Both Bayern Munich and Liverpool looked comfortable in their home UEFA Champions League 2022/23 group stage outings against Inter and Napoli respectively.
The Bundesliga champions have completed a perfect group stage campaign winning all six of their matches after putting Internazionale to the sword once again and securing a 2-0 victory at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
Julian Nagelsmann’s side ended top on 18 points, eight ahead of second-placed Inter, with both teams having already reached the knockout stage. The match between Bayern and Inter was a dead rubber, but Nagelsmann will be content with the way his heavily rotated side showed up and protected their perfect record in the group stage.
Surprisingly, it was Inter who could’ve opened the scoring in the 27th minute but failed to get their noses ahead after Lautaro Martinez missed a sitter. Robin Gosens made a great run down the left and delivered a perfect low cross to the Argentine, who ballooned his close-range finish over an empty goal.
In the very next move, Benjamin Pavard scored from a corner taken by Joshua Kimmich and the hosts took control of it from that point on. They put the final nail in Inter’s coffin when Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting drilled an unstoppable long-range strike into the top right corner.
Elsewhere, at Anfield, Liverpool were up against a previously unbeaten Napoli. Jurgen Klopp’s men bounced back from defeat against Leeds United with a hard-fought 2-0 victory against Napoli, but it did not stop the Serie A side from finishing top of their Champions League group.
Mohamed Salah tucked it away five minutes before the end of regulated time, while Darwin Nunez confirmed the three points with another goal late in added time to help the Reds finish second in the group, level on points with Napoli.
Meanwhile, things keep going from bad to worse for Atletico Madrid as goals from Mehdi Taremi and Stephen Eustaquio helped Porto to a 2-1 win against them which meant they finished top of their Champions League group and condemned Diego Simeone’s side to an early European exit.
