{"id":7055,"date":"2024-11-19T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T07:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/champions-league-liverpool-manchester-city-arsenal-aston-villa-and-celtic-qualification-hopes\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T07:54:50","slug":"champions-league-liverpool-manchester-city-arsenal-aston-villa-and-celtic-qualification-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/champions-league-liverpool-manchester-city-arsenal-aston-villa-and-celtic-qualification-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Aston Villa and Celtic qualification hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are plenty of European heavyweights still outside those top eight positions, with <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester City<\/b>, in 10th, and <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Arsenal<\/b>, 12th after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c704zr7rnwpt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">losing to Inter Milan<\/a>,<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b>on seven points and therefore not on pace to hit the 16-point target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Pep Guardiola\u2019s side remain favourites to win the competition for a second time, still with a 91.1% chance of reaching the last 16 and a 19.3% chance of claiming the trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal are given an 80.0% chance of progressing to the last 16 but also a 58.4% chance of having to go through the knockout round play-off to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City have Juventus and Paris St-Germain among their remaining fixtures, while Arsenal must face high-flying Sporting and Monaco in their next two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Celtic <\/b>are 15th and also on seven points, having boosted their hopes with a second win, beating Leipzig 3-1 on Tuesday. They visit Villa in the final match on Wednesday, 29 January, when all 36 teams will play at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic\u2019s latest victory means Brendan Rodgers\u2019 side &#8211; on the same points as the likes of <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Juventus<\/b> (11th), <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bayern Munich<\/b> (17th) and <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Real Madrid<\/b> (18th) &#8211; have a strong chance of making the top 24 (78.2%), with their last 16 hopes rated at 40.2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">French champions <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Paris St-Germain<\/b> are the biggest name outside the top 24, having won just one of their first four games and with City and Bayern Munich to come. The 2020 finalists are now given only a 43.4% chance of making the last 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/champions-league\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">View the Champions League table in full here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cje0lkk3y38o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of European heavyweights still outside those top eight positions, with Manchester City, in 10th, and Arsenal, 12th after losing to Inter Milan, on seven points and therefore not on pace to hit the 16-point target. However, Pep Guardiola\u2019s side remain favourites to win the competition for a second time, still with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7057,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions\/7057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}