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Too timid and too sluggish, Marseille sank against Manchester City (3-0) on Tuesday for the second day of the Champions League, marked by the equalizer in extremis of Real Madrid of Zinédine Zidane, passed very close to a new setback to Mönchengladbach (2-2).

- Group C: OM facing their limits -

The march was too high for Marseille, logically beaten at home by Citizens playing in a completely different category.

For the big comeback of the C1 at the Stade Vélodrome, seven years later, the Marseillais were no doubt hoping for something else.

And, seven years later, the specter of zero points is already emerging (six defeats in six matches) conceded in 2013 by the Marseille club, which has already started this new European campaign with two defeats, at Olympiakos ( 1-0) last week then against City on Tuesday.

This eleventh consecutive defeat in C1 testifies to the level difference between City and OM, which conceded the opening of the scoring on a blunder by Valentin Rongier which benefited, at the end of the action, Ferran Torres ( 18th).

Ilkay Gundogan (76th) then Raheem Sterling on a school action (81st) sealed the score.

This is already complicated in Group C for Marseille (0 pt), which will play very big on the upcoming double confrontation against FC Porto (3 pts), 2-0 winner of Olympiakos (3 pts).

City, for its part, is already in the lead and launched towards qualification (6 pts).

- Group A: Bayern on forceps -

For Bayern Munich, it becomes a routine: the reigning European champion won a 13th straight victory in C1 with a success, admittedly hung, on the lawn of Lokomotiv Moscow.

In a match where the French Bayern (Pavard, Tolisso, Coman and Hernandez) held and rather prominent, the Bavarians won on a powerful strike from Joshua Kimmich (80th), while Anton Miranchuk (70th) had responded at the head of Leon Goretzka (14th).

"It's a well-deserved victory, even if we didn't win as convincingly as we would have liked," Bayern coach Hansi Flick summed up at DAZN.

The Munich club largely dominates Group A with six points, ahead of Atlético (3 pts) who defeated Salzburg in the last minutes thanks to a double from the Portuguese nugget Joao Félix (52nd, 85th), while the Austrians had taken the advantage after returning from the locker room.

- Group B: Real are doing well -

Real Madrid run away: perked up by the clasico won on Saturday in Barcelona (3-1) in La Liga, Zinédine Zidane's team pulled off a 2-2 draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach, Karim Benzema (87th) and Casemiro (90th + 3) having responded to the double from Marcus Thuram (33rd, 58th).

And yet, the Madrilenians have suffered the law of the French striker, son of the former defender Lilian Thuram and that "ZZ" undoubtedly crossed as a child during the meetings of players of the France team ... But their strength moral saved them from a much worse situation at the end of the game.

After the inaugural defeat against the B team of Shakhtar Donetsk (3-2), Real limits the breakage with a point in group B dominated by the Ukrainian club (4 pts) ahead of Mönchengladbach (2 pts) and Inter Milan (2 pts), who could not do better than a 0-0 draw in Ukraine.

- Group D: Liverpool is going, Atalanta is back -

No fear for Liverpool at home: against the modest Danes of FC Midtjylland, the 2019 European champions won (2-0) thanks to Diogo Jota (55th) on an offering from Trent Alexander-Arnold, then a penalty of Mohamed Salah (90th + 3), taking the lead of group D alone with 6 points.

Atalanta (4 pts) has come a long way: for the very first C1 match ever organized in Bergamo, a city very shaken by the new coronavirus pandemic, the "Dea" has recovered a disbursement of two goals thanks to its game still loose and a double from the powerful Colombian striker Duvan Zapata (54th, 60th).

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