Real Madrid, the defending champions, and Manchester City, 2021 runners-up, are on the cusp of the Champions League final price with a 2-1 win over Shakhtar Donetsk and Copenhagen (Denmark) on Wednesday. :0. third round.
Chelsea achieved their first win in the group stage, beating AC Milan 3-0.
It was the same with the German side Leipzig, who beat Celtic 3-1, and the summit between Benfica and its guest Paris Saint-Germain ended in a 1-1 draw.
Napoli (Group I), Club Brugge (second) and Bayern Munich (third) were followed by Real Madrid and Manchester City, with each of them winning a third consecutive victory in three rounds, and in the fourth round one point will suffice. to get the final price in advance.
In the first match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, Real Madrid achieved the most important thing, defeating Shakhtar Donetsk away with two goals from the Brazilians Rodrigo (13) and Vinicius Junior (28) against the goal of Oleksandr Zubkov (39).
And the Royal Club is back on a winning path that stopped on Sunday at six in a row in the league and nine in various competitions when they were trapped in a 1-1 draw with their guest Osasuna in the league.
Leipzig revived his hopes, not least in the fight for the second map of the group when he beat his Scottish guest Celtic 3-1 in Leipzig.
Frenchman Christopher Nkunku (27) and Portuguese André Silva (65 and 77) scored Leipzig’s goals, while the latter’s nationalist Joao Felipe “Jota” (47) scored Celtic’s goal. This is Leipzig’s first victory after two consecutive defeats to Shakhtar Donetsk and Real Madrid, so they have cleared last place to raise the tally to three points, two points ahead of Celtic, who have only one point.
Haaland continues his hobby
In the second match at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, the Norway striker continued his scoring hobby with a double of five in a 5-0 win over Copenhagen.
Halland scored two goals in the 7th and 32nd minutes, taking his tally to 19 goals in 11 games in various competitions with City since he joined in the last summer transfer period. Haaland also increased his scoring in the prestigious continental tournament, scoring 28 goals in 22 matches at a rate of 1.27 goals per game, according to Opt statistics.
This is Manchester City’s third successive victory in a group that have consolidated their lead with nine points and now need one point to secure a place in the final price of a competition that is chasing its first titles.
Borussia Dotmond ended the match in the first half with a hat-trick over Portugal’s Rafael Guerrero (6), England’s Judd Bellingham (41) and Karim Adeyemi (43).
The Group H summit between Benfica and its guest Saint-Germain ended in a 1-1 draw. Paris Saint-Germain scored first against Argentine star Lionel Messi after a pass from fellow Brazilian star Neymar (22), but Benfica mistakenly equalized with help from compatriot defender Danilo Pereira against their French side (41).
Chelsea, champions of the penultimate season, took advantage of ground and public factors and chased down their guest, Milan, who have the second best record in the competition (7 titles), when they beat them with a clean three. and mixed the cards of the fifth group, in which the Austrian club Salzburg came to the fore by beating Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb 1-0, in the round competition. The third group stage of the Football Champions League Wednesday.
The Chelsea hat-trick was replaced by Frenchman Wesley Fofana (24), Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (56) and Rhys James (62).
Salzburg took the lead by defeating Dinamo Zagreb with the only goal scored by Switzerland’s Noah Okafor from the penalty spot (71).
This victory is the first for the Austrian club in the group stage this season, after draws with Milan and Chelsea with the same result of 1-1 in the previous two rounds.
