Lewandowski's 71st Champions League goal
On Wednesday, two teams won early tickets to the Champions League playoffs, one of which was Bayern Munich.
The Munich team defeated the outsider of Quartet A “Salzburg” (3: 1) at home and guaranteed themselves the first place in the group.
At the same time, the match turned out to be extremely difficult for the favorite.
The current trophy holder had more possession of the ball, but regularly allowed the guests to organize dangerous counter-attacks.
During the entire game, the Austrian team struck 20 shots (11 - on target), and the opponent - 11 (5).
However, Jesse Marsh's wards were experiencing serious problems with implementation, and Manuel Neuer made a number of memorable saves.
If Salzburg had many chances, but did not take advantage of them, then Bayern squeezed the maximum out of the available chances.
At the end of the first half, Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring, having successfully played on finishing.
For the Pole, this goal was 71st in the Champions League, and he came third in the list of the best scorers in the history of the tournament, equaling Raul.
Only Cristiano Ronaldo (131) and Lionel Messi (118) are ahead of the 32-year-old striker.
At the beginning of the second half, the guest defender Maximilian Wöber helped the Munich team double the lead by unsuccessfully blocking Kingsley Coman's kick.
And soon the hosts were left in the minority after the second yellow card was received by the newcomer of the team, Mark Roca.
But the removal did not stop Bayern in the minority from bringing the score to a large one.
Leroy Zane managed to close Koman's pass from the left flank with his head.
Only after that “Salzburg” was able to break through Neuer thanks to the precise strike of Mergim Berisha from close range.
Removal of Vidal for controversy
In the central match of the game day, Inter and Real met.
The Italian team scored only two points in the first round, so they needed a victory.
In turn, the Spanish team experienced personnel problems.
In particular, captain Sergio Ramos and the club's top scorer Karim Benzema did not come to Milan.
However, for the hosts, the game was not going well from the very beginning.
Already in the fifth minute, Nicolo Barella broke the rules for Nacho in his own penalty area, and the judge appointed a penalty.
The penalty kick was confidently realized by Eder Hazard, who managed to score the first goal in the Champions League in three years.
And closer to the whistle for the break, "Inter" brought Arturo Vidal.
After a collision with Rafael Varan and Luka Modric, the Chilean rudely demanded from the judge to point to the point, for which he received a yellow card.
The experienced footballer did not calm down on this, and was eventually removed.
Curiously, he became only the second footballer in history to earn two yellow cards in a Champions League game for arguing with a referee.
The first to do this was CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, who was expelled from the field at the end of the victorious match with Real Madrid (1-0) in 2018.
Finally, the fate of the reporting meeting was decided when the replacement Rodrigo with the first touch closed the supply of his partner from the flank.
The ball ended up in the net after a rebound from Ashraf Hakimi.
The victory helped Real Madrid to reach second place in Group B, while Inter remained on the last line and practically lost the chances of reaching the playoffs.
Leadership in this quartet was retained by Borussia Mönchengladbach, which again defeated Shakhtar.
In the first match, the Ukrainian team conceded six unanswered goals, and this time - four.
At the same time, all the goals scored by Marco Rosa's charges were the result of set pieces.
Lars Stindl in the 17th minute opened the scoring from the penalty spot, and Niko Elvedi, Bril Embolo and Oscar Wendt took advantage of the free kicks.
The Swiss ball turned out to be especially beautiful in time added to the first half.
The forward from close range kicked the ball into the target.
13th consecutive defeat of Marseille
Apart from Bayern Munich, Manchester City guaranteed themselves an exit from the group on Wednesday.
And the head coach of the townspeople Josep Guardiola set a Champions League record, making his way with his teams to the playoffs of the tournament for the 12th time out of 12 possible.
The vice-champion of England secured at least the second place in Quartet C after a guest victory over Olympiacos.
The only goal in the 36th minute was scored by Philip Foden.
The English midfielder, with a shot from outside the penalty area, put an end to a beautiful combination involving Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling.
The advantage of "Manchester" could have been much greater if the guests were not let down by the implementation in the final stage of the attacks.
“Olympiacos”, for the entire match, inflicted only two shots on someone else's goal, none of which hit the target.
In turn, "Marseille" suffered a fourth defeat in the current season of the Champions League and 13th in a row - in the main European Cup, setting a new Champions League anti-record.
The head coach of the blue-and-white Andre Villas-Boas got a double reason for frustration, because his players established a dubious achievement in a match with the former specialist team - Porto (0: 2).
The Portuguese champion opened the scoring at the end of the first half thanks to a precise shot by Zaid Zanuzi after a corner kick.
In the middle of the second half, the fans of Marseille had hope for a positive outcome of the meeting, after the opponent's midfielder Marko Gruic received a second yellow card.
However, three minutes later, Leonardo Balerdi did not keep track of Moussa Marega in his own penalty area and fouled.
The offender was sent off, and the penalty was converted by Sergio Oliveira, who distinguished himself in the third match of the Champions League in a row.
Not a single shot on target from Liverpool
Atalanta, whose colors are protected by Alexei Miranchuk, managed to take revenge against Liverpool for a crushing home defeat (0: 5) in the first round.
At Anfield, the Bergamaski were stronger and won 2-0.
In many respects, this became possible due to the serious personnel problems of the Merseysiders.
Virgil Van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain could not help the reigning champion of England due to injuries.
And recently recovered from injuries, Fabinho and Andrew Robertson remained in reserve, as did Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota.
Mohammed Salah, who was ill with coronavirus, entered the field from the first minutes, but did not play the brightest match.
As a result, "Liverpool" for the whole game did not strike a single blow on the opponent's goal.
Atalanta, after the break, scored two unanswered goals and removed all questions about the winner of the meeting.
First, Josip Ilicic completed Alejandro Gomez's perfect serve from the left flank, and then Robin Gosens scored with an accurate shot from the goalkeeper line.
As for Miranchuk, he appeared on the field only at the end of the match and had no time to be remembered.
After four rounds, Atalanta continues to share the second place in Group D with Ajax (both teams have seven points each).
Themselves Amsterdam at home for the second time in a row beat Midtjylland - 3: 1.
The Danish champion, thanks to the luck and confident actions of goalkeeper Jesper Hansen, did not allow the opponent to distinguish himself in the first half.
However, immediately after the break, Ajax scored two goals in three minutes.
Experienced Dusan Tadic first assisted 18-year-old Ryan Gravenberch, who scored his debut goal in the Champions League, and then - Nussair Mazraoui.
After an hour of the meeting, David Neres brought the score to a major one.
In the end, the Russian referee Sergei Karasev, who served the match, came to the fore.
He awarded a penalty kick to the hosts' goal, which was converted by Aver Mabil, and in stoppage time showed a direct red card to the captain of Midtjylland Erik Svyatchenko.
This removal became the fifth in the Champions League match day.