• Chronicle: Di María burns Madrid

It was the night of the goals in the Champions League. The loudest of all, the one that Real Madrid suffered against PSG in Paris, were joined by those signed by Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Dinamo Zagreb, surprising guest in this explosion of glutton of the richest of the continent. And where there were no goals, there were goals. The 2-2 of the Metropolitan was lived two hours earlier in Piraeus where Tottenham wasted a two-goal lead against Olympiacos.

As with the Spaniards, it has not been a great day for English clubs. On Tuesday they lost Liverpool and Chelsea and this Wednesday afternoon the 'spur' skid took place. English football was heading towards a black day at the beginning of the Champions League until Manchester City appeared in Kharkiv - the city in which Shakhtar is exiled - to save the pride of the Premier League clubs, absolute dominators in the last edition, with two teams in the final and two in the quarter.

The citizen cadre did not have excessive problems to impose (0-3) on a Shakhtar quite drinkable in attack but calamitous in defense. With Fernandinho as a central improvised by the losses due to Stones and Laporte's injury, the City ruled the match from the first bars and only had to wait for the goals to fall by their own weight. Everything was tied in the first half, in which Mahrez and Gündogan scored one goal each and actively participated in the goal of the other. Gabriel Jesus buckled the win in the second half.

More work, although the result was the same, it cost Bayern to beat a tough Red Star (3-0) that barely granted him space, even after Coman put the Germans ahead. After spending the entire game installed around the Serbian area, Lewandowski , ten minutes from the end, scored the goal that gave Niko Kovac's peace of mind. Already in the discount, Müller marked the third in a play of pillo, a foul that Thiago took out quickly observing the unchecking of his partner. Coutinho , without too much prominence, scored a goal in the first half that was correctly canceled out of play.

Two hours earlier there was the premiere of Tottenham, a meeting in which Mauricio Pochettino wasted a two-goal lead. Kane and Lucas Moura put the 'spurs' ahead in the initial half hour. Olympiacos seemed on the canvas, but rose, with the support of the always hot fans of Piraeus, to tie the match (2-2) as soon as the second half began, a result that the current runner-up failed to replace .

In the rest of the matches, he highlighted the overwhelming goals scored by Dinamo de Zagreb by Dani Olmo against Atalanta (4-0) with three goals by Mislav Orsic , provisional pichichi of the competition with Erling Braut Haland (Salzburg). In addition, Bruges and Galatasaray tied in Belgium (0-0) and Lokomotiv Moscow gave the bell beating Bayer in Leverkusen (1-2).

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