Ending defeat by Bayern

In Group A, Lokomotiv's rivals Salzburg and Bayern played an interesting and productive match, which ended in a 2: 6 defeat of the Austrian champion.

At the same time, Jesse Marsh's charges played most of the meeting with the favorite on equal terms. 

They managed to open an account already in the fourth minute thanks to the precise blow of Mergim Berishi.

A little later, “Salzburg” was helped by the referee, who canceled the penalty kick against Chichan Stankovic after watching the replay and did not count Serge Gnabry's goal due to an offside position.

However, in the middle of the half, Bayern still earned a penalty kick, which was implemented by Robert Lewandowski, and shortly before the break, Rasmus Christensen cut the ball into his own goal against the Pole.

Nevertheless, the Austrian team was not going to give up and in the second half of the meeting managed to level the score, and Masaya Okugawa, who came on as a substitute, distinguished himself just a minute before. 

However, in the 14 minutes remaining before the final whistle, the Bavarians sent four unanswered goals into the opponent's goal.

The second goal was scored by Lewandowski, who now has 70 goals in the Champions League.

Jerome Boateng, Lucas Hernandez and Leroy Zane, who replaced them, also managed to excel.

And Bayern won their 14th win in a row in the Champions League and updated their own tournament record. 

Ramos' 100th goal for Real

In the central match of the day of the Champions League within the framework of Group B, Real and Inter met.

And this meeting also turned out to be interesting not only in terms of the signboard, but also in terms of content.

Although by the middle of the first half it might have seemed that the intrigue in this confrontation had died, after all, Madrid scored two unanswered goals.

First, Karim Benzema took advantage of the blunder of Ashraf Hakimi, who, under pressure, gave an unsuccessful pass to the goalkeeper.

And then Sergio Ramos scored the jubilee hundredth goal for Real after a corner kick. 

It is not known how this match would have ended if it had not been for the quick return goal of Lautaro Martinez.

Moreover, the great emotions among the Italian fans were caused not even by the Argentine's kick, but by an incredible heel pass from Nicolo Barella.

And in the second half, the Nerazzurri added and leveled the score thanks to an accurate shot by Ivan Perisic.

But ten minutes before the final whistle, the goal for Real Madrid was organized by two substitutes from Brazil, Vinicius and Rodrigo.

The first performed a cross from the left flank, and the second struck an accurate blow to the near nine.

So Real Madrid snatched three points in the most important meeting and won the first victory in the Champions League since December 2019. 

And the Ukrainian Shakhtar suffered the biggest defeat in the Champions League match day - 0: 6.

The Pitmen had a great start in the Champions League and scored four points in their first two matches with Real and Inter.

At the same time, a number of the team's leading footballers did not enter the field due to the outbreak of the coronavirus and injuries. 

For the meeting with Borussia Mönchengladbach, many of them were on the list, but Luis Castro decided not to change the lineup.

However, this time the young players of Shakhtar could not oppose anything to their opponents. 

By the 17th minute Borussia scored twice, and the teams left for the break when the score was 4: 0.

At the same time, the Pitmen did not commit a single foul in the entire first half.

In the second half of the meeting, Mönchengladbach scored twice more, and striker Alassane Plea scored a hat-trick.   

12th consecutive defeat of Marseille

In Quartet C "Manchester City" and "Porto" with the same score (3: 0) at home defeated Olympiacos and Marseille, respectively.

For “citizens” this victory was the third in the current season of the Champions League.

And Ferran Torres, who opened the scoring in the game with the champion of Greece, scored goals in all these matches and in the tournament's scorers' race is inferior to Marcus Rashford, Diogo Jota, Tokmak Nguyen and Dominic Soboslai, who have four goals each.

At the same time, the Spaniard previously did not differ in high performance and, as a rule, acted on the right flank.

However, in “Manchester” the 20-year-old footballer began to be used as a striker, and this bore fruit. 

In the end, Gabriel Jesus and João Canselo, who replaced him, put an end to the match.

And Kevin De Bruyne was the author of two assists in the second match of the tournament in a row.

He leads the list of the best Champions League assistants. 

If Bayern set a new Champions League record for the number of victories in a row, then Marseille, on the contrary, repeated the anti-record for the number of defeats in a row in the tournament.

The loss in Portugal was 12th for André Villas-Boas's charges, and the French team repeated Anderlecht's "achievement" established in 2003-2005.

Porto opened the scoring in the fourth minute thanks to a precise shot by Moussa Marega, but soon the opponents earned a penalty and got a great opportunity to win back.

However, Dimitri Payet shot from the "point" above the gate.

But the hosts realized their penalty in the middle of the first half.

Luis Diaz brought the score to a large one after the break.

Fourth match of Miranchuk in reserve

In Group D, the fans were looking forward to the match between Atalanta and Liverpool and the confrontation on the bridge between Gian Piero Gasperini and Jurgen Klopp.

However, in reality, the fight in this meeting did not work out.

The Bergamaski failed to cope with the quick attacks of Liverpool, playing poorly in defense, and by the 55th minute conceded five unanswered goals.

The main character in the English team was the newcomer Diogo Jota.

The Portuguese scored three goals and was the fifth Liverpool player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League.

He also, having opened an account, became the author of the winning goal in the fourth consecutive Lersiside match in all tournaments.

In total, Zhota has seven goals for the new team. 

Mohammed Salah and Sadio Mane scored two points each.

Moreover, the Egyptian was noted for a particularly beautiful ball.

At the beginning of the second half, he fled to someone else's penalty area from his own half of the field, easily beat the defender and shot into the far corner without a chance for the goalkeeper.

This ball was Salah's 21st in the Champions League for Liverpool, and now shares the top spot with Steven Gerard.

At the same time, it cannot be said that Atalanta did not have a chance to excel.

Duvan Zapata hit the goalposts twice, Alison Becker made some spectacular rescues.

But Alexey Miranchuk again watched the game from the sidelines.

The Russian remained in the reserve of Bergamasks in the fourth meeting in a row.

Finally, Ajax defeated Midtjylland 2: 1 on the road.

Already in the first minute the scoring was opened by the striker of the Dutch team Anthony, and in the 13th - Dusan Tadic doubled the guests' lead.

At the same time, the Serb's goal turned out to be truly unusual - it was scored after a free kick in the penalty area of ​​the Danish team. 

The Amsterdamtsy earned the standard for the fact that goalkeeper Mikkel Andersen took the ball in his hands, having received a pass from a partner.

In order not to allow the opponent to excel, the hosts in full force lined up on the goal line, but this did not help them.

After the discount of the former Spartak midfielder Quincy Promes, Tadic literally "pierced" a kind of wall.

It is curious that this goal was 700th for Ajax in the Champions League.

Previously, Real Madrid (1158), Barcelona (1127), Bayern (982), Juventus (814) and Liverpool (718) reached this mark.