In the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, Real Madrid saved a point in the 95th minute with a dramatic move against Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk, thus ending Carlo Ancelotti’s team’s incredible streak and advancing to the round of 16 of final. In the other group match, the three Hungarian players will be employed by RB Leipzig as Celtic retained their home promotion chances. Chelsea defeated Italian champion AC Milan with confidence and PSG also managed to draw only 1-1 against Portuguese Benfica.
In perhaps the most balanced group of this year’s Champions League, the very precise Milan hosted Chelsea with as many points, who beat the Azzurri in a surprisingly fluid way, 3-0.
Stefano Pioli’s situation was also complicated by the fact that he couldn’t count on many players due to injury, but he made three substitutions in last week’s game, and Milan were Tatarusanu – Kalulu, Gabbia, Tomori, Hernandez – Krunic, Bennacer, Tonali – Daz, Giroud, Leao started with
On the west side, the English, who considered the match possible, played at San Siro in the formation of Kepa – Chalobah, Silva, Koulibaly – James, Kovacic, Jorginho, Chilwell – Sterling, Mount – Aubameyang.
The first six quarters of the match didn’t bring much excitement. There was a uniform brawl on the field, but the gates did not turn in danger. The match was characterized by little movement and a lot of disorder. At the 17th minute, the score reached the 14th point, later Tomori committed a foul in the penalty area on goalkeeper Mount, the referee was severe, but he immediately sent off the English Milan defender and gave Chelsea a penalty. The ball is still in the hands of Jorginho, who very calmly scored the penalty.
In the following minutes of the perhaps passionate match, irregularities were not rare, in addition to the red card, the referee handed out five yellow cards.
AC Milan, in the lead per man, did not have many chances to equalize a few minutes after the goal, but Giroud headed towards the goal in a dangerous situation. Aubameyang, who doubled the visitors’ lead in the 34th minute. After a nice deep drive, he hit the bottom left corner from close to the center door. Graham Potter’s team took advantage of virtually every opponent’s carelessness and mistake, so they could go to the final with a comfortable advantage.
After the round, the parties seemingly calmed down and put more emphasis on the game. The match could have ended easily at the start of the second half, but substitute Gallagher first hit the crossbar, then Aubameyang’s kick was brilliantly saved by Tatarusanu.
Last season, Chelsea played with a significant lead but failed to score a better goal, and since Salzburg drew 1-1 at home to Dinamo Zagreb in their other group match, the English are currently leading Group E.
Paris Saint-Germain have tried to improve their home game against Benfica following last week’s draw in the return leg. Lionel Messi, seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, was criticized in the Prizren star’s squad because of this conflict, but at the beginning there were also Neymar and Kylian Mbapp, who left the club. The French world champion gave PSG the lead with a penalty in the first half.
Just like the two teams in last week’s head-to-head, the Portuguese also did not give up easily and in the 60th minute Rafa Silva won a penalty, saved by Joao Mario. Interestingly, this was the guests’ first goal in the match. The French team came close to winning in the match, but Mbapp’s goal was disallowed due to an ambush.
With the win, PSG have already moved on to the knockout phase of the series, while with the surprising defeat of Juventus, Benfica can wait for the next two rounds from a comfortable position.
In Group F, CMVD and Real Madrid in three rounds of five games could play Vars, so if they do not lose to Shakhtar Donetsk, they will secure their place in the knockout stage of the series.
Carlo Ancelotti also made some changes to the starting team for last week’s game, instead of Carvajal, Militao, Alaba and Vincius Junior, Lucas Vzquez, Rdiger, Nacho and Hazard left for the Spaniards.
We had to wait until 17 minutes for the first shot on goal, then Karim Benzema’s shot was saved by Trubin with a great effort. The first half didn’t bring much emotion, but the Ukrainian goalkeeper had to be careful twice in the match, he saved Rodrygo and then Valverde.
A total of 36 seconds have elapsed since the second half, when Shakhtar took the lead after a few minutes. Mikhalichenko’s pass was directed on goal by former Ferencvros player Oleksandr Zubkov. The Ukrainian player was also successful at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium last week.
Real pushed the pace, created several chances, and in the last minute of extra time signed the equalizer. was left for a thousand minutes needed, just like the Ukrainian goalkeeper. Real Madrid reached the quarter-finals by one point.
In the other group match, RB Leipzig, which employs three players from the Hungarian national team, visited home to Celtic, defeated 3-1 a week ago. Pter Gulcsi, seriously injured, languished with the German team, but also Dominik Szoboszlai and Willi Orbn at the start.
In the first half Leipzig played in the air, today the Scots got closer, O’Riley’s long-range shot hit the goal from center, and then Taylor hit the goal.
At the start of the second half, Orbán tried to shoot, but his shot was blocked in the foot of former England goalkeeper Joe Hart. In the 75th minute the team turned and took the lead with a goal from Leipzig’s Timo Werner. Swede Emil Forsberg scored the final goal of the match. With the win, Leipzig start the group stage with two defeats, moving up to fourth place.
In Group AG, Borussia Dortmund played a draw with Sevilla, which meant Manchester City won the match.
Results, groups, 4th round:
Group G:
FC Copenhagen (dn) -Manchester City (angol) 0-0
killtva: Sergio Gmez (30. – Man. City)
Borussia Dortmund (nmet) -Sevilla (Spain) (1-1)
gl: Bellingham (35 °) and Nianzou (18 °)
Group H:
Maccabi Haifa (Israel) -Juventus (Italy) 2-0 (2-0)
gl: Atzili (7., 42.)
Paris Saint-Germain (France) – Benfica (Portugal) 1-1 (1-0)
gl: Mbapp (40th – penalty kick) and Joao Mario (62nd – penalty kick)
This group:
Dinamo Zagreb (horvt) -Salzburg (osztrk) (1-1)
gl: Ljubicic (41st) vs Seiwald (12th)
Milan (Italian) -Chelsea (English) (0-2)
gl: Jorginho (21st – penalty), Aubameyang (34th)
Killtva: Tomori (Milan, 18.)
Group F:
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) -Real Madrid (Spain) 1-1 (0-0)
gl: Zubkov (46 °), Rdiger (90 + 5)
Celtic Glasgow (skt) -RB Leipzig (nmet) 0-2 (0-0)
gl: Werner (75.), Forsberg (84.)
