Football: Takumi Minamino nets as Monaco eliminated from Champions League

Japan attacker Takumi Minamino scored his fifth career Champions League goal, the most of any Japanese player, but Monaco were knocked out of the competition on Tuesday after losing 4-3 on aggregate following a 3-3 draw at Benfica in the second leg of the knockout phase playoffs.The goal put Minamino one ahead of Celtic's Daizen Maeda and Cerezo Osaka's Shinji Kagawa for the most goals scored by a Japanese in Europe's top club tournament.Minamino latched on to a bouncing ball inside the box and drilled low inside the near post in the 32nd minute in Lisbon, making it 1-1 on the night 10 minu…READ FULL ARTICLE