And two other clubs have secured access to the 1/8 finals.

Demonstration of will

The highlights of the game day certainly took place in Barcelona and Glasgow. There, the audience not only saw the extravagance of the score, but also real drama. True, the stories developed very differently. Caught in a difficult tournament position, Barcelona were in desperate need of a win over Inter, who defeated them in the last round.

And the start was impressive, despite Dzeko hitting ter Stegen’s woods in the first half with a score of 0: 0. He lasted long enough, until the 40th minute, when Dembele scored. The time ends with a total statistical advantage of the Catalans, who in 45 minutes score 15 shots, hitting the target five times. Inter have only made three goals.

But over time, the density of events has increased significantly and the plot is notoriously convoluted. At the beginning of the second half, Barella equalized unexpectedly and 13 minutes later Martinez gave Inter the lead. Despite Barcelona seemed to be pressing. But the monstrous inattention and softness in defense cost dearly to the Catalans. Salvation came from Lewandowski, who drew in the 82nd minute. There was no breathing space as Barcelona’s new defensive mistakes led to Gosens’ goal in the 89th minute. And just a couple of minutes later the point was made: Lewandowski scored a brace with a chic header.

The final score of 3: 3 is clearly in the hands of Inter, who have maintained their three-point advantage over the Catalans. Statistically, Barcelona have given their best, shooting 25 times on goal, hitting the target 11 times, owning the ball more than 61% of the time. But how monstrously she managed his chances and how careless she was in defense. What is not always visible in La Liga emerges brilliantly in the Champions League. And had it not been for Lewandowski, who has already scored 14 goals in 12 games for Barcelona, ​​the Catalans would have found themselves in an even more deplorable position.

Much worse, however, he knows the Rangers. Even in his game with Liverpool, not everything aligned in a simple and linear way. The Scots suddenly decided to be daring and scored first in the 17th minute with Erfield’s efforts. Liverpool, thanks to Firmino’s goal, immediately equalized, but the balance was maintained for a long time and it was unpleasant for the Reds, who are already going through a certain crisis.

In this particular match, a way out of the crisis was found at the beginning of the second half, when Firmino scored a brace, and Rangers slowly began to tighten up. It got to the point that first Nunez consolidated Liverpool’s lead, then Salah scored a hat-trick in six minutes from Jota’s three passes. By the way, this is the fastest hat-trick in Champions League history. Elliott, who scored his seventh goal in the 87th minute, put an end to this. In total, Liverpool have scored 20 shots and hit the target nine times. The Scots only have seven attempts.

Rangers are currently the worst team in the Champions League this season. He has zero points and a goal difference of 1:16. Coupled with Celtic’s only point in Group F, it can be said that Scotland is unlikely to be happy with the representation of their two legendary clubs simultaneously in the Champions League group stage. And Liverpool got a confident second place in the quartet, where almost everything is clear.

Provided an exit

On the day of the previous match, Real Madrid and Manchester City anticipated the expected 1/8 finals. Now two other teams have joined. One of these, from the Liverpool group, is Napoli, which surprises in this draw. Once again the crackdown on Ajax for Luciano Spalletti’s team. Now with the score 4: 2. And it looks like Ajax had more ball possession, and their opponents shoot on goal equally – 13 times each, but Napoli are simply better and more consistent in every phase and in every aspect of the game.

Already at 16 ‘, after the goals of Lozano and Raspadori, the Neapolitans were ahead with the score of 2: 0. Early in the second half, Klassen revived the intrigue, but died when Kvaratskelia converted a penalty, adding a goal to his previous goal pass. At the end of the match, Bergwijn from the spot and Osimhen exchanged goals, adding chic to this high-scoring day of play.

Napoli in its group with 12 points has secured access to the playoffs. Liverpool are three points behind him and Ajax nine points behind him.

