Winner of Union Saint-Gilloise this Wednesday (2-0, 7th day of the Champions League), Bayern comes back to within 3 points of Arsenal. Barça smashed Slavia Prague (2-4).
Wide favorite of the match on the seventh day of the Champions League which pitted it against Union Saint-Gilloise this Wednesday, Bayern Munich did not disappoint. Winners at home (2-0), the Bavarians still played half an hour outnumbered following the expulsion of Kim Min-Jae (63rd). Harry Kane’s double (52nd, 55th) was enough, the Englishman even missing a hat-trick on a missed penalty (81st). Bayern are alone second in the standings in this league phase, three points behind leader Arsenal. And is guaranteed to see the eighths directly.
At the same time, FC Barcelona won in style on the pitch of Slavia Prague (2-4). Despite Vasil Kusej’s opening score for the locals (10th), the Blaugrana reacted with a double from Fermin Lopez (34th, 42nd). But just before the break, Robert Lewandowski scored against his side (44th), allowing Slavia to come back level. Nothing to worry about Barcelona who scored two other goals in the second half, works from Dani Olmo (63rd) and Robert Lewandowski (71st). Hansi Flick’s men are ninth and flirting with direct qualification for the eighth.
For their part, Liam Rosenior’s Chelsea almost failed to find the fault against a Pafos team having positioned the bus in front of their cage. It was finally Moises Calcedo who liberated the Blues at the dawn of the last ten minutes of regulation time (1-0, 78th). A short but precious success for the London club which is eighth.
Juventus and Newcastle also win
Perhaps one of the encounters with the most indecision this evening was the one between Juventus and Benfica (2-0). The Old Lady had the last word and won thanks to goals from Kephren Thuram (55th) and Weston McKennie (64th). Everything could have been restarted on the Lisbon side if Vangelis Pavlidis had succeeded in his penalty (81st), but that was not the case. In the standings, Turin is fifteenth with twelve points and remains in the race for direct qualification. For Benfica, the situation is much more complicated since José Mourinho’s men are twenty-ninth, two units from the last play-off place.
In the two other matches of the evening, Newcastle remained in control at home against PSV Eindhoven (3-0) with goals from Yoane Wissa (8th), Anthony Gordon (30th) and Harvey Barnes (65th). The Magpies are seventh, the Dutch twenty-second. Finally, Athletic Bilbao won on the field of Atalanta Bergamo (2-3) at the end of a match full of spectacle.
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