Borussia Dortmund 8 Legia Warsaw 4
Already-qualified Borussia Dortmund crushed Legia Warsaw 8-4 to set a record for the most goals scored in a Champions League match, helped by a Marco Reus hat-trick.
Rampant Dortmund netted five times in 15 first-half minutes with Shinji Kagawa grabbing two goals while Reus, back after six months out injured, completed the scoring in stoppage time.
Dortmund are top of Group F on 13 points, two points ahead of Real Madrid, who beat Sporting 2-1 away, with the two sides meeting in Spain in December to decide who takes top spot in the section.
With Reus named captain and coach Thomas Tuchel resting key players following their league win over Bayern Munich on Saturday, Dortmund took control from the start.
But it was the visitors who struck first with Aleksandar Prijovic brilliantly curling in his shot with the outside of his foot in the 11th minute.
Their lead, however, only lasted six minutes with Kagawa nodding in Oussmane Dembele‘s low cross at the far post as Dortmund began their goal bonanza.
The Japanese grabbed his second goal a minute later and Nuri Sahin, making only his second appearance this season, got on the score sheet after goalkeeper Radoslaw Cierzniak punched a Reus free kick straight onto the midfielder‘s chest in the 20th.
Prijovic got his second of the evening in the 25th minute and could have levelled when he chipped the ball onto the crossbar a minute later.
Two goals in three minutes from Dembele and Reus wrapped up the frenzied first half proceedings.
The 27-year-old Reus picked up where he left off after the break, tapping in for his second goal in the 52nd minute with Legia‘s Michal Kucharczyk pulling one back yet again for the visitors.
The teams traded blows once more with Legia‘s Nemanja Nikolic scoring two minutes after Felix Passlack had headed in Dortmund‘s seventh goal. Reus ended the goalfest with his third in stoppage time.
Sporting Lisbon 1 Real Madrid 2
Holders Real Madrid secured a last-16 berth for the 20th successive season after an 87th-minute header by substitute Karim Benzema gave them a laboured 2-1 win at 10-man Sporting Lisbon in their Group F clash.
The result left Real second in the group on 11 points from five games, two behind Borussia Dortmund who beat Legia Warsaw 8-4 at home in an extraordinary match. Dortmund need a draw at the Bernabeu on Dec 7 to win the section.
Real stretched their unbeaten run in all competitions to 30 games after an indifferent performance in which their top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo, needing two goals to reach a 100-goal milestone in European club competition, was largely subdued.
France defender Rafael Varane fired Real ahead in the 29th minute but it took a late glancing header by Benzema to rescue them after Adrien Silva had equalised with a penalty after Joao Pereira‘s 64th-minute red card.
Sevilla 1 Juventus 3
Juventus qualified for the Champions League knockout stage after Leonardo Bonucci and Mario Mandzukic scored late goals to give them a stormy 3-1 win at Sevilla, who played the entire second half with 10 men.
Nicolas Pareja gave the hosts a ninth-minute lead but they had Franco Vazquez sent off in the 36th minute for two bookings and Claudio Marchisio equalised in first-half stoppage time with a controversial penalty.
Sevilla coach Jorge Sampaoli was also dismissed for persistent dissent and watched the final half hour of the match among the home supporters.
Bonuccio fired Juventus in front in the 85th minute and Mandzukic completed their win in stoppage time.
Juventus moved top of Group H with 11 points from five games, one ahead of Sevilla.
Copenhagen 0 Porto 0
FC Porto missed their chance to book a spot in the last 16 of the Champions League as Danish champions FC Copenhagen held them to a 0-0 draw at the Parken Stadium in their Group G clash.
The first 45 minutes were played at an electrifying pace with plenty of aggression from both sides but despite a number of chances at both ends, neither could find a way to break the deadlock.
Copenhagen keeper Robin Olsen made a scrambling double save to thwart Andre Silva midway through the second half and he was called into action on several other occasions as the Danes hung on to keep their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stage alive.
English champions Leicester City top Group G on 13 points after handing bottom side Club Bruges their fifth straight defeat in the competition, with Porto in second on eight points and Copenhagen third on six.
Porto, who would have qualified for the last 16 with a win in Copenhagen, now host Leicester in their final group game on December 7, while the Danish side travel to Club Bruges.
CSKA Moscow 1 Bayer Leverkusen 1
Bibras Natcho’s late penalty for CSKA Moscow secured a 1-1 draw against Bayer Leverkusen, but it was not enough to maintain the Russian side’s hopes of reaching the last 16.
Leverkusen, who took the lead after 16 minutes through Kevin Volland, stay second Group E with seven points and will book their spot in the knockout rounds if Tottenham Hotspur lose to leaders Monaco later on Tuesday.
The Germans started brightly and were rewarded for their endeavour when Kevin Kampl played a delightful pass into Volland, who sprang the home side’s offside trap and fired the ball past CSKA keeper Igor Akinfeev, who conceded for the 42nd consecutive game in the competition.
Defensive frailties have been the Russian champions’ Achilles heel throughout their Champions League campaign this season and they almost surfaced again as Javier Hernandez had a goal ruled out for offside after CSKA were undone from a free kick.
CSKA pushed forward in the second half in search of an equaliser and levelled with 14 minutes remaining through Natcho’s spot kick after Mario Fernandes was fouled in the area.
Both sides then had chances to grab a winner as Volland was denied by the woodwork after 80 minutes and Alan Dzagoev went close for the home side, who stay bottom of the group with three points with one match remaining.
