In a Diego Maradona stadium full of Neapolitan “typhoid”, Simeone He opened the scoring 11 minutes into the first half by “shooting” the Scottish goalkeeper Allan Mac Gregor and extended the score five later with a header. The Norwegian Leo Ostigard stretched the scoreboard for the Italians at 35 minutes of the complement.
For the same group, Liverpool thrashed Ajax in Amsterdam, 3-0, and secured the other place in the round of 16.
Inter, where Lautaro Martinez He started, thrashed Viktoria Plzen 4-0 at home, qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League and buried Barcelona’s chances of passing the phase.
With goals from the Belgian Romelu Lukaku, the Armenian Henrikh Mkhitaryan, and two from the Bosnian Edin Dzeko, the Italian team, where Joaquin Correa entered in the second half, reached 10 points in group C and was five behind the leader Bayern Munich.
Precisely the Bavarians had a successful visit to Catalonia, since at the Camp Nou they thrashed Barcelona 3-0 and sent it to the Europa League for the second consecutive year.
The Catalan and Spanish press were lapidary with “Barsa” and with their coach Xavi, since they considered their performance in the main European competition a failure.
For group B and in the Wanda Metropolitano, Rodrigo dePaul he scored one of the goals with which his team, Atlético de Madrid, drew 2-2 with Bayer Leverkusen, although the “Colchoneros” were left out of the tournament and are now fighting for a place in the Europa League.
Nahuel Molina and Angel Correa They started as starters for the team led by Diego Simeone, in a match in which the Frenchman Moussa Diaby opened the account for the visitors, the Belgian Yannick Carrasco equalized, but the Englishman Callum Hudson Odoi put the 2 to 1 before the first period will end.
Paul’s entered at the beginning of the second stage and five minutes later equalized the match to give life to the “Colchoneros” with a shot from outside the area.
The tension reached its peak when a penalty was sanctioned in favor of Atlético de Madrid in the third minute of injury time in the second half. Carrasco kicked and the Finnish goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky saved, and on the rebound the “colchonero” player Saúl crashed his header into the crossbar, so the match ended 2-2.
In that group, the first two places were shared between Bruges, from Belgium, and Porto, from Portugal, who met earlier in a match that culminated in a 4-0 win for the Portuguese.
In group D, the competition is very close as Tottenham Hotspur from England leads the group with 8 points, after drawing 1-1 in London with Sporting Lisbon. Argentine Cristian “Cuti” Romero was a starter for the English team and received a yellow card.
In the same area, Eintracht Frankfurt defeated the French Olympique de Marseille at home in Germany and 2-1, where the Argentine Leonardo Balerdi started.
The positions are as follows:
– Positions –
Group A: Napoli 15 points; Liverpool 12; Ajax 3 and Rangers 0.
Group B: Bruges 10 points, Porto 9, Atlético de Madrid 5 and Bayer Leverkusen 4.
Group C: Bayern Munich 15 points; Inter 10, Barcelona 4, Viktoria Plzen 0.
Group D: Tottenham 8 points; Sporting Lisbon 7; Eintracht Frankfurt 7 and Marseille 6.
Source: Ambito
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