Manchester Metropolis loved the right warm-up for Sunday’s essential Premier League journey to Liverpool final night time as they cruised previous Copenhagen to succeed in the Champions League quarter-finals for a sixth successive season.
Forward by two targets from the primary leg in Copenhagen three weeks in the past, any lingering hopes of a shock have been ended inside 9 minutes as Manuel Akanji and Julian Alvarez discovered the online.
Erling Haaland went joint prime of the match scoring charts alongside Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe as he netted his sixth of the marketing campaign – and twenty ninth in all competitions – as Metropolis scored a 3rd earlier than half-time after the guests had pulled one again for the sport to finish mixture 6-2
The Norwegian, who Ole Gunnar Solskjaer reminded everybody Manchester United may have signed in 2019 on the ‘Keep on with Soccer’ podcast, has scored in three successive video games for the primary time since October.
It’s excellent news for Metropolis boss Pep Guardiola earlier than the Anfield encounter.
Guardiola had mentioned within the build-up he wouldn’t be spending any time occupied with Liverpool till the Copenhagen match was out of the way in which.
That assertion was uncovered by the actual fact he made seven modifications to the facet that beat Manchester United on the weekend after which changed key man Rodri on the break.
The modifications didn’t hinder Metropolis, who’re on the longest present run of successive Champions League quarter-final appearances. The one English membership to ever have performed higher within the competitors is Manchester United, who reached the final eight in seven consecutive seasons from 1996-97 to 2002-03.
Elsewhere, Vinicius Junior offered the standard end which RB Leipzig lacked to safe a 2-1 mixture win and qualification into the final 16 for Actual Madrid.
Like the primary leg, German facet Leipzig have been made to pay for losing a bunch of possibilities when Vinicius clipped in Jude Bellingham’s move with 25 minutes left for a 2-0 lead.
Leipzig lastly transformed a possibility three minutes later when skipper Willi Orban flicked in a header.
The aim offered renewed perception to the Bundesliga facet and so they continued to open up the Spanish La Liga leaders as they looked for a leveler.
Former Barcelona teen Dani Olmo got here the closest to taking the tie into further time – as a result of away targets now not rely in UEFA competitions – when his looping header clipped the highest of the crossbar in damage time.
However Actual, aiming to develop into European champions for a record-extending fifteenth time, managed to carry out and attain the quarter-finals for the twelfth time up to now 14 seasons with mixture 2-1 win.
Carlo Ancelotti’s facet will discover out their quarter-finals opponents when the draw for the final eight is made on Friday, 15 March (11:00 GMT).
RESULTS
Man Metropolis 3-1 Copenhagen
(6-2 agg)
R’Madrid 1-1 RB Leipzig
(2-1 agg)
EUROPA
Sporting 1-1 Atalanta
TODAY
Qarabag v Leverkusen
Roma v Brighton
S’Prague v Liverpool
AC Milan v Slavia
Benfica v Rangers
Freiburg v West Ham
Marseille v Villarreal
