese aspect topped the the group on objectives scored away from house.
Yep, objectives scored away from house.
Actually what the Champions League is all about.