How to watch every Champions League game on TV tonight including Arsenal and Aston Villa
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The Champions League group stage comes to a conclusion on Wednesday night and there is set to be plenty of drama as teams battle it out to stay alive.
There is a scrap on to finish in the top eight, with those teams heading straight into the last 16 of the competition.
Teams that finish 9-24 in the group stage go into the play-offs, with the eight winners joining the top eight teams in the last 16.
Just two teams go into the final round of fixtures with their places in the top eight guaranteed, those being Liverpool and Barcelona.
Arsenal are in a very strong position and a point away to Girona on Wednesday night would secure their spot in the top eight.
Aston Villa go into the final round of fixtures in ninth, level on points with eighth-placed Bayer Leverkusen, so will be aiming to beat Celtic at Villa Park and hope other results go their way.
Manchester City are having a nightmare European run so far and face missing out on the play-offs as they sit 25th before the final round of fixtures, but will be hot favourites to win at home against Club Brugge.
Champions League TV and streaming schedule
8pm UK time
Aston Villa v Celtic – TNT Sports 1 & Discovery+
Man City v Club Brugge – TNT Sports 2 & Discovery+
PSV v Liverpool – TNT Sports 3 & Discovery+
Girona v Arsenal – TNT Sports 4 & Discovery+
Barcelona v Atalanta – TNT Sports 10 & Discovery+
Bayer Leverkusen v Sparta Prague – Discovery+
Bayern Munich v Slovan Bratislava – TNT Sports 7 & Discovery+
Borussia Dortmund v Shakhtar Donetsk – Discovery+
Brest v Real Madrid – TNT Sports 6 & Discovery+
Dinamo Zagreb v AC Milan – Discovery+
Inter v Monaco – TNT Sports 9 & Discovery+
Juventus v Benfica – Discovery+
Sturm Graz v RB Leipzig – Discovery+
Lille v Feyenoord – Discovery+
Red Bull Salzburg v Atletico Madrid – Discovery+
Sporting v Bologna – Discovery+
Stuttgart v Paris Saint-Germain – TNT Sports 8 & Discovery+
Young Boys v Red Star Belgrade – Discovery+
The draw for the knockout phase play-offs will be held pretty swiftly after the group stage is completed, with teams learning their fate on 31 January.
Then the first legs will be played on 11-12 February and the second on 18-19 February.
That gives the top eight teams a useful spell without European football as the round of 16 begins on 4 March.
Aston Villa taking on Celtic is of great interest on Wednesday as the Scottish side also have hopes of a top eight finish, while they want to at least secure a play-off place.
Unai Emery took Villa back into Europe’s top flight last season, but says it is no surprise to see his team compete with the best in the Champions League so far this campaign.
‘No surprise because the players have enough level to play in this competition and of course we have players with experiences in the Champions League before as well,’ Emery told TNT Sports.
‘Then this is the new way I want to try to have here, to be more or less consistent. It's very difficult. But each moment, we have to use it to feel comfortable, to feel confidence.
‘And then of course always to try to develop strongly in our mind, to play, competing and demanding to be in Europe, like this year, like last year, but as well with the opportunity to be protagonists.
‘This is my [biggest] target I can have with the players here. Adjust it to be competitive and be protagonists, playing against teams in Europe, with different levels of course, but facing them and playing individually and collectively in good performances, and more or less with the possibility to beat the teams we are facing.’
