Penalty to Benfica!
Szczesny – oh no – runs out and collides with Aktürkoğlu. It’s almost as if he was a retired goalkeeper a few weeks ago.
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Liverpool v Lille, Atlético v Leverkusen, and more: Champions League – live | Champions League Key events Liverpool 0-0 Lille This has been one of the quiter games of the night. Red card for Atletico v Leverkusen (26)Pablo Barrios is sliding in and rakes down the ankles of Mukiele. He doesn’t protest too much, though Diego Simeone is seething. Goal! Red Star 0-2 PSV (De Jong, 23)Another corner, another header and De Jong does what he does, having had the Red Star fans pelt the PSV players with snow balls. Goal! Benfica 2-1 Barcelona (Pavlidis, 22)And yet it’s Benfica who go back in front. Sczczesny came out on to a ball from Otamendi. He and his defender collide, and Pavlidis has an open goal to slot into. Balde got clattered. That was utter farce. Benfica 1-1 Barcelona Trubin, the Benfica goalkeeper, is in for a busy night as Barca pick up their rhythm. The latest save comes from Lewandowski. Goal! Red Star 0-1 PSV (De Jong, 17)It’s the old man, the club legend, and in the usual way, with a superb header from a corner. It’s his first goal of the Champions League campaign. Liverpool 0-0 Lille Promising attack by Newcastle legend Cabella but Lille delay and Liverpool get it clear. As we said before, watch out for the French teams. Goal! Benfica 1-1 Barcelona (Lewandowski, 13 pen)Balde is fouled, and VAR spots it. Lewandowski does his no run-up routine and slots. Goal! Bologna 0-1 Borussia Dortmund (Guirassy, 15 pen)He almost got caught out on the Panenka. The goalie almost gets it away. Bologna 0-0 Borussia Dortmund There’s a penalty call, for a shirt pull. Goal! Slovan Bratislava 0-1 Stuttgart (Leweling, 12)Stuttgart went at it from the start and get their reward when Denis Undav’s run sets up the chance for Leweling to convert. That puts Stuttgart in the top 20. Benfica 1-0 Barcelona It’s all Benfica, Barca rocking back on their heels. Liverpool 0-0 Lille Early sighter from Salah, who cuts inside and then shoots on goal. Not enough to beat the Lille goalkeeper. Benfica 1-0 Barcelona Barcelona had an early chance through Lamine Yamal but were caught cold. They’ve slipped from early season and kicked off in second place. Goal! Benfica 1-0 Barcelona (Pavlidis, 2)An early strike in the Iberian derby. Carreras’s ball inside and one hell of a finish from Pavlidis, first-time, and wallop. Wow! Liverpool 0-0 Lille Gabriel Gudmundsson has an early glimpse of the Liverpool goal and fires wide. Kick-offs across EuropeAnd away we go…. A word on Dortmund, whose coach Nuri Sahin is under pressure. He’s dropped Julian Brandt and Emre Can from the match at strugglers Bologna. Champions League football in January: it’s going to take some getting used to. Like holding Wimbledon in August and the Six Nations in May. Here’s the table AS IT STANDS ahead of kick-off. OK, here comes Gerry Marsden, which means it’s almost time for kick-off in the 8pm kick-offs. So much on the line tonight across the matches, many a permutation Final score: Monaco 1-0 Aston VillaVilla went behind early to Wilfried Singo’s goal and never got going against a very good Monaco team. A last-gasp Jhon Duran overhead wasn’t going to cut it. Villa must beat Celtic next week, while Monaco travel to Inter. Final score: Atalanta 5-0 Sturm GrazAtalanta were 3-0 up on Sturm Graz, and that’s going to put them in a decent position for one of those top-eight positions. Then, Ademola Lookman got the fourth in the 