He Inter from Milan, with a goal from the Argentine Lautaro Martínezbeat Sparta Prague of the Czech Republic 1-0 as a visitor, for the seventh date of the regular phase of the Champions Leagueand set foot in the round of 16.
With Simone Inzaghi at the helm, the Milanese team has been having a great season in which they fight day after day for the leadership of the Italian Serie A with Napoli and Atalanta but, in addition, with a good campaign in the regular phase of the competition European where they came to this match in the Czech Republic with 13 points, within the direct qualification positions for the round of 16.
For their part, as in most of their participations, those of the Danish Lars Friis were not competent in this new format of the Champions League and came to this match in search of a victory that would bring them closer to the miracle of reaching Stuttgart of Germany leads by six points and qualify for the round of 32.
At the Generali Arena in Prague, Inter Milan broke the zero on the scoreboard 12 minutes into the first half with Martínez’s goal. On the left corner of the area, Armenian Henrikh Mkhitaryan touched in the same direction for Alessandro Bastoni who put an exquisite first-time cross to the far post.
On that post, on the right of the Czech area, was the forward of the Argentine National Team who, without an angle, hit him as he came with a volley. At pure speed due to the power that the Bahiense gave him, the ball hit the ground near the post, it rose above the Danish goalkeeper Peter Vindahl Jensen who did not fully understand how the former Racing player ended up scoring the goal.
This goal by Martínez meant his fourteenth goal with the Inter Milan shirt and He became the Italian team’s top scorer in the Champions League, after reaching the mark of Brazilian Adriano.
With this result, Inzaghi’s team climbed to fourth place in the general table with 16 points, putting one foot in the round of 16 as it is three points behind the eighth, which is Bayer Leverkusen of Germany, the last to get directly between the 16 best in the competition.
Who is in the same ranking as Inter Milan with 16 points is Arsenal from England, which, at the Emirates Stadium, beat Dinamo Zagreb from Croatia 3-0 with goals from Declan Rice, the German Kai Havertz and the Norwegian Martin Odegaard.
One point lower was Italy’s Milan, which, at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium, beat Girona 1-0, which had the Argentine goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga of owner. The winning goal was scored by the Portuguese Rafael Leao.
The surprise of the day came from Feyenoord of the Netherlands, who beat the always candidate Bayern Munich of Germany 3-0 at the Stadion Feijenoord.
The striker born in Buenos Aires but international with Mexico, Santiago Giménez, scored two of the goals and the Japanese Ayase Ueda scored the third for the Dutch team, which had the Argentine Julián Carranza on the bench and climbed to eleventh place in the table , in qualifying positions for the round of 32, with 13 points.
On the other hand, the Germans were fifteenth with one less unit and are forced to win on the last date to avoid complications.
At the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Real Madrid of Spain crushed Red Bull Salzburg of Austria 5-1 and was on the same points line as Bayern Munich.
The Brazilians Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior each scored a double and the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé closed the victory of the defending European champion against the modest Austrian team that had the presence of the Argentine Nicolas Capaldo.
In a key match to define the pass to the next phase, the PSG of France beat Manchester City of England 4-2 in the Parc des Princes and came in 22nd place with 10 points, two away from the last place to qualify for the round of 32.
Ousmane Dembelé, Bradley Barcola and the Portuguese Joao Neves and Goncalo Ramos scored for the locals, while Jack Grealish and the Norwegian Erling Haaland scored for the English who, for now, are out of the competition and two points out of qualifying positions.
In addition, Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine beat Brest of France 2-1, Red Bull Leipzig of Germany beat Sporting Lisbon of Portugal 2-1 and Celtic of Scotland defeated Basel Young Boys of Switzerland 1-0.
Source: Ambito
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