"European Champions" .. Real and City are on the verge of the round of 16 and the first victory for Chelsea and Juventus

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Real Madrid, the defending champion, and Manchester City, the 2021 runner-up, are on the verge of the Champions League final price, with their victory over Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine 2-1 and Copenhagen of Denmark 5-0 on Wednesday in the third round.

Yesterday, Chelsea and Juventus achieved their first victory in the group stage when the first beat its guest AC Milan 3-0, and the second beat its Israeli guest Maccabi Haifa 3-1, and the same for German Leipzig by defeating Celtic of Scotland 3-1, while the summit ended Portugal's Benfica and France's Paris Saint-Germain tied 1-1.

Real Madrid and Manchester City followed the example of Italy's Napoli (Group I), Club Brugge of Belgium (Second) and Bayern Munich (third), with each of them achieving the third consecutive victory in three rounds, and one point in the fourth round will be enough to qualify early for the final price.

In the first match at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Real Madrid achieved the most important thing by defeating its guest Shakhtar Donetsk with two goals for Brazilians Rodrigo (13) and Vinicius Junior (28) against a goal by Alexander Zubkov (39).

And the Royal Club returned to the path of victories that stopped Sunday at six consecutive in the league and nine in various competitions when it fell into the trap of a draw against its guest Osasuna 1-1 in the league.

Real Madrid, the record holder in the number of titles in the competition (14), won its third consecutive victory and raised its score to nine points at the top of Group F, five points ahead of Shakhtar Donetsk.

Leipzig revived his hopes, not least the competition for the second card of the group when he beat his Scottish guest Celtic 3-1 in Leipzig.

French Christopher Nkunku (27) and Portuguese Andre Silva (65 and 77) scored Leipzig's goals, and the latter's national Joao Felipe "Jota" (47) scored Celtic's goal.

It is the first win for Leipzig after two consecutive losses against Shakhtar Donetsk and Real Madrid, so it got rid of the last place, raising its score to three points, two points ahead of Celtic, who has a single point.

Halland continues his scoring hobby

In the second at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, the Norwegian international striker continued his scoring hobby with a double of five, winning over Copenhagen 5-0.

Halland scored the two goals in the 7th and 32nd minutes, taking his tally to 19 goals in 11 games in various competitions with City since joining his ranks in the last summer transfer period.

Haaland also boosted his yield in the prestigious continental competition, with 28 goals in 22 matches, at a rate of 1.27 goals per match, according to "Opta" for statistics.

Halland's double came after his hat-trick against Manchester United (6-3) on Sunday in the English Premier League, and it was the third in three consecutive home matches for his team.

Georgian defender Davit Khochulava scored City's third goal by mistake in his team's goal in the 39th minute, and Algerian international Riyad Mahrez added the fourth from a penalty kick (55), before Argentine Julian Alvares concluded the festival with a fifth goal (76).

It is the third successive victory for Manchester City in the group, which strengthened its position in the lead with nine points and needs one point to ensure its qualification to the final price of the competition, which is chasing after his first titles in it, knowing that he lost the final in 2021 against his fellow Englishman, Chelsea.

City is three points ahead of Borussia Dortmund, who beat its Spanish host Sevilla 4-1, consolidating its position in second place, while Copenhagen and Seville are stuck at one point in the last place.

Borussia Dortmund settled the match in its first half by scoring a hat-trick through Portuguese Rafael Guerrero (6), Englishman Judd Bellingham (41) and Karim Adeyemi (43).

Moroccan international striker Youssef Al-Nusairi scored the goal of honor for the hosts at the beginning of the second half (51), before Julian Brandt restored the difference to his previous era by scoring the fourth goal for the guests (75).

Benfica and Saint-Germain are satisfied with a draw

The Group H summit between Benfica and its guest Saint-Germain ended with a 1-1 draw.

Paris Saint-Germain was the first to score through Argentine star Lionel Messi, after a pass from the other Brazilian star Neymar (22), but Benfica equalized through his compatriot defender Danilo Pereira by mistake against his French team (41).

The two teams continued their lead in the group with seven points each, and they will meet next Tuesday in a second summit at the "Parc des Princes" stadium, four points ahead of Juventus, a 3-1 winner of the Israeli Maccabi Haifa.

The Juventus hat-trick was scored by French Adrian Rabiot (35 and 83) and Serbian Dusan Vlahovic (50), with three assists from Argentine Angel Di Maria.

Juventus scored its first three points and was third in the group.

Chelsea hunted Milan,

and Chelsea, the champion of the penultimate version, took advantage of the ground workers and the public, and hunted their guest, Milan, who has the second best record in the competition (7 titles), when he beat him with three clean points and mixed the fifth group cards, which the Austrian club Salzburg came to the fore by defeating Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia 1 - zero. In the third round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday.

The Chelsea hat-trick was alternated by French Wesley Fofana (24), Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (56) and Reece James (62).

It is the first win for the London club, which raised its tally to four points in second place, with a goal difference and direct confrontation over Milan, third, while Salzburg topped with five points, and Dinamo Zagreb bottomed with three.

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