FC Porto vs Atletico Madrid. UEFA Champions League Group B.
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Plus: Bayern Munich complete perfect group stage by beating fellow qualifiers Inter Milan 2-0; Club Brugge finish second in their Champions League group after failing to win at Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday, instead drawing 0-0 in their final Group B game
Tuesday 1 November 2022 23:23, UK
Goals from Mehdi Taremi and Stephen Eustaquio helped Porto secure a 2-1 win at home to Atletico Madrid on Tuesday to finish top of Champions League Group B.
Porto had already qualified for the last 16 but leapfrogged Club Brugge to finish as group winners with 12 points, one point ahead of the Belgians who also went through.
Atletico finished last, failing even to qualify for the second-tier Europa League knockout round play-offs.
Porto went ahead in the fifth minute when forward Taremi tapped in a cross from Evanilson, registering his fifth goal in the Champions League this season.
Midfielder Eustaquio doubled Porto's lead in the 24th minute, drilling the ball into the bottom corner after Galeno sprinted down the left and played a cross inside the box.
Atletico's Antoine Griezmann found the net in the 68th minute but the referee had already blown the whistle for a foul by Rodrigo De Paul on Galeno in the build-up, while Porto keeper Diogo Costa saved a shot from Angel Correa six minutes later.
Porto defender Ivan Marcano scored an own goal in added time, but it did not do much damage to Porto who went on to seal three points.
Bayern Munich completed a perfect group stage by beating fellow qualifiers Inter Milan 2-0 thanks to goals from Benjamin Pavard and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting in their final Group C game.
Bayern ended top on 18 points, eight ahead of second-placed Inter with both teams having already reached the knockout stage.
Barcelona finished third on seven points, eliminated in the group stage and having to settle for a Europa League place for the second year in a row.
With Bayern and Inter having nothing riding on the game, it was an affair that won't live long in the memory.
Elsewhere, Eintracht Frankfurt staged a second-half comeback, scoring twice in 10 minutes to beat hosts Sporting 2-1 on Tuesday and qualify for the Champions League last 16 for the first time, knocking the Portuguese out of the competition.
The Europa League champions pulled themselves out of the depths of despair at half-time when they were facing certain elimination and with goals from Daichi Kamada and Randal Kolo Muani after the break left the pitch as unlikely winners.
Eintracht finished Group D in second place on 10 points from six games, with Tottenham Hotspur top on 11 after their last-gasp 2-1 victory at bottom club Olympique de Marseille. Sporting are third and will continue in the Europa League.
Ferran Torres scored in each half as Barcelona eased past Victoria Plzen 4-2 in the Champions League but both sides were already eliminated from the competition.
Barcelona remained in third place in Group C behind Bayern Munich and Inter Milan and will drop into the Europa League. Viktoria Plzen ended their European campaign without a point.
Barcelona, who rested a number of regulars including Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, struck six minutes into the match when defender Marcos Alonso poked the ball over the line after it squirmed past the Plzen goalkeeper.
The visitors doubled the lead just before the break when Jordi Alba deftly nodded the ball to the feet of an unmarked Torres who calmly slotted the ball into the net for a goal initially ruled out before a VAR review.
The Czech champions briefly cut the deficit in half when Tomas Chory converted a penalty after winning a spot kick in the 51st minute before Torres nabbed his second of the night on the break minutes later.
Plzen responded with a glancing Chory header in the 63rd minute to potentially set up a nervy finish until Pablo Torre slammed a shot into the roof of the net on his Barcelona debut to wrap up the victory.
Club Brugge finished second in the group after failing to win at Bayer Leverkusen instead drawing 0-0.
Brugge had already qualified for February's round of 16 following their first four games after emerging as the surprise package of the group campaign.
But a 4-0 defeat at home to Porto last week and the draw at the Bay Arena on Tuesday meant they ended on 11 points from their six games, one behind Porto.
Leverkusen finished third to take a Europa League place ahead of bottom side Atletico on their head-to-head results against the Spanish club after both finished on five points.
Brugge came closest to victory on Tuesday when their Canada international Tajon Buchanan struck the upright shortly after half-time although Leverkusen were the more attacking and forced visiting goalkeeper Simon Mignolet to make some key saves.
Mignolet kept five clean sheets in the six group games.
