The new hero of Bavaria, Ronaldo's tenth goal in Serie A and the defeat of Golovin: the main events of the day in European football

Bayern broke the series without a win in the Bundesliga in a meeting with Werder Bremen. Three points Munich brought a double of Serge Gnabri. Cristiano Ronaldo helped Juventus smash Fiorentina and became the team's first debut in 61 years, who scored ten goals in 14 starting matches. Monaco, which includes Alexander Golovin, missed two goals at the last minutes of the meeting with Montpellier and was defeated. RT tells about the main events of Saturday in the leading European football championships.

England. The return of "Manchester United" and the heavy victory of the leader

On Saturday, December 1, the match in the 14th round of the Premier League was held by the leader of the Manchester City tournament. Wards Josep Guardiola took “Bournemouth” and, it seemed, should not have problems, especially since already in the 16th minute, Bernardo Silva opened the scoring.

However, at the very end of the first half, the guests had a rare attack and unexpectedly won back. But after the break, the favorite put everything in its place with two precise hits - 3: 1. The Manchester City winning streak in the championship lasted until six wins, and Bournemouth suffered a fourth defeat in a row.

For Guardiola, this victory was the 400th in the coaching career, and the expert himself did not know about it and reacted to the words of journalists with irony.

“Congratulations, Pep. The team won a great victory. After the Champions League is always difficult to play. People think that everything is easy for us, but it is not. I am glad that we have achieved the desired result, ”quotes the words of BBC Guardiola.

But “Manchester United” in an away match with “Southampton” failed to win. Apparently, the team did not have time to recover after a tough meeting with the “Young Boys” in the Champions League.

Already by the 20th minute, the wards of Jose Mourinho conceded - 0: 2. However, Sir Alex managed to quickly recover, and by the time the score was equal. In the MU, Romelu Lukaku and Ander Herrera scored goals, and Marus Rushford gave two assists.

Especially fans of the team were happy for the Belgian, who finally broke the long goalless series. Before the reporting meeting, Lukaku could not distinguish himself in 12 matches in all tournaments, or 981 minutes.

In the second half, MJ desperately tried to wrest three points, but failed to do so. Wards Mourinho do not know the victories in the Premier League for three matches and can move further away from the top four.

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Spain. The defeat of "Valencia" without Cheryshev

In Spain, Real Madrid in a match with Valencia managed to rehabilitate themselves to the fans after a devastating defeat against Eibar. At the same time, Denis Cheryshev, the midfielder of the Russian team, failed to play with the former team in Madrid due to injury.

Scored points "Valencia" failed. For guests, everything began to fail from the very beginning. Already in the eighth minute, Daniel Wass unsuccessfully put his head under the ball after karim Benzema lumbago - and recorded an own goal at his own expense.

In the future, the hosts confidently controlled the game, and the end was put in the 83rd minute: the Madrid had a quick counterattack, which Lukas Vázquez completed with a precise blow.

Germany. Alcazer's tenth ball and long-awaited success for Bavaria

In the meantime, the Borussia-based Dortmund leader in the Bundesliga won a labor victory over the Freiburg middle peasant. Black and yellow sent two unanswered goals to the opponent's goal. Not without the goal of the top scorer Paco Alcacer, who, of course, again came on as a substitute.

In the face of the Spanish striker Lucien Favre got a real joker. In eight games, Bundesliga Alcácer scored ten times and only one of them is in the starting lineup. This time, Paco took 20 minutes to upset his opponent.

In this case, Favre was the author of a unique achievement. The Swiss specialist is the first coach who did not suffer defeats at the head of Borussia Dortmund in the first 13 matches of the Bundesliga season. At the same time his team won ten victories and only thrice split the world with rivals.

The results of the “Bavaria” at the start of the season are much more modest. Munich lost a lot of points, and in the last three meetings of the championship could not win at all. An unpleasant series was broken in Bremen, where the team of Niko Kovac was stronger than the “Bremen” - 2: 1.

The victory of “Bavaria” brought double the former player rival Serge Gnabri. The club from Bremen acquired a talented striker from Arsenal for € 5 million in 2016, and a year later he let him go to Bavaria for € 8 million.

The Lokomotiv rival in the Champions League group Schalke, who has yet to meet with the railroad workers, split the world with Hoffenheim - 1: 1. The teams managed to hit the gates of each other only from the penalty spot.

Italy. Action in memory of Astori in Florence and the defeat of Juventus

The leader of Serie A “Juventus” in the framework of the 14th round of the national championship went to visit the “Fiorentina”. In previous years, such a sign guaranteed an interesting confrontation for fans, but this season purple still does not shine and is located in the middle of the standings.

The game was preceded by a beautiful episode with Giorgio Chiellini. The defender, along with his partners, honored the memory of Captain Fiorentina, David Astori, who died in March, and laid flowers directly to the field.

The match itself ended in an easy victory for the guests. The home team kept their gates intact for half an hour, until Rodrigo Bentancourt, having played with steno with Paulo Dibala, sent the ball into the net.

After the break, the already mentioned Chiellini successfully joined the attack and doubled the advantage of Juve. Cristiano Ronaldo put the point, having implemented a penalty. This goal was for the Portuguese the tenth in the current season of Serie A.

In addition, Ronaldo repeated the record team 61 years ago. He became the first newcomer, who managed to distinguish himself ten times in 14 starting matches for the tourists after the English striker John Charles, who made his bright debut in Juve in the 1957/58 season.

France. The defeat of "Monaco" and the judges scandal

The main event of the League Day 1 game for Russian fans, of course, was the next Monaco match by Alexander Golovin. In the last round, the Monegasques broke off the long-lasting lose-lose series and set up their fans in a positive way.

However, after the long-awaited success followed by an insulting defeat from the “Montpelier”, which this season is fighting for medals.

The team Golovin came forward at the end of the first half thanks to a goal by the Belgian midfielder Jouri Tielemans.

After the break, the hosts bravely defended the minimal advantage in the long run, but still did not keep him. At the 81st minute, Gaetan Laborde restored the top scorer “Montpellier”, while on the 85th “Monaco” was left without a draw. Three points to the opponent brought an accurate blow to the ex-forward of Lokomotiv Petar Škuletić. The Serb came off the bench shortly before the final whistle and scored the first goal of the season.

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And on Friday, November 30, “Saint-Etienne” at home did not leave a chance to “Nantes” - 3: 0. But the fans were not more interested in the result, but in a major judicial scandal that broke out after the game. The defender of the losing team, Diego Carlos, accused the referee of the meeting of Jerome Brizard of bullying: according to him, he improperly joked at the end of the match.

“He laughed and asked if we had to add four more minutes so that we missed the fourth ball. It's incredible how a judge could afford that! I think the arbitrators have no right to say this. You can check what he said with the help of cameras, ”said the Brazilian.

It is curious that Carlos already had to swear with the French judges. So, last season, the defender accidentally knocked down Tony Chapron while playing with PSG, after which the referee hit the athlete on the legs and showed him the second yellow card.

Later, the judge acknowledged that he was wrong, and he was punished. Diego's red card was canceled.

Netherlands. Insulting draw Slutsky

“Vitesse” Leonid Slutsky after two victories in a row in the Dutch championship at home failed to beat the modest Emmen - 1: 1.

The home team took the lead in the 31st minute thanks to an accurate strike by striker Brian Linssen, but the opponent won back immediately after the break. At the same time, in the very end, Vitesse had the opportunity to snatch three points, but did not realize a penalty. Inaccurate blow from the point was noted all the same Linssen.

Russian defender Vyacheslav Karavaev again got into the starting lineup and spent on the field all 90 minutes.