Good news: the Champions League is back! With an increased number of matches, this week they will play not only on Tuesday and Wednesday, but also on Thursday! Let’s briefly talk about today’s portion.
Aston Villa made a strong debut in the Champions League
Youngsters – Aston Villa
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The last time the Birmingham team played in the main European Cup was in 1983, when it was still called the Champions Cup. The return was spectacular. Not for nothing did Young Boys, who suddenly finished last in the Swiss championship, become our rivals.
The youngsters were extremely nice and gave Aston Villa some great chances. Ramsey, for example, only needed to lightly roll the ball from a few metres to score: Kamara passed it to the goalkeeper, but he missed. That was already the second goal scored. Tielemans and Onana brought down the first and third with clever strikes. In addition, Watkins and Ramsey’s goals were disallowed for the volleyball. It was a good thrashing. The Swiss will still have a hard time with such a match in the Champions League, but the British showed that they did not come this far in vain.
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A second Del Piero has grown at Juventus
Yildiz celebrates his goal against PSV
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The duel between Juventus and PSV could have ended with the same result: Saibari was against and scored a prestigious goal in the 90+3 minute. However, everything was clear already in the 52nd minute, when the Italians took a three-goal lead: Vlahovic assisted McKennie and Gonzalez, and Tsyldizo… oh, what Yildiz did!
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Firstly, Kenan scored the first goal on the main stage of the revamped Champions League in the 21st minute – the Turin side competed for speed with Villa in the parallel match for first place. Secondly, he did it in the most effective way possible – he ran from the left to cross and fired into the top corner off the post. Thirdly, at 19 years and 136 days old, he became the youngest scorer of a goal for Juve in European competition. Genius? Genius! Dear Alessandro Del Piero, you are no longer the record holder, sorry.
Bayern Munich burned Dinamo Zagreb
Serge Gnabry
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This. Was. Extremely. Painful for Dynamo. It all started with Kane’s penalty and his 30th Champions League goal. Among the English, only he and Rooney had that figure. Not for long.
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He continued with Guerreira’s weapon. You should have done it right away!
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The first half ended with a nod to Olise. And then the youngsters got going! Within a minute and a half, the Croats pulled two back thanks to the efforts of Petkovic and Ogiwara! Ah, in vain. Bayern panicked and responded six times! Six! Even Goretzka, who Vincent Kompany doesn’t value at all, stood out! Kane has mastered the game of poker and now has 53 goals in 50 games for Munich. Phenomenal performance. Olisa and Zana wrote their names on the scoreboard again. In addition, the referee disallowed goals from Gnabry and Kane.
Dynamo were frankly sorry, but Bayern’s players obviously weren’t. Well, at least the Champions League record wasn’t repeated: Liverpool beat Besiktas in November 2007 and Real Madrid beat Malmö in December 2015 by eight goals (8-0 each). Müller also doubled Xavi’s record of Champions League appearances (151) for one team. Brutal night in Germany.
Victor Gyokeres. remember this name
Győkeres celebrates a goal for Lille
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If not already, this Swede has been scoring many goals for the national team and Sporting for a long time. But the Portuguese league is not that popular in Russia, so Győkeres’ exploits might go unnoticed by many. We wrote about him recently:
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Victor also stunned Lille by becoming the first Swede since Zlatan to score on his Champions League debut. And Ibra did this, by the way, 22 years ago. In the 38th minute, Alexandro passed the ball to Goncalves, who laid it off to Győkeres. Take it away, Mr. Goalkeeper.
A couple of minutes later, the striker drew a second yellow card for Gomez. It was a sentence. Debast eliminated him with an armour-piercing attempt.
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Liverpool were more successful in rebuilding the great game
Liverpool celebrate their goal against Milan
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Milan-Liverpool encounters are a classic. The 2005 final is particularly memorable. Today, too, there was a British comeback, although it was less impressive. In the third minute, the Italians launched a counterattack and Pulisic clearly beat Alison.
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Paulo Fonseca’s Milan are still in a bad situation, and even an early goal did not help. Salah hit the crossbar twice, Konate took advantage of Maignan’s mistake and headed in after Arnold’s shot, and Van Dijk took advantage of Tsimikas’s assist. Boom-boom-boom, what a beating.
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Szoboszlai’s execution was a done deal. A Hungarian could quote Shufutinsky and sing “the day I am alone.” No one defended him and Gakpo’s cross hit the target.
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By the way, 19-year-old Torriani played for Milan due to Maignan’s injury. Not Donnarumma, of course, but also a young debutant. Do you know how Transfermarkt rates him? €10,000 All in all, he looked decent, although his nervousness was noticeable.
Real Madrid achieved a typical victory
Kylian Mbappé celebrates his goal against Stuttgart
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After reading the subtitle, you immediately understood how exactly the Madrid team defeated Stuttgart. That’s right, getting a result at the end of the match. And with many goalkeeping saves. Courtois effectively prevented goals from Levelling, Undav and Stiller. He was helpless against Carvajal’s rebound, but the crossbar helped. Real responded with strong attacks from Rodrigo and the performance of Rüdiger, when the German, with a murderous grimace, simulated a foul by Mittelstedt in the opponent’s area. The VAR was right.
The goals came in the second half. First, Rodrigo passed to Mbappé into an empty net. Your 60-year-old neighbour would do the same.
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Secondly, the Swabians took a spectacular corner and Undav headed over. Shocking content from Real Madrid, who are almost always considered 100% favourites.
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The denouement came in the 83rd minute, when Rüdiger scored a deadly header. Then Endrik scored from 20 metres out on a counterattack, although he could have targeted Mbappé or Vinicius. Brazilian, what can I say?
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