Liverpool may be having some troubles in the Premier League right now, but their passage to the Champions League knockout stages was a formality.
Despite an opening match day pasting at the hands of Napoli, the Reds went on to secure five consecutive wins that have seen Jurgen Klopp's side make a comfortable passage into the last-16, finishing second behind the Italians on head-to-head record.
There may now only be 16 clubs left in this season's competition, but in the first knockout stage Liverpool can only face four of them. That's because a club that finished second in their group is unseeded and can therefore only face seeded teams that finished first. Liverpool also cannot face seeded Napoli, because they were in their own group, while they can't be drawn against another team from England, which rules out Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City.
