Monaco inflicted the first defeat of the season on Barcelona, who were reduced to a single player, when they beat them 2-1 on Thursday in the first round of the new Champions League.
At the “Louis II” stadium, Monaco took advantage of Barcelona’s numerical deficit after the early expulsion of its player Eric Garcia in the tenth minute, and Magnus Akliuch opened the scoring for the home team in the 16th minute.
Monaco did not enjoy their lead for long after the promising Spaniard Lamine Jamal scored the equaliser in the 28th minute.
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But rising star Jorge Alenichya gave Monaco the three points by scoring the French side’s second goal in the 71st minute.
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Thus, Monaco (runner-up in the 2004 competition) obtained its first 3 points in its history in the continental championship, while Barcelona, which has 5 titles in the competition, remained without points.
In the second round, Barcelona will meet its guest, Young Boys of Switzerland, and in the third round, its guest, Bayern Munich of Germany, before visiting Red Star of Serbia and hosting Brest of France, and traveling to meet Borussia Dortmund of Germany, then Benfica of Portugal, and receiving Atalanta of Italy.
As for Monaco, it plays with Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia, Red Star Belgrade, Bologna of Italy, Benfica, Arsenal of England, its compatriot Aston Villa, and Inter Milan of Italy.
Arsenal draw, Atletico Madrid win, Leverkusen
Arsenal (the runner-up of the English Premier League) had to settle for a point in Bergamo after a goalless draw with the Italian Atalanta, the champion of the Europa League.
In the Spanish capital, Atletico Madrid (runner-up in 1974, 2014 and 2016) turned a deficit against their German guest Leipzig into a two-goal victory, with Frenchman Antoine Griezmann scoring a volley after a cross from Marcos Llorente (28) and Uruguayan Jose Maria Gimenez scoring in the last minute with a header after Griezmann himself received the ball from a corner kick (90), in return for a goal by Slovenian Benjamin Šiško with a header after following up on the save of his compatriot, goalkeeper Jan Oblak (4).
Bayer Leverkusen returned from Feyenoord Rotterdam with a crushing 4-0 win, making a more than wonderful start.
The team of Spanish coach Xabi Alonso secured the three points in the first half, during which the four goals were scored by Florian Wirtz (5 and 36), Spaniard Alejandro Grimaldo (30), and German goalkeeper Timon Wellenreuther (45, own goal).
In their first ever match in the competition, French Brest made an ideal start by defeating their guest, Austrian Sturm Graz, with two goals by Ugo Manetti (23) and Cameroonian Abdoulaye Sima (56) against a goal by friendly fire by Swiss Edmilson Fernandes (1+45, an own goal) in a match in which the guests completed the final seconds with 10 players after the expulsion of Belgian Dimitri Lavallee (88).
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