Take the sandwiches, relax on the couch and prepare for an unprecedented European action night.
The champions League phase concludes tonight and there are 18 games to get.
The new format of 36 teams for the competition of Elite Club of Europe caused consternation among many when it was launched, but there have been a few nights in recent history with as many dangerous in them as tonight.
27 teams are still in dispute for the 24 places in the qualifying stages, where the eight best parts will automatically reach the last 16, while those from the ninth to 24 will play a two-legged play-off clash next month.
The higher the side, the more awards receive, adding even more pressure, while the tastes of PSG and Man City are still at risk of crashing.
In the light of the successful night of action ahead, Mail sport Take a look at some of the conversation points before the final round of accessories.
The Champions League League phase concludes tonight with 18 games at the same time
Liverpool is one of the only two teams that have automatically classified for the last stage of 16
The new format of the Champions League has divided the opinion, but it promises to have a lot of drama
Can Man City do it?
When Manchester City fans moved away from Etihad after their 5-0 blow from Sparta Prague in October, an eyebrow was barely built.
Because this was a European superpower and the winners of the 2022 Champions League sailing in another group stage of the competition, after having scored nine goals without response in three games.
However, a notable collapse in the form, which has seen the Pep Guardiola team to lose three of its next four games in Europe, leaves their hopes to qualify for the qualifying stages with a severe risk.
Such scenario was unthinkable just a few months ago, but City must overcome the Brugge club tonight if they will avoid the most pregnant outings.
City has improved in recent weeks and is still the overwhelming favorites, but Brugge sits five places on them on the table and has defeated Aston Villa and Sporting Lisbon this season, while they also drawn with Juventus.
The Guardiola side has its destiny in its own hands and you would support them to do the job, but it could be a nervous night in the Etihad if the Belgian side can frustrate them from the beginning.
Manchester City must defeat the club Brugge tonight if they are going to progress to the play-off round
The Pep Guardiola team has lost three of its last four champions League games in the middle of a serious career
Dutch Liverpool connection
Liverpool is one of the two teams that has been automatically classified for the last stage of 16 after an imperative European campaign that has seen them win the seven games and grant only two goals.
The Arne Slot team travels to PSV tonight when the head of the Reds returns to the Netherlands for the first time since he left Feenoord in the summer.
Liverpool will be without 12 regular teams, since Slot seeks to manage his team, with an extremely young appearance to his travel party.
However, a star that will be involved is Cody Gakpo, and promises to be an emotional return to his former club for the striker.
Gakpo joined the PSV Youth Academy at the age of eight and played 159 times for the Dutch side before joining Liverpool in January 2023.
The 25 -year -old admitted that he will be “quite strange” to leave as part of the visitor team, but added that it will be “a special moment.”
And, given the way Gakpo is at this time, you would not put it beyond him showing his hometown club, what a great player they have produced.
Arne Slot and Cody Gakpo return to the Netherlands while Liverpool travels to face PSV
Gakpo made his name on PSV after arriving at the youth ranks, playing 159 times
Will Emery be done to the wheel slippery?
Aston Villa has enjoyed some special nights about what is his first season in the European Elite Club competition since he triumphed in 1982-83.
Unai Emery team won memorable victories against Bayern Munich, Bologna and RB Leipzig, while they also attracted with the Italian Juventus giants, but they can still face the play-off round despite starting the campaign with three successive victories .
That would be a great blow to the Emery team, which already extends to the limit in the middle of a series of defensive injuries, but have not facilitated things.
A 1-0 defeat of the Brugge Club arrived after Tyrone Mings inadvertently picked up the ball inside his area to grant a penalty after not realizing that the game was at stake, while Emery admitted that it was a “error” match Jhon Duran and Ollie Watkins together. In his loss in Monaco.
A homemade crash against Celtic is a favorable accessory for Villa to progress, and if they can scrape among the top eight and avoid additional games next month, that could be totally beneficial for Emery's team in the rest of the season.
For the sake of Villa and Villa, the Spanish will hope that they will not be forced to regret those landslides on the road.
Aston Villa will be desperate to finish in the top eight after starting his campaign so well
A loss at the Brugge club came after Tyrone Mings inadvertently picked up the ball into the area
An unprecedented show
The new format of the Champions League has divided the opinion, but it is unlikely that the delicious perspective of 18 games that takes place at the same time that many are criticized.
With all the final accessories that begin at 8 pm on Wednesday, the drama and constant change of the table promises to be fascinating, with only two games that have nothing that is mounted on them.
It is only guaranteed that Liverpool and Barcelona will automatically reach the last stage, while only nine of the 36 sides are definitely out.
Along with that, the tastes of PSG and Man City run the risk of eliminating, while only three points separate the third place Arsenal and Brest, which feel 13º.
In other places, Bayer Leverkusen, who currently sits in the final place of automatic rating at 13 points, also three from Stuttgart, which languish in place 24, which is the final place for the equipment that will reach the play-offs .
It is guaranteed that the French fish Brest, together with Monaco, Feyenoord and Lille, will at least reach the play-off round, and there is the possibility that the tastes of Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo Zagreb, Stuttgart, PSV and Club Brugge a strong sample of the widest quality of European football.
Together with Manchester City, the PSG path to the eliminated stages is far from guaranteed
In other places, Minnows Brest's tastes have highlighted the widest quality of European football
Will the hard work of Amorim be undone?
When Ruben Amorim said goodbye to Sporting Lisbon, he did it after a spectacular week that included a humble 4-1 of Manchester City.
The Portuguese attire flew high, undefeated in Europe and all except qualified for the qualifying stages.
But, after what has proven to be a disastrous two and a half months, which saw the replacement of Amorim, Joao Pereira, fired on Christmas day after only eight games in charge, Sporting's hopes are hung by a thread.
A 5-1 defeat by Arsenal was followed by demoralizing losses of the Brugge Club and RB Leipzig.
Things have increased since Rui Borges entered and a game at home against Bologna, which is already eliminated, is favorable.
However, things are very different from the final magical game of Amorim at José Alvalade Stadium on that temperate November night.
When Ruben Amorim left sports in November, the Portuguese side was on fire in Europe
Since then, Sporting has lost three successive games, including a 5-1 coup by Arsenal
All eyes on CBS
Despite the fact that it is not available to see in the United Kingdom, the coverage of CBS Sports of the Champions League remains widely acclaimed.
The American program has won applause for its informed and hilarious coverage of the European Elite Club competition in recent years, with Micah Richards, Thierry Henry and Jamie Carragher receiving significant praise, along with the presenter Kate Abdo.
Either the hilarious, although a slightly immature inability of Richards to talk about the French side Brest or the general teasing between the quartet, once again they have left us in stitches when they see the last viral clip on social networks.
But, together with the entertainment that has proven to be, experts can also provide a unique vision of the game.
And, with a lot of drama on the field and off the field that happens tonight, keep your eyes wide open on social networks so that clips circulate from their coverage.