The goals kept coming, and coming, and . . .
GENEVA— The first 12-goal game in 25 Champions League seasons took the spotlight from Real Madrid and Juventus advancing to the Round of 16 on Tuesday.
It ended Borussia Dortmund 8, Legia Warsaw 4 — beating the Champions League’s previous best set by Monaco’s 8-3 win over Deportivo La Coruna in November 2003.
The record-breaking goal in stoppage time was an own goal forced by Germany forward Marco Reus, who scored twice in his comeback match after six months sidelined by injury.
“It was a bit of a surreal game and result,” Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel said.
Group E: Monaco won the group with a 2-1 victory over Tottenham, which cannot now advance.
Tottenham is unbeaten in the Premier League but lost for the third time in this season’s Champions League
Bayer Leverkusen drew 1-1 at CSKA Moscow to secure a runner-up finish.
Group F: Ronaldo, who left Sporting Lisbon as an18-year-old for Manchester United, unwittingly assisted on Raphael Varane’s 29th-minute opening goal. A miscued attempted volley bounced off his left shin toward the France defender.
Substitute Karim Benzema’s glancing header in the 87th made it 2-1 to Madrid and eliminated Sporting, which had to win.
Dortmund trailed to Legia after 10 minutes, but led 3-1by the 20th when Japan playmaker Shinji Kagawa scored twice and Nuri Sahin benefited from a goalkeeping error.
The old goals record for a match was tied in the 83rd when Legia’s Nemanja Nikolic reduced the lead to 7-4.
Still, Dortmund and Legia fell short of the 61-year-old competition’s record. In the 1969-70 European Cup, eventual winner Feyenoord beat KR
of Iceland 12-2 in a first round game. Group G: The only blot on Leicester’s smooth progress to the knockout stage was the end of a four-game run without conceding a goal, as Claudio Ranieri’s side settled for a 2-1 win over last-place Brugge.
In its debut season in the competition, Leicester leads by five points over Porto, which drew 0-0 at Copenhagen.
Group H: Juventus ended Sevilla’s run of clean sheets, and took top spot with a 3-1 win on a hostile night in Spain.
Sevilla led early but the match turned in the 36th on a second yellow card for midfielder Franco Vazquez. By the time Leonardo Bonucci’s late, long-range shot put the visitors ahead, Sevilla coach Jorge Sampaoli had been sent to the stands for heckling English referee Mark Clattenburg.
Lyon is three points behind Sevilla after Alexandre Lacazette’sgoal sealed a 1-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb.