Controversial penalty in el clasico

In the central match of the day in the leading European championships, Barcelona hosted Real Madrid in the framework of El Clasico.

Both teams approached the principled confrontation not in the best shape.

So, the Catalans in the previous round of Examples sensationally lost to Getafe.

And Madrid suffered two defeats in a row within five days, from Cadiz and Shakhtar.

In this situation, victory was necessary for both. 

And the rivals started right off the bat.

By the ninth minute, two "units" were on the scoreboard, and Real and Barcelona had distinguished themselves with the first strikes.

First, Federico Valverde completed the fast attack of the guests and scored the first goal of his career in El Clasico, and then Ansu Fati equalized the score. 

It is noteworthy that the striker became the youngest scorer in the history of a principled confrontation.

On the day of the match, he turned 17 years old and 359 days old.

Thus, the striker beat the achievement of Raul, who hit Barcelona's goal at the age of 18 years and 95 days.

Fati also scored the 400th anniversary goal of the Catalans in El Clásico. 

In the middle of the half, goalkeepers came to the fore, making two bright saves within a minute.

Thibaut Courtois coped with the most dangerous blow of Lionel Messi in the near corner, and Neto reacted to the shot of Karim Benzema.  

The next goal had to wait until the 63rd minute.

“Real” managed to come out ahead thanks to a very controversial penalty.

Sergio Ramos fell into someone else's penalty area, taking advantage of the fact that Clement Langle held his shirt, and referee Juan Munuera, after watching the replay, appointed a penalty.

Real Madrid captain realized it.

By the way, he scored the 99th goal for Madrid and played the 31st match with Barça in the example as part of the cream.

According to this indicator, the experienced defender caught up with Francisco Gento and Raul. 

At the end of the match, Luka Modric put an end to it.

Horvath, who is not very productive, scored a goal in the second meeting in a row.

Last week, he struck Shakhtar's goal with a beautiful long-range shot, but this did not help his team score points.

The new goal of the Golden Ball winner also turned out to be spectacular.

He mockingly removed Neto twice on the backswing and sent the ball into an empty target.

This is how Real Madrid managed to win a second victory over Barcelona in 2020.

And Zinedine Zidane, as the head coach of the team, has not lost at the Nou Camp for six meetings in a row, and this is a new record for the mentors of the creamy.

Blue-garnet same in the first five matches of the new season, Examples have scored only seven points.  

Zeros in the centerpiece of the Premier League

The central match of the day of the Premier League between Manchester United and Chelsea turned out to be less interesting and ended in a goalless draw.

The owners had a slight advantage.

So, they managed to deliver 14 strikes against the opponent's six.

But the team for two was struck on target only five times.

The appearance on the field after the break of the eminent newcomer of the Mancunians Edinson Cavani did not help either.

He played the first official game since March 11, when he was still a PSG footballer, but was noted for only two inaccurate shots. 

Manchester United and Chelsea parted ways for the first time in a year and a half.

And this zero draw was the first for them in almost five years.

However, this result is unlikely to please both sides.

For the first time in 48 years, the Mancunians failed to win in three Premier League starting home matches (before that they lost to Crystal Palace and Tottenham, conceding a total of nine goals), and Londoners have won only one victory in the last five Premier League games.  

Another misfire of Manchester City

But the affairs of the other team from Manchester - Manchester City - at the start of the new season of the Premier League are not going well.

In the first four Premier League games, the reigning vice-champion won only two victories, and in the fifth round he drew with West Ham - 1: 1.

Thus, in five starting games, the "townspeople" scored only eight points.

This is the worst figure in this segment for all the teams that have ever been headed by Josep Guardiola.  

And the score was opened by West Ham, and Michael Antonio became the author of a fantastic goal.

After the filing of Vladimir Tsoufal from the right flank, the striker struck an accurate shot on goal through himself.

Ederson with Ruben Dias in this situation acted as spectators.  

The successful replacement of Guardiola helped Manchester to win back at the beginning of the second half.

Young Philip Foden, five minutes after appearing on the field, equalized the score.

Raheem Sterling could have brought City victory in the end.

However, at first he was unable to outplay Lukasz Fabianski, going one-on-one with him, and in the time added by the referee he hit the post from an acute angle.   

