Allegri's total failure

Reporting game day of the Champions League was rich in sensation.

But the biggest surprise was the away defeat of Juventus from Maccabi - 0:2.

Moreover, the game itself surprised the guests more than the result.

In the first half, despite the fact that they were expected to act as the first number, they delivered only one shot on target.

The hosts' counterattacks looked much more interesting.

In addition, they managed to open an account already in the seventh minute.

Omer Atsili headed the feed from the left flank.

And shortly before the break, the striker doubled the team's advantage, beautifully breaking into the near nine from outside the penalty area.

After the break, Maximiliano Allegri went for broke and threw Moise Keane and Filip Kostic to help Dusan Vlahovic and Arkadiusz Milik.

But it did not help.

The opponent defended without too much panic, and in several episodes, partners were rescued by Josh Cohen.

Thus, the team from Haifa achieved a debut victory in the main European Cup in 20 years.

He won the last one back in October 2002, defeating Manchester United (3: 0).

But Juventus continues to upset their own fans.

For the first time in history, the Italian team lost three of the four meetings of the group stage of the tournament and seriously reduced their chances of reaching the playoffs.

Moreover, if points are equal in additional indicators, she will let Maccabi go ahead.

Things are not going well in Serie A, where the “Old Signora” has recorded failures in confrontations with Milan and Monza as a liability.

To top it all off in Israel, Angel Di Maria suffered a muscle injury.

The Argentine left the field in tears, and it is possible that he will miss the World Cup.

The strange decision of Guardiola

And Copenhagen took away points from Manchester City at home - 0:0.

The secret of success for the Danish team was largely the absence of Erling Haaland on the field.

The striker, who scored 20 goals in 13 matches, spent the entire game on the bench for the first time this season.

Josep Guardiola, after the final whistle, explained this with the intention to give the scorer the opportunity to rest and recover.

Without the Norwegian, the Mankunians made just four shots on target.

And if last week they upset Kamil Grabara five times, now - not once.

The Pole made the most important save in the middle of the first half, when he parried a shot from Riyad Mahrez from the “point” to the right corner from himself.

However, penalties are not the best part of the game for City under Guardiola.

Illustrative statistics: since the arrival of the coach in 2016, they have not converted 24 penalties.

This is nine more than any other opponent in the Premier League in this segment.

And the Algerian has let the team down twice.

Shortly before that, the refereeing team canceled the beautiful goal of Rodrigo Hernandez due to the fact that his partner played along with his hand.

Another Spaniard showed himself not from the best side in the roster of the reigning champion of England.

Sergio Gomez in the 30th minute knocked down Hakon-Arnar Haraldsson, who was running towards the goal, and the referee, after watching the replay, showed him a direct red card for a foul of the last hope.

But even a misfire in Denmark did not prevent the townspeople from confidently solving the problem of reaching the 1/8 finals in advance.

With a draw between Borussia Dortmund and Sevilla, they will at least be second in the G quartet.

Rudiger's saving goal

Real Madrid is in a similar situation.

The current trophy holders almost lost to Shakhtar, but they made it to the playoffs and set two Champions League records at once.

Firstly, they did it for the 31st time, and secondly, on the 12th they left the group with two rounds to go.

At the same time, the Madrid in Warsaw decided to get by with little bloodshed.

Carlo Ancelotti left Vinicius, Luka Modric, David Alaba and Eder Militao in reserve ahead of the Clasico.

Thibaut Courtois also decided not to disturb and allowed to recover from injury.

At the last frontier, the Ukrainian Andrei Lunin reappeared.

Without a number of leaders, nominal guests, although they had an advantage, were not as overwhelming as they were last week.

For comparison, they landed only five shots on target, and Anatoly Trubin scored only four saves.

However, in the first half, he saved several times, while his compatriot was frankly bored.

But the game did not have time to resume, as the Pitmen opened the scoring with the very first accurate shot.

And again Lunin was upset by Alexander Zubkov.

And assisted him, as in Spain, Bogdan Mikhailichenko.

After that, Ancelotti was forced to throw stars into the battle, but for the time being, the opponent was confident and even almost scored in a counterattack.

For example, in one of the episodes, Lassina Traore had already beaten Lunin, but hit the crossbar from an acute angle.

In the end, "Real" strayed into banal sheds and in the 95th minute they still got their way.

Rescued favorite Antonio Rüdiger.

High central defender in stoppage time by the referee almost did not leave someone else's penalty area and took advantage of the moment.

At the same time, having sent a projectile into the net, he collided with Trubin and received a serious cut.

It remains to be hoped that the injury will not prevent him from playing with Barcelona.

Historic Achievement

Finally, PSG again failed to upset Benfica.

Last week, the rivals played a draw in Lisbon - 1:1.

On this one, they parted ways with a similar score in Paris.

Two factors prevented the French team from achieving a better result: rumors about the possible departure of Kylian Mbappe and the injury of Lionel Messi, who scored an excellent move.

However, according to the game of the world champion himself, it was impossible to say that he was “on the suitcases”.

On the contrary, he turned out to be the best in the hosts' roster.

The striker converted a penalty, struck three hits and in the end scored the second offside goal, which rightly was not counted.

At the same time, with 31 goals, he came out on top in the list of the club's top scorers in the Champions League, ahead of Edinson Cavani.

But this was not enough for the wards of Christophe Galtier.

After an hour of meeting partners summed up Marco Verratti, at the entrance to his own penalty area in an absolutely harmless situation for some reason drove into the opponent's ankle.

And the penalty was confidently converted by former Lokomotiv midfielder João Mario.

Tomori's controversial removal

At the beginning of last week, Chelsea's position in Group E seemed hopeless.

The Londoners scored only one point in the confrontations with the inferior in the class Dynamo and Salzburg, and in Croatia they suffered a sensational defeat.

After that, Thomas Tuchel was dismissed.

However, in two decisive matches for the English team with Milan, she, already under the leadership of Graham Potter, won two victories and rose to the top of the quartet.

The fate of the second leg in Italy was largely decided by the controversial removal of Fikayo Tomori already in the 18th minute.

The defender lost the position in the penalty area to Mason Mount and held him with his hands.

The opponent struck an inaccurate blow and only then fell.

This was enough for Daniel Siebert to fix a foul of last resort.

In addition, Tomori was the first Englishman in the history of the tournament to receive a red card in a match against a team from his native country.

The naturalized Italian Jorginho, on the contrary, upset his compatriots by confidently converting a penalty.

And soon Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang put an end to the combination and doubled the advantage of the guests.

By the way, the striker from Gabon has not scored in the Champions League since 2017, until he scored in two meetings with Milan in a row.

The Rossoneri, on the other hand, had practically no chances to recoup.

Kepa Arrizabalaga was frankly bored that evening.

And after the break, rather, Chelsea had the opportunity to bring the matter to a rout.