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PSG won at Juventus 2-1 but Benfica topped Group H after cruising past Maccabi Haifa 6-1 in the Champions League's final round of group games.

The holders, Real Madrid, retained top spot with 13 points after their 5-1 home win against the bottom side Celtic. Juventus levelled shortly before half time after Juan Cuadrado sent the ball into the six-yard box with a diving header and the defender Leonardo Bonucci tapped the ball in for an equaliser. Maccabi finished bottom of the standings with three points after their defeat by Benfica.

A second-half goal by defender Nuno Mendes earned Paris St Germain a 2-1 win at Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday but they were pipped to top ...

"When you go off the pitch defeated, you have to be angry," Allegri said. Let's wait for the draw and see who we get in the Round of 16. "When we were winning 7-2 last week (over Maccabi), we stopped playing at the 90th minute.

Nuno Mendes scored the winning goal within moments of coming on as a second-half substitute as Paris Saint-Germain beat Juventus 2-1 in Turin on Wednesday ...

"There is still a draw to come. Benfica topped the group thanks to their greater number of goals scored away from home. It wasn't to be but that's football," Mbappe told broadcaster Canal Plus.

Paris Saint-Germain were pushed into second in Champions League Group H as a little-known rule sent Benfica top at the death.

With everything so tight, the group positions were ultimately decided by goals scored away from home, as per the official UEFA ruling. And they drew those two matches with one another (1-1 on both occasions), meaning their head-to-head was level too. The French outfit looked all but certain to qualify from Group H in first place but were pipped to the post by Benfica.

Martin Green locked in best bets for Wednesday's Juventus vs. PSG UEFA Champions League 2022 match.

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Kylian Mbappé's power and strength were on full display when he shook off a defender tugging desperately on his shirt to score a memorable goal in the ...

“Sure we’re going to play the Europa League. At age 23, he eclipsed teammate Lionel Messi to become the youngest to score 40 goals in Europe’s top club competition. But Juventus expects to be playing against the best teams come March. We’ll have to see what the draw brings.” “We wanted to win the group but that’s what happens in football,” Mbappé said. If France makes another run in this year’s tournament, which starts Nov.

Get a report of the Juventus vs. Paris Saint-Germain 2022-23 UEFA Champions League, Group Stage football match.

[Filip Kostic](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/174496/Filip-Kostic)'s 78th minute rocket from the top of the box was saved by Donnarumma, but fell right into the path of Locatelli for an easy finish that would have levelled the score only for the goal to be ruled out for offside. [Manuel Locatelli](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/217538/Manuel-Locatelli) and [Juan Cuadrado](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/118986/Juan-Cuadrado) both narrowly missing efforts from distance. "When we were winning 7-2 last week [over Maccabi], we stopped playing at the 90th minute. [France](/soccer/team?id=478) international ghosted his defender after receiving the ball from [Lionel Messi](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/45843/Lionel-Messi), cut to his right and lashed an unstoppable shot from the top of the area past [Wojciech Szczesny](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/131634/Wojciech-Szczesny) to put PSG in front. Let's wait for the draw and see who we get in the round of 16. "We've beaten Juventus twice and we were very happy until the 92nd minute," PSG coach Christophe Galtier said after the match.

Paris Saint-Germain finished second in group H of the Champions League despite winning last night against Juventus thanks to goals from Kylian Mbappé and Nuno ...

Real Madrid (10.98%) and Porto (10.79%) also feature. The professor of applied mathematics at the École des Ponts ParisTech calculated that PSG had a 19.46% chance of coming up against Bayern Munich. [L’Équipe](https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Article/Le-bayern-munich-adversaire-le-plus-probable-pour-le-psg-en-8e-de-ligue-des-champions/1362704) Bayern Munich is the most likely match-up with Paris Saint-Germain in the next round of the Champions League, followed by Napoli.

The French team had no problems winning its national championship, but the UEFA Champions League – the pinnacle of club soccer – remained elusive. Messi's ...

Teams like Maccabi Haifa – one of the weakest in the Champions League – have come to the French capital and made a mockery of the PSG defense. They will punish PSG, and even having the great Messi back to his best in the side might not be enough to stop it. [won the game 4-3](https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/messi-inspires-psg-4-3-win-over-troyes-2022-10-29/) and added another three points to its tally for its inexorable march toward yet another French championship, the fact the minnows were able to put such pressure on the champions should be a source of major concern. The team has never won a major trophy, and the budget to run the club is a tiny fraction of PSG’s multi-billion-dollar operation. Troyes, with all due respect, is a small club, one that has dropped up and down between Ligue 1 and 2 over the years. But the rush to crown PSG as European champions in waiting should be tempered with some hard truths.

SportsBrief.com News ☆ Paris Saint-Germain could draw huge European clubs such as Real Madrid, Manchester City, Chelsea and Bayern Munich in the Champions ...

