The first league phase of the revamped Champions League is over and now a new-look draw is upon us.
Liverpool topped the table having won their first seven matches, with Arsenal third and Aston Villa eighth despite wobbling in the later games after a stunning start.
Then there’s Manchester City, who were heading out with 30 minutes left of their final match against Club Bruges, before Joel Ordonez turned Josko Gvardiol’s low cross into his own net.
City will join Celtic in the knockout play-off, where the teams ranked from ninth to 24th in the league phase will compete for eight spots in the last 16, which the top eight have automatically qualified for.
How the Champions League draw works
Sixteen clubs will be go into the hat for the Champions League knockout play-off draw, which takes place at 11am GMT on Friday 31 January.
But this is not a standard draw – teams have been paired together based on their final position in the league phase table.
There are eight seeded teams – those which finished ninth to 16th in the table – and eight unseeded – those from 17th to 24th.
This means the teams which finished ninth or 10th in the table will face the teams which finished 23rd and 24th, a system which meets in the middle with the 15th and 16th teams playing 17th and 18th.
In terms of the draw, the unseeded team will be chosen first, allocating one club from each pair on either side of the bracket.
The same will then occur for the seeded teams, who will play the return leg of the tie at home.
After the knockout play-off round, there will be another draw on 21 February which will confirm each club’s path from the last 16 to the final.
Who Man City and Celtic could face next
Celtic and Man City finished 21st and 22nd in the league phase table respectively, which means they are paired together.
Their corresponding pair is Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, themselves 11th and 12th.
If either City or Celtic make it past two of Europe’s leading clubs, they will then face either Bayer Leverkusen or Atletico Madrid in the last 16, which will be decided in February’s draw.
For the other British clubs, Liverpool are paired with Barcelona, and will play one of Monaco, Brest, Paris Saint-Germain or Benfica.
Arsenal are alongside Inter Milan, and face a last-16 tie against either Feyenoord, Juventus, AC Milan or PSV Eindhoven.
And for Aston Villa, either them or fellow surprise package Lille will need to overcome Sporting, Bruges, Atalanta or Borussia Dortmund for a place in the quarter-finals.