European Champions…a thrilling victory for Paris Saint-Germain and a resounding fall for Bayern Munich

The French club, Paris Saint-Germain, turned the tables on its English guest, Manchester City, yesterday, Wednesday, with an exciting “remontada” after it came from behind to win by four goals to two goals at the “Princes’ Park” stadium in the seventh round. For the European Champions League.

The two teams failed to score during the first half, which ended in a goalless draw, before City took the lead with two goals through Jack Grealish and Norwegian Erling Haaland in the 50th and 53rd minutes.

Saint-Germain rose up to score a quartet signed by Ousmane Dembélé, Bradley Barkola, Portuguese Joao Neves, and his compatriot Goncalo Ramos in the 56th, 60th, 78th, and 90+3 minutes.

“We don’t deserve it”

With this victory, Paris Saint-Germain’s score rose to 10 points in 22nd place, while Manchester City’s score froze at 8 points in 25th place, and it became very close to bidding farewell to the competition early, with one round left in the first round.

Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique said after the match: “The team’s confidence is unshakable. My team never gives up until the last second, and we did that over and over again.” On the other hand, the coach stated Pep Guardiola To TNT Sports: “To keep the score, you have to control the ball. We couldn’t do that.”

And it will be City is in a critical situation When Club Brugge hosts the new edition of the tournament on January 29, the top eight teams will qualify directly for the round of 16, while the next 16 teams will compete in a two-match play-off to ensure progress in the tournament.

Guardiola said: “We accept the loss because the better team won. We have one last chance (to qualify) when we host Club Brugge,” and he added about the possibility of City bidding out of the tournament from the league stage: “Maybe that will happen. We will see. If we do not win (over Brugge), we do not deserve it.” That is (qualification).”

The fall of Bayern

In the Netherlands, Bayern Munich suffered a resounding defeat against Feyenoord, which achieved a major surprise by winning 3-0, scored by Mexican Santiago Jimenez (two goals) and Japanese Ayase Ueda in the 21st minutes, 9+45 from a penalty kick, and 89.

Feyenoord advanced ahead of Bayern, who had 32 shots on goal and hit the crossbar to occupy 11th place with 13 points. The Bavarian team fell to 15th place with 12 points after His third loss In seven matches.

Despite the big score, Bayern controlled every detail of the match and peppered Feyenoord’s goal with shots, but Feyenoord goalkeeper Bigelow was in his best moment, saving his goal from more than one goal.

Bayern, the leaders of the German League, who won all three of their league matches this year, seemed to be on their way back at every moment, but Feyenoord’s defense and goalkeeper prevented him from doing so.

Feyenoord hit Bayern’s defense with counterattacks, amid a fragile defense, to score a hat-trick, including a penalty kick caused by Rafael Guerrero, who came on as a substitute a few minutes ago, after a naive intervention.

While Bayern desperately searched for a goal, Ueda succeeded in scoring the third goal to ensure his team’s victory before facing Lille next week, while Bayern will play Slovan Bratislava.

Real Awakening

At the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Spanish Real Madrid achieved a broad victory over its guest, Austrian Red Bull Salzburg, by five to one.

The “Merengue” goals were scored by Rodrigo Goes (two goals), Kylian Mbappeand Vinicius Junior (two goals) in the 23rd, 34th, 48th, 55th, and 75th minutes, and Mads Bidstrup scored the visitors’ goal in the 85th minute.

After a slow start to the campaign to defend its title, during which it lost three times in the first five matches, Real Madrid occupies 16th place in the standings with 12 points.

Although his qualification to the next round is guaranteed, he will need to win his last match against Brest, and for the other results to play in his favor to ensure that he finishes the stage in the top eight, and avoid going through a two-legged playoff round. As for Salzburg, it is ranked 34th, and has already been eliminated from the competition to qualify for the exit stage. Knockout, after achieving only three points from seven matches.

Arsenal and Milan duo

With the same result, English Arsenal defeated its guest, Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia, thanks to a hat-trick by Declan Rice, German Kai Havertz, and Norwegian Martin Odegaard in minutes 2, 66, and 1+90.

Arsenal raised its score to 16 points in third place and was close to qualifying directly for the final eight, while Dinamo Zagreb’s score froze at 8 points in twenty-sixth place.

Italian Milan achieved an important victory against its guest Girona with a clean goal, scored by Portuguese Rafael Leao in the 37th minute, raising Milan’s score to 15 points in sixth place in the table, and close to qualifying, while the loser’s score stopped at 3 points in 31st place.

And he came back Italian Inter Milan From away from home, with a valuable victory against its Czech host, Sparta Prague, with an unanswered goal, scored by Argentine Lautaro Martinez in the 12th minute.

With this victory, the Nerazzurri raised their score to 16 points in fourth place and came closer to directly qualifying for the round of 16, while Prague’s score froze at 4 points in twenty-ninth place.

German Leipzig also defeated its guest Sporting Lisbon of Portugal 2-1, Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine defeated Brest of France 2-0, and Celtic of Scotland defeated Young Boys of Switzerland 1-0.

Those in the top eight places qualify directly to the round of sixteen, while those in positions from ninth to twenty-fourth compete for the other eight cards in the knockout rounds.