What you need to know.

There are 16 teams left in Europe after the group stage.

There are two pots, one with the eight group winners and the other with the eight runners-up

No team can play a team from their group or one from the same country.

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Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini:"It's better to finish first because you can avoid important teams for just one stage more. But if you hope to win the title, you have to play against the big teams.

"I think that if we play the way we did in the second half [in the 4-2 win over Borussia Monchengladbach], we can play against any team."

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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho: "A team struggling so much like we are is not obviously a candidate to win the Champions League.

"But when we won at Porto in 2004, we were not candidates. When we won at Inter in 2010, we were not candidates. When we were candidates, we lost two semi-finals with Real Madrid, we lost two semi-finals with Chelsea, so let's see."

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger: "I've not even looked at who we can get. We were so much out of it that I put all my focus on staying in.

"The result against Olympiakos makes us stronger and strengthens our belief. When you do that it creates a positive memory for rest of the season. Maybe it is a lucky year for us in the Champions League?"

All eyes will be on these balls when the Champions League draw gets underway at 11:00 GMT.

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Saumil Mehta: The squad is good but LvG is turning players into robots. There is no flair in the team now and he is running out of ideas.

Enweliku Henry: Man United problem lies on their sluggish counter attacking play. United are known for quick counter attack and that is missing.

Sean Opie: The squad is actually thin on quality. There aren't two good players per position, also no evidence of a game plan.

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However, not everyone's worrying...

Tom Hickman: Sorry but I'm not hugely concerned - we're FOURTH with our entire defence injured. If we take 'boring' wins, so what?

Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez has put this onInstagram, external.

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Judging by the way he's hanging manfully onto their collars, those dogs clearly cannot be trusted to stay still.

Bath first-team coach Toby Booth has hit out at critics of the club's England fly-half, George Ford. 

The 22-year-old kicked an injury-time conversion to seal victory for Bath at Wasps in the European Champions Cup.

"Some of the things that have been written about him are ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous," Booth told BBC Radio Bristol. 

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Italy beat off competition from three other nations - Austria, Germany and Spain - to host the tournament.

It will be the third time the Ryder Cup has been staged on the continent, after Valderrama in Spain (1997) and - though this one is yet to happen - Paris' Le Golf National in France, due to be held there in 2018.

"History has shown time and again that The Ryder Cup is pure theatre and there is no question that the Eternal City of Rome will provide a wonderful backdrop for one of the great occasions in world golf," said chief executive of The European Tour Keith Pelley in a rather dramatic statement.

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The awarding of the Ryder Cup will continue Italy’s legacy in the contest, which began when Costantino Rocca became the first Italian golfer to play in the match at The Belfry in England in 1993. 

Nothing wets the appetite for a Champions League draw like a picture of giant screens, wooden benches and name places..

This is your one hour warning.

At 11:00 GMT the Champions League draw gets underway in Nyon, Switzerland.

There are 16 teams in the pot with Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal representing British interest.

We will bring you all the news from the draw as it happens right here on Sportsday, so stick with us.

Rome has been selected to host the 2022 Ryder Cup, it has been announced.

It will be the first time the Italian capital has hosted the tournament.

How do you celebrate equaling David James' Premier League record of 169 clean sheets?

In Petr Cech's case it is with a gingerbread version of himself, baked by his wife's fair hand.

She has gone into a fair bit of detail with it, with an iced helmet, Arsenal badge and kit.

Great work Mrs Cech, if you could send a box to Steve and I at Sportsday that would be much appreciated, ta.

Stannie: Man Utd are playing slow possession based football and you can't play that way. He needs to change his tactics.

Shahir: Everything about this squad is wrong, the subs, the mentality, the game plan. No direction  

Akoko: It's mainly LVG's fault, no squad depth at Man Utd, the team is playing rigid and outdated type of football.

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It may read more like a break-up letter but Juan Mata has poured his heart out about Manchester United's current crisis.

"I know that you don't want to read this, that words are not enough right now," writes, external Mata.

Someone pass the tissues.

He continues: "We are aware that we must improve, and so, despite still having the feeling of a painful defeat in the body, we have to get up and keep working and preparing for the next game. 

"With attitude, and giving the maximum of each of us, this situation will draw on, because there is still a long way to go on this long season.

"I am convinced that better days will come, and will face Monday in better spirits."

He then signs off in his usual jovial way with a virtual hug.

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Anyone looking for a job?

Cameroon are looking for a new coach and have advertised for applications , externalon their website.

The first criteria you must fill to be in with a chance of landing the role, according to the advert, is: "Must be of Cameroon or foreign nationality".

Hmm, doesn't rule many out really does it?

Full story on the job hunt here...

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A horse has been voted Sportsman of the Year.

American Pharoah became the first horse to win the US Triple Crown since 1978.

The three-year-old added the Belmont Stakes in New York to earlier wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, emulating a feat last achieved 37 years ago.

American Pharoah won 47% of the vote in an online poll in Sports Illustrated magazine, external, ahead of the likes of Lionel Messi and Jordan Spieth.

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"The worst Manchester United side I have seen" - Jamie Redknapp.

"Manchester United are going backwards, the players are crippled by fear" - Rio Ferdinand.

"There is a lack of leadership" - Alan Shearer.

"Van Gaal is a broken cog" - Steve Coppell.

While these may look like a strap-line for a bad movie, they are in fact the damning verdicts on Louis van Gaal and his Manchester United side after the 2-1 defeat by Bournemouth, which came hot on the heels of their Champions League exit.  

We want to know where it is going wrong at Old Trafford?

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