Article 6JTBV Champions League team of the week: Bastoni, Galeno and Osimhen star

Champions League team of the week: Bastoni, Galeno and Osimhen star

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John Brewin
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The latest slate of knockout games featured a standout performance from Porto against Arsenal and the Diego Maradona Derby in Naples

The second week of ties in the staggered Champions League last-16 was just as cagey as the first, and left plenty to play for in each of the second legs. Here's the prime performers from a week in which no team was able to gain more than a one-goal lead.

Goalkeeper: Only two goalkeepers kept clean sheets, though Porto's Diogo Costa was not asked to make a save from Arsenal, and neither was Inter's Yann Sommer asked to face a shot on target from an Atletico player, so the week's most attacking game - PSV 1-1 Dortmund - threw up two contenders, both keepers facing plenty of shots. Alexander Meyer beats Walter Benitez to the crown, being only beaten by Luuk de Jong's canny penalty.

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