Defining Moments of the Champions League Group Stage
So now we know the 16 teams who have qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League, with the draw set to take place on Monday.
The group stages brought their usual array of triumph, disaster, drama and disappointment, with plenty of defining moments along the way.
Here, we've picked out the key moments and matches from each group, starting with a crucial minute in Turin.
Group A: Pogba Ensures Olympiakos' Hopes Are Gone in 60 Seconds in Turin
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At 2-1 down just after the hour mark, Juventus were facing a third successive defeat on Matchday 4 in Turin, where they trailed Olympiakos at home having already lost to the same opposition in Athens and to Atletico Madrid in the Spanish capital.
A turnaround was needed, and in the space of five minutes after Delvin N'Dinga had given Olympiakos the lead, one spectacularly arrived.
First Fernando Llorente's header struck the post before rebounding in off visiting goalkeeper Roberto, before Paul Pogba reacted quickest to the blocking of his attempted flick and drove home just inside the box to make it 3-2.
The strike ensured that Juve joined Olympiakos on six points apiece, with the Italians able to move ahead of the Greeks on Matchday 5 when they won at Malmo and Olympiakos lost heavily at Atletico.
They were never to recover, with Juve qualifying in second place.
Group B: Basel Blushes for Liverpool as Reds Fail in Switzerland
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From the moment the Group B draw was made, Liverpool supporters were effectively seeing their clashes with Real Madrid as "free" matches, knowing that if the team could beat both Basel and Ludogorets at home and away, then the games against the European champions wouldn't really affect qualification.
A last-gasp victory over the Bulgarians at Anfield was a nervy but winning start, but then Liverpool went to Basel and turned in a disjointed display on the way to losing 1-0 to a Marco Streller goal.
It put them on the back foot going into the Real Madrid matches, which they duly lost, and turned the group into a scrap in which a team who have failed to find any form all season were always going to struggle to win.
It culminated in an Anfield night when they had to beat Basel to progress, but a pedestrian home side fell behind to Fabian Frei's goal, then saw Lazar Markovic sent off.
Steven Gerrard's typical late heroics threatened to undeservedly send them through, but in the end the mountain they had to climb was too big, and it was all because of the defeat they suffered in Switzerland on Matchday 2.
Group C: Solid Monaco Frustrate Leverkusen Twice
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Quiz questions might be asked in future about the team which won their Champions League group despite scoring only four goals in their six matches, and the answer will be Monaco.
The Ligue 1 side only conceded once to finish ahead of Bayer Leverkusen in Group C, with the two 1-0 wins they achieved over the Germans proving key to their progression.
After losing in Monaco on Matchday 1, three straight wins for the Bundesliga outfit ensured that they'd already sealed qualification by the time Monaco arrived at the BayArena on Matchday 5.
UEFA's official stats for the game show that the hosts enjoyed more possession and had 18 shots to Monaco's four, but the one that the visitors got on target through Lucas Ocampos proved to be the winner 18 minutes from time.
A win on the final day at home to Zenit ensured they pipped Leverkusen to top spot, and no attack will relish coming up against their mean defence in the knockout stages.
Group D: Arsenal Throw Away Both a 3-Goal Lead and Top Spot
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A look at Group D shows that it ended up being a fairly simple one for both Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal, but should the Gunners draw one of the big boys in the last 16, then they'll be cursing the fact that they didn't finish in top spot.
Late goals from Kieran Gibbs and Lukas Podolski turned what could have been a damaging 1-0 defeat in Anderlecht into a 2-1 win on Matchday 3, but two weeks later the Gunners somehow contrived to throw away a 3-0 lead against the Belgians at the Emirates Stadium.
Anthony Vanden Borre struck twice in the final half an hour, with Aleksandar Mitrovic heading home a scarcely believable last-minute equaliser to earn the Belgians a 3-3 draw which kept their Champions League hopes alive at the time.
A win over Dortmund at the Emirates put Arsenal through on Matchday 5, but the fact that they had to settle for second all comes down to a mad half an hour.
Group E: Sergio Aguero Magic Stuns Bayern Munich
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At full-time at the Etihad Stadium on Matchday 4, a nine-man Manchester City trudged off the pitch having just been beaten 2-1 by CSKA Moscow. Their Champions League season looked over already.
It also looked over when they were 2-1 down with five minutes to go at home to Bayern Munich three weeks later, but Bayern had played with 10 men for over an hour and were tiring, and Sergio Aguero was about to ruthlessly take advantage.
The Argentinian brilliantly struck two goals to complete his hat-trick and earn City a dramatic 3-2 victory which meant they'd suddenly be through with a win at Roma's Stadio Olimpico in their final match.
It was a tough ask, obviously, but a City side missing Aguero, Yaya Toure and captain Vincent Kompany delivered a terrific performance and won 2-0 thanks to goals from Samir Nasri and Pablo Zabaleta, joining Bayern in the last 16 for the second year running in the process.
Group F: Schone's Strike Pegs Back PSG, but It's All About Messi's Record
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Group F was always pretty much a straight shootout between Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, and so PSG must have regretted the late free-kick they conceded to Ajax's Lasse Schone on Matchday 1 in Amsterdam.
It was hardly a fatal blow to their hopes, but given that they then followed that up with a 3-2 win over Barca in Paris, then a victory in the first match could really have ramped up the pressure on Luis Enrique's side.
In the event, Barca beat PSG 3-1 at the Nou Camp on Matchday 6 to leap above them and into top position, ensuring that this most straightforward of groups can really only be remembered for one thing, the eight goals from Lionel Messi which ensure he is now the top scorer in Champions League history.
After failing to net in the first match at home to APOEL, Messi scored a hat-trick against the same opponents to break Raul's record, and he further extended it with another goal against PSG.
Group G: Bizarre Late Penalty Gives Schalke Thrilling Win over Sporting
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Chelsea ran away with Group G, but the real story was the epic battle for second place between Schalke and Sporting Lisbon.
It ultimately came down to a shocking 93rd-minute penalty decision from Russian referee Sergei Karasev, who judged that Sporting's Jonathan Silva had handled the ball when it clearly hit his face.
Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting converted the spot kick to give Schalke a thrilling 4-3 win in Gelsenkirchen, with those extra two points ultimately proving crucial.
With Sporting's demands to replay the game, as described by the Daily Mail, proving fruitless, they actually beat Schalke 4-2 in an equally dramatic return game.
However, they missed out on second on the last day when they lost at Chelsea and Schalke won 1-0 at Maribor, whose last-minute equaliser against Sporting through Luka Zahovic on Matchday 1 ultimately came back to haunt the Portuguese.
Group H: Bilbao Endure a Shocking Night at BATE Borisov
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BATE Borisov's Champions League campaign saw them lose five of their six games and concede 24 goals, but the one match they won had a lasting effect.
A terrific 2-1 win over a struggling Athletic Bilbao on Matchday 2 put the Spanish side on the back foot, with later results confirming that, had Athletic beaten the Belarusians like everyone else did, then it would have been them who'd gone through in second place ahead of Shakhtar Donetsk.
As it was, a free-scoring Shakhtar deserved their place in the last 16 behind perennial qualifiers Porto, with forward Luiz Adriano top scoring in the group stages with nine strikes, five of which came in a 7-0 victory away at BATE, a result which underlined just how damaging that Bilbao defeat there was.
