That’s all from me. Thanks for reading and for your emails. Congratulations to Liverpool, who look likely to qualify for the top eight. Marseille still have a lot of work to do to reach the round of 16. Cheers! Bye!
Arne Slot, Liverpool manager, speaks to the cameras:
It’s a tricky place to go because of their fans, their players, their manager. I thought we were good. There were three, four, five moments where we took the ball off them and should have done better. We created less chances than we did on Saturday [against Burnley], but we won the game here.
We deserved what we got tonight. We weren’t unlucky like we were this season. I know why we’re not consistent. When the game is open, players can show their quality. That is completely different to when you are playing a low block. We have struggled against low block but every time we have faced a team that wants to play, wants to press, we have played well.
I would suggest that Slot is very defensive with his answers, even after a 3-0 victory. He comes armed with statistics, and is a little spiky with criticism. He talks about low blocks as though teams are not allowed to defend. He consistently mentions injuries as though Liverpool are the only team with players on the sidelines. It’s not a very good look.
That said, Slot deserves a lot of credit for his tactics tonight. Liverpool were excellent back to front.
Andy Hunter's match report from Marseille
These are the final fixtures for all the sides next Wednesday.
Liverpool will fancy their chances at home to Qarabag, to seal their place in the top eight/round of 16. Although it should be said that the Azerbaijani side beat Eintracht Frankfurt this evening.
Marseille face a tricky trip to Club Brugge, which will be made harder by the suspension of Pavard. De Zerbi’s are now out of the reckoning for automatic qualification but are also not assured of a place in the top 24/playoffs. A draw in Belgium will likely be enough for that.
Virgil van Dijk, Liverpool captain, speaks to TNT:
It’s always difficult to play against De Zerbi teams. If we miss our press, they play out easily. It was a very good atmosphere, I have never played in this stadium before and I was excited to play.
My thoughts are with Konaté but I have played with Joe [Gomez] many times before. It helps that he is a very good friend but he was excellent tonight and started the move for the third goal.
It’s all about recovery. We fly back tomorrow and then fly to Bournemouth, who are a very difficult team to beat with a very good manager.
And here’s what the results from Tuesday and Wednesday’s matches do to the table. Just one game to play now, a week from today. It’s going to be a chaotic night with all 36 teams in action at the same time.
With victory in Marseille, Liverpool sneak into the top eight, one of five English teams in the automatic places. Things are very tight, though. Just one point separates PSG in sixth and Juventus in 15th.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arsenal | 7 | 18 | 21 |
| 2 | Bayern Munich | 7 | 13 | 18 |
| 3 | Real Madrid | 7 | 11 | 15 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 7 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | Tottenham Hotspur | 7 | 8 | 14 |
| 6 | PSG | 7 | 10 | 13 |
| 7 | Newcastle | 7 | 10 | 13 |
| 8 | Chelsea | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 9 | Barcelona | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| 10 | Sporting | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| 11 | Man City | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 12 | Atletico Madrid | 7 | 3 | 13 |
| 13 | Atalanta | 7 | 1 | 13 |
| 14 | Inter Milan | 7 | 6 | 12 |
| 15 | Juventus | 7 | 4 | 12 |
| 16 | Borussia Dortmund | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 17 | Galatasaray | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 18 | Qarabag FK | 7 | -2 | 10 |
| 19 | Marseille | 7 | 0 | 9 |
| 20 | Bayer Leverkusen | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 21 | Monaco | 7 | -6 | 9 |
| 22 | PSV | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 23 | Athletic Bilbao | 7 | -4 | 8 |
| 24 | Olympiacos | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 25 | Napoli | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 26 | Copenhagen | 7 | -6 | 8 |
| 27 | Club Brugge | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 28 | Bodo/Glimt | 7 | -2 | 6 |
| 29 | Benfica | 7 | -4 | 6 |
| 30 | AE Pafos | 7 | -6 | 6 |
| 31 | Union Saint Gilloise | 7 | -10 | 6 |
| 32 | Ajax | 7 | -12 | 6 |
| 33 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 7 | -9 | 4 |
| 34 | Slavia Prague | 7 | -11 | 3 |
| 35 | Villarreal | 7 | -10 | 1 |
| 36 | FC Kairat | 7 | -14 | 1 |
Full-time results in Wednesday’s Champions League matches:
Join Luke McLaughlin for live reaction to those other matches in our clockwatch.
