Joao Pedro equalises with a rare old sizzler!

Andreas Schjelderup scores his second goal, beating Thibaut Courtois at the near post to give Benfica a two-goal lead against Real Madrid!

Madrid are still in the top eight but it’s getting hairy, and not in a good way.

Atletico are making a right mess of this.

Jamal Musiala, just back from long-term injury, has scored for Bayern, who are already through to the last 16. PSV drop out of the playoff places as a result.

A swaggering solo goal from Hugo Ekitike makes it 4-0 to Liverpool.

Mo Salah flashes a superb free-kick into the net to seal automatic qualification for Liverpool. It’s his first goal for Liverpool since early November.

Robert Lewandowski equalises for Barcelona with a simple finish. They’re still outside the top eight, ninth to be precise, but another goal would change that.

That’s a big goal for Spurs, flicked in from close range by Randal Kolo Muani after a well-worked free-kick. Spurs are up to fourth and currently have a three-point cushion.

Peep peep!

• Ajax 0-0 Olympiacos

• Arsenal 3-1 Kairat Almaty

• Athletic Club 2-1 Sporting CP

• Atletico Madrid 1-1 Bodo/Glimt

• Barcelona 0-1 Copenhagen

• Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 Villarreal

• Benfica 2-1 Real Madrid

• Borussia Dortmund 0-0 Inter

• Club Brugge 2-0 Marseille

• Eintracht Frankfurt 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur

• Liverpool 2-0 Qarabag

• Man City 2-0 Galatasaray

• Monaco 0-0 Juventus

• Napoli 2-1 Chelsea

• Pafos 1-1 Slavia Prague

• Paris Saint-Germain 1-1 Newcastle

• PSV Eindhoven 0-0 Bayern Munich

• Union SG 0-0 Atalanta

Jose Mourinho’s Benfica™ have come from behind to lead against his old club. Vangelis Pavlidis clipped a penalty straight down the middle after Aurelien Tchouameni was penalised for pulling Nicolas Otamendi’s shirt.

Joe Willock pilfers an equaliser for Newcastle on the stroke of half-time! He made an excellent late run to meet Dan Burn’s header across goal and guide a header into the net. That lifts Newcastle up to eighth in the table.

A clinical finish from Rasmus Hojlund is very good news for Napoli and very bad news from Chelsea. John Brewin is following that one.

Arsenal are heading for their eighth win out of eight. That’s a helluvan achievement – especially as they are also on course to win all eight games by at least two goals.

Andreas Schjelderup heads Jose Mourinho’s Benfica level after a terrific cross by Pavlidis. Interesting. Madrid are still in the top eight and should be okay with a draw.

Bodo/Glimt have equalised in Madrid. That means Atletico drop to ninth and Chelsea move back up to eighth.

My head hurts. PERMUTATIONS ARE A HEALTH CRIME.

Antonio Vergara turns like Diego Maradona to beat Wesley Fofana before poking a shot into the far corner. Not great defending but a lovely moment for Vergara – his first goal for Napoli.

Chelsea drop out of the top eight as a result.

Kylian Mbappe gives Real Madrid the lead with a strong far-post header, his 12th goal in this season’s competition. Madrid will qualify automatically for the knockout round if they win tonight.

Rayan Cherki has doubled City’s lead at the Etihad with a pretty simple finish from Jeremy Doku’s pass. Goal difference could decide who finishes in the top eight so this isn’t a dead game.

Liverpool are heading straight through to the last 16. Florian Wirtz’s first Champions League goal for the club, a precise drive from the edge of the area, has put them 2--0 up.

Enzo Fernandez drives Chelsea in front from the penalty spot. John Brewin has all the details.

Dominik Szoboszlai’s corner pinballs around the six-yard box before being headed in from close by range by Alexis Mac Allister. Liverpool are on course for a top-eight finish.

