Barcelona, the star-studded Spanish club, faces the risk of exiting the group stage in the European Champions League in football, by falling into the trap of a 3-3 draw with Inter Milan on Wednesday in the fourth round, while the clubs of Bayern Munich, Napoli, and Club Brugge of Belgium joined the ranks of the qualifiers for the final price. .
The trio of Napoli (Group I), Club Brugge (Second) and Bayern Munich (third) joined the defending champions Real Madrid (sixth) and Manchester City (seventh), who booked their cards on Tuesday.
And at the “Spotify Camp Nou” stadium, Barcelona entered the match determined to win and compensate for its loss in the first leg 0-1 in order to take charge in the last two matches, but snatched a difficult draw from its guest Inter, who became a candidate to qualify at his expense because it suffices him to beat his guest, Viktoria Plzen, the Czech The weak in the fifth round to achieve his goal and push the Catalan team to complete the continental journey in the European League (Europa League), because it outperforms the latter in the two direct confrontations.
Inter has seven points once morest 4 for the Catalan club.
Barcelona opened the scoring when Sergi Roberto passed a cross into the area, followed by French international Osman Dembele from a short distance into the net (40).
At the beginning of the second half, Nicolo Barilla slipped from behind the Barcelona defense, taking advantage of a forward pass by Alessandro Bastoni, who hit the ceiling of the net, equalizing (50).
Inter took advantage of a quick counter-attack in which the ball reached Argentine Lautaro Martinis from the Turkish international Hakan Calhanoglu, so he prepared it for himself on his chest brilliantly and got rid of Eric Garcia’s control before he hit it with a powerful creeper that hit the two posts and wobbled into the net (63).
Polish international Robert Lewandowski equalized when the ball rebounded inside the area from an Inter defender, and he returned it into the net (82).
The Catalan team threw all its weight to get out the three points of the match, but Inter surprised it with a quick counter-attack that German Robin Gousens ended in the net (89).
Barcelona refused to come out with a loss and kept its weak hope when Lewandowski rose wonderfully to the ball with his head and put it in the net (90 + 2).
In the same group, Bayern Munich reached the final price by defeating its host Viktoria Plzen, the Czech Republic 4-2.
He took turns scoring goals for Bayern’s Senegalese Sadio Mane (10), Thomas Muller (14) and Leon Gruitska (25 and 35), while Adam Velkanova (62) and Jan Clement (75) scored the goals of Viktoria Plzen.
The victory is the fourth in a row for the Bavarian team, raising its score to 12 points.
After scoring his four goals in the first 35 minutes of the match, Bayern Munich, whose captain Manuel Neuer was absent due to a slight shoulder injury, and attacking midfielder Jamal Musiyala, who contracted Covid-19, slackened, conceding two goals in the second half.
Napoli followed the example of Bayern Munich by winning the fourth consecutive victory when they beat Ajax Amsterdam 4-2.
Mexican Hirving Lossano (4), Jacomo Rasbadori (16), Georgian Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (62 penalty kick), Nigerian Victor Osimhen (90) scored Napoli goals, and Davi Clans (49) and Stephen Berchvin (83 penalty kick) scored the goals of Ajax Amsterdam.
Napoli consolidated its position at the top of Group A with 12 points, three points ahead of Liverpool, which beat its Scottish host Rangers with a 7-1 victory, while Ajax’s balance froze at three points in third place.
In the same group, Liverpool blew out its anger at its host Rangers and crushed it 7-1, including a hat-trick for its Egyptian international substitute Mohamed Salah (75, 80, 82) and a double by Brazilian Roberto Firmino (24 and 55).
Salah scored his hat-trick in six minutes and 12 seconds, which is the fastest in the history of the competition, according to Opta statistics.
Liverpool compensated for its fall once morest its host Arsenal 2-3 Saturday in the league and confirmed its readiness for the upcoming summit at home Sunday once morest Manchester City, and also continued its continental awakening with a third successive victory.
Club Brugge continued his wonderful performances and grabbed the ticket to qualify for the final price by returning with a point with a draw once morest Atletico Madrid, Spain, zero-0.
Bruges had won its first three matches in the competition, including the first leg once morest Atletico Madrid 2-0 last week, raising its score to 10 points, six points ahead of Atletico Madrid, and seven points once morest each of Bayer Leverkusen and Porto, who play later.
Club Brugge drew attention this season in the continental competition by winning its three matches in addition to a draw today without conceding any goal.
Brugge international goalkeeper Simon Mignolet imposed himself as a star of the match to save his goal for more than one dangerous ball, especially in the first half.
Bruges completed the match with ten men following his Ghanaian striker, Kamal Swah (82), was sent off.
In the same group, Porto boosted his hopes, accompanied by Club Brugge, with a wonderful victory over German host Bayer Leverkusen with three clean goals, alternating with Brazilian Galino (6) and Iranian Mehdi Taremi (53 and 64 from two penalties).
Karim Demirbay missed a penalty kick for Leverkusen in the 16th minute.
Porto raised his score to 6 points, once morest 4 Atletico and 3 for Leverkusen.
It is the first loss for Leverkusen in the second match led by its new Spanish coach, Xabi Alonso, who led him to a big victory over his guest Schalke 4-0 in the Bundesliga.
In Group D, Tottenham Hotspur and French Marseille were the biggest beneficiaries of this round following the first victory over Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2, including two goals for South Korean Heung-Min Son and another for Harry Kane, while the second came back with a valuable away victory over Sporting Portugal 2-0. In a match that the latter ended with nine players following his players Ricardo Asgayo and Pedro Gonçalves were sent off in the 19th and 60th minutes.