(AFP) - AC Milan and Germany's Leipzig completed the teams that qualified for the final price of the UEFA Champions League by defeating Austria's Salzburg and Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk, respectively, with a similar result, 4-0, Wednesday, in the sixth-last round.

Milan and Leipzig thus joined 14 other teams: Napoli, Italy, Liverpool, England (Group A), Club Brugge, Porto, Portugal (second), Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Italy (third), Tottenham, England, Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany (fourth), Chelsea, England (fifth), and Real Madrid, Spain. (sixth), Manchester City, Germany, Borussia Dortmund (seventh), Paris Saint-Germain, France, and Benfica of Portugal (eighth).

In the first match at the San Siro stadium, Milan qualified for the final price for the first time since the 2013-2014 season.
Milan raised its score to 10 points in second place, behind leaders Chelsea, who won 2-1 over Dinamo Zagreb, raising its tally to 13 points.

Milan entered the match needing a draw only to lead their rivals by one point.

Veteran French striker Giroud opened the scoring, taking advantage of a corner kick by Sandro Tonali, who rose above everyone else and headed into the net (14).

At the beginning of the second half, Milan strengthened its lead with a second goal through Bosnian Kronic from a header, after a solo effort by Serbian striker Ante Rebic (46).

Soon, Giroud finally decided the result in favor of his team by adding the third and second personal goal to him, after a wonderful individual effort by the brilliant Portuguese winger Rafael Leao, to shoot with his left hand into the net (57).

Brazilian Macías concluded the festival of goals by scoring the fourth in the first minute of stoppage time.

In the same group, Chelsea overturned its failure against Dinamo Zagreb with a goal to win 2-1, to avenge its loss against it at the start of its career in this competition, which overthrew its former German coach, Thomas Tuchel, before Graham Potter took over the task in his place.

In Group Six, Leipzig followed the example of Milan, with a landslide victory over Shakhtar Donetsk, 4-0.
Leipzig, who needed a point to qualify, raised its tally in second place to 12 points, a point behind Spanish leaders Real Madrid, the guarantor of its qualification, and the winner over Celtic, the Scottish bottom club, 5-1, while Danitsk’s balance froze at 6 points in third place, to move to the play-offs. The price of the final of the European League competition "Europa League".
In the same group, Madrid honored its guest, Celtic, by defeating it 5-1.
The royal club settled the result in its favor in the first half by scoring two goals from two penalty kicks through the Croatian Luka Modric (6) and the Brazilian Rodrigo (21), before adding a hat-trick in the second half that Marco Asensio (51), the Brazilian Vinicius Junior (61) and the Uruguayan Federico Valverde (61) took turns. 71).
The Portuguese losing team's goal was scored by Jota (84).

In Turin, Paris Saint-Germain's victory over Juventus 2-1 in the last home was not enough for the French capital team to take the lead in Group H in their favour, because Benfica succeeded in defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israel, 6-1, to snatch it from it in the final seconds.
Benfica raised its score to 14 points, surpassing Saint-Germain by one goal, noting that the two confrontations between them, back and forth, ended in a draw with the same result, 1-1.
The French capital team, the only one in the five major tournaments that has not been defeated so far this season in various competitions (16 victories and 4 draws), played the match in the absence of its Brazilian striker Neymar due to multiple yellow cards.
Mbappe got rid of Federico Gatti in a wonderful way, despite the latter holding the shirt of the French striker, then Manuel Locatelli, with a wonderful technical movement, before he hit a ball that hit the post and headed into the net (13).
It is the seventh goal for Mbappe in the Champions League, to equal with Egyptian Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah at the top of the scorers' ranking. It is also his 40th goal in the most important European competition.
At the age of 23 years, 10 months and 13 days, Mbappe became the youngest player to reach the forty-goal barrier in the history of European competition, breaking the previous record of his Argentine colleague Lionel Messi (24 years, 4 months and 8 days), which had been standing since November 2011, according to the Opta statistics agency.
Colombian Juan Cuadrado responded with a powerful left shot from the outskirts of the area, which passed to the side of the post (20).
However, Juventus succeeded in equalizing when Cuadrado crossed a header in front of the goal, which Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was unable to catch, to be followed by veteran Juventus defender and captain Leonardo Bonucci from close range into the net (39).
Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier included the Portuguese left-back, Nuno Mendes, instead of Spaniard Juan Bernat in the 68th minute, and one minute after his arrival, he received a front ball from Mbappe, so he was faster than Cuadrado, to follow it crawling with his left into the far corner of the Juventus goal, giving the lead again to his team.
On the other hand, Enrico Chiesa participated in the ranks of Juventus in the last quarter of an hour for the first time after an absence from the stadiums that lasted 10 months after undergoing cruciate ligament surgery.
Locatelli scored a goal that was not counted by the referee for offside (77).
In the second match, after the end of the first half, with Maccabi and Benfica tied 1-1, the latter rained down its opponent with five goals in the second half, including a goal in the second minute of stoppage time scored by Joao Mario, who settled the lead in favor of his team.
Manchester City, England, returned to the winning tone, after falling into a goalless draw in the past two rounds, by defeating Spain's Seville 3-1, in Group G competitions.
City, the guarantor of his qualification to the final price from the top of the group, increased his score to 14 points, 5 points ahead of Dortmund II, who drew 1-1 with Copenhagen, who reserved his seat for the next round with a goalless draw with City in the last round, while Seville is third with 5. Points for the play-offs for the final price of the “Europa League” competition.
City dominated the first half and took possession of the ball, but the Andalusian club opened the scoring thanks to Rafa Mir, who was free from control (31).
City turned the score in the second half by scoring three goals, which Luis opened after a pass from Argentine striker Julian Alvares (52), so that the latter came back and scored the second after a magical pass from 40 meters to Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (73). And the Algerian international, Riyad Mahrez, added the third, after a second assist from Alvares (83).
In the second match, Belgian Thorgan Hazard opened the scoring for Dortmund with a shot in the middle of the goal (23), before Copenhagen equalized through Icelandic midfielder Hakon Arna Haraldsson after a back pass from Swede Victor Clayson inside the penalty area (41).

