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City collapse in Feyenoord draw, Bayern beat PSG
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LONDON: Manchester City’s crisis deepened as as Pep Guardiola’s side remarkably blew a three-goal lead to draw 3-3 with Feyenoord in the Champions League on Tuesday, while Bayern Munich beat Paris St Germain to leave the French club in danger of elimination. There were also big wins for Atalanta, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen, while Inter Milan went top of the standings after five games and Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski reached a century of Champions League goals. However, the biggest drama came at the Etihad Stadium, where City were cruising early in the second half with a three-goal advantage as they sought to end a run of five successive defeats in all competitions. Guardiola’s side seemed determined to end their recent slide which culminated in a 4-0 league home defeat against Tottenham Hotspur on the weekend, and boost morale for their next game at Premier League leaders Liverpool. The breakthrough came in the 44th when Antoni Milambo brought down Erling Haaland, and the Norwegian calmly slotted the ensuing spot kick into the bottom right corner to eclipse Lionel Messi as the youngest player to reach 45 goals. Ilkay Gundogan further soothed City nerves when his shot took a deflection into the net five minutes after the restart. And the game appeared over as a contest three minutes later when the completely unmarked Haaland struck again. Yet Guardiola was left with his head in hands as Feyenoord roared back in the last 15 minutes with goals from Anis Hadj Moussa, Sergio Gimenez and David Hancko, two of them after Josko Gvardiol errors. On 75 minutes, Moussa took advantage of hapless defending to round goalkeeper Ederson and pull one back. Substitute Gimenez bundled in to make it 3-2 on 82 minutes and the equaliser arrived a minute from the end. Ederson was again caught out with Igor Paixao going around the goalkeeper and crossing for Slovak international Hancko to head in. “We concede a lot of goals because we are not stable,” complained Guardiola. “We lost a lot of games lately. We are fragile and of course we need a victory. “I don’t know if it is mental. The first goal cannot happen and the second as well. The situation is what it is. We played a good game but at that level we can’t give them away. If we are not able to win games like we did today it is difficult to do it.” It is the first time that a team has gone into the last 20 minutes of a Champions League game trailing by three goals and still avoided defeat, as the point boosts the Dutch side’s hopes of progressing. City are two points outside the top eight places which offer direct qualification for the last 16, while Bayern moved above them by beating PSG 1-0 in Munich. South Korean defender Kim Min-jae scored the only goal seven minutes before half-time, heading in after goalkeeper Matvei Safonov failed to clear a corner. PSG had Ousmane Dembele sent off in the second half and the French champions have just four points, and three goals, from five games. They are a lowly 26th in the 36-team league, a point adrift of the positions which offer a place in the play-off round in February and six off the automatic qualification places. “We need to win our last three matches, otherwise we risk being eliminated,” admitted PSG coach Luis Enrique. Lewandowski notched his 100th goal in the competition with an early penalty in Barca’s 3-0 home win over previously-unbeaten French side Brest to move into second place.. Dani Olmo netted midway through the second half before Lewandowski sealed Barca’s win at the death, his 101st goal in the Champions League — only Cristiano Ronaldo (140) and Lionel Messi (129) have scored more. Neither Ronaldo nor Messi play in the Champions League anymore following moves to Saudi Arabia and the United States, respectively. The 36-year-old Lewandowski required 125 matches to reach the century mark, two more than Messi (123) and 12 fewer than Ronaldo (137). “It’s a nice number,” Lewandowski said. “In the past I didn’t think I could score more than 100 goals in the Champions League. I’m in good company alongside Cristiano and Messi.” Inter lead the standings with 13 points, a point ahead of Barcelona and Liverpool, after a 1-0 win at home to RB Leipzig which means they are also still yet to concede a goal. Castello Lukeba’s own goal in the 27th, when he deflected a Federico Dimarco free-kick cross into his own net, made the difference at San Siro, and Leipzig are one of only three teams to have lost five games out of five. Atalanta moved within two points of the lead, albeit whilst conceding a first goal in Europe this season, in a 6-1 win at Young Boys in Switzerland with Mateo Retegui and Charles De Ketelaere both scoring braces. Sead Kolasinac and Lazar Samardzic also netted for the Italians, with Silvere Ganvoula getting the hosts’ reply. Arsenal romped to a 5-1 victory away to Sporting in Lisbon, as the Portuguese side adapt to life without coach Ruben Amorim, who has departed for Manchester United. Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Magalhaes all scored in the first half for Arsenal, before Goncalo Inacio pulled one back shortly after the restart. Bukayo Saka converted a penalty on 65 minutes after Martin Odegaard had been brought down, and Leandro Trossard headed in to seal Arsenal’s win late on. Florian Wirtz struck twice, including a penalty, as Leverkusen crushed Red Bull Salzburg 5-0, with Alejandro Grimaldo scoring a superb free-kick and Patrik Schick and Aleix Garcia also netting. AC Milan followed up their win at Real Madrid with a 3-2 victory at last-place Slovan Bratislava in an early match. Christian Pulisic put the seven-time champions ahead midway through the first half by finishing off a counterattack. Then Rafael Leao restored the Rossoneri’s advantage after Tigran Barseghyan had equalised for Bratislava and Tammy Abraham quickly added another. Nino Marcelli scored with a long-range strike in the 88th for Bratislava, who ended with 10 men and are without a point. Argentina World Cup winner Julian Alvarez scored twice and Atletico routed Sparta Prague 6-0 in the other early game. Alvarez scored with a free kick 15 minutes in and Marcos Llorente added a long-range strike before the break. Alvarez finished off a counterattack early in the second half after being set up by substitute Antoine Griezmann, who then marked his 100th Champions League game by getting on the scoresheet himself. Angel Correa added a late brace for Atletico, who earned their biggest away win in Europe.
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