Unsuccessful rotation of Atalanta

Oleksiy Miranchuk's Atalanta cannot boast of the results in the national championship lately.

Bergamoski started the season with three victories in a row, but then lost to Napoli with a crushing score, and on Saturday they lost at home to Sampdoria - 1: 3. 

The main reason for the failure was a large-scale rotation, which the head coach of the hosts Gian Piero Gasperini started after the Champions League meeting with Midtjylland.

The starting lineup for the Serie A match did not include seven people at once, who took to the field from the first minutes in Denmark.

However, despite a beautiful goal, Miranchuk did not find a place at the base. 

In such an experimental line-up, Atalanta conceded already in the 13th minute, with Sampdoria leading the 37-year-old Fabio Quagliarela.

The experienced forward scored a goal in the fourth championship match in a row.

Moreover, at the end of the first half, he could issue a double, but did not convert the penalty. 

During the break, Gasperini made three substitutions at once, and soon two more.

But Miranchuk never found a place in the field.

The Russian spent the entire game on the bench.

And the steps of the coach did not bring benefit to his team.

After one hour of the meeting, Morten Thorsby doubled the lead of Sampdoria.

Shortly before the final whistle, Duvan Zapata converted a penalty, but the end of the match was put by the midfielder of the Genoese who won their third consecutive victory, Jakub Yankto.   

Incredible performance of Bayern

And Bayern, after the defeat of Atlético in the Champions League, won an even larger victory in the Bundesliga over Eintracht Frankfurt.

The Munich team scored five unanswered goals at home.

The main hero of the confrontation was Robert Lewandowski, who distinguished himself three times and brought the number of goals in the current season of the German championship to ten.

On average, a Pole scores two goals per meeting.

Robert has more goals to his credit than 14 out of 18 Bundesliga teams.

And in terms of the number of hat-tricks in the German championship (11), the forward is inferior to only three players: Gerd Müller (32), Klaus Fischer (12) and Mario Gomes (12).

At the same time, in the current season of the national championship, Lewandowski managed to arrange poker in a match with Gerta.

The only fly in the ointment for the team was the injury of Alfonso Davis, which the Canadian received at the very beginning of the meeting literally out of the blue.

The defender could not continue the game and was replaced.

Bayern with 12 points in the asset after five rounds still only take second place, losing one point to Leipzig, which on Saturday won a strong-willed victory over Herta (2: 1).   

Rescue of Mönchengladbach Borussia

Another meeting of the Bundesliga playing day between the outsider Mainz and Mönchengladbach Borussia turned out to be rich in events, in which five goals were scored at once.

The game began with an early goal from Gladbakh midfielder Lars Shtindl.

It seemed that the team would not have any problems in the future.  

However, the opponent fighting for survival, who did not score a single point in the first four rounds, did not think to give up and scored twice before the break.

In both cases, Jan Sommer's goal was hit by French striker Jean-Philippe Mateta.  

But in the end, Mainz was not destined to score at least a point.

In the end, Borussia managed to turn the course of the match upside down.

Moreover, the mentor of the guests, Marco Rose, completely guessed with the replacement, releasing Jonas Hoffman on the field.

Already 16 minutes after entering the field, the midfielder converted a penalty and then gave an assist to Matthias Ginter.    

Formal defeat from "Ajax"

In the Netherlands championship, Ajax scored an incredible victory, which after five rounds of the new season of the Eredivisie was second only to PSV in the standings.

The Amsterdamites came to visit BBB-Venlo, which had won only one victory before.

Erik ten Haga's charges were considered the clear favorites, but they managed to surpass themselves. 

Ajax sent 13 unanswered goals into the gates of a modest opponent.

This is the largest victory in the history of the national championship.

The previous record also belonged to the Amsterdam players, who beat Vitesse in 1972 with a score of 12: 1. 

Moreover, in the first half, "VVV-Venlo" conceded only four goals, but the removal of the team immediately after the break led to a real disaster.

In six minutes (from 54th to 59th) the guests scored four times, and from 74th to 78th they scored three more times. 

The greatest dividends from such a major victory came from striker Lassina Traore, who had no scores for performance in the current Eredivisie season before this match.

In Venlo, he scored five times and gave three assists.

And the 37-year-old Claes-Jan Huntelar, who came on as a substitute, managed to issue a double within three minutes.