Perfect step, with the performance of Manchester City's wonder boy

Manchester City beat Red Star Belgrade 2-3 this Wednesday and closed the Group Stage of the UEFA Champions League with a perfect pace. The English, like Real Madrid, advanced to the Round of 16 of the Champions League with full victories and thus arrive in the best way before making their debut the following week in the FIFA Club World Cup being held in Saudi Arabia.

City won with goals from Micah Hamilton, Oscar Bobb and Kalvin Phillips, while In-beom Hwang and Aleksandar Katai scored for the hosts. In the other duel that closed this group G, Leipzig confirmed its second place and its ticket to the next phase after beating the Swiss Young Boys 2-1, a team that was sentenced to the Europa League.

Micah Hamilton was just another ball boy at the Etihad Stadium. In a match against Crystal Palace in 2017, Pep Guardiola asked him to be quicker in distributing the balls to his players and six years later he gave him his first match as a professional. This 20 year old did not disappoint. In his debut in the elite Hamilton scored a goal and forced a penalty in City's victory against Zvezda.

With the absence of injuries on a day like this and the pace that players like John Stones, who has recently been slowed by injuries, picked up, they allowed City to leave Belgrade unscathed and can now focus on the last match of the Premier League, against Crystal Palace, before leaving for Saudi Arabia to play in the Club World Cup.

Leipzig also won their last game

The Slovenian Benjamin Sesko and the Swede Emil Forsberg unbalanced in favor of Leipzig an inconsequential duel against Young Boys (2-1) in which neither of the contenders had anything at stake. The Germans and Swiss completed the procedure, plagued by few regulars and with their thoughts focused on greater stakes once their continental presence was resolved. Leipzig will be, for the fourth time in its history, in the Round of 16 of the Champions League. But as second in a group that has had Manchester City as its leader.