Football: Liverpool in the last 16 of the Champions League, Barcelona's thrilling victory, scored three goals in 18 minutes

Liverpool beat Lille 2-1 at home to book a place in the last 16 of the Champions League football tournament, while Barcelona came from two goals down to beat Benfica 5-4 in a thriller. Barcelona won by scoring three goals in 18 minutes.

Liverpool's seventh win in seven matches
Harvey Elliott scored the winning goal to give Liverpool their seventh win in seven matches. Earlier, Mohamed Salah scored the first goal for Liverpool in the 34th minute but Lille equalized through Canadian striker Jonathan David in the 62nd minute. Lille had to play the last half hour of the game with 10 players. Liverpool needed just one point in this match to reach the last 16, but the team continued its winning streak and entered the next stage brilliantly.

Barcelona made a great comeback
By the 75th minute Barcelona was trailing 2-4. After this, the Spanish giants made a brilliant comeback in the last 18 minutes to ensure victory. Raphinha scored the winning goal for his team in injury time. With this, Barcelona has 18 points in seven matches and is in second place after Liverpool. Liverpool has 21 points. Benfica's Vangelis Pavlidis scores the third-fastest hat-trick in the Champions League. He took advantage of the mistakes of Barcelona goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and scored two goals.

Atletico also won over Leverkusen.
Robert Lewandowski scored two penalty goals for Barcelona. He is the Champions League top scorer with nine goals. Raphinha also scored two goals. Another Spanish club, Atletico Madrid, beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 thanks to Julian Alvarez's winning goal in the 90th minute. With this victory, Atletico Madrid has reached third place.

Monaco beat Aston Villa
In another match, Monaco defeated Aston Villa 1–0. This has dealt a blow to Villa's hopes of qualifying directly for the last 16. In other matches, Bologna beat Borussia Dortmund 2–1, Atalanta beat Graz 5–0 and PSV Eindhoven beat Red Star 3–2. Stuttgart recorded a comfortable 3–1 win over Slovan Bratislava. The match between Club Brugge and Juventus ended in a 0–0 draw.