Ten goals for two and penalty shootout

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29-30, the next matches of national cups were held in Europe. So, in England the teams continued the battle for the League Cup. Already at the stage of the fourth round of the tournament, the lots gave the fans two matches at once with the prefix “super”. In the first of these, the current winner of the Champions League, Liverpool, received the Arsenal, which was experiencing serious problems.

Despite the fact that both coaches did not start releasing many major players, and Jürgen Klopp completely threw young people into battle (20-year-old Kivin Kelleher, 18-year-old Neko Williams, 17-year-old Sepp van den Berg, 16-year-old Harvey Elliott and others), the teams gave the fans a magnificent sight and played, possibly the best match of the season.

True, the final hockey score can be explained by a large number of mistakes and extremely careless actions of the players in the defense. As a result, the team hit each other's gates five times. Not without very beautiful goals. Perhaps this game is just worth seeing once.

At first, it seemed that Arsenal, who played close to the main squad, would prevail. Even in the first half, the double was designed by the 18-year-old Brazilian rookie team Gabriel Martinelli, and soon after the break the score was 4: 2 in favor of the London club. However, Liverpool managed to restore equality on the scoreboard. Then Joseph Willock, with a stunning long-range strike, again pushed the Gunners ahead, but the hosts in the fourth added minute saved Divi Origi from defeat.

In the end, everything was decided in the penalty shootout. For the guests, the decisive was a miss from the “point” of Ainsley Maitland-Niles, and then Klopp's young wards went on.

Rushford’s attitude at Chelsea and the success of Manchester United

In another match with a loud sign in London, Chelsea and Manchester United came together, but so much fun did not work there. In the first half, the guests, who in the light of the failures at the start of the season needed a victory, reliably acted on the defensive and opened the scoring thanks to the accurate shot of Marcus Rushford from the penalty spot.

After the break, Chelsea stepped up and quickly recouped. Misha Batshuayi in the center of the field successfully fought for the ball, ran away from the defender and just shot into the corner. But Rushford became a real “evil genius” for Londoners - the standard helped him to distinguish himself the second time.

With a penalty kick 30 meters from someone else's goal, Marcus delivered a wonderful blow to the far nine and gave the “MU” a ticket to the next round. The attacker himself, it seems, scored an excellent form. In the last five matches for the national team and the club, he scored five goals. A double in the match against Chelsea, Marcus designed for the second time this season. The first one fell on the match of the Premier League starting round, when Manchester United defeated the “aristocrats” - 4-0.

Rescue Bavaria and Tennis in Wolfsburg

Many interesting matches this week took place in the German Cup. In particular, the current champion of the country, Bavaria, with great difficulty broke the resistance of the Bauchma, which once played in the Bundesliga, but this season is content with the struggle for survival in the second most important division.

The difference in class between the teams was great, but Bochum, with the support of the home stands in the reporting meeting, clearly demonstrated that even the most modest team is capable of surprise in the Cup. Until the 83rd minute, the hosts led thanks to Alfonso Davis own goal, but in the end they still scattered. First, Serge Gnabry equalized with a shot from the goal line, then the Bochum defender fell out of the blue in front of Thomas Müller and was forced to foul at the cost of a red card. But this did not save the team. In one of the last attacks, Müller nevertheless seized the moment for the goal and helped Bayern make it to the next round.

The Zenit rival in the Champions League group Leipzig experienced much less problems. What is surprising is not even the big score with which the wards of Julian Nagelsman dealt with the opponent (6: 1), but the fact that they opposed not the outsider of the Second Bundesliga, like Bayern, but the currently fourth team of the country, “Wolfsburg”.

Moreover, the team of Oliver Glasner played at home and almost in optimal composition, but this evening was truly “black” for the team. Everything that could have flown into the gates of the hosts, and Leipzig demonstrated an almost absolute realization of the moments. It is also worth noting striker guests Timo Werner, who scored a double and brought the number of goals in the current season to ten.

Finally, the Dortmund team turned out to be stronger in the confrontation between the two Borussia, although the team from Monchengladbach leads in the Bundesliga after nine rounds. And it was she who managed to open an account in the middle of the first half. But the real hero in the composition of the opponent was Julian Brandt. In the end, the midfielder scored twice in four minutes and led the yellow-blacks to the next round.

Decent exit Golovin to replace and lift the "Monaco"

Meanwhile, Alexander Golovin continues to delight Russian fans with a good game. Last week, his “Monaco” beat “Nantes”, and the player himself gave an assist. And on Wednesday, Monegasques knocked out the Marseille League Cup. Golovin did not make it to the starting lineup - the coach gave him rest. But already in the 13th minute, Alexander was forced to urgently replace him instead of the injured veteran Cesc Fabregas.

As a result, the Russian became one of the best on the field, performed a large amount of work and led the game of his team. In the middle of the first half, the score was opened by Jean-Kevin Augustin, and shortly before the break Ruben Aguilar scored.

“Marcel” ten minutes before the final whistle managed to reduce the backlog thanks to Benjamin Lekom's own goal, but Andre Villas-Boas's wards were no longer enough. “Monaco” not only made it to the 1/8 finals of the tournament, but also won the fifth victory in the last six meetings.

Good evening for Tataev and Komlichenko

On Wednesday, Russian legionnaires from the Czech Mlada Boleslav, Aleksey Tataev and Nikolai Komlichenko, also pleased us. Both managed to distinguish themselves in the match of the 1/8 finals of the Cup of the country with Fastav. The account at the beginning of the meeting was opened by Fastav, but shortly before the end of the first half, the status quo on the scoreboard was restored by Tataev, who scored the second goal in the current season.

After the break, Komlichenko took up the matter. At first, he distinguished himself, and in the time added by the referee, he assisted the partner - 3: 1. Thus, on Nikolay’s account in all tournaments within the current season, there are 12 goals and four assists.

Two removals and a decisive goal in the 112th minute

In Ukraine, in the framework of the 1/8 finals of the Cup of the country, the match Dynamo - Shakhtar took place. And this match, as always, turned out to be rich in emotions and extremely tough. Already in the opening debut, the Pitmen captain Taras Stepanenko jumped into the opponent’s legs from behind, but received only a yellow card for this. To this, Kiev midfielder Sergei Sidorchuk avenged football, scoring a goal with an incredible blow from afar.

After that, in the reporting match was Ismaili’s face broken in blood, the removal of Dynamo footballer Vladimir Shepelev and the saving goal of the same Stepanenko in time added by the referee. Already in overtime, Taras received a second yellow card, and the compositions were equalized. However, the fans didn’t wait for the penalty shootout. After a corner, 20-year-old Denis Popov sent the ball into the net and brought Dynamo to the quarter-finals.