Goals from Diogo Jota and Sadio Mane gave Liverpool a comfortable victory over Atletico Madrid which sees them qualify for the Champions League knockout stage.
Both goals came from a Trent Alexander-Arnold assist, the first from a typically impossible to defend curling ball behind the defence which Jota stooped to nod home, and then Mane nudged the defender’s powerful low drive beyond Jan Oblak.
Any hope Diego Simeone's side had of coming back into the game was effectively extinguished when Felipe was sent off for clipping Mane with studs on his Achilles and then refusing to acquiesce to the referee's requests to receive censure for this.
Jota thought he had scored a second when he was given the freedom of Anfield to slot past Oblak but he was just offside, as was Jose Maria Giminez at the other end just before Luis Suarez's long-range volley deflected off Joel Matip and past Alisson.
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Elsewhere, Club Brugge made Manchester City work for it, but goals from Phil Foden, Riyad Mahrez, Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus took them to within one point of last-16 qualification in the Champions League.
This is not Pep Guardiola’s best City side, but looking around Europe there aren’t many better, so perhaps this will be the season that both win the Champions League title that has eluded them for much longer than it ought to have done.
From kick-off, City pinned Brugge back inside their own half, and though they struggled to create much in the way of chances, it was no surprise when, on 15 minutes, they took the lead, Joao Cancelo’s fine, low cross picking out Foden for a tap-in.
But two minutes later, Brugge were level, the impressive Charles De Ketelaere’s cross hitting Bernardo Silva then John Stones on its way past Ederson, and the teams went in level at the break.
It soon became apparent, though, that Brugge had expended the majority of their energy in the first half, and more City goals looked inevitable. Sure enough, they came on 54, 72 and 91 minutes, Mahrez heading home from close-range and Sterling tapping home after good work from Foden and Ilkay Gundogan, before Gabriel Jesus stroked home from the edge of the box in injury-time.
Results
Manchester City 4-1 Club Brugge
RB Liepzig 2- 2 PSG
AC Milan 1-1 Porto
Liverpool 2 - 0 Atletico Madrid
Dortmund 1-3 Ajax
Sporting CP 4-0 Besiktas
Real Madrid 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Sheriff Tiraspol 1-3 Inter