Round Of Sixteen Highlight In The Champions League
The round of sixteen of the Uefa Champions League concluded yesterday and a total of eight teams have qualified for the quarter-final of the most competitive competition in club football. On Tuesday, Inter Milan qualified for the quarter-final after playing a goalless draw away from home against FC Porto, the total scoreline on aggregate is 1-0 Inter Milan scored a goal in the first leg against FC Porto in their home stadium and that one goal lead proved to be the decisive win for the Italian club.
The same night Manchester City annihilated RB Leipzig 7-0 at the Etihad Stadium, Haaland scored five goals in the match and became the third player in the history of the champions league to score five goals in a single match and also become the top scorer in the champions league for Manchester City.
Haaland could have scored more than five goals if he had played the whole 90 minutes but Pep Guardiola had other plans and took the Norwegian striker in the 63rd minute of the second half, well in my opinion I saw what Pep did there, he was not going to let Haaland break Messi's record.
When a reporter asked Pep why he subbed Haaland off when he could have become the first player to score a double hat trick this is what he said. ‘If he achieves this milestone at 22, 23, it will be boring his life. ‘He wouldn’t have a target to reach in the future. Here and everywhere. That’s why I make a substitution.‘I didn’t know about Messi with Leverkusen [scoring five against them in 2012] but I make a substitution because normally when the game is over we want them to play. ‘He scored five goals. The problem is every time we don’t score two or three he will be criticized. This is the reality.’source
Last night Napoli continued their winning run as they beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0 at home. Nigeria's own Victor Osimhen scored a brace last night and was close to getting his first hat trick in the champions league but Zielinski decided he must take the penalty and deny Osimhen the chance to get the third goal. Osimhen has been unstoppable in the Serie A with Napoli who are the favorites to win the league title, Osimhen has scored 19 goals and provided 4 assists in 22 appearances in the Serie A and has scored 4 goals in 5 appearances in the UCL.
Victor Osimhen still has two years left on his contract with Napoli but the player might push for an exit this summer in the transfer window, big clubs already have their eyes on him, Manchester United, PSG, and Chelsea are the top clubs interested in signing the Nigerian striker this summer, but the striker has made it known publicly that he will love to play in the EPL and it might be a reality this summer.
The last match of the UCL round of sixteen was between Real Madrid vs Liverpool, before the match I had no high expectations of Liverpool winning the match, no club has found it easy except Barcelona to beat Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 at home with Benzema scoring the only goal of the match. Liverpool are out of the UCL they can now focus on finishing in the top four of the EPL if they want to play in the UCL next season.
So guys that will be all for now, thanks for stopping by, and have a great day.