Lille OSC took the group win in the Champions League on Wednesday. On an evening where every club still had a chance to win the knockout phase, crowned lesson Dogues became best of Group G by beating VfL Wolfsburg 1-3. Wout Weghorst ends with his club as a result. Red Bull Salzburg seized the second ticket with a victory over Sevilla (1-0), which means that the Spaniards have to continue in the Europa League. It is the first time that an Austrian club has reached the knockout stage of the Champions League.
VfL Wolfsburg – Lille OSC 1-3
The French, with Sven Botman in the starting eleven, started out as the leader in Group G and soon announced that they wanted to stay. From a razor-sharp counter, Jonathan Ikoné found teammate Burak Yilmaz and the Turk made no mistake: 0-1. Wolfsburg woke up – he had to – and with just under half an hour on the clock, he had a good chance via Weghorst. The Dutchman’s header, however, lacked power and direction. The home team kept pushing and Weghorst had a second chance five minutes before half-time. Now the the Dutch international got his head better against the ball, although Ivo Grbic did not have to intervene after all.
A counter out of the book! ?? Buruk Yilmaz shoots Lille ahead in Wolfsburg after a lightning-fast attack: 0-1 ??#ZiggoSport #WOLLIL pic.twitter.com/wJSjLhZbs0
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Wolfsburg needed at least two goals for the Champions League winter. However, the soul seemed completely out of the game after rest the Wölfe to have disappeared. Rather, it was Lille that claimed a second goal, which eventually came. Wolfsburg was outplayed in the ashes of the field and the ball eventually ended up with Jonathan David for the last push. Ten minutes before the end, Lille even made the third: Koen Casteels’ hand was not enough to turn Angel Gomes’s bet. Renato Steffen scored the honorary goal for Wolfsburg a minute before the end with a nice bang.
Red Bull Salzburg – Seville 1-0
Both teams knew very well what they were playing for. Both the hosts and the visitors from Andalusia looked for the attack from the first whistle, which predicted a nice game. After ten minutes, Sevilla was very close: Jules Koundé headed just wide from a corner. However, the fighting spirit of both sides did not translate into significant opportunities until the 34th minute. Ivan Rakitic forced Salzburg closing post Philipp Köhn to tap the ball out of the intersection with his fingertips. Until the break, there was little to enjoy in the Red Bull Arena after that.
With a welcome break, Salzburg broke the spell. The coveted Karim Adeyemi put the ball exactly in the course of the onrushing Noah Okafor, who shot in without thinking: 1-0. Now it was time for the men of Julien Lopetegui and the coach of Sevilla immediately brought in attacker Rafa Mir for left back Ludwig Augustinsson. In retrospect, Lopetegui will have regretted. Joan Jordán pulled the broken-out Adeyemi on his shirt fifteen minutes later and received his second yellow card. Certainly with one man less, Sevilla could no longer make a fist and was sentenced to the Europa League with six points. Red Bull Salzburg comes in ten, making it the first Austrian club ever to winter in the Champions League.