Champions League Group H leaders Barcelona head to Royal Antwerp's Bosuilstadion on Wednesday evening simply needing to avoid defeat to advance to the last 16 of the competition as group winners.
Meanwhile, the Belgian upstarts are only playing for a small sliver of pride on the final matchday, having failed to pick up a single point across their five top-level European contests thus far.
Not even a shot at redemption in the Europa League is a possibility for the Jupiler Pro League outfit, who suffered a fifth defeat from five Group H matches away to Shakhtar two weeks ago, as Mykola Matvienko headed home from Oleksandr Zubkov's free kick on the 12-minute mark.
The Great Old enter the final matchday as the only team in this season's Champions League without a single point next to their name - Celtic, Red Star Belgrade and Benfica have all managed to glean one apiece - and a tournament-high 15 goals conceded goes a long way to explaining their miserable predicament.
An unwanted slice of Champions League folklore could also be written for the Reds this week, as having been beaten 3-2 by Shakhtar and 4-1 by Porto on home soil, the hosts could be the first team in the tournament's history to lose their opening three home matches while conceding at least three goals each time.
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