This is how playoff and direct qualifiers places look like. Yeah, there is no Manchester City there. Crazy, right?

They are 2 points behind Stuttgart and follow them right behind. It would be a huge disappointment if they fail to throw themselves in playoffs. The last one is vs Club Brugge home. I guess Guardiola wouldn't make the fans sad by losing points in such game. The biggest issue of them has been to play terrible against top clubs. So we can still see them getting eliminated by such club in the phase right after this one.
Manchester City will definitely qualify and that is where experience will come in. There is no way they will be eliminated when PSG is playing Stuttgart in a match that appears to favor the home team PSG. Even if they end in a draw and Manchester City wins Club Brugge, which is likely what will happen, City will still qualify. Should Stuttgart pull a huge surprise by offsetting PSG, then they will qualify for playoff along side Manchester City. Whatever be the case, Manchester City simply have to win Club Brugge and their qualification is certain.
There is still a chance for Man City to be in the play-off zone, namely if Stuttgart draws with PSG, then Man City can shift its position if the number of goals owned by Man City is more and currently Man City has 2 more goals than Stuttgart even though Man City is out of the play-off zone, and also Benfica vs Juventus matches if Juventus wins then Man City can also get its place, so seeing the situation, Man City should try hard in this competition because it is very unfortunate that a big club like Man City failed to advance to the last 16 of the UCL.