FOOTBALL ONLINE: Manchester City secured a place in the Champions League. Real science

Goal celebration by Joa Cancela of Manchester City.

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The defender of the championship, Bayern Munich, who will welcome Salzburg, and last year’s winner Liverpool, who will host Atalanta Bergamo, are also within reach.

Bayern will postpone the win over Salzburg to the round of 16, a draw will be enough for him to advance if Lokomotiv Moskva does not win at Atlética Madrid in a group A match at the same time. The reigning winner will go to the match in the back with a 6-2 win from the duel on the Salzburg field, which he scored three weeks ago thanks to four goals in the final quarter of an hour.

The German champion, who is the most scoring team with 12 goals in the competition so far, can extend the series of 14 wins in the Champions League. In the group stage, his invincibility lasts even 19 matches, the last time he lost in it more than three years ago. The match will be exceptional for the Polish Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski. If he scores, he will equal the Spaniard Raúl (71) in the number of goals and after Cristian Ronald and Lionel Messi he will become the third best scorer in the history of the competition.

Bayern sniper Robert Lewandowski.

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In Group D, Liverpool can advance when they defeat Bergamo at home. A draw may be enough for him to advance if Ajax Amsterdam does not beat Midtjylland at home. “Reds” won three weeks ago in Bergamo also thanks to the hat-trick of the Portuguese striker Diogo Jota 5: 0.

The Manchester City footballers secured Piraeus 1-0 on the Olympiakos field. The Mönchengladbach footballers also went to the playoffs in Group B, who three weeks after winning 6-0 defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 4-0 in the domestic retaliation. In both stadiums, there was a minute of silence before the matches for the football legend Diego Maradona, who died today.

“Citizens”, who also had a draw in Group C, took the lead in the 36th minute, when Captain Sterling put Phil Foden in the ideal shooting position with a heel and he hit the exposed half of the goal. Twenty-year-old Foden also scored in his third year in the Champions League. Manchester extended the series without losing in the group stage of the competition to 16 matches and gradually imitated Chelsea, Seville, Barcelona and Juventus.

Mönchengladbach, who won the first half 4: 0 in Kiev three weeks ago, entered the opening act again in style. In the 17th minute, Lars Stindl converted a penalty after a foul on Thuram, after half an hour Nico Elvedi jumped on Stindl’s corner and with the header on the closer rod did not give the goalkeeper Pjatov a chance to hit.

In the setting of the first half, he surpassed Pyatov with successful scissors Breel Embolo, who at the age of 23 hit the competition for the third club. The final form of the result was given in the 77th minute by Oscar Wendt, who, like Elvedi, scored in the competition for the first time. Borussia won the home league of the Champions League after five years, when two goals from Seville (4: 2) were scored by today’s scorer Stindl. In the incomplete table, he has a four-point lead over Shakhtar and Real Madrid, which now plays at Inter Milan.