Actual Madrid’s Vinicius Junior celebrates scoring in opposition to Manchester Metropolis within the Champions League on the Etihad Stadium
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Actual Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain rapidly snuffed out hopes of epic comebacks by Manchester Metropolis and Chelsea within the Champions League.
As a substitute, it was tiny Bodø/Glimt on the receiving finish of a historic second-leg fightback within the spherical of 16.
Defending three-goal leads from the first leg, Madrid gained 2-1 at Metropolis — helped by an early purple card to Metropolis captain Bernardo Silva — by way of two objectives from Vinícius Júnior to advance 5-1 on mixture and defending champion PSG scored twice within the first 14 minutes on the way in which to a 3-0 victory at Chelsea. That sealed an 8-2 mixture success.
Bodø/Glimt, the Norwegian membership from a fishing city of round 55,000 individuals north of the Arctic Circle, additionally had a 3-0 lead from the primary leg however was blown away 5-0 by Sporting Lisbon after additional time.
Paris St Germain’s Senny Mayulu scores the third purpose in opposition to Chelsea
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There’s solely been one larger comeback within the Champions League: Barcelona’s storied “Remontada” in opposition to PSG in 2016-17.
Sporting’s reward is a quarterfinal matchup with Arsenal, which beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 for a 3-1 mixture win and stored alive its hopes of a quadruple of trophies this season.
Purple card damages Metropolis comeback bid
It is the fourth time in 5 years that Madrid has eradicated Metropolis from the Champions League and this one was realistically over when Silva was proven a purple card within the twentieth minute — after a video evaluation — for protruding his elbow on the goal-line to dam a shot from Vinícius.
The Brazil star tucked away his penalty to present Madrid a four-goal cushion and utilized a close-range end in second-half stoppage time to safe victory on the night time for the document 15-time European champions.
Erling Haaland equalized within the forty first minute for Metropolis, which created sufficient possibilities — even with 10 males — to attain the objectives required.
Kylian Mbappé entered as a second-half substitute to mark his return from almost a month out injured. Madrid will hope the France striker stays injury-free earlier than a quarterfinal in opposition to both Bayern Munich or Atalanta. Bayern leads 6-1 from the primary leg.
PSG good points belated revenge over Chelsea
Name it belated revenge. Eight months after shedding the Membership World Cup ultimate to Chelsea, PSG inflicted an enormous two-legged beating of the English crew with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Bradley Barcola and Senny Mayulu scoring the objectives at Stamford Bridge.
PSG will proceed its title protection in opposition to both Galatasaray or Liverpool within the quarterfinals. Galatasaray gained the primary leg 1-0.
Eze surprise purpose retains Arsenal rolling
On an in any other case powerful night time for English golf equipment, Arsenal ensured there can be Premier League illustration within the final eight.
Eberechi Eze swiveled to fireplace house a rising shot from the sting of the world earlier than Declan Rice added a second at Emirates Stadium.
Prime of the Premier League by 9 factors, Arsenal is within the ultimate of the English League Cup — it performs Man Metropolis on Sunday — and the quarterfinals of the FA Cup, the place it will likely be an enormous favourite in opposition to second-tier Southampton.
A quadruple ought to undoubtedly not be dominated out.
Tiny Bodø/Glimt ends run in CL
The Bodø/Glimt fairy story is over — however solely after an unlikely streak of wins that has charmed the world of soccer.
After beating Man Metropolis and Atletico Madrid within the ultimate two rounds of the league stage to squeeze into the playoff spherical, the northernmost crew ever to play within the Champions League defeated Inter Milan — final season’s runner-up — house and away to advance to the spherical of 16.
Profitable 3-0 in its 8,000-capacity Aspmyra stadium final week did not show sufficient in opposition to Sporting, which dominated all through within the return match and scored by way of Gonçalo Inácio, Pedro Gonçalves and Luis Suarez to take the sport to additional time.
There, Uruguay left again Maxi Araújo scored within the 92nd minute to place Sporting forward on mixture for the primary time and Rafael Nel added a fifth in stoppage time.
“Individuals thought it was nearly unimaginable,” Araújo mentioned, “however we confirmed that we believed in ourselves and turned it round. We performed an ideal sport.”
Revealed – March 18, 2026 11:53 am IST
