The defeat of Arsenal, the return of Atlético to the top three and the Shakhtar championship: the main events of the day in European football

Lost Arsenal and Leicester Points

London Arsenal suffered a second consecutive defeat after the resumption of the championship of England. Mikel’s wards Arteta lost in the 30th round of Brighton and Hove Albion, who have not won victories since December last year, but now have increased their chances of remaining in the Premier League for next season.

Such a discouraging result for Arsenal was largely influenced by the injury of the main goalkeeper Bernd Leno. At the end of the first half, he fought with Neil Mope and had to calmly pick up the ball. The Brighton striker eventually shot down the goalkeeper, who unsuccessfully landed and injured his leg, after which he was able to leave the field only on a stretcher. He was replaced by Damian Martinez, who has not played in the Premier League since April 2017.

In the second half, Arsenal was able to open an account thanks to a powerful blow from Nicolas Pepe from the corner of the box, but then missed twice. At first, Lewis Dunk did not allow Rob Holding to take the ball off the goalkeeper line, and in the fifth minute added, Mope brought the victory to Brighton. The Frenchman received a pass on the move from someone else's penalty area and beat Martinez with a sweeping stroke. Arsenal shortly after the defeat fell to tenth place in the standings - he was beaten by Crystal Palace, who beat Bournemouth on the road.

The only team that entered the leadership group and held their match on Saturday was Leicester. He met away with Watford, fighting for survival. Leicester players were able to open an account only in the 90th minute through the efforts of Benjamin Chilwell, but this was not enough to win. Three minutes later, Craig Dawson hit through himself and brought the “Watford” a draw. Leicester is in third place and is six points behind Manchester City, but is ahead of Chelsea by the same amount.

Atletico victory and Getafe win-win series

Atletico Madrid managed to regain the status of the third team in Spain. Wards Diego Simeone took advantage of the last misfire of “Seville”, which tied with “Barcelona”, and removed the red and white from the third line of the standings Examples. The hard-won victory over Valladolid helped them in this.

Throughout the first half, both teams could not show themselves and please the viewers with dangerous moments. After the break, “Atletico” took the initiative into their own hands, but could not get to someone else's penalty and realize their advantage in goals. When it seemed that the next, already the 14th in a season, nobody could avoid a draw, who replaced Vitolo realized a corner nine minutes before the end of the regular time of the meeting. The Madrid team caught up with Sevilla by the points they scored, but surpassed it due to the difference in goals scored and goals conceded.

Getafe is gradually losing ground in a dispute over a ticket to the Champions League. Since the resumption of Examples, the team has not won a single victory and dropped to fifth place. Another loss of points occurred in the match with a modest Eibar. At home, Getafe players were able to open an account, but in the sixth minute added the first half missed the return ball. The score did not change anymore, although in the very end “Eibar” almost got the right to a penalty, but was deprived of it after using VAR.

Lewandowski record and Bayer failure

The German Championship is nearing completion. On Saturday, the penultimate, 33rd round of the Bundesliga took place, which answered one of the main questions of the season - who will take second place after the “Bavaria”. In an in-person dispute, the Dortmund Borussia and the three points of the Leipzig that lost to her found out.

Silver eventually went to Dortmund, which included shone Erling Holland. It was his two goals that brought the team victory. The 19-year-old Norwegian in the first half caught the goalkeeper on the counter and opened the scoring, and in the compensated time of the match he pushed the ball into the goal after hitting Julian Brandt. Holand scored 44 goals in 39 official matches of the season and helped Borussia set a club record for goals scored - the team had never scored 84 goals in one Bundesliga draw, and yet she still had a meeting with Hoffenheim.

“Leipzig” because of this defeat risked to be on the verge of relegation from the Champions League zone, but he was saved by the defeat of “Bayer”. Leverkusenians with a score of 0-2 lost to Hertha, which had not scored points in three games in a row before. Bayer dropped to fifth place, skipping ahead of the Mönchengladbach Borussia, which in turn calmly beat the Paderborn flying to the second Bundesliga. Now, “Bayer” to get into the main club tournament in Europe you need to defeat “Mainz” in the last round and hope for the defeat of the Mönchengladbach from “Hertha”. Leipzig will at least play in the Champions League qualifications.

Although Bayern have already secured the championship title, she did not relax even in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The Munich team almost in combat played against Freiburg and won the 12th consecutive victory. Hans-Dieter Flick's wards scored all their goals in the first half. The hero of the meeting was Robert Lewandowski, who first gave the transfer to Josua Kimmich, and then designed a double. The Polish striker has already scored 33 goals in the Bundesliga and has updated the record for performance for legionnaires, breaking the achievement of Pierre-Emerick Obameyang.

Shakhtar Championship

In Ukraine, the national football champion was determined. For the fourth time in a row, Donetsk was Shakhtar. The next title to the team of Luis Castro was brought by a victory over “Alexandria” with a score of 3: 2. After that, the Donetsk team became unattainable for their closest pursuer of Dynamo Kyiv. The gap of Shakhtar has grown to 19 points, while the capital club has only six matches left.

The team from Donetsk won the national championship for the 13th time and reduced the backlog from the people of Kiev, who had 15 titles in the history of independent Ukraine. Dynamo now remains to fight for second place, giving a ticket to the Champions League. Chernihiv Desna, Lugansk Zarya and Alexandria still retain chances to get around Alexey Mikhaylichenko’s wards.