The French football club Lyon secured on Wednesday as the last team a place in the round of the Champions League.
At stamford bridge against Shakhtar Donetsk ensured Nabil Fekir with a goal in the second half that the French could go home 1-1.
the Fight in Ukraine’s capital was the only one of Wednesday’s eight CL matches, which was played on access to knockoutfasen in Europe’s biggest club competition.
Lyon could settle with a draw in the snowy Kyiv, while Shakhtars hosts had to win to overtake the French in group F and make Manchester City company in the spring of the first knockout round.
Midway through the first half took Shakhtar the lead after a goal from brazilian Junior Moraes.
Although the French guests tried to get the ball out of the danger zone, so kept Shakhtar firmly in the attack, and eventually kicked Moraes the hosts at 1-0.
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The Ukrainian team, however, had conceded 15 goals in the first five group stage matches, and, as a minimum, closed two goals in each match. Therefore, nothing was settled.
Lyon came also to a wide range of options, and after 64 minutes came to equalise for 1-1.
Memphis Depay put the from fantasy the ball into the feet of Nabil Fekir. Despite four Shakhtar players in front of him, then got Fekir on the edge of the penalty area knocked the ball up in the målhjørnet.
Now could the French guests take it with the ro, and the time was pulled at every opportunity.
In the group’s other match won a skadesplaget Manchester City team on their own turf with 2-1 over the German Hoffenheim. City’s German profile Leroy Sane scored both goals for the English hosts, who went behind after a quarter of an hour.
City wins group F with 13 points ahead of Lyon with eight. Shakhtar Donetsk can take comfort from the fact that the team’s six-point rows to a third place finish and a transfer to the Europa League for the spring. Hoffenheim got just three points.
