Manchester City became only the second English club in Champions League history to win all six of their group games in a single campaign, as they squeezed past Red Star Belgrade 3-2 in their final group stage match. With every spot in Group G accounted for prior to this evening, the clash was rendered a dead rubber for both sides, but with a record on the line for City, they were in no mood for hanging about. Pep Guardiola fielded an experimental line-up that consisted of debutant 20-year-old Micah Hamilton. Completely unfazed by the occasion, the youngster who had been at the club since the age of nine, marked his landmark day in style too, jinking into the area before unleashing a ferocious drive high into the roof of Omri Glazer’s net.Not to be outdone, Red Star had a young prodigy of their own keen to get on the scoresheet in 17-year-old Kosta Nedeljković, but he failed where Hamilton succeeded, as he could only curl an effort inches wide of the post. City were never truly sitting too comfortably on a one-goal lead, but in Hamilton, they had a man determined to double his, and City’s, tally for the night. He so nearly did so within minutes of the restart too, when this time playing off the left, he stepped in onto his favoured right foot and bent a teasing strike a hair’s breadth wide of the post.After only one shot on goal: ‘We played good’!The Cityzens didn’t have to wait too much longer for their advantage to be doubled, and again it was one of their up and coming stars behind it, as Oscar Bobb burst into the area before placing an effort into the bottom corner to seemingly place the game beyond any reasonable doubt. But Red Star had other ideas and set up an interesting finale when some neat interplay between Osman Bukari and Hwang In-beom resulted in the latter firing home his first-ever Champions League goal.That was only a temporary reprieve for the hosts, who soon found themselves two goals behind again when Nasser Djiga felled Hamilton in the area, and City’s forgotten man Kalvin Phillips stepped forward from the spot to sweep home his first goal for the club. That ultimately proved crucial with Aleksandar Katai halving the arrears for Red Star in stoppage time, but that goal proved futile in the final result, as City held on to secure a second win in a matter of days and round off the group stage campaign on a high.Elsewhere, Emil Forsberg’s second-half winner helped RB Leipzig to extend their winning run at home to five matches as the Bundesliga side ended their Champions League group campaign with a 2-1 win against Young Boys.Leipzig tried their best to ensure there was no feeling of a Group G dead rubber clash against Young Boys with both sides cemented in second and third place respectively. The hosts thought they made a perfect start when Benjamin Šeško turned his marker and slotted into the bottom corner, but the striker was ruled out after the Slovenian forward strayed an inch offside.Both sides were seemingly prepared to finish the group stage with a bang, as Young Boys had an early chance of their own. Filip Ugrinić’s corner was flicked towards goal by Cheikh Niasse which forced Péter Gulácsi into a reaction save. After a promising start with opportunities at both ends, a cagey end to the first period took hold, although Young Boys looked the more positive with Ebrima Colley and Ulisses Garcia trying their luck from distance but neither could trouble Gulácsi.##EDITORS_CHOICE##Suddenly, the game burst into life and three goals came in the opening 10 minutes of the second period. Šeško wouldn’t be denied for a second time and he opened the scoring with a Benjamin Henrichs cutback setting up a left-foot finish into the top left corner. Moments later, Jean-Pierre Nsame raced clear of the Leipzig defence and unselfishly picked out Colley, who marked his first-ever Champions League start with a goal, composedly passing under the onrushing Gulácsi. Parity was only restored for three minutes and Leipzig scored at least two goals for a fifth successive home match, with Emil Forsberg finding the bottom right corner with a skidding low shot that left David von Ballmoo rooted to the spot.Marco Rose’s Leipzig were able to see out the victory with relative ease, other than a late disallowed Garcia strike for Young Boys. It was a strong end for the Red Bulls, who now head into their fourth Champions League knockout round in five seasons. Despite ending their Group G campaign with a defeat, Raphaël Wicky’s side showed how they could run the big boys close – an encouraging outlook as Young Boys now move into the Europa League.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – ROUND 6TuesdayPSV – Arsenal 1-1 (0-1)/Vertessen 50 – Nketiah 42/Lens – Sevilla 2-1 (0-0)/Frankowski 63 pen, Fulgini 90+6 – Ramos 79 pen/Salzburg – Benfica 1-3 (0-2)/Sucic 57 – Di Maria 32, Rafa Silva 45+1, Cabral 90+1/Inter – Sociedad 0-0Man.Utd. – Bayern 0-1 (0-0)/Coman 71/Copenhagen – Galatasaray 1-0 (0-0)/Lerager 58/Napoli – Braga 2-0 (2-0)/Saatci 9 og, Osimhen 34/Union Berlin – Real Madrid 2-3 (0-0)/Volland 45+1, Kral 85 – Joselu 61, 73, Ceballos 89/WednesdayCrvena Zvezda – Man.City 2-3 (0-1)/Hwang 76, Katai 90+1 – Hamilton 19, Bobb 62, Phillips 85 pen/RB Leipzig – Young Boys 2-1 (0-0)/Sesko 51, Forsberg 56 – Colley 53/23:00: (1.65) Atl.Madrid (3.70) Lazio (5.60)23:00: (3.20) Celtic (3.60) Feyenoord (2.30)23:00: (4.00) Dortmund (3.60) PSG (1.90)23:00: (1.95) Newcastle (3.50) Milan (3.90)23:00: (1.50) Porto (4.40) Shakhtar (7.50)23:00: (5.50) Antwerp (3.90) Barcelona (1.63)***odds are subject to change***
