You know that 2022 is motoring along when the Champions League swings back into action, with the last-16 ties starting on Tuesday night in Paris and Lisbon.
After an initial hiccup, four Premier League sides join clubs from Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Portugal, Austria and the Netherlands in the knockout stages, but who is best placed to go all the way?
Once again we've rolled out our Champions League power rankings as we take into account things like current form, fixture difficulty and squad strength to determine who could reach and win the St Petersburg final in May.
So, who have you got down as your potential winners?
Well first, the last-16 fixtures:
February 15: Paris Saint-Germain vs Real Madrid, Sporting Lisbon vs Manchester City
February 16: Inter Milan vs Liverpool, Salzburg vs Bayern Munich
February 22: Villarreal vs Juventus, Chelsea vs Lille
February 23: Atletico Madrid vs Manchester United, Benfica vs Ajax
Now, who is best placed to taste glory in Russia?
Here's our last-16 Champions League power rankings:
16. Sporting Lisbon
It was an up-and-down group stage for the Portuguese giants, who ultimately edged out Borussia Dortmund with a crucial 3-1 win over them in Matchday 5.
Sporting also scored four in each of their two matches with Besiktas to prove that they really know where the net is, however the concession of nine goals across their two fixtures with Ajax doesn't bode well ahead of a meeting with Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, who are desperate to make up for last year's final heartbreak.
15. Salzburg
Three wins and a draw was enough to get the Austrians out of a group which included Lille, Sevilla and Wolfsburg, but the task is about to get a whole lot harder.
Bayern Munich lie in wait for a squad which has evolved greatly over the past few years as players have gone on to prove themselves elsewhere, with current key man Karim Adeyemi seeming set to follow the Erling Haaland route to Borussia Dortmund come the end of the season.
He'll want to to impress against Dortmund's rivals, but Bayern should have too much.
14. Lille
Last season's Ligue 1 champions won that Champions League group which included Salzburg, but that is one of few positives during what has been a messy season.
Jocelyn Gourvennec's man sit down in 10th in their domestic table, and they were luckless in the Champions League draw where their status as group winners didn't prevent a last-16 meeting with reigning champions Chelsea.
It will be a surprise if they go any further.
13. Villarreal
Had the ball ran a little more kindly for them then there's a chance that Villarreal could have pipped Manchester United to top spot in Group F, with their performance at Old Trafford in particular deserving better than a late, Cristiano Ronaldo-inflicted defeat.
Unai Emery has overseen a somewhat messy La Liga campaign though, and although they might have a sniff of a chance against a Juventus side who have notoriously blown up at this stage in recent years, they'll have to get something in the first leg at home.
12. Benfica
Splitting Bayern Munich and Barcelona in Group E has earned Benfica this shot at the last-16, but they'll face a tricky task up against the impressive Ajax.
The 3-0 home win over Barca was effectively the result which got the Portuguese outfit to this stage, but conceding nine goals across two games to Bayern did show a vulnerable side that could well be picked off, not least by their free-scoring Dutch opponents.
11. Manchester United
The odd one out from the Premier League, Manchester United enter the last-16 still with as many questions hovering around them as answers.
Ralf Rangnick may have brought some stability at times, but performances aren't reaching consistent highs, with damaging Premier League results affecting their bid to finish in the top four and qualify for the Champions League again next season.
An intriguing last-16 tie with Atletico Madrid awaits in this campaign, but you can't have much confidence in them going into it.
10. Inter Milan
They came second behind Real Madrid in their Champions League group, and Inter are also sitting at No.2 in Serie A at the moment, just a point behind city rivals AC Milan.
The likelihood is that they'll come off second-best to Liverpool in their last-16 tie too, but they'll have enough to worry the Reds in the San Siro first leg as they seek to take any sort of positive result back to Anfield.
That's the only way they'll have a chance of progressing, but it looks unlikely.
9. Atletico Madrid
Atletico's seven points from six games was the fewest amassed by a side who advanced from the group stage, but then Liverpool, Porto and AC Milan made up what was surely the trickiest group on paper.
Diego Simeone's side had seemed dead and buried in the tournament, but they relied on their old battling spirit for a 3-1 win at Porto on Matchday 6 which took them through as runners-up.
