Champions League results: Dortmund, Arsenal win tickets in dramatic fashion
It was only thanks to Kevin Grosskreutz's 87th-minute goal that Dortmund were able to win 2-1 against Marseille, thereby securing a ticket to the dramatic knockout round.
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Kevin Grosskreutz - Dortmund's hero. (Source: Getty Images) |
With this victory, Dortmund also officially took the top spot in Group F from Arsenal - the team that was defeated 2-0 by Napoli in the match at the same time. Napoli also became the first team in Champions League history to be eliminated despite having won 12 points.
Along with Dortmund and Arsenal, other teams Schalke 04 (group E), Zenit (group G) and AC Milan (group H) also became the owners of the last tickets to continue.
Detailed results of the final round of matches of the Champions League group stage
Table B
Galatasaray - Juventus 1-0
Wesley Sneijder 85
Table E
Chelsea - Steaua Bucureşti 1-0
Demba Ba 10
Schalke - Basel 2-0
Julian Draxler 51, Joel Matip 57
Red card: Ivan Ivanov (Basel)
Group F
Marseille - Dortmund 1-2
Souleymane Diawara 14 - Robert Lewandowski 4, Kevin Grosskreutz 87
Red card: Dimitri Payet (Marseille)
Napoli - Arsenal 2-0
Gonzalo Higuain 74, Jose Maria Callejon 90+3
Red card: Mikel Arteta (Arsenal)
Group G
Atletico - Porto 2-0
Raul Garcia 14, Diego Costa 37
Missed penalty: Josué 28 (Porto)
Austria Vienna - Zenit 4-1
Philipp Hosiner 44, 51, Tomas Jun 48, Roman Kienast 90+2 - Alexandr Kerzhakov 35
Group H
Barcelona - Celtic 6-1
Gerard Piqué 7, Pedro Rodriguez 40, Neymar 45, 48, 58, Cristian Herrera Tello 72 - Georgios Samaras 88
AC Milan - Ajax 0-0
Red card: Riccardo Montolivo (Milan)./.
List of teams qualified for the knockout round:
- Group winners: Manchester United (A), Real Madrid (B), PSG (C), Bayern Munich (D), Chelsea (E), Dortmund (F), Atletico (G) and Barcelona (H).
- Second place: Leverkusen (A), Galatasaray (B), Olympiakos (C), Manchester City (D), Schalke 04 (E), Arsenal (F), Zenit (G) and AC Milan (H).
- Teams relegated to Europa League: Shakhtar Donetsk, Juventus, Benfica, Viktoria Plzen, Basel, Napoli, Porto and Ajax.
According to VNA