In this episode, Santiago Leon and Hal Phillips discuss Liverpool – Man City draw and UCL.
Contributors
Santiago Leon – @sleon
Hal Phillips – @mandarinhal
Liverpool draws Man City 1-1
Premier League title rivals Liverpool and Manchester City drew 1-1 at Anfield on Sunday.
John Stones opened the scoring for City before an Alexis Mac Allister penalty kick got Liverpool level.
City then survived a late VAR review after another Liverpool penalty appeal.
Sunday’s result left Arsenal top of the table on goal difference with 10 rounds of fixtures left to play this season.
Arsenal and Liverpool have 64 points each, while City sit third with 63.
UCL
Pep Guardiola’s side humiliated Danis giants Copenhagen 6-2 on aggregate in the last-16 stage.
Bayern 3 Lazio 0 (3-1)
Real Sociedad 1 PSG 2 (1-4)
Real Madrid 1 Leipzig 1 (2-1)
Here are the sides who have qualified:
- Man City.
- PSG.
- Bayern Munich.
- Real Madrid.
Predictions
Porto at Arsenal
Porto is up 1-0 in aggregrate
Arsenal were the big winners to emerge from Matchday 28 in the Premier League, with their hard-earned 2-1 victory over Brentford being followed by an entertaining 1-1 draw between Liverpool and Manchester City as the Gunners ended the weekend at the summit. Their UEFA Champions League hopes, however, hang by a thread ahead of Tuesday’s last-16 second leg against Porto. Can Mikel Arteta mastermind a turnaround after their 1-0 defeat in Portugal?
Galeno’s stunning 94th-minute strike decided the first leg at the Estádio do Dragão three weeks ago as Arsenal produced an uncharacteristically toothless performance, failing to record a single shot on target as they became just the fifth team to lose five successive Champions League knockout games, after Roma in 2018, Bayer Leverkusen in 2014, Celtic in 2013 and Real Madrid in 2010.
HP: Porto
Napoli at Barcelona
Aggregate 1-1
Barcelona will be hoping to utilise their home advantage when they host Napoli at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on Tuesday for a winner-takes-all UEFA Champions League clash between two sides battling for quarter-final progression after a 1-1 draw in the first leg in Naples.
It was a tale of two talismanic strikers in that first leg on 21 February, with Robert Lewandowski opening the scoring in the 60th minute before Victor Osimhen’s equaliser 15 minutes later left this enticing European tie firmly in the balance.
Lewandowski has been involved in 18 goals in his last 12 appearances in the knockout rounds of the Champions League, scoring 12 and assisting six. Overall, he’s now on 93 goals in the competition, behind only all-time UCL top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo (140) and Lionel Messi (129). He’s been involved in 11 goals in his last 10 games against Italian sides in the competition (seven goals, four assists) – a warning not heeded by Napoli in the first encounter.
Yet Osimhen’s equaliser, spinning a flailing Iñigo Martínez before converting past Marc-André ter Stegen, also marked his ninth Champions League goal, the joint-most by a Nigerian player in the history of UEFA’s top club tournament (level with Obafemi Martins).
HP: BAR
PSV at Dortmund
Aggregate 1-1
HP: PSV
Inter at Atletico
Inter up 1-0 in aggregate
HP:
Santiago Leon is the Founder and CEO of the Sports Cast. He covers NFL, NBA, and world soccer. He’s also founder of sleon productions, which he specializes in technology and serves clients with solutions to make their business grow.
