Severe injury to van Dyck, Miranchuk on the bench and Ibrahimovic's double: events of the day in European football

Liverpool failed to beat Everton in the Merseyside derby, and Reds defender Virgil van Dijk suffered a heavy knee injury. Atalanta suffered a crushing defeat at Napoli, while Oleksiy Miranchuk remained on the bench. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a double in the Milan derby and helped the Rossoneri defeat Inter. RT talks about these and other events of the day in European football.

Draw in the Merseyside derby

In the Premier League, the main event of the day was the Merseyside derby, in which the leader in the standings Everton under the leadership of Carlo Ancelotti parted with the reigning champion Liverpool - 2: 2.

Jurgen Klopp's wards twice came out ahead thanks to goals from Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah, but the hosts found the strength to win back.

Moreover, in the added time by the referee, Mane again hit the gate of Jordan Pickford, but the referee did not count the goal due to a small offside position at Jordan Henderson.

But a much bigger problem for the team was Virgil van Dyck's severe injury.

The Dutch defender suffered a cruciate knee ligament rupture at the very beginning of the meeting.

He tried to return to the field despite the damage, but was forced to end the meeting.

Van Dijk is reported to be out for the rest of the season.

Real Madrid sensational misfire

The match of the 6th round of Examples between Real Madrid and Cadiz ended with a sensational victory for the underdog at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium.

The only goal in the 16th minute of the meeting was scored by Anthony Lozano, who was assisted by Alvaro Negredo.

In the future, Madrid tried to recoup, but could not do it.

Zinedine Zidane's charges struck 14 shots on goal, but only two of them were on target.

Thus, Real Madrid lost to Cadiz for the first time in 29 years.

The last time the Royal Club lost to a modest opponent was in March 1991.

Then the minimum score was also fixed.

First defeat of Barcelona under Kuman

Barcelona were also defeated, losing 0: 1 to Getafe away.

The Catalans had an extremely unsuccessful meeting and lost for the first time under the guidance of the coach from the Netherlands, Ronald Koeman.

The fate of the confrontation was decided by striker Jaime Mata, who converted a penalty at the beginning of the second half.

Defender Jena, who joined the attack, earned the penalty spot.

Barcelona, although they had an advantage, struck just one shot on target of David Soria.

Thus, Getafe won the first victory over the Catalans since 2011.

Defeat for Atalanta

In the match of the 4th round of the Italian championship between Napoli and Atalanta, Russian midfielder Alexei Miranchuk first got into the application, but did not appear on the field.

The domestic footballer, who recovered from injury, spent the entire meeting on the bench.

In his absence, the Bergamaski, who started the season with three victories in a row, suffered a major defeat - 1: 4.

And the guests missed all the goals in the first half.

First, Irwin Lozano scored the second double of the season.

The Mexican midfielder closed the cross of his partner, and four minutes later he scored with an accurate shot from the opponent's penalty area.

A couple of minutes later, Mateo Politano scored, and Victor Osimhen completed the rout.

The only thing that Atalanta managed to do before the end of the meeting was to score the prestige goal.

This was done after the break by the newcomer of the team, Sam Lammers, who appeared on the field in the 55th minute, and in the 69th - entered his name into the protocol.

Milan win in the derby

In the main match of the day in Serie A, Milan beat Inter in the city derby - 2: 1.

By the 17th minute, Stefano Pioli's charges took the lead by two goals.

The double was designed by the most experienced Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

However, the veteran began the meeting with an unbeaten penalty.

The striker missed a penalty for the second time in 2020.

However, the Swede was the first to finish and opened the scoring, and a few minutes later Rafael Leau closed the cross.

Having issued a double, Ibrahimovic caught up with the tournament scorers Lozano, Alejandro Gomez and Romelu Lukaku in the race.

By the way, it was the Belgian who cut Inter's lag to a minimum in the first half, but Antonio Conte's team failed to recoup, despite the numerous created chances.

This is how Inter suffered the first defeat against Milan in almost three years.

Dubli Lewandowski and Müller

If Real and Barcelona were defeated in Example, then the Bundesliga hegemon Bayern defeated Arminia from Bielefeld on the road - 4: 1.

Thomas Müller and Robert Lewandowski scored doubles for the reigning champion.

The Pole has already scored seven goals in four matches of the starting season of the German championship and is the leader in the tournament's scorers race.

Hoffenheim striker Andrei Kramarich has one less goal.

Müller also scored an assist and, with four assists, is number one in the Bundesliga's best assistants list.

The veteran has assisted partners so far in all meetings of the championship.