Of the four Spanish teams participating in the current edition of Champions, only one could add three to three on the 3rd day. Unlike Barcelona, Atlistico from Madrid y Sevillethe True Madrid he lined up, as usual, for Spanish football, achieving a long-suffering, but in the end, a triumph against Shakhtar Donetsk Ukrainian, 2-1, to maintain his perfect pace in the competition that sees him as defending champion and leader of Group F by a comfortable margin.
In a game that had to be a little more complicated than necessary in Santiago Barnabasisyouthe hosts showed their ability to anticipate complex situations and end up getting the result in favor, a very marked feature of ‘White House‘ throughout its history and which was again evident quite strongly in recent courses, mainly in the previous one.
The local triumph was built from the annotations of their Brazilian duo, Rodrigo (13‘) y vinicius (28‘) in the first half, enough to resist the host target, courtesy of Oleksandr Zubkov (39‘), even in the complementary period. Despite the brief result, the table of Charles Ancelotti was able to renew the favoritism granted through the Sportium promotional code.
And Madrid who came out to impose his game very early, found a difference of two before reaching the half hour.
Located in the front of the area, Rodrigo He tried a pass that did not go well, but the rebound ended up falling again on the 21-year-old player, who on this occasion released a placed right that comes close to Trubinobut not enough to change the scoring trajectory he was leading, opening the scoreboard at 13‘ of action.
With the emotional momentum that the score meant, the home team did not lower their arms and continued looking for a new goal that would give them more peace of mind, which would not be long in coming.
A great collective move ensued ‘to come‘ stay in front of the visiting goalkeeper, beating him with a cross shot at 28‘.
So far, the party was a monologue of the True Madrid who, even, could put into practice an action of the so-called champagne soccer to reach the second goal.
However, despite a great local first half, before reaching the end, the Ukrainian eleven, who had done little in attack, reached the discount.
In the hamlet 38, a lateral center of Mykhailichenko from left, found without major problems a Zubkov on the spot, and given the loneliness he had, the Ukrainian striker didn’t think twice about making a spectacular volley against which he could not do anything The moonwho saw how, practically, his first arrival at goal, hit by the visiting team.
Up until that point, the game was more for the Madrid made the third and established the payout, which for the discount of Shakhtar. Already in the second half, those of La Liga Santander they wanted to come out with the same drive as shown in the first half and finish the game as fast as possible.
Real Madrid are unbeaten in 12 games played this season (11 GP and 1 PE)
But, given his inability to score a new goal, the guests arrived shortly on the counterattack, but the times they did disturbed and sowed panic in the Ukrainian goalkeeper’s goal, who played his second consecutive start after the injury of Corteis.
However, they ultimately managed to keep the lead to return to three points in their favorite competition.
Previously, the True Madrid kicked off his title defense by beating on Scottish soil at Celticfor 0-3, while on the second date they did the same, at home, against RB Leipzigfor 2-0.
And now they keep their great moment, the same one that made them run 12 games without knowing the defeat this season, adding only one draw and 11 wins.
With his 9 points, the ‘King of Europe’ is placed at the head of sector F, which leads for five units, in fact, to Shakhtarsecond with four points, while the Leipzig is third with three units and the Celtic He owns the last place, managing to collect only one point.
In what will be the fourth date that will be played next week, True Madrid y Shakhtar they will face each other again, only now, with the Spanish team as guests, in Pepsi Arena from warsaw, Polandthis Tuesday 10/11.
The Madrid He will go into this game knowing that a win would leave them at the head of the group practically assured, which would allow them to meet a rival, on paper, weaker in the second round.
