All’s well that ends well for Atletico
The Hindu
Liverpool is first English team to win all six group games in single campaign
Three red cards, on-field brawls, countless chances and a flurry of late goals. A wild, win-or-bust match in the Champions League between Porto and Atletico Madrid had it all.
In the end, it was Atletico celebrating a place in the last 16 of Europe’s top club competition with a 3-1 win on Tuesday, emerging from a three-way fight for qualification in the final round of group games.
On a night when Ajax striker Sebastien Haller became an unlikely history-maker, Real Madrid finished on top of its group, and Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi ran amok for Paris Saint-Germain, much of the focus on the next-to-last night of group play was on the Group B finale as three teams vied to be runner-up to Liverpool.