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SPORTSWednesday 9 December
Champions League Roundup:
Continued from page 17
Also, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
and Lucas set each other
up for goals as Paris Saint- came from behind to beat
Germain beat Shakhtar
Donetsk 2-0.
PSG was already guaran-
teed to finish second be-
hind Madrid.
Madrid advanced with 16
points and PSG with 13.
Shakhtar finished third with have to play in the Europa
three points and dropped
into the Europa League
while Malmo came last,
also with three points but
with only one goal scored
and 21 conceded.
GROUP B
Central defender Naldo
scored a brace as Wolfs-
burg advanced to the
knockout stage for the first Proepper’s low shot sealed
time when it beat three-
time winner Manchester Sevilla’s Fernando Llorente, left, is airborne with Juventus’ Giorgio Chiellini during the Champions
United 3-2. United dropped League Group D soccer match between Sevilla and Juventus, Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan stadium in
to third place in the group Seville, Spain, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.
when PSV Eindhoven
CSKA Moscow 2-1 and join
Wolfsburg in the round of In Wolfsburg, Anthony in the 10th, but Naldo vol-
16. Martial put United ahead leyed in the equalizer in the
Wolfsburg won the group 14th. Vieirinha regained
with 12 points and PSV fin- the lead for Wolfsburg in
ished with 10, two more the 29th, before an own
than United, which will now goal by Joshua Guilavogui
in the 82nd tied the score.
League. CSKA finished last But two minutes later Naldo
with four points. scored his second with a
PSV advanced for the header to seal Wolfsburg’s
first time since 2006. Vet- victory.
eran defender Sergei Ig-
nashevic converted a GROUP C
76th-minute penalty to Luciano Vietto scored one
give CSKA the lead, but goal and set up another as
PSV captain Luuk de Jong Atletico Madrid won 2-1 at
equalized just two minutes Benfica to win the group.
later, and midfielder Davy Playing at the same sta-
dium where it lost the 2014
the win in the 86th. final, Diego Simeone’s side
avenged a 2-1 loss to Ben-
fica from earlier this season. in the Europa League as
Vietto passed for midfielder
Saul Niguez to convert At-
letico’s aggressive start into On the two previous oc-
a goal after half an hour,
before he added a strike of
his own early in the second
half.
Benfica substitute Kostas
Mitroglou halved the differ-
ence in the 75th.
Galatasaray was held to
1-1 at home by Astana in
the other Group C match.
The Turkish side finished
(AP Photo/Miguel Angel Morenatti)
third and will join the Euro-
pa League.
Atletico finished with 13
points, Benfica with 10,
Galatasaray with five and
Astana with four.
GROUP D
Raheem Sterling netted in
the 80th and 81st minutes
and Wilfried Bony scored in
the 85th to spark Manches-
ter City’s late turnaround in
a 4-2 win over Borussia Mo-
enchengladbach
To qualify in first place, City
also needed Juventus to
lose in Sevilla and last sea-
son’s runner-up was beat-
en 1-0.
Sevilla secured a berth
Fernando Llorente scored
against his former team.
casions City reached the
knockout stage, it was
runner-up in the group
and drew Barcelona both
times. The English club is
likely to get an easier draw
in the last 16 this time.
City finished with 12 points,
Juventus with 11, Sevilla
with six and ‘Gladbach
with five.q