18-year-old Brazilian hat trick and unrealized penalty in Paris
The biggest score of the game day in the 4th round of the Champions League was recorded in Madrid, where Real Madrid did not leave the slightest chance to the Turkish Galatasaray - 6: 0. By the eighth minute, the double was drawn up by the 18-year-old rookie of the team Rodrigo, and then the hosts earned a penalty, which was realized by Sergio Ramos.
On this wards Zinedine Zidane did not stop and brought the score to indecent. As a result, before the end of the meeting Rodrigo designed the first hat-trick with Real Madrid, and experienced Karim Benzema scored twice and gave the assist.
The leader of group A, PSG, was much more difficult. Paris took home “Brugge” and were content with a victory with a minimum score, although in Belgium they scored five unanswered goals against the opponent. This time, only Mauro Icardi was able to distinguish himself, who recorded his fourth goal in the current Champions League draw. At the same time, shortly before the final whistle, the guests earned a penalty, but Keylor Navas took the opponent’s shot from the “point”. Thus, PSG won a fourth victory and guaranteed a ticket to the playoffs of the tournament.
Apologies to Son before Gomes and the 21st goal of Lewandowski
Another defeat was recorded in Serbia. “Red Star” almost before the break restrained the attacks of “Tottenham Hotspur”, but in the end still allowed to distinguish themselves Giovani Lo Chelso. Note that an episode with a goal scored must be seen at least once. The guests in the course of an effective attack staged a real siege to the gates of others, but sent the ball into the net only on the fifth attempt. Before that, the bar and the crossbar played for the Serbs, in the remaining cases they themselves fell under the ball.
Soon after the break, Song Heung Min was able to take a double. The Korean man managed to recover from an episode with a severe injury to Andre Gomes, but did not celebrate goals, but instead raised his palms in an gesture of apology to the Portuguese.
The final score in the match was set by Christian Eriksen - 4: 0.
Following PSG, a ticket to the playoffs was guaranteed to Bayern. Moreover, the Munich team, like the Parisians, had a difficult match. After the resignation of Robert Kovacs, the German champion led by “acting” Hans-Dieter Flick with great difficulty beat the offender “Krasnodar”, “Olympiakos” - 2: 0. But without a goal, Robert Lewandowski could not have done. The Pole opened the scoring in the 69th minute and chalked up the 21st goal of the current season in all tournaments.
The thriller match in Zagreb and the first point of Atalanta
The most incredible match of the game of the day, of course, took place in Croatia. Zagreb Dynamo and Shakhtar Donetsk came together in the fight for second place in Group C and presented the fans with an incredible sight. Six goals scored, two removal, an incredible comeback and VAR interference - witnesses of all this were football fans who came to the match.
It began with the fact that by the middle of the first half, the teams exchanged goals. The draw was held for a rather long time, until the rivals closer to the final whistle exchanged red cards as well.
In the end, the hosts, it seemed, still managed to squeeze the opponent. First, Luka Ivanushets, and then Ariyan Ademi forced to surrender Andrei Pyatov. Moreover, in the episode with a goal of the Macedonian, the goalkeeper himself made a clear mistake, who failed to intercept the backache along the front.
After that, Dynamo players began to celebrate the victory, but Shakhtar fought to the end and in the third added minute managed to reduce the backlog to a minimum. And in one of the last attacks, the guests earned a corner, even Pyatov came to serve it. As a result, the hosts paid too much attention to the goalkeeper, but did not follow Tyson. The Brazilian was dropped in the penalty area, and the judge after watching the replay pointed to the “point”. Another Brazilian Tete equalized and put an end to this thriller match. It was the 98th minute. The teams split the world for the second time in a row and share second place in their quartet with five points.
But the leader of the Manchester City group away did not unexpectedly manage to outplay Atalanta. Wards Gian Piero Gasperini scored the first point in the current draw of the group stage of the Champions League. Rahim Sterling opened an account in the opening of the meeting, and at the very end of the first half Gabriel Jesus did not realize a penalty. After a break, ex-Spartak player Mario Pashalich scored from the Bergamo club.
However, much more interesting is the fact that the last ten minutes of the match, “Manchester” had to spend without a goalkeeper. It began with the fact that the main guard of the gate Ederson was injured. After the break, his place at the last frontier was taken by Claudio Bravo. However, in the end, the Chilean foul of last hope on Josip Ilicic, for which he immediately received a red card.
So the defender Kyle Walker had to get into the goal. However, he only had to truly enter the game once, when the Ukrainian Ruslan Malinovsky performed a free-kick. The Englishman dealt with him not without difficulty, but nevertheless he took the ball in his hands.
Bayer victory and curious own goal
In group D, Bayer, thanks to the third defeat of Lokomotiv, in a row caught up with the railroad in the standings. This happened after Leverkusen’s home defeated Madrid Atletico. Wards Diego Simeone went to Germany with the intention of guaranteeing a ticket to the playoffs, but they had an extremely nondescript meeting and suffered a well-deserved defeat - 1: 2. Own goal was marked by the guest midfielder Thomas Parti.