Great win for Celtic. The Scottish team beat Leipzig 3-1 yesterday and now has 7 points in the Champions League standings at the halfway point. These are the words of manager Brendan Rodgers to UEFA.com: “It was an exceptional team performance. We knew we were playing against a top-level team in every aspect: speed, power and technique but we were very good. We started well but they scored after 20′; it took us some time to get going again, then we gained confidence after the equaliser.
Throughout the match we showed intensity, pressure and aggression. We did a lot of good things without the ball and this gave us a chance to show our qualities. If after the Dortmund match we had said that we would have taken four points between Atalanta and Leipzig, people wouldn’t have believed us. The players showed great maturity: I thought we could combine the defensive performance against Atalanta and the attacking enthusiasm of the match against Slovan Bratislava (5-1 win). We managed to combine everything and produce a great performance.”
Tuesday 5 November
PSV – Girona 4-0
Slovan Bratislava – Dinamo Zagreb 1-4
Bologna – Monaco 0-1
Celtic – RB Leipzig 3-1
Dortmund – Sturm Graz 1-0
Lille – Juventus 1-1
Liverpool – Bayer Leverkusen 4-0
Real Madrid – Milan 1-3
Sporting – Manchester City 4-1
Wednesday 6 November
Brugge – Aston Villa 1-0
Shakhtar Donetsk – Young Boys 2-1
Bayern Munich 1-0 Benfica (in progress)
Feyenoord – Salzburg 1-3
Inter – Arsenal 1-0
PSG – Atletico Madrid 1-2
Sparta Prague – Brest 1-2
Red Star – Barcelona 2-5
Stuttgart – Atalanta 0-2
The updated ranking
1. Liverpool 12 (dr +9)
2. Sporting 10 (dr +7)
3. Monaco 10 (dr +6)
4. Brest 10 (dr +6)
5. Inter 10 (dr +6)
6. Barcelona 9 (dr +10)
7. Dortmund 9 (dr +7)
8. Aston Villa 9 (dr +5)
9. Atalanta 8 (dr +5)
10. Manchester City 7 (dr +6)
11. Juventus 7 (dr +2)
12. Arsenal 7 (dr +2)
13. Leverkusen 7 (dr +1)
14. Lille 7 (dr +1)
15. Celtic 7 (dr 0)
16. Dinamo Zagreb 7 (dr -2)
17. Bayern 6 (dr +4)
18. Real Madrid 6 (dr +2)
19. Benfica 6 (dr +2)
20. Milan 6 (dr +1)
21. Feyenoord 6 (dr -3)
22. Club Brugge 6 (dr -3)
23. Atl. Madrid 6 (dr -4)
24. PSV 5 (r +2)
25. PSG 4 (dr -2)
26. Sparta Prague 4 (dr -3)
27. Stuttgart 4 (dr -3)
28. Shakhtar 4 (dr -3)
29. Girona 3 (dr -4)
30. Salzburg 3 (dr -7)
31. Bologna 1 (dr -5)
32. RB Leipzig 0 (dr -5)
33. Sturm Graz 0 (dr -5)
34. Young Boys 0 (dr -10)
35. Red Star 0 (dr -12)
36. Slovan Bratislava 0 (dr -13)