Yesterday, Tuesday, the Italian club Milan stunned its host, Real Madrid, in front of the latter’s fans at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, and inflicted a heavy defeat on it, 3-1, in the fourth round of the unified group of the European Champions League football competition with its new system.
Malik Thiao, Albaro Morata and Tijani Reynders scored to lead their Italian team to victory, while the crisis deepened. real madrid Who suffered the second resounding loss at home within days after being defeated by their traditional rival Barcelona 4-1 at the same stadium, amidst the shock of the fans.
The seven-time European champion opened the scoring thanks to a header from Thiao in the 12th minute, but Vinicius Junior equalized 11 minutes later from a penalty kick.
Morata put the visitors back in front by taking advantage of a rebound from the goalkeeper, before Reynders converted a cross from Rafael Leao into the net to complete a quick counterattack and conclude the scoring.
‘We should be concerned’
Real Madrid became Title holderIt occupies 17th place among the 36 teams competing in the Champions League with six points, one place ahead and on goal difference, ahead of Milan after four matches, especially since this is the second defeat for the royal team in four matches, after it fell to French Lille 1-0 at the start of the tournament. Championship.
In the first confrontation between Real and Milan in the Champions League since the 2010-2011 season, when the Royal Club won the first leg 2-0 and they tied 2-2 in the group stage, Real suffered defeat after entering the match with a “break” advantage after the Spanish League competitions were postponed following the floods. That struck the city of Valencia.
The match was special for Real Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti, who was facing a team with which he won the Champions League title twice as a player and twice as a coach, but he lived a night of booing from the fans against players like Aurelien Chouamini and Kylian Mbappe, who were subjected to severe criticism from the fans and analysts recently, saying that… His team’s problems are collective, not individual.
Ancelotti said in the press conference: “We have to be worried. The team is not playing well.”
He added: “The team is not cohesive. We need to be more cohesive and organized. We conceded a lot of goals. The team is not organized on the field and we need to work on that.”
Ancelotti acknowledged his team’s lack of balance and its defensive suffering, as it conceded nine goals in the last three matches, all of which were at home.
The fall of Manchester City
In another match, another European giant suffered a very heavy defeat, as the Sporting team scored against its guest, Manchester City, with a four-to-one goal for the visitors. The last match for its coach Ruben Amorim at his home stadium, after Victor Gjokeres scored three goals to overturn the deficit and achieve a wide victory 4-1. Let the Portuguese team continue its amazing start in UEFA Champions League.
City outperformed the leaders of the Portuguese First Division for most of the first half, and should have been ahead by a greater margin than Phil Foden’s early goal, but Guikers equalized the score before the break.
City received a shock immediately after the end of the break, when Maximiliano Araujo concluded a masterful attack immediately after the kick-off, before Gjokeres added the second goal for Sporting minutes later from a penalty kick.
And it happened Erling Haaland Manchester City had a chance to bring Manchester City back into the match, but they hit the crossbar with a penalty kick before the Jockeys sealed the home side’s victory with another penalty kick to spark joy in the hearts of the Jose Alvalade Stadium fans.
Amorim, who will take over as Manchester United coach on November 11, leaves Sporting in a great position in the Champions League group stage with 10 points from four matches. While Manchester City suffered its first defeat, stopping its score at seven points.
Liverpool victory
The English team, Liverpool, survived the night of the fall of the elders, and achieved a great victory over its German guest, Bayer Leverkusen, with four clean goals at Anfield.
The Reds continued their winning streak For the fourth match In a row, raising its score to 12 points, taking it to the top of the overall standings of the tournament with a full mark, while Leverkusen’s score temporarily froze at 7 points in seventh place.
After the first half ended in a goalless draw amid a modest performance from both teams, the home team’s performance improved and they became more active offensively, thanks to the brilliance of Colombian Luis Diaz. And the Egyptian Mohamed Salah, They led the team to achieve the great victory.
Diaz scored three goals (hat-tricks) in the 61st, 83rd and 90th + 2 minutes, while Salah provided two assists, and Dutchman Cody Gakpo scored a goal in the 63rd minute.
The remaining results
French Lille tied with its Italian guest, Juventus, with the same goal. Canadian Jonathan David scored Lille’s goal in the 27th minute, and the equalizer came with a goal by Serbian Dusan Vlahovic from a penalty kick in the 60th minute.
And he won Borussia Dortmund The German team defeated its Austrian guest, Sturm Graz, with an unanswered goal, scored by the Dutchman Donyael Malen in the 86th minute.
Scottish Celtic also defeated its German guest, Leipzig, by three goals to one, and Monaco defeated its host, Bologna, by an unanswered goal.