It will be an unprecedented Champions League's Matchday 8 as all the teams will be playing at the same time on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Pep Guardiola's Manchester City need to win in their last tie of the league phase to avoid the elimination from the tournament,

Much has changed in this season's Champions League, the knockout play-off phase being one major new introduction

Arsenal have almost booked their place in the Champions League last 16 with a commanding 3-0 victory over Dinamo Zagreb at the Emirates Stadium last night.The Gunners came flying out of the blocks,

Tottenham head to Hoffenheim tonight looking to reverse an alarming slide and qualify for the Europa League knockout stages. A nightmare injury crisis has seen Spurs’ domestic results take a nosedive, falling to 15th in the Premier League but remain in both the Carabao Cup semi-finals and FA Cup fourth round.

A year of unprecedented pressures on the global football calendar begins with a Champions League first, as two rounds of matches in Europe's elite club competition take place in January and some of the continent's biggest names face a scrap to avoid a humiliating exit.

With the old group stage scrapped, teams in the Champions League are now battling all 31 other clubs in the hunt for a knockout spot.

At least 15 teams have booked their places in both the Round of 16 and knockout stages of this season’s Champions League. The new-look 36-team format is now reaching the climax of the league phase. Only two of the eight clubs that will go straight through to the round of 16 have been confirmed.