Robert Lewandowski led Barcelona to a 3-0 win in the Champions League. Manchester City shockingly lost their three-goal lead.
Manchester City, second in the Premier League, said goodbye to their five-game losing streak, taking into account all series, but Pep Guardiola’s the protectors inexplicably lost their three-goal lead at home. Feyernoord went up to 3-3 during the final quarter.
Manchester City are the first Champions League club to lead by three goals in the 75th minute and fail to win a match.
Erling Haaland completed two goals and Ilkay Gundogan one for City. At the same time, the Norwegian top scorer became the fastest player involved in fifty Champions League goals per match. Haaland has scored 46 goals and assisted five hits in the 44 UCL games he has played.
Barcelona moved up to second in the series, when the Spanish giant beat the fourth-placed UCL before Tuesday, beating Brest 3-0, causing the French sensation an opening defeat in the Champions League.
Scored two goals Robert Lewandowski took his career Champions League goal tally to 101. The Polish striker emerged as the third player Cristiano Ronaldo (140) and Lionel Messi’s (129) to a rare goal club.
The 36-year-old Polish striker needed 125 UCL games to reach 100 goals – two games more than Messi and 12 games less than Ronaldo. Dani Olmo scored Barcelona’s second goal.
Bayern Munich beat PSG 1-0 to keep a clean sheet for the 7th consecutive game, all series considered.
Korean topper Min-Jae Kim headed Bayern’s 1–0 win from a corner kick when PSG keeper Matvei Safonov fumbled in the 38th minute. Bayern’s job was made easier by PSG Ousmane Dembélén red card in the 57th minute.
Having blanked their opponents in their five matches, Inter jumped to the top of the UCL, when the team from Milan beat RB Leipzig 1–0. Topper in the deciding goal Castello Lukeba steered unhappily Federico Dimarcon focus on one’s own.
Lukas Hradecky sat on the bench for the first time this season in the UCL, when Leverkusen crushed tame Salzburg at home 5–0. Florian Wirtz scored two goals.
Atalanta rose to fourth place in the series with a 6–1 crushing of Young Boys. Serie A’s league runner-up only conceded its first comeback goal in the 5th round.
Gabriel Martinelli, Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard and twice hit Kai Havertz with their goals, Arsenal’s 5-1 victory over Sporting Lisbon, with a reputation for being a tough home team, which had beaten City 4-1 at home a couple of weeks ago.
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