Manchester United comeback

For the central match of the Champions League game day, Manchester United did not come up in the best shape. In the last three rounds of the Premier League, the team scored only a point, and in the main European Cup sensationally lost to the Young Boys. Another misfire could seriously undermine the position of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. And the beginning did not bode well for the Norwegian specialist. Bergamoski scored twice already by the 28th minute, and for the first time in history the Mankunians lost the first half of the Champions League home meeting with a difference of two goals.

However, after the break, they made an incredible comeback. It was started by Marcus Rashford, who had not realized a number of favorable moments before. After that, the guests gave the initiative to the opponent and pressed against their own goal. In the hope of rectifying the situation, Gian Piero Gasperini threw Alexei Miranchuk and Ruslan Malinovsky into battle, but this did not help. As a result, the Russian scored only one blow and seven assists (71% - accurate).

And it was after his appearance on the field that Atalanta conceded twice.

Harry Maguire equalized the score, staying in someone else's penalty area.

And he put an end to Cristiano Ronaldo, who closed the canopy with his head from the flank.

The Portuguese scored such an important goal in the jubilee 300th match for Manchester United.

Along the way, he became the author of a number of statistical achievements.

For example, the striker scored the 137th goal in the Champions League and consolidated his leadership in the list of the most productive footballers in the history of the tournament.

He also upset the 38th team in the Champions League and set a new record for this indicator.

Finally, Ronaldo rewrote Iker Casillas' record of 187 European appearances.

Extravaganza of "Bavaria"

Also, the game day turned out to be rich in defeats - on Wednesday, three major victories were recorded at once.

Did not leave a chance to Benfica away from Bayern - 4: 0.

Even the absence of the sick Julian Nagelsmann on the bench did not prevent the Munich team from scoring three points on duty.

At the same time, the Lisbonians held back the attacks of the venerable rival until the 70th minute.

The guests had an overwhelming advantage, but the ball stubbornly did not go into the goal.

Odysseas Vlachodimos has made some amazing saves.

And when he turned out to be powerless, the judges came to the rescue of the owners.

In the first half, Robert Lewandowski's goal was canceled due to a handball, and in the second, Thomas Muller's ball was not counted due to an offside position at Kingsley Coman.

As a result, the favorite was saved by Leroy Zane, who opened the scoring with a magnificent free-kick.

Having conceded, the Portuguese team collapsed and allowed the opponent to finish them off.

Zane became the best in Bayern's squad, who later scored a double and assisted Robert Lewandowski.

Striker Everton sent another ball into his own goal, who decided to help the defense.

While Munich at the group stage of the Champions League do not meet worthy resistance.

In three games, they upset Barcelona 12 times, Dynamo Kiev and Benfica, and never conceded a goal.

Chelsea losses

With a similar score, they managed to outplay Malmö against Zenit's rival in Group H, Chelsea. But the victory was given to the Londoners at a high price. In, in fact, a passing match, they lost both main attackers in the first half due to injuries. Romelu Lukaku earned a penalty for the team, but suffered an ankle injury after a hard tackle by Lasse Nielsen. And Timo Werner pulled the back of the thigh almost out of the blue shortly before the break.

Even such losses did not prevent the current winner of the trophy from crushing an opponent inferior in class.

Andreas Christensen opened the scoring in the ninth minute.

For the central defender, this goal was his debut in the Chelsea squad.

Moreover, in order to score for the blue for the first time, the Dane needed to hold 137 meetings in all tournaments.

Jorginho scored a double with two shots from the penalty spot.

Another ball was scored by Kai Havertz.

The Swedish champion in the current Champions League is still unable not only to score points, but even to excel.

Moreover, Malmö lost all three matches with a large score, conceding 11 times in total.

Bad luck Young Boys

After the first round of the group stage, the most confusing situation was in Quartet F, where Manchester United and Atalanta play among others.

There is neither a clear favorite nor an obvious outsider in him.

Contributed to this and the result of the match "Young Boys" - "Villarreal".

The Spanish team arrived in Switzerland with only one point in the asset, but won a major victory (4: 1) and returned to the fight for getting into the playoffs.

Amazingly, the hosts, despite the score, played no worse than their opponents.

In terms of possession of the ball, they almost did not concede to the guests, and in terms of the number of shots they surpassed them (17:13), but poor implementation prevented the Bernese from returning to the game after a disastrous start.

Already by the 16th minute, Unai Emery's wards scored twice.

Moreover, Jeremi Pino opened an account on his 19th birthday.

The Young Boys managed to close the gap only closer to the final whistle.

After that, David Wagner's team went ahead to miss the opponent's effective counterattacks twice.

So, "Villarreal" scored the most important three points under the supervision of the refereeing team Sergey Karasev.

The Russian referee once again did his job with high quality and allowed the teams to play.

Moskvich recorded only 17 fouls and limited himself to two yellow cards.

Salzburg leadership

And in Quartet G, Salzburg unexpectedly took the lead.

Fans could imagine that the Austrian champion would look decent, but they hardly imagined that in the first three rounds he would score seven points out of nine possible.

At first, Matthias Jaisle's charges missed the victory over Sevilla by missing two penalties, then they beat Lille and, finally, they were stronger than Wolfsburg at home - 3: 1.

The teams showed spectacular open football and exchanged goals by the 15th minute.

Lukas Nmecha quickly responded to Karim Adeyemi's ball.

In the second half, the hosts brought success to the corners.

They scored twice after a successful corner draw.

In both cases, the young Noah Okafor struck someone else's goal, and the striker only took 13 minutes to complete the double.

Moreover, these balls became the debut in the main European Cup for the 21-year-old football player.