Champions League as it happened: Arsenal finish top while Manchester City and Celtic share draw
The live action as it happened from Tuesday's Champions League fixtures
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Your support makes all the difference.After the pain of their 3-1 home defeat by Chelsea on Sunday, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City were unable to find a nerve-settling win over Celtic at the Etihad Stadium.
City had already guaranteed a place in the last-16 but the side couldn't improve on second place with Barcelona topping Group C.
Guardiola was looking for a strong response from his side after the weekend's defeat and a convincing victory over the Hoops but he didn't get the confidence booster he was hoping for.
As for Celtic, Brendan Rodgers' side finished bottom and, as a result, head out of Europe without the chance to feature in the Europa League.
Pep Guardiola wants more time as he reflects on the Chelsea bunfight
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Tuesday's Champions League results
Basel 1 Arsenal 4
PSG 2 Ludo Razgd 2
Benfica 1 Napoli 2
Dynamo Kiev 6 Besiktas 0
Barcelona 4 B Gladbach 0
Manchester City 1 Celtic 1
Bayern Mun 1 Atl Madrid 0
PSV Eindhoven 0 FC Rostov 0
So far the entertainment at the Etihad has been as close to the reverse fixture at Celtic Park as possible. Celtic look like they're really going for it and believe they can win this. City look dangerous on the attack too, but the less said about their defence, the better.
45 mins: And we're back underway at the Etihad! We only had to wait four minutes for a goal in the first half, how long this time?
GOAL! Basel 0 Arsenal 3 (Perez)
Perez has his hat-trick! He had never scored a European goal for Arsenal before tonight!
Incidentally, it's also three assists for Gibbs!
50 mins: Forrest hobbles off and is replaced by Mackay-Steven. Pity, Forrest looked bright in the first half.
53 mins: Sane goes on a dangerous looking run and the ball breaks to Gundogan who scoops a lovely pass over the defence to Nolito, but the Spaniard just just offside!
GOAL! Basel 0 Arsenal 4 (Iwobi)
Iwobi side-foots how Ozil's pass from close range as Perez decides to give someone else a go at scoring. The Gunners are running riot!
58 mins: Nervous moment for Caballero there, he's in no man's land at the corner but Celtic can't capitalise.
61 mins: Maffeo is replaced by Navas after another decent performance. Clichy has been dreadful on the other side though and has been given the run around by Celtic's right flank!
Bad news for Arsenal, Cavani has just leveled things in Paris against Ludogorets. Arsenal still top as it stands but one more PSG goal will do it!
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