⛅️ UCL Forecast: Barça on the brink, Milan's great escape, red hot Haller | OneFootball

Welcome to the final matchday of Champions League group stage action.

Let’s take a look at what lies in store …

🔥 Game of the Week

Bayern Munich v Barcelona

The German champions may already be through as group winners but Barcelona visit with their hopes hanging in the balance.

They hold a two-point lead over Benfica, who face bottom side Dynamo Kyiv and are expected to overcome a team with just one point to their name.

If they do so, Barcelona would need to win in Bavaria to qualify – something they have never managed to do in five previous attempts.

They could be aided by Bayern carrying some knocks into the game after a chaotic win over Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, meaning Julian Nagelsmann shuffles his pack.

But it will still be poised on a knife edge as the Blaugrana aim to avoid a group stage elimination for the first time since 2000, when current coach Xavi was a 20-year-old player.

🔮 Our prediction: Bayern Munich 2-0 Barcelona

🤔 Too close to call

Group G

For the first time since 2009, all four teams go into the final matchday with a chance of progression.

That’s the case in Group G which features Lille, Salzburg, Sevilla and Wolfsburg who are fighting it out for two places.

While there will be plenty of twists and turns along the way, the situation is relatively straightforward.

The top two (Lille and Salzburg) can secure qualification by avoiding defeat and they don’t play each other, while Sevilla and Wolfsburg in the chasing pack must win to stand any chance.

But every team knows three points will see them through. Talk about perfectly poised.

🔮 Our predictions: Wolfsburg 1-1 Lille; Salzburg 1-2 Sevilla

😰 Potential upset

Milan v Liverpool

Milan are aiming to following in the footsteps of their Lombardy cousins Atalanta, who qualified two years ago after losing their first three games, drawing the fourth and winning their last two fixtures.

To do so, they’ll need to beat Jürgen Klopp’s side and hope for the Porto-Atlético result to fall in their favour with a draw, meaning it is out of their hands.

Beating Liverpool is certainly not beyond a Milan side who have looked sharp and clinical of late, while the visitors are afforded the luxury of resting key men with top spot already assured.

It would be a surprise considering how the group has gone so far but the Rossoneri have the quality to pull it off. Then, it’ll be about hoping for the best.

🔮 Our prediction: Milan 1-0 Liverpool

🤩 Star man

Sébastien Haller

If Haller finds the net against Sporting CP, he’ll join Cristiano Ronaldo in netting in all six group games in a single season.

The Portuguese international managed it during his Real Madrid days in 2017/18.

Haller is the joint top scorer in this season’s competition, having scored nine in his five games so far as he aims to make history, sitting two short of the group stage record (also set by Ronaldo in 2015).

But his exploits could be equalled on matchday six as Ronaldo (again) and Robert Lewandowski have also both netted in all five games so far.