It is the 1st time ever in the Champions League era that all the teams qualified for the last 16 of the competition are from the Top 5 European leagues.
Spanish La Liga – Barcelona | Real Madrid | Atletico Madrid | Valencia
English Premier League – Liverpool | Manchester City | Tottenham |Chelsea
German Bundesliga – Bayern Munich | Borussia Dortmund | RB Leipzig
Italian Serie A – Juventus | Napoli | Atalanta
French Ligue 1 – Paris St. Germain | Lyon
The 16 teams advancing to the knockout stage of the 2019/20 Champions League (Round of 16)
PSG (Group A Winners)
Real Madrid
Bayern Munich (Group B winners)
Tottenham
Man City (Group C Winners)
Atalanta
Juventus (Group D winners)
Atletico Madrid
Liverpool (Group E winners)
Napoli
Barcelona (Group F winners)
Borussia Dortmund
RB Leipzig (Group G winners)
Lyon
Valencia (Group H winners)
Chelsea
To the Europa League ‘Round of 32’
Red Bull Salzburg
Inter Milan
Benfica
Ajax
Club Brugge
Olympiacos
Shakhtar Donetsk
Bayer Leverkusen
Eliminated from European competition
Lille
Genk
Slavia Prague
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Lokomotiv Moscow
Galatasaray
Red Star Belgrade
Dinamo Zagreb
December 10, 2019
RB Salzburg 0-2 Liverpool
Liverpool – Naby Keita 57’ Mohamed Salah 58’
Napoli 4-0 Genk
Napoli – Arkadiusz Milik 3’ 26’ 38’ Dries Mertens 75’(pen)
Inter Milan 1-2 Barcelona
Inter Milan – Romelu Lukaku 44’
Barcelona – Carles Perez 23’ Ansu Fati 87’
Borussia Dortmund 2-1 Slavia Prague
Borussia Dortmund – Jadon Sancho 10’ Julian Brandt 61’
Slavia Prague – Tomas Soucek 43’
Lyon 2-2 RB Leipzig
Lyon – Houssem Aouar 50’ Memphis Depay 82’
RB Leipzig – Emil Forsberg 9’(pen) Timo Werner 33’(pen)
Benfica 3-0 Zenit St. Petersburg
Benfica – Franco Cervi 47’ Pizzi 58’(pen) Sardar Azmoun 79’(og)
Ajax 0-1 Valencia
Valencia – Rodrigo 24’
Chelsea 2-1 Lille
Chelsea – Tammy Abraham 19’ César Azpilicueta 35’
Lille – Loic Remy 78’
RB Salzburg couldn’t take advantage of their first-half opportunities against Liverpool.
Liverpool scored two goals about a minute apart to win the match and group.
Arkadiusz Milik scored a hattrick in the first half to lead Napoli on to a ‘4-0’ victory against Genk.
Ansu Fati became the youngest goalscorer in Champions League history when he netted Barcelona’s winning goal against Inter Milan in San Siro. Apart from pride and staying unbeaten in the Group, Barcelona had very little reason to care about the result of this much.
The Barcelona win at the San Siro benefited Dortmund.
Dortmund got a ‘2-1’ win against Slavia Prague to move on to the next round.
Lyon clawed their back from two goals down to advance to the knockout stage with a draw against RB Leipzig.
Despite Benfica doing their part and getting a ‘3-0’ victory against Zenit St. Petersburg, the result in the ‘Lyon vs RB Leipzig’ fixture didn’t help the Portuguese side move on up.
Valencia advances with Chelsea after getting a win in Amsterdam to eliminates Ajax from the competition.
December 11, 2019
Paris St. Germain 5-0 Galatasaray
Paris St. Germain – Mauro Icardi 32’ Pablo Sarabia 35’ Neymar 47’ Kylian Mbappe 63’ Edinson Cavani 84’(pen)
Club Brugge 1-3 Real Madrid
Club Brugge – Hans Vanaken 55’
Real Madrid – rodrygo 53’ Vinicius Junior 64’ Luka Modric 90+1’
Bayern Munich 3-1 Tottenham
Bayern Munich – Kingley Coman 14’ Thomas Muller 45’ Philippe Coutinho 64’
Tottenham – Ryan Sessegnon 20’
Olympiacos 1-0 Red Star Belgrade
Olympiacos – Youssef El Arabi 88’(pen)
Dinamo Zagreb 1-4 Manchester City
Dinamo Zagreb – Daniel Olmo 10’
Manchester City – Gabriel Jesus 34’ 50’ 54’ Phil Foden 84’
Shakhtar Donetsk 0-3 Atalanta
Atalanta – Timothy Castagne 68’ Mario Pasalic 80’ Robin Gosens 90+4’
Atletico Madrid 2-0 Lokomotiv Moscow
Atletico Madrid – Joao Felix 17’(pen) Felipe 54’
Bayer Leverkusen 0-2 Juventus
Juventus – Cristiano Ronaldo 75’ Gonzalo Higuain 90+2’
Atalanta started the day at the bottom of Group C but ended the day as moving on from the group with Manchester City.
Atlético Madrid did their part by beating Lokomotiv Moscow at the Wanda Metropolitano. A ‘2-0’ allowed Atletico to move on from Group D with Juventus.
Bayern Munich stayed perfect by beating Tottenham at the Allianz Arena.
Olympiacos and Club Brugge hold on to a place in the Europa League Round of 32, despite being on the wrong end of the score in the final match.
Nine players scored a hattrick in the group stage for the first time ever.
But no player was able to score a goal in every round.
Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich) – 4 goals against Tottenham
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)- 4 goals against Red Star Belgrade
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) – 3 goals against Atalanta
Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) – 3 goals against Dinamo Zagreb
Erling Braut Haaland (RB Salzburg) 3 goals against Genk
Mislav Oršić (Dinamo Zagreb) – 3 goals against Atalanta
Kylian Mbappé (Paris St. Germain) – 3 goals against Club Brugge
Rodrygo (Real Madrid)- 3 goals against Galatasaray
Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli)- 3 goals vs Genk
Bayern’s was potent
For the first time, Bayern finished the group with 100% record.(6/6)
They scored 24 goals (the most); no team score more than 18.
Two of their players scored 4 goals in a match ( Robert Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry)
Atalanta saved the best for the last to advance from their Champions League group in their debut season.
Despite getting just a point from their opening 4 matches of Group C, Atlanta squeezed into the final-16 by finishing the group stage with two victories.
Atalanta are the first team in Champions League history to progress to the knockout stage having lost the first three round of the group. A 3-0 win at Shakhtar + Zagreb’s 4-1 defeat vs Man City sees them jump from 4th to 2nd on the final day.
Game 1 : Defeat – 0-4 Dinamo Zagreb
Game 2 : Defeat – 1-2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Game 3 : Defeat – 1-5 Manchester City
Game 4 : Defeat – 1-1 Manchester City – 1 point and bottom of Group C.
Game 5 : Victory – 2-0 Dinamo Zagreb
Game 6 – Victory – 3-0 Shakhtar Donetsk