“Liverpool are having a topsy-turvy season but they seem to have found their mojo this evening,” emails Colum Fordham. “The move for Gakpo’s goal was sublime. Szoboszlai’s pass was beyond brilliant. Bodes well for the rest of the season I hope.”
Full-time: Marseille 0-3 Liverpool
That’s a fair result. A brilliant away performance and result for Arne Slot and his side.
GOAL! Marseille 0-3 Liverpool (Gakpo 90+3)
Szoboszlai opens Marseille up like a can of tuna with the deftest of touches, Gravenberch marches forward into an ocean of space before he feeds Gakpo out of the left, who takes a touch and strokes a neat finish into the far corner. Good goal, but Marseille were all over the shop there.
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90+2 min: For the first time this evening, Liverpool panic under a high ball with Greenwood picking up the loose ball. The Marseille man prances left and right, like a deer elegantly avoiding oncoming traffic, lays a ball off to Aubameyang but Alisson stands tall and makes a great save with a strong right hand!
90 min: Three minutes added on here.
88 min: Greenwood has now abandoned his right wing role and is playing as a No 10. Marseille crosses are coming into the box, but Gomez and Van Dijk are towering over Aubameyang and the rest of the Marseille attackers.
86 min: Marseille’s race looks run. De Zerbi demands so much running from his side and they look utterly spent. I’m not sure the Italian manager has got his tactics quite right tonight. He certainly hasn’t been shy but Liverpool have looked comfortable defensively and much more dangerous going forward.
Salah skews horribly wide!
83 min: Salah goes clean through on goal … steadies himself … and completely mis-kicks the ball wide! The Egyptian tried to caress a finish past Rulli with the outside of his foot but instead he got the contact on the ball all wrong and toe-poked the ball five or 10 yards wide! Salah looks embarrassed with that, as well he might be.
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81 min: Liverpool are now sitting noticeably deeper now that they have that lead. They will look to counter with Gakpo and Salah as Marseille enjoy the lions share of possession. But the home side are struggling to create anything meaningful.
78 min: Liverpool make their first substitutions, with Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike coming off for Curtis Jones and Cody Gakpo.
75 min: garretThor, via email, has brought this post to my attention, which made me chuckle. Particularly as The Beatles featured in Marseille’s pre-match tifo at the Vélodrome.
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73 min: It has been an exciting second half, partly because Marseille have been so open defensively. Liverpool deserve their 2-0 lead.
GOAL! Marseille 0-2 Liverpool (Rulli OG 71)
The jet-heeled Frimpong nips past Paixão to the byline. The Dutchman has a host of options in the middle and crosses but the ball is deflected off the heel of Rulli, and the ball bounces into the net after kissing the far post! Liverpool double their lead!
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70 min: Liverpool come forward again and Salah nods just wide, but the flag goes up for offside.
68 min: De Zerbi makes a triple change! Geoffrey Kondogbia, Hamed Traore and Amine Gouiri are replaced by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Igor Paixao and Bilal Nadir. You’ll know all about Aubameyang but Paixao is a real talent and has four goals in the Champions League this season.
66 min: Both sides go close within the space of a minute. Ekitike blasts over the bar – the Liverpool striker has been lively but it hasn’t quite been his night – while Timothy Weah pops up at the other end for Marseille, darting to the near post, his shot deflected narrowly wide off Van Dijk, who looks frustrated. Liverpool have failed to close out plenty of games this season after having a one-goal lead.
64 min: “I love watching Wirtz and he’s starting to come to life for Liverpool,” emails Simon Dahlman. “BUUUTTT sometimes he seems to want to do too much around the goal, gets a little too fiddly for his (and Liverpool’s) own good. I appreciate the technical ability and, some might say, the artistry—but sometimes he just needs to take a shot without angling for the Platonic ideal of a superb goal.”
62 min: Kerkez dances forward from left back and releases Wirtz, who has the freedom of the Véledrome to waltz into Marseille’s box, forcing Rulli into a good stop at his near post. The German had perhaps better options to his right.
