Manchester City, PSG and Juventus stumble on European night

MADRID, 11 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The night of this Tuesday of the Champions League 2022-2023 left several surprises with the setbacks of the English Manchester City, the French Paris Saint-Germain and, above all, the Italian Juventus, while the English Chelsea straightened its course in San Siro .

Pep Guardiola's team, one of the great favorites for the title, could not go beyond a goalless draw in their visit to Danish Copenhagen, a result that classifies them for the round of 16, but also harms Sevilla. City has 10 points, three more than Borussia Dortmund, with whom they will play for first place.

The Catalan coach decided to rest the Norwegian Erling Haaland and his team was left without scoring for the first time all season. Without their scorer, the English champion could not beat a rival who kept his order and who benefited from the fact of playing with one more due to the expulsion of Spaniard Sergio Gómez after half an hour, which caused Guardiola to tweak his team, removing Riyad Mahrez, who five minutes earlier had missed a penalty, to bring in another defender (Rúben Dias).

PSG was not very fine either, they could not get the victory in the Parc des Princes against the Portuguese Benfica, who, like a week ago in Lisbon, got a point after tying at one goal in a game marked by the possible desire of Kylian Mbappé to leave the club in January and due to the absence of Leo Messi.

The French striker was in charge of overtaking the locals from the penalty spot just before half-time. However, Christophe Galtier's men were unable to extend their advantage and the Lisbon team did not forgive their penalty in the 62nd minute to equalize through Joao Mario.

PSG could not get the win and added their third draw in a row and remain tied on eight points with Benfica, and with an advantage of five over a Juventus team that complicated its future in the top continental competition by falling on their visit to Maccabi Israeli Haifa. The 'Vecchia Signora' played a bad game and was the victim of Aitzilo's double at the beginning and at the end of the first half.

In addition, Chelsea went top of Group E thanks to their second consecutive win against Milan, against whom they made up for their poor start against Dinamo Zagreb and RB Salzburg. The London team benefited from Tomori's early dismissal in the 18th minute and three later Jorginho made it 0-1.

Before the break, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang made it 0-2 and made things very difficult for the 'Rossonero' team who finished third with four points, three behind Graham Potter's and two behind RB Salzburg who tied at one goal on his visit to Dinamo. Seiweld put the Austrian team ahead in the 12th minute, but Ljubicic equalized before the break to keep his team's chances of qualification intact.

Finally, in Group F, that of Real Madrid, the German RB Leipzig became the main threat to Madrid's first place after eliminating Scottish Celtic from the race for qualification, which they defeated 0-2 with goals in the section end of Timo Werner and Emil Forsberg.