Bayern Munich And Manchester City Reach The Knockout Stage
Bayern Munich and Manchester City reach the knockout stage: Champions League Football.
Defending champions Bayern Munich and Manchester City have reached the knockout stage of Champions League football.
Diego Maradona was paid tribute when the league started. Hours before the first match, there was news of the death of this great Argentinian footballer.
The players paid tribute to him by keeping a minute of silence in all the eight matches.
Defending champions Bayern Munich have reached the pre-quarterfinals of the Champions League thanks to goals from star striker Robert Lewandowski and Leroy Sane.
Bayern defeated RB Salzburg 3–1. Lewandowski scored 42nd for Bayern, Kingsley Koman 52nd, and Leroy Sane scored in the 68th minute.
This is Bayern’s 15th consecutive win in the Champions League.
Lewandowski has now scored 71 goals in the Champions League. He equaled Real Madrid veteran Raul Gonzalez’s record.
With this, he has reached number three in the Champions League in scoring goals, behind Leonardo Messi (118 goals) and Juventus’s Cristiano Ronaldo (131 goals).
Mark Roca, making his Champions League debut in the 66th minute of the match, was shown a red card. After this, Bayern’s team played with 10 players.
Salzburg took advantage of this in the 73rd minute and Miam Jam Berisha scored a brilliant goal. Bayern then scored no goals and won the match 3–1.
At the same time, Pep Gaeola’s team Manchester City also reached the pre-quarterfinals of the Champions League. Manchester City’s team defeated Olympiakos 1–0 to advance to the final-16.
Phil Foden scored the only goal of the match for City in the 36th minute. There are still two rounds of group stage left and these teams have reached the final-16.
Barcelona, Juventus, Chelsea and Savia have already made it to the knockout.
Liverpool will still have to wait, which Atlanta beat 2–0. At the same time, Real Madrid beat Inter Milan 2–0. Borussia Monshenglabakh beat Shakhtar 4–0.
