This team is not deep enough to rest their Champions League aspirations on the balance of a two leg
knockout round fixture or neutral venue cup final.
Not exact matches
The group stage runs from June 14 to June 28, with the final
round of
fixtures being played simultaneously to determine who advances through to the
knockout stage.
Having lost the reverse
fixture 1 - 0 in Greece, Liverpool needed to beat Olympiakos on the night and secure the upper hand in their head - to - head in order to sneak through to the
knockout rounds.
Everything now pointed to Unai Emery as UEFA held the
round - of - 16 draw in Nyon on, and the poor guy's heart might have surged up as it became inevitable that fate was setting a
knockout fixture between Les Parisiens and La Blaugaranas.