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Harvey Elliott celebrates his golden goal for Liverpool against PSG ...(Bild: AFP/FRANCK FIFE)

Close, but still: both Liverpool FC and FC Barcelona have put themselves in a good position to progress to the next stage of the Champions League with 1:0 away victories! While the English Premier League leaders won at French champions Paris St.-Germain, the Spaniards were successful at Benfica Lisbon ...

PSG played well against the Reds in Paris and took the lead after a series of chances - but only supposedly. The PSG goal by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was disallowed due to the Georgian's minimal offside position (20').

Ousmane Dembele (31), Bradley Barcola (31) and Kvaratskhelia (37) missed further top chances against LFC keeper Alisson Becker, who was in superb form. The Parisians continued to press after the break, but Alisson repeatedly produced world-class saves. Instead, joker Harvey Elliott scored the winner for the Reds less than a minute after coming on as a substitute (87').

Barcelona win at Benfica while short-handed
Barcelona found themselves short-handed early on in Lisbon - defender Pau Cubarsi was shown a straight red card after a foul on Evangelos Pavlidis (22'). Kerem Aktürkoglu missed the 1:0 for Benfica shortly before the break (43').

While Barca goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny kept a clean sheet against the pressing Portuguese, Raphina took advantage of a serious mistake by the Benfica defense to put the Catalans ahead after an hour (61'). Barca went on to take the lead.