Kai Havertz restores Arsenal’s lead with his first goal of an injury-hit season. Meanwhile, at Anfield…

The beast is back – and Manchester City are up to sixth as things stand. It was a simple goal for Haaland, who strolled through on goal and chipped the ball over the outrushing keeper.

PSG are in front. It was a lovely goal from Vitinha, who dummied Lewis Hall and passed the ball lazily into the net from the edge of the area.

A man called Jorginho has scored from the spot at the Emirates.

Viktor Gyokeres has hammered Arsenal in front from the edge of the area.

4 min: PSG 0-0 Newcastle A fabulous save from Nick Pope! Dembele swept the penalty towards the bottom right corner but Pope guessed right and maded a superb save at full stretch.

Athletic Club Simon, Gorosabel, Paredes, Yuri, Boiro, Ruiz de Galarreta, Rego, Gomez, Sancet, Guruzeta, Navarro.

Subs: Padilla, Vesga, Berenguer, Areso, Lekue, Serrano, Hierro, de Luis, Ibon Sanchez, Selton Sanchez, Gift.

Sporting Rui Silva, Fresneda, Diomande, Inacio, Araujo, Hjulmand, Simoes, Catamo, Braganca, Trincao, Suarez.

Subs: Virginia, Francisco Silva, Matheus Reis, Morita, Pedro Goncalves, Vagiannidis, Kochorashvili, Alisson Santos, Flavio Goncalves, Quaresma, Nel, Ricardo Mangas.

Referee Felix Zwayer (Germany)

Union SG Scherpen, Mac Allister, Burgess, Sykes, Patris, Van De Perre, Zorgane, Khalaili, Smith, Ait El Hadj, Florucz.

Subs: Chambaere, Fuseini, Schoofs, Niang, Keita, Berradi, Huygevelde, Hamoutahar, Leysen.

Atalanta Sportiello, Kossounou, Hien, Ahanor, Zappacosta, Musah, Ederson Silva, Bernasconi, Samardzic, Lookman, Krstovic.

Subs: Zalewski, Scalvini, Kolasinac, Djimsiti, De Ketelaere, de Roon, Scamacca, Pasalic, Sulemana, Carnesecchi, Rossi.

Referee Michael Oliver (England)

Barcelona Joan Garcia, Kounde, Cubarsi, Gerard, Balde, Eric Garcia, Lopez, Yamal, Olmo, Raphinha, Lewandowski.

Subs: Szczesny, Kochen, Araujo, Torres, Rashford, Bernal, Torrents, Bardghji, Marques, Casado.

FC Copenhagen Kotarski, Meling, Hatzidiakos, Gabriel Pereira, Suzuki, Lopez, Larsson, Clem, Achouri, Elyounoussi, Dadason.

Subs: Runarsson, Gadeberg-Burr, Garananga, Claesson, Moukoko, Robert, Madsen, Moalem, Hojer, Ankamafio, West.

Referee Benoit Bastien (France)

Borussia Dortmund Kobel, Can, Mane, Schlotterbeck, Ryerson, Bellingham, Nmecha, Bensebaini, Beier, Silva, Guirassy.

Subs: Ostrzinski, Meyer, Yan Couto, Brandt, Chukwuemeka, Adeyemi.

Inter Milan Sommer, Akanji, Acerbi, Bisseck, Luis Henrique, Sucic, Zielinski, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco, Bonny, Thuram.

Subs: Di Gennaro, Josep Martinez, de Vrij, Lautaro Martinez, Frattesi, Diouf, Carlos Augusto, Darmian, Cocchi, Bovo, Esposito, Bastoni.

Referee Istvan Kovacs (Romania)

Benfica Trubin, Dedic, Tomas Araujo, Otamendi, Dahl, Barreiro, Aursnes, Prestianni, Sudakov, Schjelderup, Pavlidis.

Subs: Ferreira, Antonio Silva, Barrenechea, Bruma, Ivanovic, Manu, Banjaqui, Neto, Oliveira, Anisio Cabral, Rego, Prioste.