61 min: This game has really opened up now. Both teams are pouring forward in numbers. This will not end 1-0.
Golden chance for Marseille to equalise!
59 min: Mac Allister takes a heavy touch and suddenly Marseille pounce. Greenwood streams down the right wing and picks out Traoré with an early cross. The Ivorian, on loan from Bournemouth it should be said, is all alone but with Frimpong hareing back, Traoré takes the shot first time and it flies just over Liverpool’s bar! That was close!
Ekitike hits the post!
57 min: A perfect through ball by Szoboszlai releases Ekitike and the Liverpool striker blasts a shot against the outside of the post from 15 yards out! Marseille scramble it away.
53 min: A good spell for Marseille, this. I wonder how long it will be until De Zerbi thinks about changes. Traore and Gouiri have been poor.
51 min: Greenwood and Marseille come to life! The Englishman has always had a silky stepover in his locker and Greenwood sends Wirtz to the shops with the skill and unleashes a fierce drive towards the bottom corner, forcing Alisson into a good save. Moments later, Greenwood picks the ball up and fires another at goal, only for Kerkez to get in a good block. That has lit a fire under the home fans, who respond with a roar.
49 min: Wonderful play from Ekitike down the left opens up a huge pocket of space for Wirtz inside Marseille’s area … but the German takes waaaaaaaaaay too long to get a shot off and eventually the Liverpool move breaks down! Poor from Wirtz!
47 min: Yellow card for Pavard after a needless shove on Kerkez. That means the Marseille defender will be suspended for the final league phase game, a tricky trip to Club Brugge. With Marseille on nine points, they are right on the edge of the knockouts so that is a potentially crucial suspension.
Peeeeeeeeeep!
We’re back underway in Marseille. No changes from either side.
Szoboszlai’s free-kick was very reminiscent of Ronaldinho’s effort for Barcelona in the Champions League back in 2006, against Werder Bremen. Same angle, etc.
“That’s very remiss of a team from Provence, where the Mistral wind causes year-round havoc, to have built a wall without a draft excluder,” emails They’ll be getting a well DeZerbied blast from manager at half-time too, I’d expect.”
“With that marvellous free kick goal, I reckon Szoboszlai has earned the right to try a rabona or pirouette in his own six-yard box!” quips Peter Oh. “Go on Dom!”
Half-time scores in the Champions League 8pm (GMT) kick-offs.
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Half-time reading:
Half-time: Marseille 0-1 Liverpool
Such a frustrating way for Marseille to concede, just before half-time. But you can’t say it wasn’t coming.
GOAL! Marseille 0-1 Liverpool (Szoboszlai 45)
Direct from the free-kick, the Marseille wall jumps and Szoboszlai slips his shot underneath and inside the near post! Rulli dives to his left but couldn’t keep the ball out! An impish, cheeky free-kick, quite brilliant in its own way. But where was Marseille’s draft excluder (a player lying down behind the wall)?!
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43 min: Deafening whistles as Liverpool probe outside Marseille’s area. Liverpool claim for a penalty, with Weah clumsily moving his arm towards a cross, but VAR check it and rule it not to be a penalty. Liverpool do, however, have a dangerous free-kick right on the edge of the box after Balerdi floored Gravenberch. Two Liverpool players over the ball, with Salah and Szoboszlai over the set-piece.
41 min: “Long, long ago my partner’s ancestors lived in Frosham Manor, and were cheated out of it, or at least lost it, in some nefarious and opaque post-war inheritance shenanigans,” emails Paul Griffin. “Djibril Cissé never even mentions these events 50 years before he lived there and not once has offered to reunite the house with its morally rightful owners. Good finisher but flint-hearted IMO.”
I look forward to TNT Sports asking Cissé about this after the game.
Salah just over the bar!
39 min: Hojbjerg loses possession in a rare foray forward and Liverpool stream forward on the counter attack. It’s five on four! Wirtz goes wide to Frimpong when maybe there were better options to his left, but the Dutch wing back finds an excellent cross to the near post, where Salah flicks a finish over Rulli … and just over the bar! Marseille will do well to get to half time without conceding.
37 min: Credit to Liverpool, who are suffocating Marseille in possession, no mean feat. The visitors are getting increasingly closer to the opening goal here.
