Barcelona may be heading for the Europa league for the second season running after failing to dispatch a resilient and determined Inter Milan at Camp Nou.
Recall that Inter Milan were 1-0 better than the same opponent in the previous week at San Siro.
Ousmane Dembele slotted in a powerful low drive shot in the 40th minute and ran away with the first-half lead.
On resumption, Inter Milan’s Nicolo Barela scored on the 50th minute to level up for the away team. Lautaro Martinez scored the second goal when he latched on to an error from Gerald Pique to put the Milan team a goal up.
Poland import Lewandowski scored for Barcelona to put the scores at 2-2 but the resilient away side Robin Gosens got the third goal to show they meant business.
Lewandowski again scored through a powerful header to restore parity for the home side as they settled for a 3-3 draw at camp Nou.
Liverpool showed the stuff they were made off by coming back from a goal down to put seven goals past Rangers FC in the battle of Great Britain.
Rangers forward, Scot Artfield scored the opener in the 17th minute but Liverpool’s Roberto Firminio equalized on the 24th minute.
Darwin Nunez doubled the lead on the 66th minute before Firmio struck again on the 73 minute, substitute Mo Salah scored his first hat trick of the season under six minutes to put scores at 6-1.
Harvey Elliot then scored the seventh goal to increase Liverpool’s chances of making it to the second round after Napoli.
Napoli defeated Ajax 4-2 at Naples to become the second team after Manchester City to qualify for the second round of the UEFA Champions League.
Bayern defeated Plzen by 4-2 to also cement their place in the second round of the UCL.
Tottenham Hotspurs also defeated Eintracht Frankurt 3-2 to rise to the top of group D of the UCL.
Napoli, Manchester City and Bayern have all secured qualification to the tournament’s round of 16.