Fifth in La Liga, there are plenty of group winners against whom you wouldn't have given Atletico a chance, but they might just be too streetwise for a struggling, bickering United.
Attentions may be drawn to the presence of Luis Suarez in attack, but in Matheus Cunha they have an evolving player who looks to be a key man for both his club side and Brazil in the coming years.
8. Juventus
This isn't a vintage Juventus side, but they did still manage to pick up five wins out of six in a group which included Chelsea and Zenit St Petersburg.
However, the manner of the 4-0 loss to the Blues at Stamford Bridge indicated that when things go wrong for them, they tend to go drastically wrong, and having damagingly lost at this stage in each of the last two seasons then they'll be wary of the damage Villarreal could cause.
The addition of Dusan Vlahovic helps negate that somewhat, but the last eight might be the best they can do.
7. Ajax
They won all six of their group games and scored 20 goals in the process, and as Ajax enter the last-16 there is a real hope and belief that they can repeat the 2019 semi-final surge - albeit with a happier ending.
Sebastien Haller scored half of those 20 strikes in what was a genuinely prolific group stage, and one that places him above Robert Lewandowski and Mohamed Salah as the tournament's top scorer.
Benfica are next in his sights, and if they get a favourable quarter-final draw then they'll be ones to watch.
6. Real Madrid
Despite a couple of recent slips, Real Madrid are four points clear at the top of La Liga and seem to have become somewhat drama-free during the second coming of Carlo Ancelotti.
Five wins from six group games meant that the shock home defeat to Sheriff Tiraspol could be forgotten, and they'll hope that their extra experience will help them get the getter of Paris Saint-Germain in the last-16.
Do that, and they'll be a match for anyone.
5. Paris Saint-Germain
PSG have signed Lionel Messi for moments such as these, and as they aim to go one better than their 2020 behind closed doors final defeat, the clash with Real Madrid opens up a real opportunity to create a memory to savour.
The problem comes when Mauricio Pochettino tries to juggle the many, many options at his disposal, trying to keep some players happy while no doubt promising minutes to others, but if they click then they just have too many good players to ignore.
The Real Madrid clash could represent a line in the sand for them, and they belief gained from it could end up being telling.
4. Chelsea
The newly-crowd FIFA Club World Cup holders return to Champions League combat having somewhat got away with the fact that they only finished second in their group.
Lille await with the first leg at Stamford Bridge, and amassing a strong first leg advantage isn't beyond the realms of possibility for Thomas Tuchel's side, who scored nine home goals in the group stages and didn't concede one.
Tuchel might still need to tweak his team as he looks for the right blend, but they've got enough firepower to go far.
3. Liverpool
Suddenly the strength in depth at Anfield is quite remarkable, with Luis Diaz added to the Liverpool forward ranks having impressed against the Reds in the Champions League while playing for Porto.
Liverpool are still not giving up chasing Manchester City in the Premier League, and although Inter is one of the toughest draws they could have had in the last-16 ( they initially had Salzburg before the errors meant the draw had to be redone ), they'll be approaching the game full of confidence.
It is only the strength of their opponents which keeps them out of the top two, and they're currently motoring along.
2. Bayern Munich
They've had a couple of hiccups in the Bundesliga in 2022, and so Bayern's six-point domestic lead isn't perhaps as large as at has been on previous occasions when the Champions League has rolled back around.
The determination will perhaps be a little fiercer then, as Bayern take on a Salzburg side who will be dreading leaving any gaps for Robert Lewandowski to exploit.
He's currently one goal behind Ajax's Haller in the top scorer rankings, but that could change quickly.
1. Manchester City
Pep Guardiola still probably wakes up in a cold sweat thinking about what happened in last year's final, and so the determination that he's always had to win this competition will have ramped up inside him with each match of Manchester City's relatively simple group stage.
Sporting Lisbon shouldn't be too much of an issue in the last-16 either, and then it'll be another case of seeng whether City can hold their nerve when things get really interesting in the latter stages.
They surely will one of these years, and right now given their form and their draw, they look the most likely winners.