Bayern, who dominate the quartet with Inter and Barcelona, ​​also finished their playoff qualifying match with the same score of 4: 2. Now she is ahead of the Milanese by five points and the Catalans by eight. But on this day, Bayern were thwarted by Victoria, who competes in absentia with Rangers for the title of worst team of the group stage.

The Czechs have zero points, but better goal difference – 3:16. In addition, they scored two out of three goals against Bayern in this match. It seemed hopeless from the start, because already in the 35th minute Mane, Muller and Goretzka scored twice on Victoria’s goal, bringing the score to 4: 0. After that, Bayern naturally relaxed, allowing Vlkanova and Kliment to score in the second half. Well, to correct the stats a bit: 15-15 at the end of the game.

Don’t sink to the bottom

Brugge continues to work miracles. The Belgian away match against Atlético was the most boring in terms of goals on this brilliant day of play, but it was also quite remarkable. If only because it ended goalless with 21 goals from Real Madrid, who hit the target nine times. Griezmann alone hit eight times. But Mignolet took the courage and captured everything. Brugge himself only scored five shots and once hit the target of Oblak’s goal.

Most notable: Club Brugge is the only club this season that hasn’t conceded a goal yet. He scored seven and suffered zero. Until now, Bayern were still such a club, but they relaxed and indulged too much in the game with Victoria.

And now Brugge, unexpectedly, after four rounds, are leading group B. Furthermore, they have four points clear of Porto and six of Atlético, which almost guarantees them access to the playoffs. And Madrid also lacked the initiative in the match against Porto.

The Dragons, meanwhile, were testing the Bayer Leverkusen with Xabi Alonso at the helm. And the Spaniard’s first coaching match in the Champions League turned out to be lumpy. Galen led Porto in the sixth minute. There was a chance for a breakthrough when Bayer earned a penalty, but Demirbay failed to break Costa.

And fate paid off the Leverkuseners hard. Up to the middle of the second half they themselves ran into two ridiculous penalties, which Taremi transformed. As a result, Bayer lost with a score of 0: 3, but as in the case of Atlético, the statistics show a completely different course of the match. The Leverkuseners had 65 percent of the ball and had 17 shots, hitting four on goal. And Porto have only five shots, three shots on goal and three goals.

Now Bayer closes the group with three points, but before Atlético they have a point, and Porto are already three points behind.

It wasn’t clearer.

We previously pointed out that the most confusing situation is in Group D, where all four teams play haphazardly and keep their chances of reaching the playoffs. Round four didn’t bring much clarity, shuffling all the cards again. Sporting, who were leading before this tour, suddenly found themselves in third place. And all for the defeat of Marseille. And it was a real shame. Not by score, but for fun. Already at 19 ‘the “lions” were in the minority after the removal of Esgayo, and Guendouzi gave Marseille the lead from the spot. At the end of the half hour, Alexis Sanchez increased the advantage of the Frenchman.

The Chilean’s goal also marked the final score. But Marseille could score more than once, but Sporting kicks slowly and even receives a second removal: Pote left the team in the 60th minute, getting two yellow cards in a row. As a result of a failed match, Sporting achieved four successes while Marseille had 16 successes.

The French, last in the group, immediately jumped to second place, reaching Sporting on points, but beating them on the additional indicators. And the lead was Tottenham, who have only one point ahead of this pair. To do this, the Spurs had to organize an emotional shootout with the Eintracht. The Germans opened the scoring thanks to Kamada’s goal in the 14th minute, but in the interval they were losing 1: 3. Son scored a brace, Kane scored from the spot. All of this happened in 16 minutes.

And in the second half, in two minutes, Tuta received two yellow cards, leaving Eintracht in the minority. All in the best tradition of the crazy group D. The madness continues when Alidu manages to return the intrigue at the end of the game, bringing the score to 2: 3 – Eintracht resists in the minority. Kane could have sentenced him to recovery time with another penalty, but he managed to break through over the gate. A decent point for a crazy day of play. And after all, in group D, no one withdrew from the race. Eintracht also has four points, which means it has a three-point advantage over the leader.