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Paris St-Germain crushed Maccabi Haifa with two goals apiece from Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe, advancing them into the round of 16 of the Champions League.

While Shon Goldberg scored an own goal, Neymar and Carlos Soler both scored goals.

With his two goals, Messi became the first player to reach 80 goals in the Champions League group stage.

PSG leads Group H with 11 points after five games, tied with Benfica, while Juventus and Maccabi Haifa have three points each and have not advanced.

The crossbar kept Messi from scoring a record-tying eighth hat trick in the Champions League.

After losing 4-3 to Benfica, Juventus failed to advance to the knockout round for the first time since the 2013–14 season.

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Massimiliano Allegri, the coach of Juventus, claims his team is “sad and angry,” but he won’t call failing to advance from the group a “failure.”

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Benfica had a 4-1 lead when Juventus’s Arkadiusz Milik and Weston McKennie scored twice in three minutes to set up a thrilling conclusion.

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However, the Portuguese team managed to win and advance to the round of 16, joining PSG.

Juventus, who lost in the final of the Europa League in 2015 and 2017, can only now finish third in Group H, which would guarantee them a spot in the knockout rounds.

Juve has had a difficult season thus far and is currently ninth in Serie A, 10 points behind leader Napoli.

In addition to taking the wrong approach, I believe that our first-half defence was too flimsy “said Allegri, whose team will visit PSG in the group’s final matchup the following week.

“We must now keep focused on the league while also remaining focused versus Paris in order to at least secure a spot in the Europa League.

“Tonight, we made much too many mistakes, but discussing those now would be pointless. This is hardly a failure in my opinion. There are losses in football.

“We’re sad and furious. Since the squad performed well, there is no physical issue. We have to keep working.