At the bottom of the Champions League table, there are four teams who have punched their tickets into the Round of 16. There are still four spots that are up for grabs, and they'll be decided on the final day of the group stage on Wednesday night across Europe.
These Champions League duels will go down Wednesday, December 6, with all of the kickoffs taking place at 2:45 p.m. ET. The Real Madrid/Borussia Dortmund match will be televised live on FOX Sports 1, while the Liverpool/Spartak Moscow affair can be seen on FOX Sports 2.
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Maribor ( +120 ) vs. Sevilla
Liverpool ( -400 ) vs. Spartak Moscow
Feyenoord ( +950 ) vs. Napoli
Shakhtar Donetsk ( +140 ) vs. Manchester City
RB Leipzig ( -350) vs. Besiktas
FC Porto ( -300 ) vs. AS Monaco
Real Madrid ( -225 ) vs. Borussia Dortmund
Tottenham ( -650 ) vs. APOEL
The two teams that are sitting the prettiest right now at the bottom of the Champions League table are Manchester City and Besiktas. Both of these teams have already won their groups, and they're going to be entering the Round of 16 in the No. 1 slots, guaranteeing home pitch advantage for the second leg of the next round and a series against a team that finished second in its group.
We also know that both Real Madrid and Tottenham are onto the last 16 out of Group H, and it's virtually assured that the Spurs will win the group. Tottenham would have to lose at home to APOEL and Real Madrid would have to beat Borussia Dortmund at home to flip the script for both teams and leave Real at the top and Tottenham second best.
The real is certainly left to play for.
Liverpool isn't quite guaranteed a spot in the last 16 yet, but it would take a complete meltdown for that not to happen. The Reds have nine points in three matches and will be desperately trying to win this group against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday night at Anfield. A win is likely the only way the job gets done, knowing that Sevilla will probably go on the road and take care of Maribor in Slovenia.
The Reds have a whopping +10 goal differential in their first five matches, and that's why they're untouchable here. Spartak Moscow would need either a win and a Sevilla loss or draw or would need to beat Liverpool by at least four goals to advance. Liverpool may have just blown a 3-0 lead at Sevilla a couple weeks ago, but it surely isn't losing by four against Spartak Moscow at home.
Group F's math is simple. Shakthar Donetsk is going to present a terrible atmosphere for Manchester City to play at for its last group stage match. The Ukrainian team needs a point to get through to the last 16, and it will do everything it needs to do in order to make that happen. Pep Guardiola has already suggested that he might be bringing a lesser side with him to Ukraine since Group F has already been won, and that's why Shakthar Donetsk is the +140 favorite to win this match.
Should Donetsk fall, Napoli would get the second slot in the Round of 16 if it can go on the road and take care of business against Feyenoord.
There should be plenty of drama in Group G as well. Porto and RB Leipzig are even on points with seven apiece through five fixtures, but the margin between the two is just two goals. It's entirely possible for the two to both win or both lose and have Leipzig jump over the Portuguese side.
That said, both teams are at home and both are playing for their Champions League lives.
Porto will host a disappointing Monaco team who has been eliminated from this competition while Leipzig takes on upset group-winner, Besiktas.
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