{"id":25178,"date":"2025-01-18T14:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/champions-cup-standings-who-needs-what-to-qualify-for-knockout-stage\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:46:39","slug":"champions-cup-standings-who-needs-what-to-qualify-for-knockout-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/champions-cup-standings-who-needs-what-to-qualify-for-knockout-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Cup standings: Who needs what to qualify for knockout stage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Fixtures:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Saturday, 18 January &#8211; Clermont Auvergne v Bristol (15:15 GMT), Benetton v La Rochelle (17:30 GMT), Leinster v Bath (17:30)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leinster <\/b>have already qualified and know a win at home to Bath on Saturday will secure their spot as number one seeds from Pool 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Clermont <\/b>know a home win over Bristol is likely to give them a place in the last 16 because of the difficult games facing Bath and Benetton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bristol<\/b> also know a win would probably take them through if those results also go their way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A point for <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">La Rochelle<\/b>,<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b>who face <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Benetton<\/b>,<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b>will be enough to secure their position in the top four, and a win would secure a top-two seeding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benetton will qualify with a win, and if they can overtake their opponents &#8211; they are three points behind La Rochelle but with a markedly worse points difference &#8211; could secure a last-16 home tie, depending on what Bath do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bath <\/b>know a win over Leinster would secure enough points to qualify. However, they can still qualify without picking up any points if results go their way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cn7gy82d331o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixtures: Saturday, 18 January &#8211; Clermont Auvergne v Bristol (15:15 GMT), Benetton v La Rochelle (17:30 GMT), Leinster v Bath (17:30) Leinster have already qualified and know a win at home to Bath on Saturday will secure their spot as number one seeds from Pool 2. Clermont know a home win over Bristol is likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25180,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions\/25180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}