Man City book knockout play-off spot as Liverpool top Champions League table

Manchester City booked their place in the Champions League knockout round play-offs with a comeback 3-1 win over Club Brugge at the Etihad Stadium.

The reigning Premier League champions were rocked by Raphael Onyedika's goal on the stroke of half-time, but responded in confident fashion after the interval to avoid a dramatic early exit from Europe.

Mateo Kovacic and Savinho scored either side of an own goal from Brugge's Joel Ordonez, booking City's place in the top 24 of the reformatted league phase.

Arsenal, Inter, Atletico Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen all booked their places in the last 16 of the competition with wins, with Mikel Arteta's side the most stretched during a tense 2-1 win over Girona. Goals from Jorginho and teenage sensation Ethan Nwaneri rendered Arnaut Danjuma's opener irrelevant, sealing a sixth win in eight games for the Gunners.

The final two automatic qualification spots for the last 16 were taken by Lille and Aston Villa, who overcame Feyenoord (6-1) and Celtic (4-2) respectively in two hugely entertaining games.

Atalanta narrowly missed out on a place in the top eight, instead settling for top seed status in the knockout round play-offs, but did finish ahead of European giants Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and AC Milan.

Paris Saint-Germain are also into the play-offs following a big win over VfB Stuttgart, who crashed out of the competition as a result of Sporting CP's draw with Bologna.

Champions League results - Matchday 8

• Aston Villa 4-2 Celtic
• Barcelona 2-1 Atalanta
• Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 Sparta Prague
• Bayern Munich 3-1 Slovan Bratislava
• Borussia Dortmund 3-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
• Brest 0-3 Real Madrid
• Dinamo Zagreb 2-1 AC Milan
• Girona 1-2 Arsenal
• Inter 3-0 Monaco
• Juventus 0-2 Benfica
• Lille 6-1 Feyenoord
• Manchester City 3-1 Club Brugge
• PSV Eindhoven 3-2 Liverpool
• Red Bull Salzburg 1-4 Atletico Madrid
• Sporting CP 1-1 Bologna
• Sturm Graz 1-0 RB Leipzig
• VfB Stuttgart 1-4 Paris Saint-Germain
• Young Boys 0-1 Crvena zvezda

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