Barcelona have three players that made the cut as the best performers of the initial league phase of the Champions League.

The Champions League is down to 24 teams, and yes, giants such as Man City and Paris Saint-Germain made it through in the end. Let's review the league phase and the best XI, and project who's winning it all.

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The Champions League league phase is done and dusted, a thrilling catalogue of games seeing Manchester City narrowly avoid elimination, Liverpool top the table and big names struggle on their way to the playoffs.

A lowball bid has been rejected for one of Ligue 1's top attackers, amid speculation of Liverpool interest, while Slot has reached a big transfer decision over another young player after the UCL loss

Here are the stats of the top 8 teams. Liverpool finished atop the league stage with 7 wins and a defeat from 8 matches. They suffered a loss on matchweek 8 to PSV Eindhoven. The Reds finished with 21 points. Notably, Liverpool forwarded 17 goals and conceded 5.

Dortmund's Serhou Guirassy and Robert Lewandowski of Barcelona end the league phase as joint-top scorers with nine goals each.

Find out who is missing through injury and who is in a race against time to prove their fitness in the next round of the UEFA Champions League.