- Champions League Matchday 8 scoreboard
- It’s 1-0 to the visitors!
- And frankly, it had been coming. City has been dreadful, and now needs two goals in the second half.
- Yunus Musah just got sent off for a second yellow.
- Milan, down a goal and a man, is down in 12th place of the live standings after entering the day in the top eight.
- Aston Villa has thrown away its lead to Celtic. That game is now 2-2.
- Real Madrid is up 1-0.
- Lille is back up 2-1, and Bayer Leverkusen is up 1-0. Both are in the top eight as things stand, with Villa dropping out.
- Ousmane Dembélé makes it 3-0 in favor of PSG at Stuttgart.
- After early struggles in the league phase, the French champions will comfortably reach the knockouts — in 15th place, as it stands!
- It’s still 0-0 after 33 minutes in Manchester. City still doesn’t have a shot on goal.
- Reminder: None of these other results change Man City’s task. They have to win. They haven’t given fans much confidence they’ll do that. It’s eerily quiet at the Etihad.
PSG delivers the first blow as they score off a beautifully executed set-piece! 🤯
Bradley Barcola scores in back-to-back UCL matches 💥 pic.twitter.com/kNANV05sII
— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) January 29, 2025
- Vangelis Pavlidis puts Benfica up 1-0 at Juventus.
- Almost simultaneously, Ousmane Dembélé scores for PSG to double their lead at Stuttgart.
- And then Dinamo Zagreb, the Croatian club that’s largely been written off, goes ahead against AC Milan!
- That leaves the bubble looking like this…
Lautaro Martínez etches his name in Inter history, notching his 15th UCL goal to pass Adriano for the most in club history 🌟 pic.twitter.com/KooJGc3GYY
— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) January 29, 2025
- The top 8, as it stands after 15 minutes…
- Feyenoord’s equalizer at Lille bumped Lille back down in the playoff places.
- City looked open and vulnerable to Brugge counterattacks early.
- At the other end, they haven’t created much of note in the first 12 minutes.
- They’ll have plenty of possession, and they’ll probably camp out in the final third. The question, as ever, is whether they can translate that to chances, and eventually ram in a goal. A draw wouldn’t be sufficient.
