Man City, PSG stay alive in Champions League, US Open expands main draw, McKibbin joins LIV
Manchester City come from behind to beat Club Brugge in must-win game, while tennis officials add 15th day to year’s final grand slam.
Manchester City came from behind against Club Brugge to reach the Champions League knockout phase, where they were safely joined by Paris Saint-Germain as Arsenal qualified directly for the last 16 on Wednesday in the final round of league-phase matches.
Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lille and Aston Villa also followed Liverpool and Barcelona in securing top-eight finishes to skip the new play-off round.
An Liverpool finished top despite an understrength side losing the team’s perfect record with a 3-2 defeat away at PSV Eindhoven. Barcelona missed the chance to go top after drawing 2-2 with Atalanta, which pushed the Italians outside the top eight.
On a night in which only two of the closing 18 games were dead rubbers, City got the win they needed with a nervy 3-1 victory at the Etihad Stadium. PSG, who beat City 4-2 last week, produced an emphatic display in a 4-1 triumph at Stuttgart.
Arsenal only needed a point to wrap up a last-16 berth and goals from Jorginho and Ethan Nwaneri gave them a 2-1 victory at Girona.
Inter finished fourth in the standings by seeing off 10-man Monaco 3-0, while Atletico made it five straight Champions League wins with a 4-1 thumping of Salzburg in Austria.
