Juve and Lyon qualify for Champions League knockout round
Juventus and Olympique Lyon became the third and fourth teams to qualify for the knockout phase of the Champions League on Wednesday.
Juventus and Olympique Lyon became the third and fourth teams to qualify for the knockout phase of the Champions League on Wednesday.
Juventus qualified from Group C by beating Bayern Munich 1-0 with a last minute Alessandro Del Piero winner which gave them their fourth successive 1-0 victory and lifted them to 12 points.
Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Ajax Amsterdam 2-1 in the other group match for their first ever goals and victory in the competition proper.
Olympique Lyon joined Juve in the last 16 when they beat Fenerbahce 4-2 with two stoppage-time goals to take their tally to 10 points in Group D. They cannot now finish lower than second and are likely to be joined by Manchester United who beat Sparta Prague 4-1 to move to eight points.
Lyon looked like they had blown their chance with 17 minutes to play when Tuncay Sanli equalised for the Turkish champions to make it 2-2.
But Fenerbahce were reduced to 10 men after Servet Cetin was red carded two minutes later and paid the price when substitute Nilmar scored twice in stoppage time.
Juve and Lyon join Inter Milan and Chelsea, who qualified on Tuesday, in the last 16.
Real Madrid overturned a two-goal deficit for the second time in the competition, coming back to draw 2-2 with Dynamo Kiev in Ukraine in their Group B match.
But unlike on September 28 when they recovered to beat AS Roma 4-2, Real had to settle for one point with goals from Raul and a Luis Figo penalty.
Raul took his Champions League scoring tally to 48 goals, one fewer than the European record established by his illustrious Real predecessor Alfredo di Stefano between 1955 and 1964.
Roma and Leverkusen drew 1-1 behind closed doors in Rome leaving Leverkusen, Kiev and Real on seven points with Roma on one.
Ruud van Nistelrooy maintained his incredible scoring record in the competition with all four goals in Manchester United's 4-1 win over Sparta Prague at Old Trafford, taking his tally to 41 goals in 46 matches in the competition.
Only three other players have scored four goals in one Champions League game, the last being Dado Prso when Monaco beat Deportivo Coruna 8-3 a year ago this week.
In Group A Olympiakos beat AS Monaco 1-0 and Liverpool won 1-0 at Deportivo Coruna to take Olympiakos and Liverpool on to seven points, Monaco on six and Coruna on two.