Real Madrid's failure, Marez's hat-trick and an incredible denouement in Belarus: events of the day in European football

Manchester City's devastating tradition

Manchester City beat this team 5-0 in their third consecutive home match with Burnley and moved from the bottom half of the standings to the top.

The beginning of the rout already in the sixth minute was laid by Riyad Marez, who took advantage of the transfer of Kevin De Bruyne.

In the middle of the half, the Algerian doubled the score, responding to a pass after the ball was kicked out of touch.

Before the break, Burnley had a third goal at goal when De Bruyne made a good transfer to Benjamin Mendy.

After the break, Manchester City continued to go ahead, trying to recoup all the recent failures in the Premier League.

In the middle of the half, two more goals followed, three minutes apart.

First, Ferran Torres scored, and after his replacement, Marez scored a hat-trick.

Hazard's injury and Courtois's mistake

Real Madrid have extended their unbeaten run in the Spanish Championship to three matches.

In the 11th round, Zinedine Zidane's charges lost to Alaves 1: 2.

At the end of the day, they remained in fourth place in the standings, allowing Sevilla to come within a point.

Throughout the match, Real Madrid were plagued by failures.

Shortly after the starting whistle, Nacho played with a hand in his own penalty area, and the guests were entitled to a penalty.

Lucas Perez opened the scoring, just breaking into the corner of the gate Thibaut Courtois.

In addition, Madrid have lost Eden Azar due to injury.

At the beginning of the second half, Courtois made a gross mistake with a pass to Casemiro and gave the ball straight to Josel.

The striker of the Basque club handled the ball a little and quickly doubled the score.

For Real, this was the first goal from outside the box in the last year and a half.

For almost the entire remaining time, Alaves was much closer to the third goal than Real was to the first, but still the hosts narrowed the gap thanks to Casemiro's finishing game.

However, this did not save Madrid from the third defeat of the season.

Inter pushed Sassuolo

The ninth round of the Italian championship immediately started with a loud result.

"Inter" on the road inflicted "Sassuolo" the first defeat of the season and displaced him from the second place in the standings.

Antonio Conte's men have narrowed the gap to leading Milan to two points ahead of his Sunday meeting with Fiorentina.

The guests opened the scoring already in the fourth minute, when Alexis Sanchez scored in the second Serie A match in a row.

Lautaro Martinez gave the transmission to the Chilean.

In the 14th minute, Inter doubled the lead thanks to a mistake by Vlad Chirikesh, who cut the ball into his own net after Arturo Vidal's shot.

Having scored two goals, Inter gave up the initiative, but Sassuolo did not take advantage of this.

In the second half, the guests again began to look for chances in front of the goal and scored the third goal in the 60th minute.

Roberto Gagliardini joined the attack and hit the goal of the home team on the move.

Juventus had a chance to rise to the second line at the end of Saturday, but Turin did not use it.

In the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo, who received a day off, they drew with Benevento.

In the middle of the first half, Alvaro Morate managed to open the score, but shortly before the break, Gaetano Letizia equalized the score.

Juventus had 45 minutes left to take the lead again, but Turin never got it.

After the final whistle, Morata received a red card for a dispute by the referee, which will lead to the disqualification of the striker for the derby against Torino.

The first victory of "Cologne"

The most unexpected result in Saturday's German championship matches was recorded in Dortmund.

“Cologne” managed to beat the local “Borussia” and won the first victory in nine rounds.

After the third defeat in the season, Lucien Favre's wards had to move up from the second line in the standings.

Three points for "Cologne" brought two very similar goals.

After a corner kick by Ondrej Duda, Aye Skiri scored twice.

Only if in the ninth minute he was assisted by his own teammate Marius Wolf, then in the second half the goalkeeper Roman Bürki became the involuntary author of the transfer.

Borussia's attack could not rectify the situation for a long time until Torgan Hazard and Giovanni Reina came out.

Together, they still played one goal, but more Dortmund could not organize a high-quality attack and mostly shot wide of the goal.

In the remaining matches of the day, victories were won by those teams from which this was to be expected.

Bayern beat Stuttgart 3-1 thanks to Robert Lewandowski's 12th goal, Leipzig defeated Arminia, which was the seventh in a row for this club this season, and Borussia Mönchengladbach defeated Schalke, which is now the only team in the Bundesliga that has not won a single victory.

PSG's faltering leadership

Paris Saint-Germain lost points in League 1 matches for the second time in a row. Thomas Tuchel's charges could not beat Bordeaux on their field, having achieved only a draw with a score of 2: 2.

For the Parisians, the match of the 12th round began extremely unsuccessfully.

During the corner kick in their possession, Timote Pembele cut the ball into his own net.

It took the capital team a little more than a quarter of an hour to not only equalize the score, but also to come out ahead.

On the 27th minute, Neymar converted a penalty, and immediately after that Moise Keene completed the attack, started by the Brazilian along with Kylian Mbappé.

But in the second half, Yasin Adli put his foot under the transfer of Atem Ben-Arfa and equalized the score.

Bordeaux kept the draw until the final whistle, which was a very successful result for him.

PSG continues to be the leader of Ligue 1, but Lille second in line has one more match in stock, while Marseille, ranked third, has two.

Shakhtar's championship at the last moment

The Belarusian football championship ended in a real sensation.

Salihorsk “Shakhtar” won a victory over “Minsk” in the last round and for the first time since 2005 became the winner of the tournament.

BATE, due to a goalless draw with the capital "Dynamo", dropped to second place and lost the chance to become the 16-time champion of the country.

The fate of the title and the only ticket to the Champions League for Belarus was decided in the last 30th round.

BATE was ahead of Shakhtar by only one point and therefore had to either end the season with a victory or hope for a misfire of a competitor.

But the team from Borisov was never able to hit the rivals' goal, which had a six-game winning streak behind them.

When the final whistle sounded at the Dynamo stadium, the match between Shakhtar and Minsk was still going on - six minutes were added to the main time.

The score at that moment was a draw, but the capital club in the 85th minute was in the minority due to the removal of Sergei Sazonchik.

The team from Soligorsk took full advantage of the given chance and managed to score two goals in stoppage time, which brought it the second gold in the championship of Belarus.

Until recently, there was intrigue in the struggle for bronze medals, which give a ticket to the Europa League.

In a dispute of four teams at once, Torpedo-BelAZ prevailed.

Having beaten “Vitebsk” on the road, for the first time in their history, “avtozavodtsy” were the winners of the national championship.

The victory in the match in the 86th minute was brought by Felipe Veloso, but he soon became the main anti-hero of the meeting - the midfielder insulted the head coach of the opponents and received a red card, at the same time provoking a fight on the bench.