Champions League highlights and round-up: Real Madrid and Paris cruise through, Arsenal beat Leverkusen, Sporting CP stage stunning comeback in round of 16 second legs | UEFA Champions League

Real Madrid and Paris comfortably noticed off English opponents Manchester City and Chelsea, Arsenal battled previous Leverkusen and Sporting CP mounted a memorable comeback towards Bodø/Glimt as the primary 4 groups by way of to the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals have been confirmed.

We round up the Tuesday motion from the round of 16 second legs.

Scintillating Sporting grew to become simply the fifth group in Champions League historical past to beat a first-leg deficit of three targets or extra as they struck twice in further time to finish a memorable comeback towards Bodø/Glimt.

Trailing 3-0 after final week’s first leg in Norway, the hosts made the breakthrough when Gonçalo Inácio rose to move in a nook. They stored the strain on in the second half and received their reward when Pedro Gonçalves completed off an excellent group transfer earlier than Luis Suárez transformed a penalty with 12 minutes remaining.

In further time Maximiliano Araújo shortly fired in to spark delirium and Rafael Nel slammed in a late fifth as Sporting reached the quarter-finals for the primary time because the 1982/83 European Cup.

Player of the Match: Francisco Trincão (Sporting CP)

A thunderous effort from Eberechi Eze was the catalyst as Arsenal claimed a quarter-final spot at Leverkusen’s expense with a 2-0 win on the night time.

Mikel Arteta’s facet dominated a lot of the primary half and the guests relied on their goalkeeper Janis Blaswich to make a sequence of good saves from the likes of Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard.

Eze’s explosive strike on the flip shortly earlier than the break after a wise one-touch passing transfer lastly put the hosts in entrance, nonetheless, and England midfielder Rice stroked in a clean second to offer the Premier League membership a deserved 3-1 mixture success.

Player of the Match: Declan Rice (Arsenal)

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Bradley Barcola and Senny Mayulu struck as Paris cruised by way of with victory in London.

Kvaratskhelia, whose late double sealed a 5-2 first-leg win, held off Mamadou Sarr to fireside in from contained in the field after six minutes. Barcola had scored the opening objective of the tie six days earlier, and the winger added to his tally by curling in clinically to finish a speedy break by the guests in the fifteenth minute.

Half-time substitute Mayulu adopted go well with 17 minutes after the restart with an excellent end for the holders, who will meet Liverpool or Galatasaray in the quarter-finals.

Player of the Match: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Paris)

Los Blancos knocked the Cityzens out of the competitors for the third marketing campaign working following Vinícius Júnior’s double. 

The hosts tried to overturn the first-leg deficit from the off, but it surely was the Brazilian worldwide who struck first, coolly changing his spot kick after a Bernardo Silva handball, for which the City captain was dismissed. 

The ten males drew stage simply earlier than the break by way of Erling Haaland’s close-range effort, however Pep Guardiola’s facet couldn’t muster an unlikely comeback, the visiting No7 pouncing in added time by steering in Aurélien Tchouaméni’s inviting supply.

Player of the Match: Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid)