Even though they were restricted to a 0-0 draw on Tuesday in Copenhagen, Manchester City has advanced to the next round of the UEFA Champions League.
However, they were without Erling Haaland, missed a penalty, and Sergio Gomez was sent off.
Sevilla did not win the other group game, which they drew 1-1 at Borussia Dortmund, therefore the English champions advanced with two games to spare.
They were the only team to secure a spot in the round of 16 when Borussia Dortmund failed to win and Real Madrid, the defending champions, was beaten to a 1-1 draw against Shakhtar Donetsk.
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Benfica’s match ended in a 1-1 draw, leaving neither team with a victory.
In other matches, Maccabi Haifa defeated Juventus 2-0 while visiting Chelsea defeated AC Milan with 10 men 2-0.
Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb drew 1-1, and RB Leipzig of Germany won 2-0 against Celtic.
On Wednesday, other teams, including as Liverpool and Bayern Munich, may also secure spots in the round of 16.
With two games remaining, Manchester City advanced from Group Gas England’s Jude Bellingham offset Sevilla’s advantage from Borussia Dortmund’s Tanguy Nianzou.
Despite a discouraging night in Copenhagen during which they lost their first points, this was the case.
After scoring 20 goals in his first 13 matches for Manchester City, Norwegian star striker Haaland was benched for the first time.
Pep Guardiola, the manager, has stated he was “so exhausted.”
Furthermore, this was six days after they destroyed Copenhagen 5-0 behind a pair of Haaland goals.
After a video review, Riyad Mahrez’s dazzling strike into the top corner of the net by Rodri was ruled to have been handled.
After a review, Mahrez was awarded a penalty kick against home goalkeeper Kamil Grabara for handball, but he was unable to score.
At the halfway point, a third video review resulted in the dismissal of Manchester City defender Sergio Gomez for a last-man foul on Hakan Arnar Haraldsson.
“We started really well with 11. Then we had an hour and 10 minutes to hang on. When we had the ball we were clever. (But) it’s a good point,” Guardiola said.
Following their second 1-1 draw with Benfica in Group G, PSG must wait to qualify.
The France forward set a club record as teammate Kylian Mbappe’s future was up in the air and Lionel Messi was ruled out due to injury.
In the 40th minute, he converted a penalty kick to record his 31st goal of the game.
Following the restart, Mbappe curled narrowly wide, but Benfica tied the score when they were awarded a penalty kick in the 62nd minute, which Joao Mario comfortably converted.
The two teams are five points clear of Juve and Maccabi Haifa and need one more victory to advance.
Omar Atzili scored twice in the first half, delighting the Israeli home team and making things even worse for the Italian guests.
“We knew it would be a complicated game against a very well-organised Benfica team. We started very well, played to win and finished the first half well.
“In the second half we looked for the goal until the end, but we didn’t have that chance,” PSG defender Danilo said.
To advance from Group F, Real Madrid would have needed to defeat Shakhtar Donetsk in Warsaw.
But soon after the resumption, Oleksandr Zubkov took the lead for the home team.
Before suffering a head injury in a collision, Antonio Rüdiger scored a stoppage-time equalizer for the record champions.
Timo Werner and Emil Forsberg scored late goals to help RB Leipzig defeat Celtic and get them within four points of Real Madrid.
With two victories over AC Milan, Chelsea, the 2021 champions, has already moved up from last to first in Group E.
Fikayo Tomori, a former defender for Chelsea, was dismissed by the hosts for a last-man foul, and Jorginho scored the resulting penalty kick to give the Blues a 1-0 lead.
Olivier Giroud, the striker for AC Milan, lost a wonderful opportunity to tie the score against his previous team, and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the second goal just before halftime.
In a competitive group, Chelsea is one point ahead of RB Salzburg, with Zagreb and AC Milan trailing by another two.
