UEFA Champions League Round-up: Tottenham, Frankfurt through; Bayern maintains perfect record

Tottenham and Eintracht Frankfurt both came from behind to win ir respective games and secure a place in last 16 of Champions League.

At halftime in final round of group matches on Tuesday, Marseille and Sporting Lisbon were going through from Group D.

But instead it was ir opponents who progressed as a stopp-time winner from Pierre-Emile Hjbjerg saw Tottenham beat Marseille 2-1 to top group and Frankfurt won by same score in Lisbon to secure second spot on its Champions League debut.

During first half we didn't play well, it was difficult," Tottenham goalscorer Clment Lenglet said. 

When we go back in dressing room it was an important moment for game  during second half we played a better game, with a lot of intensity.

top two finishers in or groups on Tuesday had already been decided, although t necessarily order.

Porto beat Atltico Madrid 2-1 to snatch top spot in Group B after Club Brugge was held to a 0-0 draw at Bayer Leverkusen.

Napoli kept hold of first place in Group A despite dropping its first points in Champions League this season in a 2-0 loss at second-place Liverpool.

Bayern Munich did man to progress with a perfect record as it beat Inter Milan 2-0 to make it six wins out of six. four places in Group C had already been decided with Inter having secured second spot ahead of Barcelona. 

FINAL DAY DRAMA

In a rare occurrence for a group, all four teams had entered final round of games with a chance to advance.

And which teams would go through and in what order changed several times over night.

But Hjbjerg scored with last kick of game at Stade Velodrome for a goal that lifted Tottenham to top of Group D above Frankfurt, which was in first place until Denmark midfielder's goal.

That goal also meant Marseille finished in last place and will have involvement in European competition in new year.

Lenglet had headed in equalizer for Tottenham in 54th minute after a woeful first half from English side which didn't have a touch in opposition penalty box before break. Tottenham had fallen behind on stroke of halftime when Chancel Mbemba headed in a corner.

Frankfurt also came from behind, with Kolo Muani scoring a 72nd-minute winner for visitors. Arthur Gomes had put hosts ahead in 39th and Frankfurt equalized with a penalty kick converted by Daichi Kamada in 62nd.

CONSOLATION

Atltico Madrid doesn't even have consolation of Europa League playoffs.

Spanish team was heavy favorite to progress from its group but was left lamenting a last-place finish after losing at Porto, which secured top spot in Group B.

Few expected Porto to even advance after losing its first two Champions League matches this season but Portuguese team had already secured its place in last 16 with a match to spare.

And first-half goals from Mehdi Taremi and Stephen Eustquio helped Porto win its fourth straight Champions League match to finish a point above Brugge.

Brugge's Canadian winger Tajon Buchanan hit crossbar in opening seconds of second half.

PERFECT AGAIN

It's back-to-back perfect group st records for Bayern.

Benjamin Pavard headed German side in front in first half and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting sealed win against Inter in 72nd minute with his seventh goal in his past six matches.

Barcelona ended its disappointing Champions League campaign with a 4-2 win at Viktoria Plzen, which  in contrast to Bayern  fell to its sixth straight defeat.

Ferran Torres scored twice and Marcos Alonso and teenr Pablo Torre grabbed a goal each for Catalan club. hosts got on board with a pair of goals by Toms Chor.

T SO PERFECT

Napoli was looking to become first Italian team since AC Milan in 1992 to have six straight wins in its group.

However, late goals from Mo Salah and Darwin Nunez ended Italian side's unbeaten start to season in all competitions.

Liverpool finished level on points with Napoli but second on head-to-head record after losing 4-1 in Italy in ir Champions League opener.

Rangers was left with an unwanted record after losing 3-1 at home to Ajax, which secured a place in Europa League's qualifying playoffs.

Rangers finished Group A with six straight losses and a goal difference of minus 20   worst group st record ever.