Before the last round of the Champions League, it was clear that Manchester City and PSG will advance to the knockout stage, while RB Leipzig and Club Brugge were left fighting for the third place, which means more European football in 2022, but in the Europa League. In the end, Leipzig won against leaders City, while PSG thrashed Brugge in Paris, and both Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe used this game to break more records: PSG – Brugge 4-1, Leipzig – Manchester City 2-1.This year, Lionel Messi broke three of Pelé’s records:Most goals for a single club:🇦🇷 Leo Messi – 672🇧🇷 Pelé – 643Most International Goals by a South American:🇦🇷 Leo Messi – 80🇧🇷 Pelé – 77Most official career goals:🇦🇷 Leo Messi – 758🇧🇷 Pelé – 757Legend 🇦🇷❤ pic.twitter.com/8DaDJPJHXu— The Football Arena (@thefootyarena) December 7, 2021 Both games were full of high tempo, chances and goals, and certainly a joy to watch. Club Brugge had the toughest task of them all, as they needed points in Paris, against the strongest PSG squad in the midst of reports that Qatar owners and Messi are not thrilled with Pochettino, So the Argentinian came out with the best possible squad and it took Mbappe only 2 minutes to score the first, and 5 more to score the second goal. With the first of the two, he became the youngest player to score 30 goals in the Premier League (22 years and 352 days).After Mbappe, it was Messi’s turn to make some history. With the brace he scored, he caught up with Pele and then surpassed him on the list of most goals in senior football – 758, one more than the Brazilian (Ronaldo tops the list with 801). It’s worth noting that both goalkeeper were excellent. The Belgian made a great choice when they signed former Liverpool keeper Mignolet, who prevented Messi and co. to score 4 more goals, while Donnarumma started for PSG and made two excellent saves while the score was still 2-0. In the second game in Group A, which was played in an empty stadium in Leipzig due to new Covid pandemic in Germany, the home team needed a win to be sure that they will play in the Europa League, while City played for nothing really. In fact, it was a good opportunity for Pep Guardiola to rest his key players and check on the others. And after tonight’s game, some of them will not be see the field again for some time. Guardiola made seven changes for the trip to Germany, and only four players keep their spots for the weekend victory at Watford. Bernardo Silva, Rodri, Aymeric Laporte and Joao Cancelo were in Manchester, while Kyle Walker, Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish started the match along with De Bruyne. Leipzig finally decided to parted company with coach Jesse Marsch, and it seems it was all this team needed in order to play great. The Germans were better throughout the game, and created numerous chances, out of which two were successful. City didn’t make it easier for themselves when Kyle Walker got the red card and Guardiola can use this game as a good evaluation match for some of his players, ahead of future games. UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP A – ROUND 6TuesdayRB Leipzig – Manchester City 2-1 (1-0)/Szoboszlai 24, Silva 71 – Mahrez 76/PSG – Club Brugge 4-1 (3-0)/Mbappe 2,7, Messi 38, 76 – Rits 68/
