Dortmund advances in UCL as Real held
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ONE more team booked a ticket to the knockout stage of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday and it wasn’t the star-studded defending champion, Real Madrid.
Needing a win at Legia Warsaw to advance, Real squandered a 2-0 lead and allowed the Polish side to earn its first point of the campaign in what became a highly embarrassing 3-3 draw for the Spanish powerhouse.
But while Zinedine Zidane’s team struggled, Borussia Dortmund had no such trouble and advanced to the knockout stages with two games to spare after a 1-0 win over Sporting Lisbon. It joins Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid and five-time winner Bayern Munich, which all qualified on Tuesday.
Zidane said he wasn’t surprised by a result that saw his team slip to second in Group F, two points behind Dortmund.
“It was a strange match, it didn’t go the way we wanted it to,” the Real manager said. “We lacked a bit of everything. Above all, when you score two goals we dropped our intensity, and when you do that they can score. Now we are going to forget this game.”
Polish supporters didn’t have a chance to celebrate at Wojska Polskiego Stadium, as the doors had been closed to the public by UEFA as a penalty for fans’ racist behavior and the fireworks thrown during a previous loss to Dortmund.
Coming off a hat trick in the Spanish league, Cristiano Ronaldo finished empty-handed and remains two goals short of scoring his 100th goal in European competition.
In the tightly contested Group E, Monaco took a big step toward qualifying with a 3-0 win over CSKA Moscow and Bayer Leverkusen claimed its first victory of the campaign at the expense of Tottenham Hotspur.
Monaco is now top of the group with eight points, two more than Leverkusen. Spurs are another two points behind.
A record Tottenham attendance of 85,512 at its temporary Wembley Stadium home saw Kevin Kampl score in the 65th with a deflected shot for a 1-0 win which lifted Leverkusen into second place.
In Group G, following three straight wins, Leicester City was held to a scoreless draw at FC Copenhagen and must now wait for a home game against a Brugge side that lost 0-1 at FC Porto for another chance to advance.
Leicester dominates the group with 10 points, followed by Porto with seven, while Copenhagen is third with five points.
In Group H, Sevilla moved closer to the knockout stages after easing to a 4-0 win over a Dinamo Zagreb side that played the entire second half with 10 men.
Sevilla, which had won the Europa League for the previous three seasons, leads Group H with 10 points. Dinamo was left with zero points.
Juventus has eight points after drawing 1-1 with Lyon, which has four.
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