UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
The teams that have qualified for ROUND OF 16
Real Madrid beat Inter Milan to convincingly win Group D.
Atletico Madrid did the improbable and advanced to the Round of 16 by getting the needed win in Porto.
Bayern Munich knocked out Barcelona.
Lille wins Group G and advances with Salzburg at the expense of Sevilla and Wolfsburg.
Zenit denied Chelsea from winning Group H. Juventus win it.
GROUP WINNERS
Manchester City
Liverpool
Ajax
Real Madrid
Bayern Munich
Manchester United
Lille
Juventus
RUNNER -UP
Paris St. Germain
Atletico Madrid
Sporting CP
Inter Milan
Benfica
Villarreal/Atalanta
Salzburg
Chelsea
DECEMBER 7, 2021
RB LEIPZIG 2-1 MANCHESTER CITY
PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN 4-1 CLUB BRUGGE
PORTO 1-3 ATLÉTICO MADRID
AC MILAN 1-2 LIVERPOOL
AJAX 4-2 SPORTING CP
BORUSSIA DORTMUND 5-0 BEŞIKTAŞ
SHAKHTAR DONETSK 1-1 SHERIFF TIRASPOL
REAL MADRID 2-0 INTER MILAN
GROUP A
1| Manchester City – 12 points
2| Paris Saint-Germain – 11 points
3| RB Leipzig – 7 points
4| Club Brugge – 4 points
Home advantage.
It was RB Leipzig and Club Brugge who needed the points to qualify for Europa League football.
RB Leipzig used a win against Manchester City to advance while Club Brugge suffered a 4-1 defeat in Paris.
GROUP B
1| Liverpool – 18 points
2| Atletico Madrid – 7 points
3| Porto – 5 points
4| AC Milan – 4 points
Unfortunately for AC Milan, the points they desperately needed were against a Liverpool team that is looking to complete the group stage with a perfect winning record.
Since Liverpool got the expected result against AC Milan, Porto and Atletico Madrid’s objective remained as it was from the kickoff. Porto needed a draw and Atletico Madrid needed a win.
Atletico Madrid rose from the bottom of the table to advance from Group B at Porto’s expense.
PORTO 1-3 ATLETICO MADRID
Things got feisty after Antoine Griezmann scored the game-opening goal to give Atletico Madrid the lead. Both teams had a player sent off on a red card in the second half. The space created by the absence of two players ended up benefiting Atletico Madrid in the counterattacks.
GROUP C
1| Ajax – 18 points
2| Sporting CP – 9 points
3| Borussia Dortmund – 9 points
4| Besiktas – 0 points
A 4-2 win against Sporting CP in Amsterdam allowed Ajax to close Group C with a 100% winning record. In the other game, Dortmund sent Besiktas out without a win.
GROUP D
1| Real Madrid – 15 points
2| Inter Milan – 10 points
3| Sheriff Tiraspol – 7 points
REAL MADRID 2-0 INTER MILAN
It was always going to be difficult for Inter Milan to get a win in Madrid to win Group D. It didn’t get any easier for Inter Milan when they went down a goal in the opening 20 minutes of the game and went down a man in the opening 20 minutes of the second half.
Marco Asensio scored a beauty to the 79th minute to kill the game.
SHAKHTAR DONETSK 1-1 SHERIFF TIRASPOL
Boban Nikolov scored in the final minute of the final added minutes to get Sheriff Tiraspol to qualify for the Europa League.
DECEMBER 8, 2021
BAYERN 3-0 BARCELONA
BENFICA 2-0 DYNAMO KYIV
MANCHESTER UNITED 1-1 YOUNG BOYS
ATALANTA 2-3 VILLARREAL
SALZBURG 1-0 SEVILLA
WOLFSBURG 1-3 LILLE
ZENIT 3-3 CHELSEA
JUVENTUS 1-0 MALMO
GROUP E
1| Bayern Munich – 18 points
2| Benfica – 8 points
3| Barcelona – 7 points
4| Dynamo Kyiv – 1 points
Benfica advance to the ‘Round of 16’ with Bayern Munich.
BENFICA 2- 0 DYNAMO KYIV
BAYERN MUNICH 3- 0 BARCELONA
Barcelona is heading into the Europa League.
[They are really missing that guy.]
Barcelona needed to win in Munich or get some help from Dynamo Kyiv in Lisbon. Both outcomes didn’t happen.
The task only got more difficult for Barcelona when Dynamo Kyiv fell two goals behind in the opening 22 minutes of their match in Lisbon.
Barcelona at that point needed a performance that was going to yield goals.
Barcelona went down a goal in the 34th minute after Thomas Muller’s dipping header crossed the goal line before getting cleared.
Leroy Sane’s wonder strike towards the end of the opening half allowed Bayern Munich to go into the break 2-0 up. It was over for Barcelona from that point.
GROUP F
1| Manchester United – 11 points
2| Villarreal – 10 points
3| Atalanta – 6 points
4| Young Boys – 5 points
Manchester United won the group without being able to beat Young Boys.
MANCHESTER UNITED 1-1 YOUNG BOYS
ATALANTA 2-3 VILLARREAL
Atalanta couldn’t make home advantage count.
Villarreal knew a point from a draw was all they needed but made things difficult for Atalanta by taking a 3-0 lead in the first 50 minutes of the 90. Atalanta got the gap down to a goal but not many would expect anything better than a draw after 3-0 down.
Villarreal to advance with Manchester United.
GROUP G
1| Lille – 11 points
2| Salzburg – 10 points
3| Sevilla – 6 points
4| Wolfsburg – 5 points
It was always the most difficult group to predict, and it lived up to the expectation.
The four members of Group G were alive in the final round.
Lille was fine with a point but they got the win in Wolfsburg to win Group G.
Salzburg made home advantage count and took a 1-0 victory to advance from the group.
SALZBURG 1- 0 SEVILLA
WOLFSBURG 1- 3 LILLE
GROUP H
1| Juventus – 15 points
2| Chelsea – 13 points
3| Zenit – 5 points
4| Malmo FF – 1 point
Chelsea thought they had done enough to win the group when Timo Werner scored in the 85th minute to restore their goal lead on Zenit.
Magomed Ozdoev had other ideas.
Ozdoev scored four minutes in the final additional minutes to get Zenit their first point in the group, while also denying Chelsea from winning Group H.
Juventus takes a narrow win at home against Malmo to win Group H
JUVENTUS 1- 0 MALMO
ZENIT 3- 3 CHELSEA
