Since this season, the Champions League has been played in a completely new format. Instead of the group stage, there is a league phase with 36 teams. A direct promotion to the 1/8 finals wins eight best teams, and the teams from places 9-24 compete in play-offs. Liverpool, FC was in the top eight BarcelonaArsenal, Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lille and Aston Villa. Hansi Flick's team lost only one match – 1: 2 with Monaco at the very beginning of the league phase.
He was in good shape in the league phase Robert Lewandowskiwho scored nine goals in eight matches. Lewandowski recorded a doublet in matches with Young Boys (5: 0), Crvena Zvezda (5: 2), Stade Brestois (3: 0) and Benfica (5: 4), and also scored a goal in the competition with Bayern Munich (4: 1 ). Lewandowski was the leader of the EX-Aequo scorer classification from Serhou Guirassy from Borussia Dortmund.
On Tuesday, the Play-off phase of the Champions League began. Definitely the biggest hit was the duel between Manchester City And Real Madrid. These teams took, respectively, 22 and 11th place in the league phase. Ultimately, Real Madrid turned out to be the top, who won 3: 2 after Jude Bellingham's goal in the second minute of the added time of the game.
Borussia's attacker Dortmund escaped Lewandowski in LM
On Tuesday, apart from Manchester City and Real Madrid, there were three other matches. In one of them Borussia Dortmund competed at Stadio Jose Alvalade with Sporting CP. The Niko Kovaca team rather secured a promotion to the 1/8 finals because they won 3: 0. One of the heroes turned out to be Guirassy, who scored a goal at 1: 0, and then assisted at the hit of Pascal Gross.
Thanks to this goal, Guirassa became an independent leader in the Champions League shooter classification. This is all the more bad news for Lewandowski, because BVB still has a rematch with Sporting. However, if Lewandowski becomes the top scorer this season of the Champions League, he will do it for the first time since the 19/20 season, when he was a Bayern Munich footballer and scored 15 goals.
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Classification of scorers after Tuesday's Champions League matches:
- 1. Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund) – 10 goals
- 2. Robert Lewandowski (FC Barcelona) – 9
- 3. Raphinha (FC Barcelona) – 8
- 4. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) – 8
- 5. Vinicius junior (Real Madrid) – 7
- 6. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid) – 6
- 7. Julian Alvarez (Atletico Madrid) – 6
Jonathan David (Lille) – 6
Ousmen Dembele (PSG) – 6
Harry Kane (Bayern Munich) – 6
Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen) – 6
Barcelona will play in the 1/8 finals with a better one of Stade Brestois – Paris Saint -Germain or AS Monaco – SL Benfica. Hansi Flick's team will meet a specific rival during the draw, which will take place on February 21.