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Ronaldo Sets Record, Bayer Through by semoly(m): 3:03am On Dec 11, 2013
Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo set a Champions
League group phase scoring record on Tuesday
as Bayer Leverkusen and Olympiakos Piraeus
reached the last 16 and snow forced
Galatasaray's match with Juventus to be
abandoned.
Holders Bayern Munich's record-breaking run of
10 consecutive Champions League wins came to
an unceremonious end after Manchester City
staged a memorable fightback after conceding
two early goals to win 3-2 at the Allianz Arena.
However, Bayern still won Group D with City
finishing in second place.
Prolific Ronaldo took his tally to nine for the
campaign in Real's 2-0 win at FC Copenhagen,
with the nine-time champions also setting an all-
time record in European competitions by netting
in 31 successive matches.
Ronaldo, in his first game back since sustaining
a muscle strain on November 23, scored with a
simple close-range finish three minutes after the
break, Real's second after Luka Modric's
delightful opener.
Bayern manager Pep Guardiola suffered only his
second loss in 25 matches since taking over from
Jupp Heynckes.
"When you go 2-0 ahead, you have to play better
than that," Bayern captain Philipp Lahm told
Sky Sports Deutschland. "But we can live with
the defeat, we are still group winners."
CITY'S REVENGE
A heavy loss looked on the cards for City when
slack defending allowed Thomas Mueller and
Mario Goetze to fire the German side 2-0 ahead
after 12 minutes.
David Silva started the comeback with a simple
finish to reduce the deficit by the break and
James Milner won a penalty, converted by
Aleksandar Kolarov, and side-footed the winner
in a three-minute second-half spell.
"We wanted revenge for the first game (Bayern
won 3-1) and to show it was not that different
between Bayern and our team," said City
manager Manuel Pellegrini.
"To win here and score three goals without
Vincent Kompany, Yaya Toure, Alvaro Negredo
and Sergio Aguero shows we have a very good
squad also, so it's a very important victory."
Leverkusen's 1-0 win at Real Sociedad put them
through as runners-up behind Manchester
United in Group A.
The Bundesliga side's victory, earned by Oemer
Toprak's second-half goal, lifted them above
Shakhtar Donetsk into second after the
Ukrainians lost 1-0 at United.
Javier Saviola scored twice as Olympiakos
pipped Benfica to second spot in Group C by
beating visitors Anderlecht 3-1.
In an extraordinary match, the Belgians finished
with eight men after the Greeks scored one
penalty and had two saved by keeper Silvia
Proto, including one from Saviola.
The Anderlecht stopper spoiled his night by
getting sent off in stoppage-time, joining
Cheikhou Kouyate and Fabrice N'Sakala in
seeing red.

Benfica won 2-1 against group winners Paris St
Germain, who rested top scorer Zlatan
Ibrahimovic, but drop into the Europa League
despite finishing on 10 points along with
Olympiakos who enjoyed head-to-head
superiority over the Lisbon club.
MATCH ABANDONED
Galatasaray or Juventus will join Group B
winners Real Madrid in the knockout stage when
they return to finish their match in Istanbul on
Wednesday.
The players were taken off the Ali Sami Yen
stadium pitch by Portuguese referee Pedro
Proenca after 32 minutes following heavy
snowfall with the score at 0-0.
Uefa said in a statement the match "will
continue on Wednesday from 1400 CET (1300
GMT)".
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After losing two successive Premier League
games at Old Trafford, Manchester United
stopped the rot thanks to a second-half Phil
Jones goal at Old Trafford which sent Shakhtar
into the Europa League.
"We wanted to top the group and we have. The
win helps us, improves our form," said manager
David Moyes. "A club like Manchester United
has to be trying to win the trophy."
Viktoria Plzen scored two late goals to beat
CSKA Moscow 2-1 to secure third place and a
Europa League spot in Group D.
Substitute Tomas Wagner rifled home the winner
in the 90th minute to send Plzen into the Europa
League at the expense of CSKA who finished
with nine men after Alan Dragoev and Pontus
Wernbloom were dismissed late on.

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