Champions League: Arsenal keeps quadruple hopes alive, Chelsea, City out

Arsenal advance to UCL quarters with 2-0 win over Leverkusen; Sporting stun, City & Chelsea out.

Eberechi Eze and Declan Rice both powered Arsenal into the quarter-finals after a dominant 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday at the Emirates. Arsenal will play against Sporting Lisbon in the last eight. (Photo credit: Arsenal.com)

Arsenal booked a place in the last eight of the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday night after a professional 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen, but that's not the whole story from the night.

The Gunners were the only English team with realistic hopes of qualifying for the quarterfinal after a 1-1 draw in Germany last week. The rest of the English teams in the competition had lost the first leg, bar Newcastle, who settled for a 1-1 draw against Barcelona.

The Gunners scored a goal in each half to clinically dispatch Bayer Leverkusen, with Eberechi Eze volleying home the opener—a goal that has been nominated for the goal of the matchday—before Declan Rice added the second, another peach of a strike in the second half.

Arsenal will play against Sporting Lisbon in the last eight after the Portuguese outfit overturned a 3-0 first-leg deficit against Bodo Glimt. It was an unprecedented result for Sporting Lisbon, who leveled the matter on the night with a 3-0 win in regulation time.

The Portuguese side added two goals, one in each of the extra time halves, to book a place against the Gunners in the quarter finals. Sporting joins a long list of teams that have overturned a 3-0 deficit in the knockout round of the Champions League.

Elsewhere on the night, Manchester City blinked first in the quadruple race as they lost at home to Real Madrid, losing the tie 5-1 on aggregate. Pep Guardiola's side had lost the first leg 3-0 in Madrid before Vinicius Jr. scored twice on Tuesday night.

Chelsea and PSG completed the night's games, with PSG returning Chelsea's favor from the Club World Cup in the summer. Chelsea had triumphed over PSG in America to lift the inaugural Club World Cup; PSG beat Chelsea 3-0 on Tuesday night to win the tie 8-2 on aggregate.

On Wednesday, Newcastle will hope to deliver a performance of a lifetime by winning at Camp Nou. Liverpool will hope to overturn a 1-0 first-leg loss at Galatasaray when the two clubs meet at Anfield again on Wednesday.

Tottenham is as good as condemned to elimination. Still, Igor Tudor will use the game to prepare Spurs for the weekend as they continue to fight against relegation in the Premier League.