Mohamed Salah helped keep Liverpool’s good report within the Champions League on Tuesday whereas holders Real Madrid bounced again from their defeat at Anfield to topple in-form Italians Atalanta. Elsewhere, struggling Paris Saint-Germain gained a significant win at Salzburg, whereas Bayer Leverkusen edged Inter Milan to maneuver second. Aston Villa, of their first look within the continent’s elite membership competitors for 41 years, maintained their shiny progress beating Leipzig 3-2 to take a seat third. The first eight groups qualify immediately for the final 16 with these positioned ninth to 24 getting into a play-off spherical.
In Spain, Salah’s 63rd-minute penalty proved decisive in opposition to dogged debutants Girona to increase the Premier League leaders’ report to 6 from six within the revamped format of Europe’s flagship membership competitors.
Under new coach Arne Slot Liverpool are nearly assured a spot within the final 16.
“If you ask me about all six video games, I’m actually happy with all the outcomes… (however) I’m removed from happy in regards to the efficiency tonight,” Slot instructed reporters in Girona.
“(We had) hardly any management at everywhere in the sport, perhaps the second half was a bit higher however then I’m attempting to be optimistic.”
Salah despatched Paulo Gazzaniga the mistaken solution to web his fiftieth Champions League aim, pulling the Egyptian stage with Filippo Inzaghi because the tenth highest goalscorer of all-time within the competitors.
The winger is out of contract on the finish of the season however his 16 targets throughout all competitions have been important in Liverpool’s very good first half of the season.
While Liverpool are sitting fairly with two league part rounds to come back early subsequent 12 months, kings of Europe Real Madrid, crushed 2-0 by Liverpool final trip, have work to do to make sure their progress into the knockout part.
Kylian Mbappe gave Real a tenth minute lead earlier than hobbling off injured in Atalanta, his strike was cancelled out by Charles de Ketelaere’s penalty in first-half further time.
Settle nerves
Real coach Carlo Ancelotti began Vinicius Junior for the primary time since a hamstring drawback final month. The Brazilian had Real again on high earlier than the hour, with Jude Bellingham additionally on the scoresheet for a 3-2 win over the Serie a leaders.
The hard-fought victory moved Real as much as 18th on 9 factors and can have helped to settle any nerves on the 15-time European champions forward of video games in opposition to Salzburg and Brest in January.
PSG put the wheels again on their stuttering marketing campaign with a a lot wanted 3-0 defeat on the highway at Salzburg.
The French champions went into this encounter in twenty fifth with simply 4 factors and three targets scored after 5 matches.
They method their final two league outings in provisional twenty fourth – the ultimate berth for the play-offs forward of Wednesday’s video games.
Bayern swept apart Ukraine facet Shakhtar Donetsk in Gelsenkirchen 5-1. Fellow Bundesliga giants Leverkusen grew to become the primary crew to attain in opposition to Inter on this 12 months’s competitors in a 1-0 win that lifted them 5 factors adrift of Liverpool on the high of the league.
Another noteworthy efficiency on matchday six got here on the Brittany coast the place modest French Ligue 1 outfit Brest dished out a 1-0 defeat to former European champions PSV Eindhoven.
It left the Atlantic port metropolis membership flying excessive in fifth of their first ever look at European soccer’s excessive desk.
In different video games, Celtic and Dinamo Zagreb remained in competition for the knockout spherical after an uninspiring 0-0 draw and Club Brugge beat Sporting 2-1.
Headline matches on Wednesday embrace Manchester metropolis at Juventus, and Barcelona at Borussia Dortmund.
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