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The Ending to the Champions League's Most Difficult Group Descends Into Disorder

The basic facts are that Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig are through to the last 16 of the Champions League, with Manchester United slipping into the Europa League knockout stage after a third-place group finish, but such details were secondary on a day when PSG’s game against Istanbul Basaksehir suspended after the alleged use of a racist term by the fourth official.

Both teams left the pitch 14 minutes into the first half at the Parc des Princes with the score at 0-0 in protest at a word apparently used by Romanian fourth official Sebastian Coltescu.