The first night of the fifth round of the 2024-2025 European Champions League, on Tuesday evening, witnessed the German Bayern Munich achieving its great summit against its French rival, Paris Saint-Germain, and major victories for Barcelona, Atletico Madrid of Spain, and Arsenal of England.
The Spanish Barcelona ended its confrontation with the French club Brest with a great victory by three clean goals, in a match in which the men of the German coach, Hansi Flick, showed off, and the result could have been greater, so that the Catalan club continued its display in the Champions League championship, and advanced to the second place in the standings with 12 points, while it showed Arsenal is also away from home, and beat Sporting Lisbon of Portugal (5-1), increasing its chances of qualifying directly to the round of 16.
German Bayern Munich finished the big summit against French club Paris Saint-Germain with a well-deserved victory with a clean goal, improving its ranking to seventh place with nine points, while Paris Saint-Germain fell to 26th place with this loss, moving further away from the qualifying positions for the second round. Accordingly, the men of the Belgian coach, Vincent Kompany, regained positive results in the Champions League, after losing to Barcelona 4-1 in the third round.
Tonight witnessed a new stumble for the English club Manchester City, continuing the ongoing series of negative results for the sixth match in a row, in all local and European competitions, following its draw against Dutch Feyenoord (3-3), in a confrontation in which “City” led by three clean goals, and lost this comfortable lead. In the last 15 minutes of the confrontation (the first goal in the 75th minute, the second in the 82nd minute, and the equalizer in the 89th minute). Therefore, Manchester City became the first team in the history of the Champions League to lead by three goals until the 75th minute and not win the match.
The European night witnessed the victory of the Italian Atalanta (6-1) over the Swiss Young Boys, to advance to fourth place in the standings with 11 points, and the Italian Inter Milan beat its German rival Leipzig with a clean goal, to lead the Champions League standings with 13 points, and it is noteworthy that the Nerazzurri club is the The only team in the Champions League that has not conceded any goals so far (scored seven goals), achieved four victories, and tied in only one match.
Finally, the Italian club Milan regained its balance in the “Champions League” and achieved an important victory over its rival, Slavia Prague (3-2), away from home. Accordingly, he achieved his third victory, raising his score to nine points in 14th place. Spain’s Atletico Madrid also resolved its confrontation with Czech club Sparta Prague with a tough score (6-0), achieving its third victory as well, raising its score to nine points in 13th place, while Germany’s Bayer Leverkusen scored a major victory over its Austrian rival, Salzburg, by five clean goals, advancing to fifth place with ten points in the standings.
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