Goal celebration by Joa Cancela of Manchester City.
Dave Thompson, ČTK / AP
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The defender of the championship, Bayern Munich, who will welcome Salzburg, and last year’s winner Liverpool, who will host Atalanta Bergamo, are also within reach.
Bayern will postpone the win over Salzburg to the round of 16, a draw will be enough for him to advance if Lokomotiv Moskva does not win at Atlética Madrid in a group A match. The reigning winner will go to the match in the back with a 6: 2 win from the duel on the Salzburg field, which he achieved three weeks ago thanks to four goals in the final quarter hour.
| Champions League at O2 TV |
| The O2 TV Sport and O2 TV Fotbal stations will offer all Wednesday duels from the Champions League live. Thanks to the multidimensional, the viewer can choose which transmission he wants to watch. Moderator Libor Bouček will welcome the former representative to the studio Tomas Ujfalusi and also a coach David Holoubek. The end of the matches is traditionally followed by excerpts from all matches and responses in the studio. |
The German champion, who is the most scoring team with 12 goals in the competition so far, can extend the series of 14 wins in the Champions League. In the group stage, his invincibility lasts even 19 matches, the last time he lost in it more than three years ago. The match will be exceptional for the Polish Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski. If he scores, he will equal the Spaniard Raúl (71) in the number of goals and after Cristian Ronald and Lionel Messi he will become the third best scorer in the history of the competition.
Bayern sniper Robert Lewandowski.
Christof Stache, Reuters
In Group D, Liverpool can advance when they defeat Bergamo at home. A draw may be enough for him to advance if Ajax Amsterdam does not beat Midtjylland at home. “Reds” won three weeks ago in Bergamo thanks to the hat-trick of the Portuguese striker Diogo Jota 5: 0.
The Manchester City footballers secured a 1-0 win on the Olympiakos Piraeus field. The Mönchengladbach footballers also went to the playoffs in Group B, who three weeks after winning 6-0 defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 4-0 in the domestic retaliation. In both stadiums, there was a minute of silence before the matches for the football legend Diego Maradona, who died today.
“Citizens”, who also had a draw in Group C, took the lead in the 36th minute, when Captain Sterling put Phil Foden in the ideal shooting position with his heel and he hit the exposed half of the goal. Twenty-year-old Foden also scored in his third year in the Champions League. Manchester extended the series without losing in the group stage of the competition to 16 matches and gradually imitated Chelsea, Seville, Barcelona and Juventus.
Mönchengladbach, who won the first half 4: 0 in Kiev three weeks ago, entered the opening act again in style. In the 17th minute, Lars Stindl converted the penalty to a foul on Thuram, after half an hour Nico Elvedi jumped on Stindl’s corner and did not give the goalkeeper Pjatov a chance to hit with the header.
In the setting of the first half, he then surpassed Pyatov with successful scissors Breel Embolo, who at the age of 23 hit the competition for the third club. The final form of the result was given in the 77th minute by Oscar Wendt, who, like Elvedi, scored in the competition for the first time. Borussia won the home league of the Champions League after five years, when two goals from Seville (4: 2) were scored by today’s scorer Stindl. In the incomplete table, he is in first place with a four-point lead over Shakhtar and Real Madrid, which now plays at Inter Milan.
| 4th round of the basic groups of the Champions League football: |
| Group B: |
| Monchengladbach – Shakhtar Donetsk 4: 0 (3:0) |
| Goals: 17. Stindl z pen., 34. Elvedi, 45. + 1 Embolo, 77. Wendt. Judges: Cakir – Duran, Ongun – Bitigen (video, all Tur.). |
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