The night in the UEFA Champions League was marked by the Group D drama, there was also notable action elsewhere on Tuesday night. Bayern hosted Inter in a virtually meaningless match given their group’s table, and produced a relaxed match for us neutrals to savour. Earlier in the day, pieces of information emerged that Bayern’s French defender Benjamin Pavard was arrested for drunk driving a few weeks ago. Tonight, his role was a lot more sportsmanlike. Thankfully. The Frenchmen steered a fine header from Joshua Kimmich’s cross to give the German champions the lead.Cameroonian striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting channelled his inner Robert Lewandowski with an awesome long-range projectile 20 minutes from time to double the lead and undoubtedly get the Indomitable Lions’ fans excited less than 20 days before the World Cup big kick-off. Barcelona travelled to the Czech Republic in a match nobody in their camp could get excited about. They got the win over the group’s weakest team Viktoria Plzen but still conceded two goals. Barca will continue their continental competition in the Europa League after the turn of the year. Ferran Torres scored a double in a 4-2 win.In Group A, the flimsy Reds had a tough task of stopping Napoli, the team that absolutely destroyed them in the reverse fixture. Once again, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia looked a class above everyone else on the pitch, making Trent Alexander-Arnold’s life miserable.CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Atletico are out of Europe!The Italians looked like they’d taken the lead early in the second half, but Leo Ostigard’s header was deemed offside after a lengthy VAR review.Instead, it was Mohamed Salah who scored the only goal of the match, forcing the ball over the line after a Liverpool’s corner and an initial header was saved from Darwin Nunez. The win took Klopp’s men level with Napoli on points, but the Neapolitans still finished top of the group thanks to their big win over the Reds at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. Nunez got his goal deep in injury time and made it 2-0.One of the worst teams in this year’s Champions League, Rangers, remarkably had slim chances of reaching the third spot in their group and earning qualification to the Europa League knockout stage. However, their hopes were cut down early on at Ibrox as their visitors from Amsterdam ran riot. Steven Berghuis and Ghanaian international Mohammed Kudus scored early on to settle the match. Two late goals on either side saw the Dutch giants take the 3-1 win and settle for the third spot in the group.CHAMPIONS LEAGUEGroup stage – Round 6TuesdayLeverkusen – Club Brugge 0-0Porto – Atletico 2-1 (2-0)/Taremi 5, Eustaqio 24 – Marcano 90+5/Bayern – Inter 2-0 (1-0)/Pavard 32, Choupo-Moting 72//Liverpool – Napoli 2-0 (0-0)/Salah 85, Nunez 90+8/Olympique de Marseille – Tottenham 1-2 (1-0)/Mbemba 45+2 – Lenglet 54, Hojbjerg 90+5/Plzen – Barcelona 2-4 (0-2)/Chory 50 pen, 63 – Alonso 6, Torres 45, 54, Torre 75/Rangers – Ajax 1-3 (0-2)/Tavernier 86 pen – Berghuis 4, Kudus 29, 56, Conceicao 89/Sporting CP – Eintracht Frankfurt 1-2 (1-0)/Gomes 39 – Kamada 62 pen, Kolo Muani 72/Wednesday20:45: (1.27) Real Madrid (7.00) Celtic (10.5)20:45: (5.50) Shakhtar (3.90) RB Leipzig (1.73)23:00: (1.58) Milan (4.30) Salzburg (6.75)23:00: (1.38) Chelsea (5.50) Dinamo Zagreb (9.50)23:00: (4.90) Copenhagen (3.60) Dortmund (1.79)23:00: (1.28) Man.City (7.00) Sevilla (12.0)23:00: (5.10) Juventus (3.70) PSG (1.73)23:00: (5.20) Maccabi Haifa (3.80) Benfica (1.79)***odds are subject to change**
