Two goals in the 14th minute and Guardiola's dissatisfaction with the judges
The main event of the game day, and the whole weekend in European football, was the meeting of Liverpool and Manchester City in the Premier League. Last season, the teams fought until the end for the title, and in the end he went to the wards of Josep Guardiola, and the Merseysides won the Champions League. But at the start of the new season, Liverpool immediately went into the gap, while the “townspeople” made a whole series of misfires and seriously lagged behind the leader. In order to prevent the intrigue from dying completely, the guests needed to win by all means.
In fact, the fate of the confrontation was decided by the 14th minute, when the goal of Manchester City was visited by two unanswered goals. First, Fabinho was marked by an unexpected long-range shot, for which the goalkeeper was not ready, and then Mohamed Salah closed the pitch from the flank.
After this, the “townspeople” needed to perform a real miracle, but instead of starting to correct the situation, the guests at the beginning of the second half missed another ball - from Sadio Mane. Only 12 minutes before the end of regular time, Bernardo Silva managed to reduce the difference in the score, but it was too late.
But Guardiola attributed the failure to weak refereeing and after the final whistle sarcastically thanked the referee team for the work. You can understand it, because the referee could have appointed at least two penalties for Liverpool, but both times he did not point to the “point”. Here, Manchester City did not even help VAR.
"Thank you so much ..." 🤔
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Atletico heavy victory and VAR help
In Spain, “Atletico” managed to overcome the “no man's disease” and finally won. At home, the Madrid team beat CSKA rival in the Europa League group Espanyol. Moreover, it was the Catalan team who managed to open the account, but in time added to the first half, Angel Correa restored the status quo to the scoreboard.
And immediately after the break, Alvaro Morata brought Atlético forward. Koke set the point shortly before the final whistle. It is noteworthy that in this match, the judge twice resorted to VAR. In the first case, he watched the replay, credited Morata with a goal, and in the second he refused to put a penalty in the goal. The victory helped wards Diego Simeone to break out into a clean third place. Ahead are only “Barcelona” with “Real”, which have el clasico in stock.
Herrmann leader success and take
And the leader of the German championship, the Mönchengladbach Borussia, after a difficult match with Roma in the Europa League on Thursday, won another victory in the national championship. At home, the Marco Rose team did not meet resistance from the Werder Bremen. Already in the middle of the first half, the hosts managed to distinguish themselves twice in three minutes, and after the break and bring the score to a major. At the same time, Patrick Herrmann scored a double, and the son of the 1998 world champion in the French national team Lilian Thuram Marku was marked by an assist. On the account of the young football player there are already 10 points for the performance in the current season of the Bundesliga (5 + 5).
Mass brawl and three deletions
Much more serious passions seethed during the meeting of Freiburg and Eintracht. The match turned out to be quite tough with a lot of fouls. The only goal was scored by the hosts in the 77th minute, and the guests shortly before the break were in the minority.
In the end, all those present on the field finally lost their nerves. The main anti-hero was Eintracht defender David Abraham, who deliberately crashed into Christian Freight, the head coach of Freiburg, and knocked the specialist off his feet.
Immediately near the bench a mass brawl almost broke out. The hosts' football players intended to deal with the Argentine, but partners saved him from the beatings. As a result, Abraham received a second yellow card and left the field. The company was made up of Freiburg midfielder Vincenzo Grifo, who had already been replaced at that time.
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The winning goal of Dybala and missed moments of “Milan”
In the central match of the Italian Serie A round, Juventus, fighting for the championship, easily defeated Milan, which is spending an extremely bad season and has already survived the change of coach.
However, the red-blacks tuned in to the game with the current champion, as expected, and gave the team a real fight for Cristiano Ronaldo. “Milan” created a lot of dangerous moments and played on a par with the Turin, but failed to achieve success.
Juve, in a typical manner for itself, brought the matter to a difficult victory, as it was in the confrontation with Lokomotiv. And Paulo Dybala brought three points to the team. At the 77th minute, after transferring a partner, the Argentine technically removed the defender and sent the ball into the net. So Turintsy won the second match in a row in Serie A with a minimum score.
Fan Assault on Bus and Villash-Boash Derby Success
And in France, the rival of Zenit in the group stage of the Champions League Lion, after two consecutive victories on the road, lost to the principal rival Marseille - 1: 2. Three points to the hosts brought a double Dimitri Payet.
However, in the second half, Andre Villas-Boas team was not easy. Moussa Dembele reduced the backlog to a minimum, and Alvaro Gonzalez received a red card. But the “Marseille” still survived and achieved the most important Victoria.
Unfortunately, the derby was overshadowed by the hosts' attack on the Lyon bus right before the match. As a result, two windows were knocked out in the car, and club president Jean-Michel Ola threatened to boycott the meeting. As a result, it didn’t come to that, but what happened had a negative effect on the Lyon players.
Tyson's tears and support from Neymar
On Sunday, Ukraine hosted the country's main derby, in which Shakhtar and Dynamo Kiev met. As a result, the Pitmen managed to take revenge from the opponent for the recent defeat in the framework of the 1/8 final of the Cup of Ukraine. The fate of the confrontation was decided by a goal by Sergey Krivtsov in the 18th minute. More teams failed to distinguish themselves.
However, football itself has faded into the background because of a loud racist scandal. Toward the end of the match, fans began to insult the Brazilian Shakhtar footballers Dentinho and Tyson on ethnic grounds.
The latter was so upset by what happened that he could not hold back his tears, showed his fans the middle finger and knocked the ball in their direction. The judge decided to take the teams to the under-stands, and after returning, showed Tyson a red card for unsportsmanlike conduct.
At Shakhtar, they hastened to defend their players. So, the head coach of the team Luis Castro said that the manifestation of racism in football is unacceptable, after which he left the press conference. And soon on the club’s website an official statement appeared in this regard.
FC Shakhtar is a large football family, to whom such humiliating incidents bring pain and disappointment. We condemn this behavior of the audience, we will always support and protect our players. We urge football authorities, clubs to stop racism in stadiums, ”the statement said.
Football players of both teams also supported Tyson and Dentinho. In particular, Shakhtar’s defender Davit Khocholava called on partners “not to listen to people from the Stone Age”. Even Neymar, who expressed his compatriots words of support, was aware of the incident.