City entered the match knowing that a point would be enough to book their spot in the round of 16, but they collected all three on a night where Sergio Aguero became the club’s all-time leading goalscorer on 178 goals
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United were 1-0 up and had already missed one penalty, a soft effort from Anthony Martial saved by Benfica’s 18-year-old keeper Mile Svilar.
The match saw Valverde return to a club where he won three league titles and two Greek Cups during two separate spells on charge, but it was not a happy homecoming as Barcelona failed to score in a Champions League group game for just the second time in the last 48 attempts
However, while Chelsea drop to second after extending their dismal run in Italy to five defeats in six games, the Premier League side only require one win to qualify for the last 16 after Atletico Madrid were held to a 1-1 draw by Qarabag
The Red Devils have now won all four of their Group A games, but CSKA Moscow’s win over Basel means that official progression to the knockout stages must wait
Sturridge joined Liverpool in 2013 and the club have since qualified for the Champions League twice, starting with the 2014/2015 season.
Argentina’s Messi scored 37 league goals for Barcelona last season, while Neymar bolstered his standing by helping the Brazilian national team to become the first side to join the hosts at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
The 19-year-old limped off in the Champions League win at Benfica on Wednesday with a knee issue, but Jose Mourinho has confirmed the forward will be available for today’s tie
The 24-year-old, who cost 89 million pounds last year – a world record at the time – played only a handful of games this season before being sidelined.
The result has left Atletico on two points in Group C, and the Madrid club now face a serious battle to make the knockout round of the competition
It was Salvio that had the game’s first half-chance in the 15th minute after meeting a low cross from Alex Grimaldo, but the attacker’s effort was wide of the post as United escaped a dangerous situation
The Premier League outfit led through David Luiz and Eden Hazard, but Aleksandar Kolarov and a double from Edin Dzeko turned the match around in West London
It was one-way traffic from the first whistle in Catalonia, but an own goal from Dimitrios Nikolaou was all they had to show for their dominance before Pique was given his marching orders three minutes before half time
The match was played on Tuesday night
It was the visitors that had the first half-chance of the match inside three minutes, but after turning Varane inside the Real Madrid box, Llorente could not produce a strike on goal
Ancelotti has won 42 of his 60 games in charge of Bayern since arriving at the Allianz Arena in July 2016 but by their own high standards, the German giants have made a poor start to the season
The visitors enjoyed the majority of the possession throughout the match, but clean chances were few and far between for both sides
Man United had a lot of the ball in the early moments, and the Red Devils took the lead inside the first four minutes when Martial’s brilliant cross was headed home by Lukaku, who had risen above Ignashevich at the far post
The result – Chelsea’s first success on Atletico territory – leaves Antonio Conte’s team at the top of Group C with six points, while Atletico remain winless and have work to do in their double-header with Qarabag FK
Son Heung-min and Harry Kane scored either side of a Andriy Yarmolenko strike in a lively opening 15 minutes to the Group H clash, before Kane bagged a second after the interval to seal things.