Friday, 29 November 2019

Chelsea, Liverpool, Barcelona Enters the top 16, Here are the results of the Champions League match

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DBasia.news –  Three big groups, Chelsea, Liverpool and Barcelona have confirmed themselves in qualifying for the top 16 Champions League 2019-2020. The three clubs have just finished their fifth week of the Champions League group matches, on Thursday (11/28) A<.

Chelsea and Liverpool achieved the same result: both achieved a draw. Starting from the match at Estadio Mestalla, headquarters of Valencia, when hosting the Blues in the fifth match of the Champions League group H. The match ended strong with 2-2.

Two Valencia goals were scored by Carlos Soler (40 ‘) and Daniel Wass (82’), while two Chelsea goals were scored by Matteo Kovacic (41 ‘) and Christian Pulisic (50’). The draw even heats up the competition in Group H.

Three teams can still win two tickets to the 16 major Champions League. Ajax Amsterdam leads the standings with 10 points, followed by Chelsea (eight points) and Valencia (eight points). Practically only Lille have been confirmed to be at the bottom of the standings (one point).

Ajax and Valencia will clash with each other in the final match of Group H. While Chelsea will benefit more as they will be against Lille, a team that doesn’t have any targets in the group phase.

Continuing to Anfield. Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw by their visitors from Italy, Napoli, through a Dejan Lovren goal (65 ‘) who replied to Dries Mertens’ goal (21′). This draw is a rare sight, as the visitors usually go home from Anfield without points aka defeated.

Napoli, despite only dominating 28 percent of ball possession, played tightly in the back line raised by Kalidou Koulibaly and Kostas Manolas. The defense of Napoli made it difficult for the trio of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, and Mohamed Salah to score.

Liverpool are now in the order of one group E with 10 points, followed by Napoli (nine points), RB Salzburg (seven points), and Genk.

Finally, there was a match at the Camp Nou between Barcelona against Borussia Dortmund in the fifth match of Group F. Barca won a landslide victory of 3-1 via goals from Luis Suarez (29 ‘), Lionel Messi (33’), and Antoine Griezmann (67 ‘), reduced Jadon Sancho scored in the 77th minute.

Barca qualified for the top 16 with 11 points and could no longer be pursued by two teams that won one remaining ticket: Inter Milan (seven points) and Dortmund (seven points).

Following are the complete results of the fifth Champions League group match which took place Thursday (11/28) AM:

Zenit 2-0 Lyon

Valencia 2-2 Chelsea

Barcelona 3-1 Dortmund

Slavic 1-3 Inter Milan

Lille 0-2 Ajax

Genk 1-4 RB Salzburg

Liverpool 1-1 Napoli

RB Leipzig 2-2 Benfica

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