Champions League: Liverpool continues its flawless performance, Barça comes a long way in Lisbon

Solid leaders of the Premier League and now authors of seven successes in as many matches on the continental scene, Arne Slot’s men subjected their law to a French team undefeated for 21 matches, in all competitions, and which hoped to make a big step towards direct qualification for the eighth.

As expected, the untenable Mohamed Salah, undoubtedly the best player in the world currently, created hell for the Lille defense, opening the scoring in the first period (34th). Despite the exclusion of Aïssa Mandi (59th), Jonathan David managed to equalize (62nd) but Liverpool quickly resumed their march forward with a goal from Harvey Elliott, five minutes later (67th).

FC Barcelona, ​​for its part, secured its 2nd place by winning in Lisbon against Benfica (5-4), who manhandled it for a long time during a very spectacular game thanks in particular to a hat-trick from Vangélis Pavlidis. The Catalans, in bad shape at the moment and distanced in La Liga by their two Madrid rivals, Real and Atlético, have spread their current worries, a thousand miles from their great start, but they have found the resources to win on a goal from Raphinha in stoppage time and air-conditioned the Estadio da Luz.

Barça is just ahead of Atlético Madrid (3rd) who defeated Bayer Leverkusen (2-1).

Atalanta Bergamo, tenant of the Europa League and now 4th, can also hope to reach the 8th after crushing Sturm Graz (5-0).

Borussia Dortmund, finalist of the last edition, on the other hand, performed very poorly (14th) by losing ground in Bologna (2-1).

Monaco will have a decisive meeting on the 8th and final day of the league phase at San Siro against Inter Milan. ASM, stuck in a negative spiral in the French championship (one success in six matches) and corrected by Benfica (3-2) and Arsenal (3-0) in C1, revealed itself at the right time by dominating Aston Villa (1-0) at Louis-II, and will play at least the play-offs.