Now the jeopardy really kicks in for the Champions League with a title chase, pride and hard cash on the line. At least four former European champions will be among eight teams eliminated when the new knockout playoff round ends this week.

Man City 1 Real Madrid 1 (Mbappé) Ceballos pumps the free-kick into the wall and it bounces back to him so he lobs it over the 18 yard line and Mbappé runs through, shapes to scissor volley it but shins it instead and it loops into the right of goal almost in slow motion.

PSV won’t be fazed. They stunned Liverpool in January (even if it was a heavily rotated Reds squad) and won five of their last nine matches. Meanwhile, Motta’s men have only won three over the same stretch.