35 min: Marseille are living dangerously. Playing out from the back, Balerdi gifts possession to Salah, who finds Wirtz, who tries to slip Ekitike through on goal only for Balerdi to make a block. The Marseille captain celebrates making up for his own error.
We did an interview with Balerdi back in November, which is worth a read.
33 min: Liverpool again so nearly nick the ball off Kondogbia, but again the Marseille midfielder escapes with a free-kick. Marseille break at pace, with Hojbjerg releasing Weah, but the American international can’t get past Van Dijk. Corner to Marseille, taken short by Greenwood, which comes to nothing.
30 min: Slot, who must have changed from his tracksuit to a smart polo shirt just before kick-off, is deep in conversation with his assistant (Giovanni van Bronckhorst) over a tablet in the Liverpool dugout. It looks as though they have spotted something tactically. Just what that is, only Arne and Gio know.
28 min: Marseille nearly come unstuck as Liverpool press high, with Kondogbia just about escaping with the ball when he might have lost it to Wirtz in a crucial area. That’s the way that most teams beat Marseille, pressing high and on the counter attack.
26 min: Gouiri stings the palms of Alisson with a fierce shot! It’s a good save from Liverpool’s keeper but maybe one you would expect him to make, diving to his right.
24 min: As you might expect, there was an almighty roar when the referee did whistle for a disallowed goal. It sounded as though Marseille had scored themselves.
LIVERPOOL GOAL DISALLOWED!
22 min: Marseille’s formation, or lack of it, means that they are vulnerable to the counter attack in transition. Having nicked the ball, Liverpool break at pace with Salah, who releases Szoboszlai. The Hungarian picks out Ekitike with a lovely low, early cross and the French striker gets in front of Balerdi and pokes his finish past Rulli! Marseille’s fans are silenced and for the first time, we can hear Liverpool supporters up in the away end, as they celebrate! But the goal is chalked off, with replays showing Ekitike moving into an offside position as Szoboszlai crossed the ball. He was only a yard off, but that’s the correct call.
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20 min: It’s the De Zerbi way but Marseille are incredibly fluid. Pavard has popped up up front, Hojbjerg has filled in at right back, Greenwood has dropped deep into five different positions. It must be a nightmare for Liverpool to figure out where everyone is.
Mac Allister goes close!
18 min: It’s an ugly bit of play with so nearly a beautiful end result for Liverpool, as Mac Allister wriggles away from two Marseille markers and drags a shot just a yard wide of Rulli’s right-hand post. I’m not sure the Argentina international would have got there if it had been on target. That is the closest either side have come.
16 min: Liverpool are beginning to turn the screw with their phases of play, probing with Salah and Ekitike. The French striker nods a cross back across goal but there is nobody in red to challenge at the back post.
14 min: Twice that Pavard, one of three Marseille centre-backs, has made a run from deep into Liverpool territory. Traore nearly picks out the France international with a sly through ball, but Kerkez and Alisson just about to enough to shepherd the ball to safety.
12 min: “Sending my best wishes to Ibrahima Konaté,” emails Morgan Blake. “Sending my best hard stare towards Richard Hughes and those lads for not having brought in a senior centre back.”
I imagine Marc Guéhi is watching this from a sofa in Manchester. Bizarre that Liverpool did not rival City for him, when the price was £20m. Maybe they are waiting for Giovanni Leoni to return from injury, but that is a big risk.
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10 min: A quietish start to this game, despite the atmosphere, but bums rise off seats as Greenwood jets down the right wing for the first time. The former Manchester United man has had his troubles in the past but the 24-year-old has been on sensational form in the last couple of seasons and has a real swagger about him as he puts in a dangerous low cross, cleared by Van Dijk.
8 min: Reports are filtering through that Federico Chiesa has injured himself in the warm-up, so he won’t be available for Slot off the Liverpool bench tonight.
6 min: Liverpool corner and there is an almighty barrage of whistles from the home fans, who seem determined to put the visitors off. The corner is delivered, Gomez rises highest, but the referee adds his own whistle for an infringement.
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4 min: I should mention that there was a minute’s applause pre-match for Rolland Courbis, Marseille-born who both played and managed the club. The 72-year-old died on 12 January. Both sides are wearing black armbands.