[draw](https://www.uefa.com/news/027b-167f56b5d273-0267361a8b28-1000--round-of-16-draw-possible-opponents-and-head-to-heads/) will be done on Monday, November 7 in Nyon. The competition will resume next year after the [World Cup](https://sportsbrief.com/tag/world-cup/). Ideally, this should be a big game, but Jurgen Klopp's recent struggles might make this too easy for the Bavarians. The night's biggest surprise was that Benfica pipped Paris Saint-Germain to the top spot in Group H. Liverpool could also meet Real Madrid. [Martin Moses](https://sportsbrief.com/authors/martin-moses/)

ESPN FC journalist Gab Marcotti predicted which opponent Paris Saint-Germain will face off in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16.

[Champions League Round of 16](https://www.espn.com/soccer/uefa-champions-league/story/4788657/champions-league-round-of-16-draw-seedings-date-time-round-details), and he has PSG going up against a challenging opponent in Bayern Munich. Benfica also had 14 points and won the tiebreaker on away goals scored in all group matches. A potential third meeting in four years would present the tiebreak and put an opponent that is second in their league currently behind Union Berlin but stomped the teams in their group.

Kylian Mbappe led Paris Saint-Germain to a 2-1 win over an inspired Juventus side on Wednesday - but they were still left disappointed in Group H. Under ...

A hugely disappointing outcome for a club desperate to win the Champions League for the first time. Benfica poured in five second-half goals, including one in stoppage time, which incredibly dislodged PSG from top spot on away goals scored throughout the group stage. Another strike from PSG in Turin would have done the trick, but they were unable to find a third.

Benfica stunned Paris Saint-Germain after pipping them to the top of their Champions League group on the final matchday after thrashing Maccabi Haifa 6-1.

Benfica tied with PSG on head-to-head results, goal difference and goals scored. Benfica only pipped PSG to the top of the group on away goals following a list of tie breakers But they had scored scored three more away goals than PSG with nine in total. The win was enough to pip Paris Saint-Germain to top spot in the group by away goals The Portuguese side scored twice in the latter stages, with Joao Mario's strike in the second minute of stoppage time enough to secure top spot by away goals over the much fancied French champions. - But they had scored scored three more away goals than PSG with nine in total

Benfica put six goals past Maccabi Haifa to claim the top spot in Group H ahead of PSG, as Real Madrid thrash Celtic.

Sterling curled the ball past two players in the box after latching onto a pass from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. In Group F’s other game, RB Leipzig saw off Shakhtar Donetsk with a convincing 0-4 win. Later in the first half, Hákon Haraldsson equalised, heading home from close range. Kylian Mbappé opened the scoring in the 13th minute with an exquisite strike. Aged 17 and 346 days, he beat the previous record set by Karim Benzema, who scored for Lyon at age 17 and 352 days in 2005. Locatelli would have a goal disallowed goal a few minutes later, ending what has been a lacklustre Champions League campaign for the Italian side.

It took nine years for seven-time European champion AC Milan to finally win its way back into the Champions League knockout rounds with a 4-0 victory over ...

The national team is taking a black kit option to Qatar as a symbol of “mourning” for construction workers who died. Those teams will be unseeded and playing the first leg at home on Feb. Group winners are seeded and will host the second legs played from March 7-15. Still, Ronaldo’s sustained brilliance in his 30s has taken him to a Champions League record 140 career goals. The nine-year gap included some Europa League campaigns, failures to qualify at all, and a one-season ban for breaking UEFA financial rules. PSG had six, Benfica got nine including Joao Mario’s on Wednesday in the second minute of stoppage time.

Paris Saint-Germain took on Juventus in an away fixture in their final game of the Champions League group-stage matches this season.

While Benfica scored nine goals away from home, PSG netted only six in three Champions League away fixtures, averaging two goals per game on the opposing turf. [L’Équipe](https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Ligue-des-champions-pourquoi-le-psg-a-fini-2e-du-groupe-h/1362691) report that the primary criteria, such as the number of points and number of goals, were not enough to decide the final positions of Benfica and PSG. There was also equality in overall goal difference (+9) and the number of goals scored (16) by both teams throughout the group stage.

Christophe Galtier's side headed into their final game in Group H in top spot. They were level on points with Benfica but had a superior goal difference by ...

'But that was the end, it doesn't matter, we qualified. [Christophe Galtier](/sport/christophe-galtier/index.html)'s side headed into their final game in Group H in top spot. [Kylian Mbappe](/sport/kylian-mbappe/index.html) bemoaned the fact that [PSG](/sport/teampages/psg.html) finished second in their Champions League group despite beating [Juventus](/sport/teampages/juventus.html) 2-1, claiming they weren't aware of what was going on elsewhere during the game.

Zlatan Ibrahimović believes Kylian Mbappé made the wrong decision in re-signing with Paris Saint-Germain after a long pursuit by Real Madrid.