Ronaldo .. "a new remontada", records and saving his coach
Manchester United achieved a valuable "Remontada" against Atalanta, Italy, after overturning a two-goal deficit to win 3-2, in the third round of the Champions League, which witnessed the return of the spirit to Barcelona, with a first weak but important victory at the expense of Ukraine's Dynamo Kiev 1-0. In other matches, both Juventus and Chelsea achieved two wins over Russia's Zenit 1-0 and Sweden's Malmo 4-0, respectively, while Bayern Munich crushed Benfica's net 4-0.
The "Red Devils" owe their important victory to the goals of the trio Marcus Rashford (53), Harry Maguire (75), and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored the winning goal (81), while the Croatian Mario Pasalic (15) and Turkey's Merih Demiral (29) scored the goals of Atalanta.
Thus, United topped its group with six points from three matches, and was behind Atalanta with four points, a single goal difference from Villarreal of Spain, who won their first victory in the competition at the expense of Swiss Young Boys 4-1. Ronaldo contributed greatly to alleviating the pressure on his Norwegian coach Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer, who breathed a sigh of relief, after any possible loss would have put his fate under the guillotine of dismissal.
"I think we played well in the first half, but we had two chances and two goals conceded," Solskjaer told BT Sports. He added, "(The players) did not stop believing, they always tried everything," praising Ronaldo by saying, "He is very good in front of goal and if anyone wants to criticize him for his work or his behaviour, let him watch this match, as if he is running everywhere. ".
Rashford's goal was the 300th for United in all competitions led by Solshire, although the English team failed to keep a clean sheet at home in 12 consecutive games, the longest streak for the "Red Devils" since February 1964 (13 matches). Maguire also scored his first European goals with his team. Ronaldo's records were not absent in the match, as he scored his 128th goal in the Champions, and scored a goal in all the Champions League matches for the Germans this season in Young Boys, Villarreal and Atalanta, and he is the first to score this number for Manchester since Andy Cole in 2007.
In the second match in the same group, Villarreal of Spain achieved its first victory in the competition this season by dropping its host Young Boys 4-1.
Barcelona revived its hopes of qualifying from the group stage, after winning its first victory, and it came at the expense of its Ukrainian guest, Dynamo Kiev, 1-0, in the fifth group competition.
The Catalan club owes the three points to the old guard, its defender Gerard Pique, who scored the winning goal in the 36th minute.
At the age of 34 years and 260 days, Pique became Barcelona's top scorer in the continental competition, and equaled the Brazilian Roberto Carlos's record as the most prolific defender in continental goals with 16. Bayern maintained a series of 20 matches without losing outside their home in the parent competition, during which they achieved 16 A win against 4 draws, since the 3-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in September 2017. Noting that he scored 58 goals during this series.
A complete mark for Juventus and Chelsea loses Lukaku
The Italian Juventus achieved a victory in the deadly time against its host Zenit St. Petersburg, Russia, with a clean goal, in the Group H competitions, which witnessed a review of the English Chelsea against its Swedish guest Malmo by four clean points. After a disastrous start to the impact of Ronaldo's departure, and two of his three league matches, the "Old Lady" team regained its luster.
Swede Dejan Kulusevsky scored the only goal of the match in the 86th minute, to raise Juventus' score to 9 points with a full mark in the lead, while Zenit's balance froze at three points in third place.
As for Chelsea, which Juventus did a great service, it compensated for its loss against the Italian team in the previous round, by sweeping its Swedish guest at Stamford Bridge 4-0.
This easy victory for German coach Thomas Tuchel's men came with goals from Andreas Christensen (9), who scored his first goals with the Blues after 137 appearances, Italian Jorginho (21 and 57 from two penalties) and German Kai Havertz (48).
Chelsea raised its score to six points in second place, while Malmo is bottom without points.
But the match was not without setbacks for Chelsea, as the German strikers Timo Werner and the Belgian Romelu Lukaku were injured, and therefore the upcoming matches may be difficult for the Blues in the absence of their attackers.
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