2 min: Liverpool have started so well, and space opens up for Gravenberch to take a shot on the edge of Marseille’s area. The Dutchman instead chooses to offload to Wirtz but Hojbjerg is there, snapping into a challenge and clearing the danger.
Peeeeeeeep!
It’s deafening as the game kick-offs off. Marseille in all white with a blue trim, Liverpool in all red.
The players are out. It’s an absolutely clamorous atmosphere in Marseille as the players make their way out on the pitch. The home fans unfurl a brilliant tifo of the Beatles reading Le Provençal, the local newspaper here.
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Those two early Champions League matches are over. It finished Galatasaray 1-1 Atlético and Qarabag 3-2 Eintracht Frankfurt!
With that win (and previous victories over Benfica, Copenhagen and a brilliant draw with Chelsea), Qarabag are now 17th and the Azerbaijani side have a real chance of making the play-offs!
Arne Slot speaks to the TNT cameras pitchside:
It’s not the first time we play in a hostile stadium. We played at Galatasaray. It’s a great stadium [here], great atmosphere.
The moments where I didn’t play him, we were struggling and I tried something else. We have steadied the ship now but we miss goals from all the ball possession and chances that we have. Salah is one of the players that can score a goal.
Joe Gomez is in at centre back for Liverpool alongside Virgil van Dijk, with Ibrahima Konaté absent due to “family matters”.
First of all, it’s really sad that Ibrahima can’t be here. But Joe is a good replacement but he has not played a lot since I have been here. But he has shown he can be a really good player for us.
Djibril Cissé, Lord of Frodsham and a former player of both these sides, is also at the Vélodrome. The Frenchman, now 44, is looking sharp.
Another huge talent that Marseille will add to their squad in the coming days is Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri, who has struggled for minutes this season. The wonderkid will join the French side on loan until the end of the season.
Nwaneri has played 165 minutes in the Premier League, having excelled in his breakthrough campaign, when he scored nine goals in all competitions. He has not appeared in the league since the end of November, when he came on in the north London derby.
Arsenal were initially reluctant to allow him to leave given they are still in four competitions but it is understood they have recognised Nwaneri needs game time. Crystal Palace and West Ham were believed to have also shown interest in a loan.
The French side are to pay a loan fee but there will be no option to make his move permanent at the end of the season, with Nwaneri considered one of Arsenal’s brightest talents. He signed a new five-year deal in August after strong interest from Chelsea and Borussia Dortmund.
Manager apparel watch: I’m delighted to report that De Zerbi is wearing a snow-white turtle neck under a blazer, while Arne Slot has opted to dress down tonight in a club tracksuit.
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The teams! Salah starts for Liverpool!
Marseille: Rulli, Pavard, Balerdi, Medina, Murillo, Hojbjerg, Kondogbia, Weah, Greenwood, Traore, Gouiri.
Subs: de Lange, Van Neck, Egan-Riley, Gomes, Bakola, Mmadi, Doubal, Vermeeren, Nadir, Aubameyang, O’Riley, Igor Paixao.
Liverpool: Alisson, Frimpong, Gomez, Van Dijk, Kerkez, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Salah, Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Ekitike.
Subs: Mamardashvili, Woodman, Endo, Chiesa, Jones, Gakpo, Robertson, Nyoni, Ngumoha.
Referee: Slavko Vincic (Slovenia)
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Marseille v Liverpool is one of seven 8pm (GMT) kick-offs in the Champions League. Luke McLaughlin will cover the other six matches in our clockwatch, which you can find here.
There are two early kick-offs: Galatasaray v Atlético and Qarabag v Eintracht Frankfurt. Both matches are currently into the second half and both have a live scoreline of 1-1.
As for Liverpool, this is obviously a mammoth game for Arne Slot and co. Out of the Premier League title race, European competition has become even more important than usual as the club try to recover last season’s form.
Slot has been under pressure this season, and will not have welcomed the news of Xabi Alonso’s dismissal at Real Madrid with the former Liverpool midfielder one of the managers touted as a potential successor at Anfield. That all seems unlikely in the short term at least, but failure to qualify for the knockout rounds – by finishing outside the top eight and losing the playoff – could seal Slot’s fate.
