Chelsea thump Barcelona in Champions League as Man City also lose

FIFA Club World Cup champions Chelsea of the English Premier League bushed Spain’s Barcelona 3-0 successful the Champions League.

Defensive lapses outgo Barcelona and Manchester City dearly arsenic some teams slumped to notable losses successful the Champions League connected Tuesday.

Chelsea comfortably bushed 10-man Barcelona 3-0 to gain its 3rd league-phase triumph and determination person to the top.

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It was the 2nd nonaccomplishment for Barcelona, which went down a antheral aft defender Ronald Araujo was shown a 2nd yellowish paper conscionable earlier half-time.

The hosts scored with an own-goal by Jules Kounde successful the 27th, a bully onslaught by Estevao successful the 55th and a close-range changeable by Liam Delap successful the 73rd.

Chelsea’s Estevao scores their 2nd extremity against Barcelona [Hannah Mckay/Reuters]

Leverkusen proceed Man City woes

In Pep Guardiola’s 100th Champions League crippled arsenic City coach, his squad struggled to header with Bayer Leverkusen’s speedy transitions successful a 2-0 defeat, portion Barcelona had an ain extremity and a reddish paper successful its 3-0 nonaccomplishment astatine Chelsea.

Guardiola made 10 changes to his starting lineup pursuing Saturday’s nonaccomplishment to Newcastle successful the Premier League, with Erling Haaland among those connected the bench, but it didn’t person the desired effect.

Alejandro Grimaldo fired location Leverkusen’s archetypal extremity with a debased changeable into the acold country successful the 23rd, and Patrik Schick headed successful a 2nd successful the 54th.

City could person moved atop the array with a win, but the nighttime ended with the apical 3 unchanged. Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Inter Milan each play connected Wednesday.

Bayer Leverkusen’s Patrik Schick celebrates scoring their 2nd extremity [Lee Smith/Reuters]

Benfica and Napoli besides grounds wins

Jose Mourinho picked up his archetypal Champions League triumph with his caller nine Benfica arsenic Samuel Dahl’s aboriginal extremity acceptable the signifier for a 2-0 triumph implicit troubled Ajax. It was No 36 vs No 35 successful the pre-game standings arsenic the 2 winless teams met successful the Netherlands.

Left backmost Dahl scored an unstoppable volley connected the rebound aft Ajax goalkeeper Vitezslav Jaros had saved a header from Benfica’s experienced defender Nicolas Otamendi. Leandro Barreiro added a 2nd extremity successful the 90th.

Ajax has mislaid each 5 of its Champions League games and won lone 1 of its past 10 games successful each competitions.

Canadian guardant Promise David scored the lone extremity arsenic Belgium’s Union Saint-Gilloise won 1-0 astatine injury-depleted Galatasaray. The Turkish nine was without injured Champions League apical scorer Victor Osimhen, and finished with 10 men aft 18-year-old defender Arda Unyay picked up 2 yellowish cards.

Scott McTominay scored the opening extremity arsenic Napoli won 2-0 against Azerbaijan’s Qarabag. Napoli fans commemorated the 5th day of nine fable Diego Maradona’s death.