90th minute before Marco Brescianini got another. Sturm’s outside chance of making the top 24 is gone. Meanwhile, in the other earlier game, Atalanta are leading Sturm Graz 1-0. That will lift them to third, though with plenty of football to be played this match day. Villa are in danger of slipping from the top eight; Monaco could go to ninth. So much to play for. Thank you, Uefa, thank you! Not going to plan for Villa in the Principality. Brugge v Juventus teams Club Brugge: Mignolet, Sabbe, Ordonez, Mechele, De Cuyper, Nwadike, Jashari, Talbi, Vanaken, Tzolis, Jutgla. Subs: Jackers, Romero, Vetlesen, Meijer, Vermant, Nilsson, Skoras, Nielsen, Siquet, Spileers, Seys. Juventus: Di Gregorio, Savona, Gatti, Kalulu Kyatengwa, Cambiaso, Locatelli, Douglas Luiz, Weah, Koopmeiners, Mbangula, Gonzalez. Subs: Francisco Conceicao, Vlahovic, Yildiz, McKennie, Adzic, Thuram, Fagioli, Rouhi, Perin, Pinsoglio Benfica v Barcelona teams Benfica: Trubin, Araujo, Silva, Otamendi, Carreras, Aursnes, Florentino, Kokcu, Akturkoglu, Pavlidis, Schjelderup. Subs: Soares, Bah, Amdouni, Arthur Cabral, Di Maria, Barreiro, Prestianni, Rollheiser, Beste, Nuno Felix, Bajrami, Rego. Barcelona: Szczesny, Kounde, Araujo, Cubarsi, Balde, Casado, Gonzalez, Yamal, Gavi, Raphinha, Lewandowski. Subs: Pena, Kochen, Torres, Fati, Torre, Christensen, Lopez, Victor, de Jong, Garcia, Fort, Gerard. So, Nunez starts for Liverpool, and Ethan Mbappé, brother of, is on the bench for Lille. “Trent” is benched though that is still a strong team selection from Arne Slot. Liverpool v Lille teams Liverpool: Alisson, Bradley, Quansah, van Dijk, Tsimikas, Szoboszlai, Gravenberch, Jones, Salah, Nunez, Diaz. Subs: Jaros, Kelleher, Endo, Konate, Mac Allister, Chiesa, Gakpo, Elliott, Robertson, Alexander-Arnold, Danns, Morton. Lille: Chevalier, Mandi, Diakite, Alexsandro Victor, Gudmundsson, Mukau, Andre, Bakker, Arnar Haraldsson, Cabella, David. Subs: Mannone, Caillard, Gomes, Sahraoui, Meunier, Bayo, Mbappe, Ismaily, Bouaddi, Cossier. Atletico Madrid v Bayer Leverkusen teams Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Molina, Gimenez, Lenglet, Galan, Bayer Leverkusen: Kovar, Tapsoba, Tah, Hincapie, Mukiele, Xhaka, Palacios, Grimaldo, Frimpong, Wirtz, Tella. Subs: Hradecky, Lomb, Hofmann, Andrich, Arthur, Schick, Boniface, Garcia, Hawighorst, Stepanov, Onyeka. Contract rebel FC. Watch out for those French clubs: Monaco are currently beating Aston Villa, and Lille lie in wait for Liverpool. PreambleThe seventh of eight weeks, and against many’s predictions, rather a lot to play for. Not only are there play-offs to avoid, or play-offs to seek refuge in, there’s the fact that the group stage also shapes the knockouts by using seeding to reward good group performances. So, plenty on tonight and tomorrow before next week sees 18 (eighteen) ties played at once. The permutations are complicated but a win against Lille would see Liverpool through to the knockouts, no play-off. Beyond that, even Barcelona, despite kicking off in second against Benfica might have to wait for the final round to know their fate. They need a win and for other results to favour them, including that of Aston Villa in the early game with Monaco. Bayer Leverkusen away to Atlético Madrid, fourth v 11th could go some way to deciding if either go to the last 16 or straight to the quarter-finals. Should Celtic beat Young Boys, the worst team in the group stage, then the play-offs beckon. Join me for the 8pm kick-offs and the latest news. Source link Posted: 2025-01-21 21:32:43 |
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