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Liverpool eased to a 3-0 triumph successful Marseille successful the Champions League connected Wednesday arsenic Harry Kane's treble earned Bayern Munich a 2-0 triumph against Union Saint-Gilloise that secured a spot successful the past 16 for the German giants.
Arne Slot's Liverpool extended their unbeaten tally to 13 matches successful each competitions since a 4-1 hammering astatine location by PSV Eindhoven successful the Champions League successful November.
Mohamed Salah made his archetypal quality for his nine since returning from the Africa Cup of Nations, but helium was not among the scorers.
Instead it was Dominik Szoboszlai who got the breakthrough conscionable earlier half-time with a clever free-kick that went nether the wall.
"I did my homework and got told that if nary 1 is lying down, past I tin deed it nether the wall. I tried it and it worked out," the Hungarian said.
Hugo Ekitike deed the barroom earlier the 2nd extremity arrived connected 72 minutes erstwhile Jeremie Frimpong's shot into the mediate went successful disconnected goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli.
Substitute Cody Gakpo wrapped up the triumph astatine the death, leaving Liverpool 4th successful the 36-team standings, and successful a presumption to clinch a last-16 spot by beating Qarabag adjacent week.
Meanwhile, Bayern joined table-toppers Arsenal successful guaranteeing a top-eight decorativeness with a crippled to spare, and truthful a last-16 spot, arsenic they saw disconnected the Belgian champions astatine the Allianz Arena.
Kane headed successful to unfastened the scoring aboriginal successful the 2nd half, past won and converted a punishment connected 55 minutes.
Kim Min-jae was sent disconnected for the location broadside earlier Kane squandered the accidental to people a hat-trick by sending different punishment disconnected the woodwork -- helium nevertheless has 7 goals successful 7 Champions League games this season, and 34 successful each competitions.
"We scored astatine the close times, were a spot unlucky with the reddish paper but adjacent aft that erstwhile we went down to 10 men we controlled the crippled good and earned the 3 points," Kane told DAZN.
Newcastle, Chelsea, Barca win
Newcastle United were excessively beardown for PSV astatine St James' Park, moving retired 3-0 winners aft Yoane Wissa got an aboriginal opener and Anthony Gordon made it 2 connected the half-hour.
Harvey Barnes past fired successful the 3rd connected 65 minutes, and Newcastle are successful the apical 8 earlier completing the league signifier distant to reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain adjacent week.
Chelsea are eighth aft edging retired Cypriot minnows Pafos 1-0 astatine Stamford Bridge acknowledgment to a Moises Caicedo header successful the 78th infinitesimal -- arsenic caller manager Liam Rosenior enjoyed a triumph successful his archetypal Champions League game.
Barcelona are among the teams progressive successful the combat for nonstop last-16 entree aft they came from down to decision Slavia Prague 4-2.
The Czech broadside had not scored successful immoderate of their erstwhile 5 European outings but went up done Vasil Kusej's aboriginal goal.
Fermin Lopez scored doubly to crook the crippled around, lone for the unlucky Robert Lewandowski to enactment done his ain nett and marque it 2-2 astatine the interval.
However, a superb Dani Olmo onslaught restored Barca's pb conscionable aft the hr and Lewandowski sealed the triumph with his archetypal Champions League extremity this season.
Atletico Madrid drew 1-1 distant to Galatasaray successful Istanbul, with Giuliano Simeone putting the visitors up aboriginal connected lone for a Marcos Llorente ain extremity to reconstruct parity.
Atalanta's top-eight hopes were deed arsenic they mislaid 3-2 astatine location to Athletic Bilbao, with the Basque broadside reviving their hopes of making the play-off round.
Gianluca Scamacca headed Atalanta successful beforehand but Gorka Guruzeta equalised earlier the interruption and Nico Serrano and Robert Navarro added further goals successful the 2nd half. Nikola Krstovic past pulled 1 backmost precocious on.
Juventus continued their Champions League betterment with a 3rd consecutive European win, beating Benfica 2-0 acknowledgment to second-half goals by Khephren Thuram and Weston McKennie.
Vangelis Pavlidis missed a punishment successful spectacular manner for Benfica, and Jose Mourinho's broadside present look acceptable to beryllium eliminated.
However, astonishment bundle Qarabag are connected people to marque the play-offs aft beating Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2 successful Baku.
Colombian Camilo Duran scored doubly for the location broadside either broadside of a Can Uzun effort and a Fares Chaibi penalty. Bahlul Mustafazade past won it for the Azeri nine successful wounded time.
All 18 matches successful the last circular of games volition beryllium played simultaneously adjacent Wednesday, January 28.
