Mbappe sinks Barcelona
BARCELONA: Kylian Mbappe ripped Barcelona apart on Tuesday by scoring a stunning hattrick in a 4-1 rout to put Paris Saint-germain on the brink of the Champions League quarterfinals. Mbappe underlined his status as the rising superstar of world football with a ruthless display of finishing at Camp Nou that will go down as one this competition’s most devastating individual performances.
The 22-year-old eclipsed Barca’s Lionel Messi, whose opening goal from the penalty spot had been reduced to nothing more than a footnote by the final whistle. Moise Kean also headed in midway through the second half, carelessly left unmarked from a free-kick as
PSG pulled away to win this first leg, and perhaps the tie.
Liverpool beat Leipzig
BUDAPEST: Liverpool rediscovered lost form and seized the initiative against RB Leipzig in the first leg of their Champions
League last-16 clash by cruising to a 2-0 win in a chilly Budapest on Tuesday. Clinical early second-half strikes from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane proved decisive and left the German side facing a formidable task in the return leg on March 10.