The good news for Slot and Liverpool is that Mo Salah is back. Salah trained with Liverpool on Tuesday for the first time since returning from the Africa Cup of Nations and Slot has said the Egyptian is in line for an immediate return to the Liverpool team at Marseille.
“There has been one moment in the season where I decided not to play Mo and one moment where I decided not to take him to the game [the win at Inter that followed Salah’s explosive interview].” said Slot in the lead up to this game. “There’s never been an issue for me, and the first time he’s able to be in the squad again, he is. Let’s see the lineup tomorrow if you still think there’s an issue.”
I wrote a little bit about that fight between Rabiot and Rowe earlier in the season, with both players now in Serie A.
We’ll have the team news and starting XIs shortly but Marseille’s squad is absolutely fascinating. The city has always been a place of eccentric chaos and it feels like this team is an extension of that, with players as varied as Matt O’Riley (on loan from Brighton), Benjamin Pavard (on loan from Inter), rising star Igor Paixão, Timothy Weah (now apparently a right back), English players Angel Gomes (signed on a free transfer), CJ Egan-Riley (signed from Burnley), top scorer Mason Greenwood, veterans Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Neil Maupay, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Geronimo Rulli, and Geoffrey Kondogbia.
To give you some context, Marseille started the season with two of their best players scrapping in the dressing room – Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe both left the club in disgrace shortly afterwards – while their last four results have been as varied as a 2-0 home defeat to Nantes, a 2-2 draw with PSG (PSG winning on penalties), a 9-0 win in the French Cup and a 5-2 victory over Angers at the weekend in Ligue 1. Tonight, they host Liverpool and on Saturday play Ligue 1 leaders Lens. It’s never boring in Marseille.
Please enjoy George Boxall’s preview, which explains a little more.
Preamble
Marseille away is an absolute doozy. Drinking in the Old Port, maybe taking a day trip to out to the calanques, weaving through the streets of Noailles, soaking up heady mix of north African and French vibes, the place is absolutely electric. Oh, to be a Liverpool supporter on tour right now.
Great city, great club and a fascinating current team and manager. Roberto De Zerbi, the former Brighton manager, has turned Marseille into outside title contenders domestically and a European force again. With two matches remaining in the league phase, both Marseille and Liverpool sit just outside the automatic qualification to the knockout rounds. A win here is absolutely essential to both sides chasing a spot in the top eight. Anything other than a win here and either side will most likely have to settle with a playoff spot.
There’s a lot to enjoy and a lot on the line. Let’s get it.
Kick-off: 8pm GMT.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arsenal | 7 | 18 | 21 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 7 | 11 | 15 |
| 3 | Bayern Munich | 6 | 11 | 15 |
| 4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 7 | 8 | 14 |
| 5 | PSG | 7 | 10 | 13 |
| 6 | Sporting | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| 7 | Man City | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 8 | Atalanta | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | Inter Milan | 7 | 6 | 12 |
| 10 | Atletico Madrid | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 11 | Liverpool | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 12 | Borussia Dortmund | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 13 | Newcastle | 6 | 7 | 10 |
| 14 | Chelsea | 6 | 5 | 10 |
| 15 | Barcelona | 6 | 3 | 10 |
| 16 | Marseille | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 17 | Juventus | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| 18 | Galatasaray | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 19 | Bayer Leverkusen | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 20 | Monaco | 7 | -6 | 9 |
| 21 | PSV | 6 | 4 | 8 |
| 22 | Olympiacos | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 23 | Napoli | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 24 | Copenhagen | 7 | -6 | 8 |
| 25 | Qarabag FK | 6 | -3 | 7 |
| 26 | Club Brugge | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 27 | Bodo/Glimt | 7 | -2 | 6 |
| 28 | Benfica | 6 | -2 | 6 |
| 29 | AE Pafos | 6 | -5 | 6 |
| 30 | Union Saint Gilloise | 6 | -8 | 6 |
| 31 | Ajax | 7 | -12 | 6 |
| 32 | Athletic Bilbao | 6 | -5 | 5 |
| 33 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 6 | -8 | 4 |
| 34 | Slavia Prague | 6 | -9 | 3 |
| 35 | Villarreal | 7 | -10 | 1 |
| 36 | FC Kairat | 7 | -14 | 1 |
