Victory of Real Madrid celebrated by Inter Milan. The meringues beat Sheriff Tiraspol 0-3 in Group D to advance to the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League for the twenty-sixth time and twenty-fifth in a row. Both brands are historical records in the competition, a situation contrary to the other four participating Spanish teams (Barcelona, Sevilla, Villarreal and Atlético de Madrid), who will play their permanence on the last day.
Sheriff Tiraspol’s defeat, accompanied by a previous Inter win against Shakhtar Donetsk (2-0), guaranteed the Italian team a place in the round of 16 for the first time since 2011-12. At the San Siro Stadium, Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko scored his 49th and 50th goals in European club competition within six minutes to give Milan a 2-0 victory over the Ukrainian side.
In group A activity, Manchester City he became the leader of the squad and is up to himself on the final matchday against Leipzig to advance in first place to the round of 16. The team of Pep Guardiola rose from 0-1 at minute 60, the work of the youth star, Kylian Mbappé, and with goals from Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesús he defeated Lionel Messi and the rest of the Parisian eleventh.
It should be noted that the two giants of group A have met on just seven occasions and the history between the two has been widely dominated by the City, same that came with a thirst for revenge from their last meeting in September, which they lost 2-0.
Only the Bayern Munich has scored more goals than him Manchester City in this group stage, 19 and 17 respectively. The Citizens have an average of 3.4 expected goals (xG) per game and will be back in the fight for the title, which was only denied in May when they lost their first final of Champions against him Chelsea.
In group B the Liverpool, already classified and with 10 units of advantage, beat the Porto, whose position in the last 16 is still in danger after the victory of Milan about him Atlético de Madrid. These last two teams have four units, one less than the Portuguese squad. Although this is the group with the largest Mexican presence, neither Héctor Herrera nor Jesús Corona were active in their respective teams.
The other team with a Mexican, Ajax (although Edson Álvarez was not called up), the solo leader of Group C, turned the game around against Besiktas to prevail 2-1 and continue fired up with five victories this season of Champions League. Ivorian forward Sébastien Haller scored a double to join Poland’s Robert Lewandowski (Bayern) as the scoring leaders this season with nine goals and not only that, Haller joined Cristiano Ronaldo and Lewandowski himself as the only ones to score in all five first group stage matches this season.
In the same group, the Borussia Dortmund could not against Sporting de Lisboa, who beat the Germans 3-1. The fight to secure second place was in favor of the Portuguese, who join Ajax to close the 11 classified with only one match left: Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Juventus, Inter, Bayern Munich, Ajax, Paris Saint Germain, Real Madrid and Sporting.
The last day of groups will be played between Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 December, where the last five tickets to the round of 16 will be defined. 10 teams will arrive at that game that are already mathematically eliminated: Red Bull Leipzig, Brujas, Borussia Dortmund, Besiktas, Sheriff Tiraspol, Shakhtar, Dinamo de Kiev, Young Boys, Zenit San Petersburgo y Malmo.
That is, they are still in the fight for a place: Porto, Milan, Atlético de Madrid, Barcelona, Benfica, Villarreal, Atalanta, Lille, Salzburg, Seville and Wolfsburg.
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