English giants Liverpool and Manchester City continued with their fine record in the champions league last night after defeating Benfica and Atletico Madrid respectively.
Liverpoolwere away in Lisbon but lacked the visitor’s manners when they smashed their hosts by 3-1 shoreline. By halftime the Reds were leading by two goals from Ibrahima Konate which was his first goal for the Reds and a second goal from Sadio Mane. Darwin Nunez scored the consolation goal for the home team just after the break but their hopes of a comeback were cut short after Luiz Diaz scored the third to silence the fans booing him.
Manchester City had a tough time against the Spanish giants as they were too defensive for the Pep students to open them up. The citizens tried every way but luck was against them until the 68′ minute when their saviour Phil Foden was subbed in. Just seventy eight seconds into the game he provided the assist for the winning goal by Kelvin De Bruyne. City had much of the ball having a possession of 70%. The visitors recorded zero shots on goal and off goal.
The return legs will be played next week with City traveling to Spain and Liverpool hosting Benfica at Anfield.
Today two fixtures are scheduled to take place; Chelsea from England will be hosting Real Madrid from Spain in Stafford Bridge while Villarreal from Spain will welcome Bayern Munich from Germany at the Estadio de la Ceramica. Real Madrid will be trying to revenge against Chelsea after they beat them last season in the champions semi final while Chelsea will try to bounce back from a heavy league defeat over the weekend.
Villarreal will try to pull another surprise over Bayern as the did to Juventus in the last sixteen when they smashed them at home by three goals but Bayern who are one of the favourites to win the trophy will be a hard but to crack.
Both matches will kick off at exactly 2200hrs EAT.
