Milan and Leipzig complete the 16th round of the European Champions... Learn about the list of qualifiers

AC Milan and Germany's Leipzig completed the contract of the teams qualified for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, by defeating Austrian Salzburg and Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk, respectively, with a similar score 4-0 yesterday in the final sixth round competitions.

Milan and Leipzig thus joined 14 other teams, namely Napoli, Italy, Liverpool (Group I), Club Brugge, Porto (second), Bayern Munich, Inter Milan (third), Tottenham Hotspur, Eintracht Frankfurt (fourth), Chelsea (fifth), and Real Madrid of Spain. (sixth), Manchester City of England, Borussia Dortmund of Germany (seventh), Paris Saint-Germain of France and Benfica of Portugal (eighth).

In the first match at the San Siro stadium, Milan qualified for the final price for the first time since the 2013-2014 season.

Milan raised its score to 10 points in second place behind the leaders Chelsea and beat Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia 2-1, raising its score to 13 points.

Milan entered the match and needed a draw only to lead its opponent by one point.

Veteran French striker Giroud opened the scoring, taking advantage of a corner kick by Sandro Tonali, who rose above everyone else to head into the net (14).

At the beginning of the second half, Milan consolidated its lead with a second goal through the Bosnian Krunic header after a single effort by Serbian striker Ante Rebic (46).

And soon Giroud settled the result finally in favor of his team by adding the third and second personal goal after a wonderful individual effort by the brilliant Portuguese winger Rafael Leao to hit his left into the net (57).

In the same group, Chelsea reversed their defeat against Dinamo Zagreb with a goal to win 2-1.

In Group F, Leipzig followed the example of Milan by beating Shakhtar Donetsk 4-0.

Leipzig, who needed a point to qualify, raised its score in second place to 12 points, one point behind the Spanish leaders and guarantor Real Madrid, who qualified and won the bottom club Celtic 5-1, while Donetsk's balance stuck at 6 points in third place to move to the playoffs. The final price of the European League "Europa League".

In Turin, Paris Saint-Germain's victory over Juventus 2-1 in the latter's home was not enough for the French capital's team to take the lead in Group H in its favour, because Benfica succeeded in winning 6-1 against Maccabi Tel Aviv of Israel to snatch it from him in the last seconds.

Benfica raised its score to 14 points, ahead of Saint-Germain by one goal, knowing that the two matches between them back and forth ended in a tie with the same result 1-1.

And Manchester City returned to the tone of victories after falling into the trap of a goalless draw in the past two rounds, by defeating Seville, Spain, 3-1, in the Group G competition.

The guarantor City boosted its qualification to the final price from the top of the group with 14 points, 5 points ahead of the second Dortmund, who drew 1-1 with Copenhagen, Denmark, who booked his seat for the next round with a goalless draw with City in the last round, while Seville is in the third with 5 Points of the quarter-finals supplement of the "Europe League" competition.

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