Champions League

Kylian Mbappé is only 23, but his plunge into the world soccer scene keeps growing. The French dynamo, playing for his home country's most successful club ...

France is already guaranteed a place in Qatar, by winning the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with Mbappé being one of the biggest stars of the tournament, scoring four goals in Russia. Messi turns 35 in June and Cristiano Ronaldo is 37. Mbappé deserves a ton of credit for carving out a role for years on one of the most stacked teams in club football, doubling that with his role for the French national team. It won seven of the last nine Ligue 1 titles and it’s well on its way to making that eight of 10, as Mbappé and crew haven’t lost a league game since October, the last time Rennes was its opponent. In what he knew would be PSG’s final chance to score in the match, the Frenchman dribbled through both Éder Militão and Lucas Vázquez to get in prime position for a chance on goal. In Ligue 1 play, a 93rd-minute right-footed curler found the back of the net against Rennes to give the Parisians the 1-0 win. PSG teammate Lionel Messi, which feels like an odd qualifier for one of the world’s best players, stepped up to take the penalty kick, slotting it with his left foot to his right, but not far enough away from Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who made the save.

Coman rescues the Germans in the 90th minute to tie Salzburg.

The Polish superstar was powerless in Austria, though, without a single shot. Nagelsmann and his team have work on if they are to avoid crashing out to Salzburg at home which would leave them with only the Bundesliga as the scantest of consolation titles and even that cannot be considered won given that Bayern still need to face Dortmund once more this term. Nagelsmann was always going to need time to stamp his mark on this Bayern side, especially as he oversees a generational change many younger faces coming in to push out the remaining veterans, but the Allianz Arena hierarchy will not have expected it to cost them in more than one piece of silverware. Two of the fixtures which have seen Bayern allow their opponents to score have finished in victory for Nagelsmann and his players thanks to their lethal Robert Lewandowski-led attack which has scored 10 times in their last four games while conceding those eight goals. Salzburg's German sister club RB Leipzig put two past Bayern at Allianz Arena while Hertha Berlin also tallied against the champions and the only team to fail to do so in 2022 so far is 1 FC Koln who were thumped 4-0 in early January after a 2-1 loss to Borussia Monchengladbach. 21 - Junior Adamu's goal for FC Salzburg in the 21st minute against Bayern Munich was the earliest by a substitute in a— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) #UCLgame since Thierry Henry against Slavia Prague for Arsenal in October 2005 (also 21st minute). Impact. #SALFCB pic.twitter.com/v14bhGJrcn February 16, 2022

ESPN te presenta a todos los goleadores de la UEFA Champions League tras los partidos de ida por los 8vos. de final.

Solo dos menos que Sebastien Haller y uno que Robert Lewandowski, que se quedó sin marcar en el empate de su equipo frente al Salzburgo (1-1). Los mismos que Roberto Firmino, que abrió el camino de la victoria del Liverpool frente al Inter. Si los números ya estaban muy a favor de Mbappé (22 tantos y 13 asistencias esta temporada por los 7 goles y 6 pases de gol de Messi), sólo le faltaba igualar al astro argentino en las estadísticas europeas.

Follow live as German giants Bayern Munich enter the first leg as heavy favorite against Austrian Bundesliga leaders RB Salzburg, who are in the Round of 16 ...

15th min: Sane is trying to get things moving for Bayern down the right side as they look to assert themselves. Good long ball forward down the right and Adeyemi works it through to Aaronson. He taps it to his left, and Adamu smashes it first time into the roof of the net. 2:30 p.m.: These sides met in the group stage last season, with Bayern winning home and away. Salzburg is coping well with it, though, and waiting for a chance to break. And it's the Salzburg substitute Adamu, who's only been on the pitch for ten minutes! 73rd min: Again it's Coman jinking his way into the box, leaving Kristensen confounded, but Kohl makes the save. Bayern's first-half performance was poor but picked up somewhat in the second; Kingsley Coman put in a good display to notch that very, very late equalizer. 1 1 1 1 1

Brenden Aaronson produced a brilliant performance for RB Salzburg in the Champions League against Bayern Munich on Wednesday.

That's what I was trying to do." it's amazing." He said: "It's a dream come true to play on the biggest stage and to get a result like that...

Inter looked like the better team at times on Wednesday, but they'll head to Anfield with a two-goal deficit.

We've played many excellent matches during the season, but we've never come up against a team of the quality of Liverpool before." Inter Milan will now go to Anfield next month (streaming on Paramount+), needing two goals to have any chance of advancing to the Champions League quarterfinals. "I congratulated the team on their performance, we would have deserved more but what we showed tonight should bode well for what comes in the future. Inzaghi expressed his regret in the post-match interview: "We hope that we don't have to face Liverpool in every match. In the first-leg loss, Inter Milan again displayed a worrying trend. Edin Dzeko and Lautaro Martinez, especially, were not clinical enough in front of the net.