Real Madrid Courtois, Valverde, Asencio, Huijsen, Carreras, Guler, Tchouameni, Bellingham, Mastantuono, Mbappe, Vinicius Junior.

Subs: Lunin, Gonzalez, Carvajal, Alaba, Camavinga, Rodrygo, Gonzalo Garcia, Ceballos, Francisco Garcia, Diaz, Aguado, Cestero.

Referee Davide Massa (Italy)

Ryan Gravenberch starts in defence for Liverpool, with Andy Robertson returning at left-back.

Liverpool Alisson, Frimpong, Gravenberch, Van Dijk, Robertson, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo, Ekitike.

Subs: Mamardashvili, Woodman, Endo, Kerkez, Chiesa, Nyoni, Nallo, Morrison, Ngumoha.

Qarabag FK Kochalski, Matheus Silva, Mustafazade, Medina, Cafarquliyev, Pedro Bicalho, Jankovic, Andrade, Montiel, Zoubir, Duran.

Subs: Ramazanov, Buntic, Mmaee, Kouakou, Akhundzade, Addai, Daniel, Kashchuk, Qurbanly, Bayramov, Abbas Huseynov, Badavi Huseynov.

Referee Ivan Kruzliak (Slovakia)

A blow for Newcastle, whose captain Bruno Guimaraes is only fit enough for the bench.

Paris Saint-Germain Safonov, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mendes, Zaire Emery, Vitinha, Neves, Kvaratskhelia, Dembele, Barcola.

Subs: Chevalier, James, Lucas Beraldo, Zabarnyi, Goncalo Ramos, Doue, Hernandez, Mayulu, Mbaye.

Newcastle Pope, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Hall, Miley, Ramsey, Tonali, Elanga, Willock, Woltemade.

Subs: Ramsdale, Trippier, Wissa, Gordon, Barnes, Osula, Jacob Murphy, Alex Murphy, Guimaraes, Shahar, Harris.

Referee Slavko Vincic (Slovenia)

Napoli Meret, Di Lorenzo, Juan Jesus, Buongiorno, Spinazzola, Lobotka, McTominay, Olivera, Vergara, Elmas, Hojlund.

Subs: Contini, Spinelli, Gutierrez, Lukaku, Beukema, De Chiara, Garofalo.

Chelsea: Sanchez, Gusto, James, Fofana, Cucurella, Santos, Caicedo, Estevao, Fernandez, Pedro Neto, Joao Pedro.

Subs: Jorgensen, Merrick, Badiashile, Delap, Palmer, Bynoe-Gittens, Hato, Chalobah, George, Acheampong, Guiu, Garnacho.

Referee Clement Turpin (France)

PSV Kovar, Dest, Schouten, Obispo, Junior, Til, Veerman, Man, Wanner, Perisic, Saibari.

Subs: Schiks, Smolenaars, Saleh-Eddine, Flamingo, Driouech, Bajraktarevic, Sildialli, Fernandez, Nagalo, Verkooijen.

Bayern Munich Urbig, Bischof, Upamecano, Tah, Ito, Kimmich, Pavlovic, Karl, Musiala, Diaz, Jackson.

Subs: Neuer, Ulreich, Gnabry, Goretzka, Kane, Olise, Davies, Boey, Kiala, Mike, Chavez.

Referee Joao Pedro Pinheiro (Portugal)

With Arsenal already sure of a place int he last 16, Mikel Arteta has picked a (very, very strong) reserve team.

Arsenal Arrizabalaga, White, Mosquera, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly, Eze, Norgaard, Havertz, Madueke, Gyokeres, Martinelli.

Subs: Setford, Gabriel, Hincapie, Zubimendi, Odegaard, Saka, Trossard, Gabriel Jesus, Salmon, Porter, Ibrahim, Bailey-Joseph.

FC Kairat Anarbekov, Shirobokov, Martynovich, Sorokin, Tapalov, Glazer, Sadybekov, Mata, Mrynskiy, Edmilson, Jorginho.

