UEFA champions league: Liverpool, Spurs, PSG make last 16

Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur picked two of the remaining four
tickets into the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, knocking out two
Italian favourites, Napoli and Inter.

Mo Salah, Liverpool’s hero of the match

Liverpool heeded the advice of Coach Jurgen Klopp and really put up a
magical display against Napoli at Anfield, with Mo Salah almost walking
into the net with the only goal of the match in the 34th minute.

The goal, well deserved because Liverpool put on a gutsy display, was
all the Reds needed to oust Napoli from the next round.

The Italians
had arrived at Anfield as group leader with nine points. They left
demoted to third place.

The other member of the Group C, Paris Saint Germain whipped FK Crvena Zvezda, a.ka. Red Belgrade 4-1, with goals by Edinson Cavani,
Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Marquinhos to lead the group with 11 points.

Lucas Moura of Tottenham Hotspur (27) celebrates after scoring his team’s equaliser at Camp Nou

Liverpool came second with 9 points, while Napoli, with same points will now be relegated to Europa League.

In Camp Nou, Tottenham Hotspur also forced Barcelona to 1-1 draw to
scrape passage into the last 16, along with Barcelona, which had
qualified weeks ago, with two matches to spare.

The Londoners were helped by PSV Eindhoven, which also played a 1-1 draw with Inter at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan.

PSV scored first in the 13th minute and took Inter’s Mauro Icardi, 60
minutes after to slot in the equaliser.

But they needed a win to move
to the next round. like Napoli, they will also now be relegated to the
Europa League.

Through to round of 16: Ajax, Atlético Madrid,
Barcelona, Bayern München, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Liverpool,
Manchester City, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Porto, Real
Madrid, Roma, Schalke, Tottenham Hotspur.