German Leipzig caught up with the clubs that qualified for the final price of the European Champions League competition, by sweeping its host, Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine, 4-0, on Wednesday, in the sixth group competitions of the last sixth round.
Leipzig, who needed a point to qualify, raised its tally in second place to 12 points, a point behind Spanish leaders Real Madrid, the guarantor of its qualification, and the winner over Celtic, the Scottish bottom club, 5-1, while Danitsk’s balance froze at 6 points in third place, to move to the play-offs. The price of the final of the European League competition "Europa League".
15 teams have qualified so far, namely Napoli, Italy, Liverpool, England (Group A), Club Bruges, Porto, Portugal (second), Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Italy (third), Tottenham, England, Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany (fourth), Chelsea, England (fifth), Real Madrid and Leipzig (sixth). Manchester City, Germany, Borussia Dortmund (seventh), Paris Saint-Germain, France, Benfica, Portugal (eighth).
And Leipzig needed only one point to reach the final price round for the third time in its short history (established in 2009) after the first season 2019-2020 when it reached the semi-finals and 2020-2021 when it exited the final price.
Leipzig avenged its loss at home to the Ukrainian team 1-4, continuing its uprising in the competition to achieve its fourth successive victory after losing in the first and second rounds, while the first loss this season was inflicted on the king of the competition, Real Madrid, when it defeated it 3-1 in the fifth round.
In the Polish capital, Warsaw, where Donetsk plays its matches due to Russia's invasion of his country, Leipzig coach Marco Rose pushed an offensive squad with Timo Werner and Hungarian Dominic Shubulay on the halls to support the French duo Christopher Nkunku and the Portuguese Andre Silva.
Werner almost opened the scoring 8 minutes after the whistle, after a game with the heel of the foot from Nkunko, followed by the German international with a left-footed shot, which was blocked by goalkeeper Anatoly Turbin with his foot, so that the Frenchman returned and scored two minutes later the first goal after he followed into the net a ball that Werner hit and the goalkeeper blocked it.
It is Nkunku's third goal in the mother continental competition this season.
However, Leipzig received a heavy blow, with Werner leaving in the 19th minute due to an injury to his left ankle, to be replaced by Swedish midfielder Emil Forsberg.
With the start of the second half, Leipzig added the second, after a cross from defender David Raum, to which his French counterpart, Muhammad Semakan, rose to it without pressure from the Danietsk players, and reached Silva, who shot the bird into the net (49), before the guest team fired a coup de grace at its host by adding it. The third crossed Shobulai after an assist from Nkunku (62), and the fourth came from Spain's Dani Olmo, a minute after he came on as a substitute with a through ball (68), before he later awarded the goal to Danitsk defender Valery Bondar, who diverted the direction of the ball.
Madrid honored its guest, Celtic, by defeating it 5-1.
The royal club settled the result in its favor in the first half by scoring two goals from two penalty kicks through the Croatian Luka Modric (6) and the Brazilian Rodrigo (21), before adding a hat-trick in the second half that Marco Asensio (51), the Brazilian Vinicius Junior (61) and the Uruguayan Federico Valverde (61) took turns. 71).
The Portuguese losing team's goal was scored by Jota (84).
Real Madrid, who holds the record for the number of titles in the competition (14), regained the tone of victories that it missed in the past two matches, by losing to Leipzig and falling into the trap of a draw against its guest Girona 1-1 in the League.
Real Madrid swept Celtic 3-0 in the first round of the competition, while the confrontation was considered marginal for the Scottish team, as it lost hopes of competing for the third place that qualifies for the play-off round that qualifies for the Europa League competition.