Subs: Buch, Kalmurza, Kasabulat, Kurgin, Stanojev, Gromyko, Bagdat, Ricardinho.

Referee Urs Schnyder (Switzerland)

Erling Haaland returns to the City side after being rested against Wolves at the weekend.

Man City Donnarumma, Matheus Luiz, Khusanov, Ake, Ait Nouri, O’Reilly, Cherki, Silva, Marmoush, Doku, Haaland.

Subs: Trafford, Bettinelli, Reijnders, Gonzalez, Foden, Gray, Mukasa, Alleyne, Lewis, Mfuni.

Galatasaray Cakir, Sallai, Sanchez, Bardakci, Jakobs, Gundogan, Lemina, Sane, Gabriel Sara, Baris Yilmaz, Osimhen.

Subs: Sen, Guvenc, Icardi, Yunus Akgun, Elmali, Kutucu, Ayhan, Torreira, Kahraman, Karasu, Kocak, Singo.

Referee Alejandro Hernandez (Spain)

Randal Kolo Muani and Wilson Odobert, who were involved in a car accident yesterday, both start for Spurs.

Eintracht Frankfurt Santos, Amenda, Koch, Theate, Buta, Hojlund, Larsson, Brown, Skhiri, Gotze, Knauff.

Subs: Zetterer, Grahl, Chaibi, Dahoud, Kristensen, Bahoya, Doan, Chandler, Collins, Doumbia, Dills, Staff.

Tottenham Hotspur Vicario, Spence, Romero, Danso, Udogie, Gray, Joao Palhinha, Odobert, Sarr, Simons, Muani.

Subs: Kinsky, Austin, Solanke, Scarlett, Kyerematen, Hardy, Byfield, Rowswell, Olusesi, Hall.

Referee Jesus Gil Manzano (Spain)

Look, it’s really complicated. But Billy Munday and Michael Butler have put together this very useful guide to what the 36 teams (well, 32, as four of them are out) need to do tonight.

Hello and welcome to live, goal-by-goal coverage of matchday eight in the Champions League. It’s the last night of the league phase, which means all 36 teams are playing simultaneously and every football fan on planet earth has the phrase “as it stands” on their lips.

This is the sophomore season of the Champions League’s Swiss model, so we’re still getting used to the unique chaos of this final round of fixtures. For those unfamiliar with the new format, let’s get down to brass tacks.

1. The top eight teams go straight through to the round of 16.

2. The teams finishing between ninth and 24th go into the playoff round, the draw for which takes place on Friday. Each team goes into a particular bracket based on their position: for example, with the current positions, Manchester City (11th) and Atletico Madrid (12th) would play either Monaco (21st) or PSV Eindhoven (22nd). The winners of those ties would then play Spurs (5th) or Paris Saint-Germain (6th) in the last 16.

3. The teams who finish between 25th and 36th get nada. Zilch. Bugger all. Not even a Conference League parachute.

City are the only English team outside the top eight going into tonight’s games, but the table is Spandex-tight: there are only two points separating Real Madrid in third and Atalanta in 13th. Arsenal and Bayern Munich have qualified for the last 16; the rest all have work to do.

We’ll attempt to keep across all 18 matches but neurological and physical restrictions may preclude this, so our main focus will be the six English teams. Here’s the full fixture list, all 8pm kick-offs.

• Arsenal v Kairat Almaty

• Athletic Club v Sporting CP

• Atletico Madrid v Bodo/Glimt

• Ajax v Olympiacos

• Barcelona v Copenhagen

• Bayer Leverkusen v Villarreal

• Benfica v Real Madrid

• Borussia Dortmund v Inter

• Club Brugge v Marseille

• Eintracht Frankfurt v Tottenham Hotspur

• Liverpool v Qarabag

• Man City v Galatasaray

• Monaco v Juventus

• Napoli v Chelsea

• Pafos v Slavia Prague

• Paris Saint-Germain v Newcastle

• PSV Eindhoven v Bayern Munich

• Union SG v Atalanta