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Lyon, Benfica's 3-1 winners at home, relaunched after a very painful setback in Lisbon, as the Lille C1 campaign ended after their heavy defeat at Valencia 4-1 on Matchday 4 of the day. Champions League marked by the remounts of Chelsea against Ajax and Dortmund against Inter.
.Gr E: the Reds in the lead, Naples braked
The head was already perhaps in shock against Manchester City in the league. Defending champion Liverpool struggled a bit to beat Genk (2-1), but this short success allowed the English to steal the lead of the group in Naples hung in San Paolo. Klopp opened the scoring with Wijnaldum, but the Belgians equalized thanks to their Tanzanian striker Samatta before half-time. Oxlade-Chamberlain gave the Reds victory over a powerful strike (53).
Napoli could have dreamed of the 8th, but Haaland (still) hit, from the 11th minute on a penalty for Salzburg. The 7th goal in this C1 of the young Norwegian of 19 years. The Ancelotti team responded with Lozano shortly before the break, but conceded a 1-1 draw.
.Gr F: False step of Barça, cata for Inter
Barça is always sick. After the defeat at Levante in Liga (3-1), the Blaugrana this time conceded a 0-0 draw at Camp Nou against a solid Slavia, like his impeccable goalkeeper Kolar. The Catalans relegated themselves as often to Messi, but the Argentine found the stop of the crossbar in the first period, then lost his face to face against the Czech keeper in second.
The Barcelonians remain ahead of their group with 8 points, especially as Inter fell to Dortmund (3-2). The Milan club, though transfigured this season by Conte, led 2-0 thanks to Martinez and Vecino, but a doubling of Hakimi and a goal from Brandt overthrew the Italians, who even give the second place to the Germans.
.Gr G: Lyon bounces, Leipzig goes on
A victory (3-1) and the 2nd place of the group: it was well enough to the Lyonnais to forget their defeat in Lisbon (2-1) after a ball of the goalkeeper Anthony Lopes. In this second confrontation against Benfica, the players of Rudi Garcia quickly opened the mark by the young Danish defender Andersen. After a superb work from Aouar, Memphis, already double striker in L1 this weekend, has made the case for his fourth goal in four games C1 and his 50th with Lyon. Traoré, much discussed, responded by scoring the third goal.
Thanks to this success, OL moved back to second place two points behind Leipzig, again winner of Zenit St. Petersburg (2-0), this time in Russia, thanks to Demme and Sabitzer.
. Gr H: Lille to the exit, Blues in madness
Swept 4-1 in Valencia, Lille are eliminated. Without his hero of the previous match against Valencia, Ikoné, forfeit after a minor car accident, Lille first maintained hope through Osimhen by opening the score to Mestalla. But the young LOSC Dogues conceded three goals in less than twenty minutes, not helped by their old ones like Fonte, whose hand gave Parejo the equalizer penalty. The Lille always point to the last place in the group with a single point and it would take a miracle to hope to hang the 3rd place synonymous with C3.
8 goals, two red cards: the group's Chelsea-Ajax Amsterdam set resulted in a crazy game (4-4). Everything started wonderfully for the Dutch who led 4-1 at Stamford Bridge thanks to Ziyech (a decisive pass and sublime free kick, finally awarded to goalkeeper Kepa against his side). But London clubs have definitely not succeed in Ajax since the revenada suffered against Tottenham in the semifinals last season. A goal from Azpilicueta, then two red cards shot in a row received by Ajax have completely revived the Blues who equalized by James. Chelsea keeps the group lead after this memorable night.
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