Champions League LIVE: Result and final score from City-Sevilla, Chelsea-Dinamo, Juve-PSG and more
Goal updates from the Champions League as the group stages come to a close
Chelsea midfielder Denis Zakaria scored on his debut as his side finished their Champions League Group E campaign with a 2-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, topping the group and ending the European campaign for the Croatians.
Manchester City teenager Rico Lewis marked his first senior start with his maiden goal for the club as City came from behind to complete their commanding Champions League group stage with a 3-1 defeat of Sevilla.
FC Copenhagen scored their first goal in this season’s Champions League campaign, drawing 1-1 with already qualified Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday in their last Group G game.
Celtic, meanwhile, failed to earn a first victory in the Champions League this year as they succumbed to a 5-1 defeat by Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.
Follow all the action, goal updates, and major incidents from across the Champions League tonight:
GOAL! FC Copenhagen 1-1 Borussia Dortmund (Haraldsson, 41’)⚽️
41 mins: What a goal this is!
Copenhagen win the ball on the halfway line and sweep up the left side of the pitch with Hakon Arnar Haraldsson taking the ball into the box. Viktor Claesson recovers it as he runs in behind the defender before pulling the ball back to Haraldsson who drops back on the underlap.
Haraldsson hits a first time shot and guides it beautifully past the goalkeeper to give Copenhagen their first goal in the Champions League!
GOAL! Juventus 1-1 PSG (Bonucci, 39’)⚽️
39 mins: Juventus have been dominating them game since PSG went in front and now they’ve got their reward!
A diagonal cross comes over to Joao Cuadrado on on the right side of the penalty area and he dives towards the ball before heading it over to the back post.
Gianluigi Donnarumma gets a hand to the ball but can only flap it to Leonardo Bonucci who pokes it into the back of the net!
GOAL! Man City 0-1 Sevilla (Rafa Mir, 31’)⚽️
31 mins: Manchester City are behind!
Sevilla win a corner that gets whipped expertly over to the far side of the penalty area where Rafa Mir is wide open. He has a free header and sends it back across goal where the ball hits the post and bounces over the line!
GOAL! Chelsea 2-1 Dinamo Zagreb (Zakaria, 30’)⚽️
30 mins: Denis Zakaria scores on debut!
Mason Mount and Raheem Sterling combine in a one-two on the right side of the pitch with Mount carrying the ball into the box.
He pulls it back to Kai Havertz who misses the ball but luckily for Chelsea the ball comes to Zakaria who smokes an effort into the goal from the front edge of the penalty area!
AC Milan 1-0 RB Salzburg
28 mins: Disallowed! Olivier Giroud thought he had a second. A shot comes in from range and gets spilled by Philipp Kohn allowing Giroud to pounce and tap it in from close range.
The offside flag goes up and after a quick VAR check the goal is chalked off!
GOAL! Maccabi Haifa 1-1 Benfica (Chery, 26’) ⚽️
26 mins: Maccabi Haifa are back on level terms. VAR gets involved to give the home side a penalty after Bah handles the ball inside his own penalty area.
Anthony Taylor is the referee and after a quick look at the monitor he points to the spot.
Tjaronn Chery steps up and smokes the spot kick into the net to equalise for the home side.
GOAL! FC Copenhagen 0-1 Borussia Dortmund (Hazard, 23’)⚽️
23 mins: The goals are flowing now. Thorgan Hazard sends the visitors ahead. Emre Can whips the ball over to the right wing wehre Felix Passlack gets it under control and shimmies past the left-back to carry the ball into the box.
His cross comes all the way over to Hazard who brings it down then belts a shot a goal. There’s a deflection but the ball lands in the back of the net.
GOAL! Maccabi Haifa 0-1 Benfica (Ramos, 20’)⚽️
20 mins: Benfica open the scoring!
Alexander Bah recycles the ball from a defended corner and floats a cross back into the box towards Nicolas Otamendi. He nods the ball over to Goncalo Ramos who whips a header of his own past the goalkeeper to send Benfica ahead in Israel.
GOAL! Chelsea 1-1 Dinamo Zagreb (Sterling, 18’)⚽️
18 mins: Chelsea are level again!
Jorginho threads a fine pass into the right side of the penalty area and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang collects the ball before backheeling it into the path of Raheem Sterling.
Sterling checks to the left to avoid a tackle then guides a side-footed effort into the far bottom corner! Fabulous finish from Sterling.
GOAL! AC Milan 1-0 RB Salzburg (Giroud, 14’)⚽️
14 mins: Huge goal in Milan!
Sandro Tonali swings a corner into the middle of the box and Olivier Giroud falls away from his marker, gets a free header and nods it into the back of the net.
Milan take the lead and move a step closer to the knockout stages.
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