Champions League Permutations - How Each Team Can Qualify

Man United have made much lighter work of the Champions League Group Stages this time out, and qualified for the knock out round with two games to spare. Defeat to Galatasaray in the last round - their first defeat in the competition so far - still leaves them top of the Group by an unassailable 5 points. Galatasaray and Cluj scrap it out for second place then, and both face away trips in the final round of fixtures. Cluj head to Old Trafford and will probably encounter a much changed Man United side. Sir Alex will not roll out any of the big guns wih a spot in the next round sealed and a crunch Premier League derby against Man City on the horizon. Galatasary meanwhile also face a side with nothing to play for, as Braga are out of the competition and can't qualify for the Europa League, so both sides have something of an even playing field in their quests for second place. One of them will end up in the Europa League however.
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Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.