UEFA Champions League scores: RB Leipzig, Atalanta boost quarterfinal chances with crucial wins

Valencia and Tottenham's injuries were too much to overcome

The Champions League round of 16 continued Wednesday with Tottenham and Valencia both showing weakness thanks to their injury problems. Spurs didn't start a striker against RB Leipzig. and it showed with a 1-0 defeat. Valencia was without its two center backs against Atlanta and went on to concede four goals in a 4-1 loss. 

It was a memorable night for RB Leipzig with Timo Werner scoring the winning goal in the second half on a penalty kick, and it's a result that means just a draw in the second leg on March 10 will see the club advance to the final eight. RB Leipzig forced Hugo Lloris to make numerous saves, but the World Cup-winning goalkeeper's stops give his team a fighting chance in the return leg. 

For Atalanta, in its first season in the Champions League, the club is flying high. After sneaking into the round of 16, the Italian side put four past a Valencia team using back-ups in central defense. Hans Hateboer scored twice for Atalanta and Valencia was wasteful on its 18 shots. The Spanish side did get a lifeline with Denis Cheryshev's goal in the second half. Valencia would need a dominant 3-0 win or better to advance. 

CBS Sports was with you the entire way providing updates, analysis, highlights and much more. Relive our live blog below.

Champions League scores

RB Leipzig 1, Tottenham 0
Atalanta 4, Valencia 1

[Feb 19, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Full time in Italy

A near-perfect start to what could turn out to be an incredible Cinderella story for the Italian side. Atalanta takes it 4-0.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:57 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

Full time in England

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:52 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

Five added minutes for Spurs-Leipzig

Still time for Tottenham to get one back. Leipzig defending with 10 in final moments.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:46 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Valencia free kick

85' Atalanta continues to invite pressure onto their side of the pitch. Free kick on the righthand side of the box gets whipped into the middle but gets cleared away.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:44 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Valencia injury delay

82' Mouctar Diakhaby receives treatment because he got caught the head by Zapata's flailing arm. The player eventually gets up with blood in his mouth and needing support to walk.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:41 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Atalanta sub

81' Alejandro Gomez off for Ruslan Malinovskiy.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:40 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Atalanta yellow card

80' Hateboer lost the ball to Cheryshev, and pulled him back to get the night's first booking.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:40 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

10 minutes warning in London

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:37 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Atalanta substitution

75' Duvan Zapata replaces Mattia Caldara. Bringing in a forward for a defender up 4-1 is certainly a bold move.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:36 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Valencia shouts for a penalty

75' The Spanish side crowds the referee after claims of the ball hitting the arm of an Atalanta defender. A VAR check confirms that no penalty should be given.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:35 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

Sub for Leipzig

74' Christopher Nkunku comes off as Leipzig makes their first substitution of the match. Amadou Haidara comes in to replace him in midfield.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:33 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Atalanta keeper down, Valencia sub

73' Gollini goes for a brave save on a dangerous cross and pays the price for it. He remains on ground to recover for a bit as Gameiro comes in for Gomez for Valencia.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:32 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

Leipzig in control

RB Leipzig is giving Tottenham everything it can handle at the moment, coming close here.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:31 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Big Atalanta save!

70' Torres could not have whipped in a better cross to his teammates. The ball finds its way to Cheryshev, who fires a shot right at Gollini, but Maxi Gomez had the better opportunity to bring his side to two goals.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:28 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Goal Valencia! (4-1)

66' Life for the Spanish side! Cheryshev gets the away goal Valencia desperately, desperately needed to stay alive in this competition. The score came just moments after he come on for Guedes.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:26 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Goal Atalanta! (4-0)

63' Ilicic grabs the attention of two defenders just beyond midfield and a pass heading his way instead rolls through to Hateboer, who sprints ahead from the right flank and fires a low shot to get the fourth! VAR checked for interference from Ilicic--who was offside when the ball came in but didn't touch the ball--but the goal was given

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:23 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

Leipzig's opener

Here's the opening penalty-kick from Werner.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:22 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

An Atalanta save!

61' Gollini carelessly gives the ball away to Ferran Torres, who runs into the area and squares to an unmarked Maxi Gomez. But the keeper is able to redeem himself just moments afterwards with the resulting shot from just a few yards out going exactly where he thought it'd go. Nothing has gone right for the Spanish side this evening.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:19 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Goal Atalanta! (3-0)

57' Freuler fires an absolute howler from the outside of the box that bends right around the keeper into the far corner of the net. The defense seemed to prepare for Gomez to make a run so they backed off the Swiss international, giving him the space for the screamer.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:18 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

Goal Leipzig

Werner goes down to the left, Lloris guesses the right way, but the ball has pace on it and finds the back of the net! 1-0 to RB Leipzig.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:16 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

PENALTY TO LEIPZIG

56'  Penalty for the visitors. Tough blow there for Spurs as a ball falls to Lamier, and Davies takes him down. Silly foul. 

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:13 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Close from Valencia!

52' Ferran Torres fires a low cross from the right, and Soler gets it at the near post. His shot is poked wide.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:12 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Wasted chance from Atalanta

50' The Italian side nearly gets a third! Gomez, with a ton of space on the left, flicks a cross that bounces off the foot of a defender. Had he passed sooner, it might have led to another score.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:11 pm ET · Roger Gonzalez]

Spurs knocking on the door

48' Two quick chances for Tottenham. Aurier with a nice ball in, but Lucas Moura put it right into Gulacsi and Bergwijn sent the rebound well wide. 

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:08 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Atalanta is back to threatening

47' Atalanta wins a corner, Ilicic whips in a dangerous cross, but the ball is cleared

[Feb 19, 2020 at 4:06 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

And we're back

46' Welcome back to soccer. Neither side has made changes in Milan.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 3:49 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

HALF Atalanta 2, Valencia 0

The Italian side leads through the first half of the first leg of their first-ever Champions League campaign.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 3:48 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

One minute of stoppage time

45' Atalanta still wants to get one more before the end of the half.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 3:45 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Goal Atalanta! (2-0)

42' The left-footed Ilicic fires one from his right into far side of the net just past Domenech to double the lead for the Italian side.

[Feb 19, 2020 at 3:44 pm ET · Gabriel Fernandez]

Offside flag offsets brutal Atalanta miss

40' Bapu Gomez, who sprints clear into the penalty area, and just rockets his shot over the bar. That shot won't show up on the state sheet, however, as the offside flag went up much, much later.