Manchester City face a blockbuster Champions League play-off tie against Real Madrid or Bayern Munich after scraping through the new league phase with a 3-1 victory over Club Brugge.

The UEFA Champions League is very different from here on out, as 36 teams play eight games — four home and four away — in bids to reach the knockout rounds. The schedule is longer, the table bigger, and we've now reached the finale,

Matchday 8 of the revamped UEFA Champions League group stage lived up to the hype. With 36 different teams playing simultaneously in 18 different games on Wednesday, there was drama galore, headlined by Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain avoiding a humiliating early exit and Liverpool holding onto the spot in the standings despite a loss to PSV.