Crazy endings: Atlético didn't score a penalty after the final whistle, and Tottenham didn't count a goal in the 95th minute

Departure of Barcelona

At their native Camp Nou, the Barcelona players went out in a depressed mood.

By this point in Milan, Inter had already sent four unanswered goals against Victoria and guaranteed themselves a place in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, leaving the Catalans out of the playoffs for the second year in a row.

Thus, the only task of the Catalans was not to lose face and try to break the losing streak in the confrontation with Bayern, which by that time already had five matches.

However, this evening Barcelona was not destined to snatch at least a draw.

Already by the 31st minute, the hosts allowed Sadio Mane and Eric Choupo-Moting to score, and in the stoppage time of the match they missed the third time.

After a corner, Benjamin Pavard turned out to be the quickest of all and set the final score.

Moreover, in all three cases, Serge Gnabry acted as an assistant, thanks to which he issued a unique achievement.

Previously, in the Champions League, no one managed to mark three assists in confrontations with the "blaugrana".

Javi Hernandez's wards could not oppose anything to the opponent and scored only 0.54 of the expected goals, going to the locker room to the deafening roar of local fans.

Bad luck for Atlético

Failed to qualify for the playoffs of the tournament and another Spanish team.

To preserve the chances of continuing the fight for a ticket, Diego Simeone's wards needed to take over Bayer in their field, but from the first minutes everything did not go according to their plan.

During the meeting, Atletico twice found themselves in the role of catching up, but both times they bounced back - and not without the participation of Yannick Ferreira Carrasco.

First, the Belgian received a pass from Antoine Griezmann and struck irresistibly from outside the box, and then rolled out a pass to Rodrigo de Paul.

Until the very end of the match, the hosts stormed the gates of the guests and in total more than 20 times disturbed the goalkeeper of the opponents, but they could not force Lukasz Hradecki to surrender.

In the sixth minute of stoppage time, the "mattress" earned a corner and the whole team rushed into the opponent's penalty area, but luck turned away from them again.

The filing did not find the addressee, the ball went over the front, and the chief referee Clement Turpin blew the whistle to end the meeting.

But immediately after that, I received a signal from an assistant, indicating a violation of the rules by the Bayer players.

After watching a video replay, he confirmed that Odilon Cossunou had played his hand and made an unprecedented decision.

The match was restarted, and Atlético were entitled to a penalty.

However, luck turned away from Madrid.

Carrasco approached the point, but hit Hradecki directly, Saul and Reynilda, who arrived in time to finish off, did not succeed either.

The first hit the crossbar, and the second - Yannick, who blocked the ball's path.

Atletico missed the chance to compete for a ticket to the 1/8 finals and, along with Barcelona and Sevilla, set a kind of anti-record.

Since the change in the Champions League format in 2003, Spain's play-off representation has never been limited to one team.

True, if the Catalans have already guaranteed themselves a place in the Europa League, then Simeone's wards will still have to fight for him with Bayer.

Brugge's first defeat

In this regard, Club Brugge did a disservice to Madrid.

In the first four rounds, the Belgians did not lose a single time and in advance guaranteed themselves participation in the spring part of the competition.

Therefore, they approached the home confrontation with Porto unmotivated.

And this was instantly reflected in the result.

In the period from the 33rd to the 70th minute, the guests scored four unanswered goals and defeated the opponent.

True, in the debut of the second half, the hosts could even the score, but Diogo Costa did a miracle, reflecting two penalties in two minutes.

In the episode with the impact of Hans Vanaken, the goalkeeper prematurely moved off the line, as a result of which the hosts received another attempt to realize the 11-meter one, but the Portuguese outwitted Noah Lang too.

Thus, the "dragons" scored nine points and not only broke away from "Atletico" and "Bayer",

In addition to Costa, Mehdi Taremi contributed to the success.

In the previous two meetings, the Iranian took part in at least two productive attacks of the team, and did not make an exception this time.

The striker again scored a double and with four goals came in fifth in the race of the tournament scorers.

He is only ahead of Robert Lewandowski with Erling Holland (both - five each), as well as Kylian Mbappe with Mohammed Salah (both - six each).

Devastating victories for Napoli and Liverpool

It is noteworthy that thanks to this accurate blow, the Egyptian not only took the first line in the goal scorer dispute, but also brought Liverpool to the playoffs.

Throughout the first half, Ajax pressed the opponent and had many chances to score, but Alison Becker refused to concede in his anniversary, 200th match for the Reds.

The guests survived the storm, and then field players got down to business.

Salah knocked down the attacking impulse of the opponents, and they were finally demoralized by the balls of Darwin Nunez and Harvey Elliott.

And the last two were scored with a difference of three minutes.

Napoli won the fifth victory in a row, with the same score defeating the Rangers in their field - 3: 0.

And the main character was Giovanni Simeone.

The striker scored a double in five minutes and became the second Argentine in history to score four goals in the first four meetings of the tournament.

Previously, only his father, Diego, managed to do this.

As a result, the struggle did not work out, and the defender Leo Estigor put a spectacular point in the end.

The Norwegian showed himself great when playing a corner and struck his head irresistibly.

Canceled goal of Kane and the defeat of Marseille

If in group A both participants of the first round of the playoffs have already been determined, then in quartet D the intrigue will continue until the last round.

Moreover, all four teams will have a chance to continue the struggle in the tournament.

After five matches, the gap between the first-placed Tottenham Hotspur and the last-placed Marseille is only two points.

And in many respects the knee of Harry Kane is to blame.

In regular time, Tottenham and Sporting scored once, although the guests had enough opportunities to surprise Hugo Lloris a second time.

But in the fifth stoppage minute, Kane responded to Emerson's discount and "shot" the opponent's goalkeeper from the goalkeeper's area.

However, the joy of the owners was premature.

After watching the video replay, the chief referee canceled the goal, noting that the attacker's knee was closer to the end line than the ball.

The Spurs were forced to settle for a draw, and Antonio Conte, angry at this outcome, yelled at the referee and received a red card.

In turn, Marseille could not extend their winning streak and lost to Eintracht at the Deutsche Bank Arena.

The Provencals responded to an accurate shot by Daichi Kamada with a goal by Matteo Gyonduzi, but the Eagles had the last word.

Already five minutes later, Randal Kolo Muani took advantage of the confusion in the opponent's defense and helped his team beat the team from France for the second time.