The fourth victory of Leicester in a row and the goal of Song Heung Min after a terrible injury
In England, Brendan Rogers' Leicester feels more confident. On Saturday, the team won a fourth consecutive victory in the Premier League (fifth, given all the tournaments). Moreover, the London Arsenal was defeated, which cannot win in the last four meetings of the national championship.
The main hero of the confrontation was the most experienced Jamie Vardi, who first completed the combination of partners with an accurate shot from outside the penalty area, and then helped James Maddison excel. Thus, the striker managed to break out into the sole leaders of the Premier League scorer race, and Leicester rose to second place.
As for other London top teams, the Chelsea beat Crystal Palace in a derby, and Tottenham broke the world with the main sensation of the Sheffield United season. It is noteworthy that Son Heung Min, whose red card for a foul on Andre Gomes in the match against Everton, was canceled, scored a goal in the current Champions League finalist.
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Reaching Benzema and the four goals of Real Madrid
In Spain, “Barcelona” and “Real” achieved solid victories. Madrid on the road did not leave the slightest chance to a modest “Eibar” - 4: 0. The fate of the meeting was decided already in the first half hour of the match, when three unanswered goals flew into the goal of the hosts, even two of them honored guests scored from the penalty spot.
But Karim Benzema managed to take a double. Thanks to this, the Frenchman came in sixth in the number of goals in the history of Real Madrid in Example. On account of the striker 157 goals in the championship of Spain, on this indicator he beat the legendary Ferenc Puskas.
Two productive penalties from Messi and “import” at the end of the first half
“Barcelona” in the home game with “Celta” had a lot more difficult, but the Catalans also scored four goals against the opponent and brought the score to a crushing - 4: 1. However, if it weren't for Lionel Messi who completed the hat-trick, blue garnet could have been even more difficult.
The Argentinean scored the first goal from the penalty spot. But at the end of the first half, he marked with a minus sign - he fouled on his opponent near his own free kick, and Lucas Olas perfectly realized the standard and equalized.
To this, Messi answered the opponent with the same coin and scored two goals at once with punches - in time added to the first half and immediately after the break. And shortly before the final whistle, a point in the match was put by Sergio Busquets, who replaced, for whom this goal was the first of the season.
As for Messi, he with eight goals broke into second place in the race of scorers Examples and incidentally caught up with Cristiano Ronaldo in the number of hat-tricks in the championship of Spain. The assets of both players are listed on 34.
Bayern takeoff after coaching retirement and take Lewandowski
In Germany, Bavaria, after the departure of Robert Kovacs, unexpectedly easily crushed the formidable Dortmund Borussia at home. Under the direction of “and. about. ”head coach Hans Dieter-Flick, the Munich team sent four unanswered goals into the opponent’s goal and left the opponent no chance.
And the main character in the team again became Robert Lewandowski demonstrating real miracles of performance. This time, the Pole scored twice and brought the number of goals in the current Bundesliga season to 16 in 11 matches. In total, in 17 games in all tournaments, the striker scored 23 times.
This helped Lewandowski break Gerd Muller’s impressive record for nearly 50 years. Robert was the first footballer to score as many in the first 11 rounds of the Bundesliga. Muller in the season 1968/69 hit the opponents' goal 15 times.
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Nine points for Werner's performance in two matches and Hennings' hat-trick
Performance strikes are also demonstrated by Leipzig striker Timo Werner. In an away match with Hertha, which ended in victory for the opponent of Zenit (4: 2), the striker scored twice and gave the assist. Now in the last two games of the Bundesliga on his account are truly fantastic nine points for performance (5 + 4). With 11 goals, Werner confidently holds second place in the tournament's scorers' race, second only to Lewandowski.
On the third, with eight accurate shots, the 32-year-old striker of the modest “Fortune” Rowen Hennings broke out. In a super-productive match with Schalke (3: 3), he scored three times and for the first time in his career scored a hat-trick in the Bundesliga.
The hard victory of Inter and the miracle goal of Barella
In the Italian Serie A, an extremely difficult victory was won by Inter for fighting for gold with Juventus. Nerazzurri had to seriously torment with Verona, the star-less star in the sky. After the first half, the wards of Antonio Conte were completely inferior - 0: 1. Guests scored the only ball from the penalty spot.
However, after the break, Matias Vesino managed to equalize. And in the 83rd minute, Nicolo Barella scored a fantastic ball. The Italian moved to the center from the left flank and sent the shell exactly to the far nine. The goal was scored by the hosts as if they had already won the Italian championship, and the scorer himself tore off his T-shirt in joy, for which he received a yellow card.
Golovin’s third goal in France and Monaco’s important success
Well, Russian football fans were much more pleased with the long-awaited goal of Alexander Golovin. The exact midfielder hit was the only one in the match with Dijon and helped the team win a major victory.
Alexander managed to distinguish himself at the very end of the first half. After the transfer from Islam, Slimani Golovin on the penalty line took the ball to the chest, processed and accurately shot into the far corner. This goal was the third for the Russian in Ligue 1 this season. And in terms of the number of points for performance (3 + 2), he is second only to Slimani and Wissam Ben-Yedder in the team.
“Here it is necessary to note Slimani, who coolly and promptly gave me a pass to touch. Of course, I’m glad to score the ball, the more it turned out to be victorious, but I will say once again that goals are not crucial for me. Scoring - excellent, but most importantly, we won and scored three points. In the second half, they had to score a second ball in order to avoid a nervous ending. We had moments for this. However, the main thing is that everything ended well and managed to bring the matter to victory, ”Golovin quotes“ Championship ”.
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Slutsky's third defeat in a row and a young Swede take
But the “black series” of “Vitessa” by Leonid Slutsky in the championship of the Netherlands, unfortunately, continues. Following the defeats of Den Haag and Emmen, the Arnhemians lost to Gronigen as well. The victory was brought to the opponent by the double of the midfielder of the youth team of Sweden, Joel Asoro, who only appeared for the second time in a season from the first minutes. Vitesse was able to answer this only with the seventh goal of Brian Linssen of the season.
However, even despite a series of three defeats, the team still remains in the top five. Slutsky can only admit that the team entrusted to him fell into crisis.
“This is the most difficult period for me as a coach of Vitessa. In the Netherlands, I have not lost three games in a row. This is very painful. Now we must stay together as a team. And yes, we need to change something. If you look at the results, now we are in crisis. If we look at the quality of the game, we had only one very bad match. This happened in a meeting with Emman. Tonight in the second half you again saw another Vitesse, but it was already too late, ”Omroep Gelderland quoted the coach as saying.