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Manchester City’s Julian Alvarez shines in Champions League victory against Leipzig

The world champion striker Julian Alvarezin just over 10 minutes, scored a goal today and gave an assist in the 3-1 victory of Manchester City against Leipzig, as a visitor, for group G of the Champions League.

Álvarez entered with 12 minutes remaining, with the game at 1-1, and scored 39 minutes into the second half with a shot to the upper right corner that was unstoppable by German goalkeeper Janis Blaswich.

Shortly after, the former River Plate player, who scored 4 goals in his last three Champions League games, commanded a counterattack and assisted Belgian Jeremy Doku (ST 45+2m) to make it 3-1.

The forward from Córdoba is the top scorer of this edition of the Champions League (3) along with the Danish Rasmus Winther Højlund, who plays for Manchester United.

The English midfielder Phil Foden (PT 25m) opened the scoring for the last Champions League champion, while the Belgian Lois Openda (ST 3m) signaled equality.

City achieved the second victory in a row and leads its zone with an ideal score (6), followed by Leipzig (3).

Atlético de Madrid, directed by the Argentine Diego Simeonebeat Feyenoord, from the Netherlands, 3 to 2 today at home, in a match on the second date of group E of the Champions League.

The goals for “Colchonero” were from the Spanish attacker Álvaro Morata (12m. PT and 2m. ST) and the Frenchman Antoine Griezmann (49m. PT), while the Spanish defender Mario Hermoso (7m. PT) scored for the Dutch team. , against, and the Slovak defender David Hancko (34m. PT).

In addition, Atlético de Madrid had the three world champions on the field: Rodrigo DePaul (he came out at halftime) and Nahuel Molina (left the field at 33m. ST and contributed an assist for the third goal) from the beginning; while Angel Correa He entered at 33m. of the complement.

With this victory, Atlético de Madrid reached four points and Feyenoord remained at three points.

In group H, Barcelona from Spain won 1-0 against Porto from Portugal, as a visitor, with a goal from Spaniard Ferrán Torres (PT 45+1m). Former Boca Alan Varela played as a starter for the Portuguese team.

Champions League – Fecha 2

.Group E: Celtic de Scotland 1-Lazio de Italia (Valentín Castellanos) 2

.Group F: Borussia Dortmund of Germany 0-Milan of Italy 0; Newcastle of England 4-PSG of Francia1.

.Group G: Red Star of Serbia 2-Young Boys of Switzerland 2.

.Grupo H: Antwerp 2 – Shaktar 3.

2023-10-05 14:39:12
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