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The visitors had the better chances before the deadlock was broken, with Claesson striking the post from distance before the substitute, En-Nesyri glanced a header past Grabara to put Sevilla ahead.
Diks then had a golden opportunity to equalise with his first touch, but smacked the bar with his header Isco curled in a wonderful effort and Montiel tapped in a rebound from Lamela’s shot to round it off, with Khocholava also seeing red in the time for a poor tackle on Isco.
Well, what a half of football it was, Salzburg drew level minutes into the second half with a fantastic finish from Adamu and from then on, the game was one littered with high quality chances.
Both sides went blow for blow until Havertz popped up to stroke in an even better winning goal, but the end to end action only intensified in the last half hour, with both teams going close on several occasions, Chelsea held on and sealed their passage into the knockout stages, but Salzburg can hold their head high & be confident of progressing themselves after their impressive display.
PSG are through to the last 16 of the Champions League after a 7-2 win over Maccabi Haifa, the front three of featuring Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar all starred and were on the scoresheet.
RB Leipzig got a result against Carlo Ancelotti’s Madrid with an impressive 3-2 win at the Red Bull Arena courtesy goals from Gvardiol, Christopher Nkunku and Timo Werner to close in the Reigning European Champions.
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