The team from Munich scored a 3:0 (2:0) victory over “Barcelona” in the subgroup C match.
“Bayern” needed only ten minutes to make it 1-0, Sadio Mane excelling with an accurate shot, but in the 31st minute, Maxim Chupo-Moting sent the second ball into the “Barcelona” goal.
Serge Gnabry then also scored a goal in the second half, but it was disallowed due to a backhand decision by VAR. In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Benjamēns Pavars made it 3-0 after Gnabrī’s pass.
Meanwhile, in another match, Milan “Inter” beat “Viktoria” Pilsen from the Czech Republic with a score of 4:0 (2:0) at home, giving their opponents their fifth defeat.
In the first half, Henrikh Mhitarian put the hosts in the lead in the 35th minute of the game, but Edin Dzeko doubled the lead seven minutes later.
In the 66th minute, Dzeko stood out again with an accurate shot, while Romelu Lukaku managed to send the ball into the visitors’ goal three minutes before the end of regular time.
Before the last round of games, the leader in subgroup C is “Bayern” with 15 points, followed by “Inter” with ten points. “Barcelona” is in third place with four points and has lost hopes of entering the round of 16, but the last place is occupied by “Viktoria”, which has not been successful in five matches.
Players of “Atletico” Madrid played a draw 2:2 (1:2) with “Bayer” Leverkusen at home in the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday and said goodbye to the chances of entering the playoffs.
Madrid had a chance to win at the end of the game, but Yannik Carrasco’s penalty kick was saved by Lukāš Hrādeckis, and Saul Njiges hit the crossbar in the follow-up.
Such an outcome of the game made it possible to secure the “play-off” ticket for “Porto”, which together with “Club Brugge” will represent subgroup B in the elimination tournament.
In the beginning of the match, the Madrid players were more active, but the opponents scored the first goal. In the ninth minute, Antoine Griezmann was disarmed at the penalty area of ”Atletico” and after a pass from Adam Hložek, Moussa Diabî put the ball into the goal.
A little later, the visitors played clumsily in their own penalty area and Angel Correa got into a good shot position, whose sent ball was saved by Lukāš Hrādeckis. However, in the middle of the half, in the 22nd minute, “Atletico” made it 1-1 after Griezmann redirected the ball passed by Correa to the line of the penalty area, from where Yannick Carrasco was accurate.
After seven minutes, “Bayer” returned to the front. This time, the ball was taken away from Correum in the Atletico half of the field and Kelam Hudson-Odoy made an unerring shot from about 11 meters after Nadeem Amiri’s pass.
In the last minutes of the half, Hrādeckis prevented the ball from entering the goal after a ricochet, but Jan Oblak, the home goalkeeper, also played skillfully at the other end of the field. The teams went into the break with the score 2-1 in favor of Xavi Alonso’s team.
In the second half, after five minutes played, Rodrigo de Paul perfectly cut the ball into the goal from a distance and made it 2:2. “Atletico” attacked more and more powerfully, managing the Leverkusen side of the field.
On the other hand, the guests tried to respond with counterattacks and in two of them Oblak stopped the efforts of Diabí and Paulinho to make it 3:2 in favor of the German team.
In the last seconds of the match, in the sixth minute of the compensation time, “Atletico” executed a corner kick, and when the ball went out of play, the head referee Klemāns Turpe blew the final whistle of the duel. However, involving the VAR, a handball was detected in the penalty area of ”Bayer” and a penalty kick was awarded to the visitors’ goal.
“Pendeli” was performed by Carrasco, whose shot was saved by Hrádeckis, but Sauls Njiges tried to send the rebound into the goal, who hit the crossbar. The ball flew over the goal for the third time and the score remained the same.
In the second group game, “Porto” defeated “Club Brugge” with the result 4:0 (1:0), which had already secured a place in the elimination tournament.
In the 33rd minute of the match, Mehdi Teremi made it 1-0 in favor of the Porto unit, who used a solo move against the goalkeeper after the hosts made a mistake in the middle of the field. At the beginning of the first half, “Porto” goalkeeper Djogu Kosta saved Hans Vanaken’s 11-meter penalty kick, which the referee ordered to be repeated, and the second “pendelle” by Noah Lang was also neutralized. Košta has already saved three penalty kicks in the Champions League this season.
Club Brugge’s woes continued in the second half as well. Sloppy defense allowed Evanilson to make it 2-0 in the 57th minute, but three minutes later Steven Eustachio strengthened the visitors’ lead even more with a repeated strike. In the 70th minute, Portu footballers broke the home team’s defense and Taremi scored his second goal in the match – 4:0.
In subgroup B, before the last round, “Club Brugge” has ten points, “Porto” has nine points, “Atletico” – five, and “Bayer” – four.
“Liverpool” footballers secured a place in the UEFA Champions League play-offs on Wednesday with a stunning victory in the fifth round, just like Napoli, who previously secured a “play-off” ticket.
“Liverpool” beat Amsterdam “Ajax” 3:0 (1:0) in the game of subgroup A.
At the end of the first half, in the 42nd minute, Mohamed Salah put the visiting team in the lead, for whom it was the sixth goal in the Champions League this season. Meanwhile, Darwin Nunez and Harvey Elliott were on target in the second half, making it a safe three-goal lead within three minutes.
In the second group game, “Napoli” defeated Glasgow “Rangers” with the result 3:0 (1:0), winning the fifth success.
In the 11th and 16th minutes of the game, Giovanni Simeone beat the Rangers goalkeeper twice, first scoring after a pass from Giovanni di Lorenzo, and then assisted by Mario Rui. In the second half, 3-0 was achieved by Leo Estigor, who scored in the 80th minute.
After five rounds of matches, the first place in Group A is occupied by “Napoli” with 15 points, while “Liverpool” is one place lower with 12 points. “Ajax” is in the third position with three points won, while “Rangers” is in the last place without any points.
Tottenham Hotspur were held to a draw by Sporting Lisbon in their UEFA Champions League group stage on Wednesday, while Eintracht Frankfurt beat Olympique de Marseille in another Group D match as all four sides kept their hopes of reaching the last 16 alive.
Tottenham “Hotspur” played a draw at home with the score 1:1 (0:1) against “Sporting”, against whom they lost in the first match between them.
The Lisbon unit took the first lead when Marcus Edwards sent the ball into the home team’s goal in the 22nd minute after Paulinho’s pass. “Hotspur” managed to equalize the result only in the 80th minute of the match, when Rodrigo Bentakkur equalized.
Harry Kane scored another goal for Tottenham in stoppage time, but it was disallowed by VAR due to the back.
On the other hand, in the second game of subgroup D, “Eintracht” defeated “Olympique” Marseille at home with the result 2:1 (2:1).
Daichi Kamada scored 1:0 for the home team, who scored with a precise shot in the third minute of the match. The Marseille team responded with a goal scored in the 22nd minute, Mateo Genduzi equalizing. “Eintracht” scored the winning goal in the 27th minute by Randal Kolo Muani.
Before the decisive round in Group D, “Hotspur” is in the first position with eight points, followed by “Sporting” and “Eintracht” with seven points respectively, and “Olympique” with six points.
32 teams play in the main tournament of the UEFA Champions League. The two best teams of each subgroup will advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed team will continue their season in the UEFA Europa League knockout tournament.
“Real” Madrid beat “Liverpool” 1:0 in the final of the 2021/2022 season competition in Paris.
