Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund gave a great game, Manchester City suffers a painful defeat and the Mexican Santiago Giménez scored again with Feyenoord
Matchday 6 of the League Phase of the Champions League and the matches delivered unforgettable moments to the fans.
Next, we share with you what the second series of duels corresponding to Date 6 of the Champions League left.
WEDNESDAY
3-1
Atlético dispatches Slovan and adds its tenth consecutive victory
With superiority, without more wear than necessary, Atlético dispatched its tenth consecutive victory, the third in a row in the Champions League, against Slovan Bratislava (3-1), which catapulted it as a virtual qualifier for the next phase of the competition and with serious options to enter the top-8.
A very weak rival attended Madrid, with an excessively poor letter of introduction. Zero points in their Champions League locker, with only four goals for and 18 against before the match at the Metropolitano.
3-2
Lille hangs on Europe
Lille reacted in time to prevent Strum Graz from spoiling their European party and after letting a two-goal lead slip away, they scored the winning goal in the 81st minute to put them in the Champions League.
The goal by the Norwegian Gabriel Haraldsson cleared the depression of the French, who after defeating Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid and Bologna and drawing against Juve, have 13 points that according to mathematical models place them in the next phase.
2-1
Abraham drives Milan in a duel of great goals
In the middle of a duel of great goals, scored by Rafael Leao and Nemanja Radonjic, Tammy Abraham emerged to score at the end of the game and give victory to Milan, who beat Red Star 2-1 in a duel marked by the uncertainty of a score that was resolved on the side of the Italian team, very close to the next phase of the Champions League.
Milan signed a correct initial act in which they put on track the three points that they could have lost in the next 45 minutes, when they lowered their arms and gave ground to their rival, unable to transform their approaches. At that time, Rafael Leao took out the magic wand, and with a brilliant spark, he put on track a victory that later became complicated.
3-0
Arsenal gets on the thirteen-point bandwagon
Six teams are tied on thirteen points, one of them Arsenal, which beat Monaco (3-0) and puts one and a half feet in the round of 16 of the Champions League.
It was not a brilliant game from Mikel Arteta’s team, but it was more than effective, as is beginning to be the usual trend of this team, perhaps not the most beautiful to watch but one that in Europe is showing a class of pragmatism and success in face to door There are eleven goals for and two against in six games.
0-0
Benfica cannot beat Bologna and will play against Barcelona and Juventus
Benfica showed themselves incapable and unsuccessful in Bologna’s visit to Da Luz, and will have to play for their place in the next round of the Champions League in their two remaining duels, against Barcelona in Lisbon and against Juventus, in Turin.
The Portuguese team has lost steam and has not been able to maintain the momentum of its win against Atlético Madrid. Now he has ten points, he is fifteenth. They lost a good opportunity to take a step forward against a rival who has not won and who achieved their second draw.
2-3
Barcelona conquers Dortmund and approaches the round of 16
Barcelona conquered the Signal Iduna Park, where in a crazy match they beat Borussia Dortmund (2-3) and added three points that bring them closer to qualifying for the round of 16 of the Champions League.
The Barça team took the lead in the 53rd minute with a goal from Rafael Dias ‘Raphinha’, but the German team equalized the contest seven minutes later thanks to a penalty converted by Serhou Guirassy, which tied the duel again (2-2, min .78) shortly after the 1-2 (min.75) scored by Ferran Torres, author of the final 2-3 in the 85th minute.
4-2
Feyenoord aims for qualification
Feyenoord, driven by a brilliant start, favored by a crazy pace and the fragility of its opponent, met again against the fragile Sparta Prague with the victory in the Champions League (4-1), in a rout that culminated in the Mexican Santi Giménez, which returns him to the classification positions from which he had provisionally left.
Brian Priske’s team is once again among the twenty-four teams aiming to continue in the tournament. It is not for greater ambitions. The top eight places are far away. But he has managed to straighten out his European journey that was ruined by the defeat against Salzburg because the draw against Manchester City was gratifying. They avoided defeat in England after being down 3-0.
2-0
Juventus gets Guardiola into trouble
Things became very complicated for Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City in the Champions League when they suffered their second defeat in the competition this Wednesday, in a match against Juventus Turin (2-0) that was decided by the Serbian Dusan Vlahovic and the American Weston McKennie.
City added the umpteenth negative chapter of a season to be forgotten. Involved in the most media trial in football and going through the worst moment since Guardiola was on the bench – with 6 defeats and 1 victory in the last 9 games – City arrived in Turin with the obligation to beat a ‘Juve’ that He wasn’t in much better shape.
5-1
Stuttgart likes, wins and thrashes
Stuttgart defeated Young Boys Bern 5-1 this Wednesday after having started with a 0-1 score and in a match in which a first phase of about ten minutes went to the Swiss and the rest to the Germans. .
Young Boys came out aggressively on the mark and with a plan to stand with many men near the Stuttgart area, who seemed to be surprised by the intensity of the Swiss champion and had great difficulty getting the ball out of their own half.
MARTES
0-1
A penalty goal from Salah leaves Girona on the ropes
Liverpool consolidated its lead in the Champions League by adding a total of victories, six out of six, thanks to a single goal from Mohamed Salah from eleven meters that left Girona on the ropes (0-1), which is forced to achieve the feat of beating Milan at home and Arsenal at home to dream of playing in the competition’s qualifiers.
Arne Slot’s team, also the undisputed leader of the Premier League, claimed its status as the fittest team on the continent with a new victory, although it had to suffer because Míchel Sánchez’s team put in a solid performance.
0-0
Late Schmeichel save saves Celtic’s draw with Zagreb
Dinamo Zagreb and Celtic played out a 0-0 draw in the Champions League on Tuesday, with Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel producing the match’s memorable moment with a late save.
The Croatian hosts had their best chance late on when Marko Pjaca sent a powerful header towards the goal, but Schmeichel managed to reach the ball with his fingertips and deflected it over the bar for a spectacular save.
2-3
Vinicius and Bellingham revive Real Madrid
The best players appear in the worst moments. And when Real Madrid was in doubt, Vinicius and Bellingham commanded the champion’s response in Bergamo, where they took a step forward to bring the team back from the brink of the abyss in the Champions League with two goals separated by just three minutes that resolved the complex challenge from Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta, who came close to scoring the equalizer in the last play.
The statistics marked the previous one. Atalanta’s numbers were stratospheric. They had not lost since September, leader of Serie A, undefeated in ‘Champions’… Retegui touched the epic goal in the last play. But when Real Madrid takes the lead, you have to kill them twice. Mbappé warned with his goal that Real Madrid had the arguments. Vinicius and Bellingham certified and showed Europe that the champion is very much alive.
1-0
An agonizing goal from Mukiele gives Leverkusen victory over Inter
An agonizing goal from Nordi Mukiele, in the 90th minute, gave Bayer Leverkusen a well-deserved 1-0 victory against Inter Milan, meaning that those led by Xabi Alonso take an important step towards qualifying among the top eight of the first Champions League phase and go directly to the round of 16.
1-0
Brest closes the classification
In its debut in European competition, as an indisputable revelation in the Champions League, Brest is already close to mathematical classification among the top 24 with two days to go, while once again appearing among the best in this phase, located in fourth place , after defeating PSV Eindhoven 1-0.
Much credit to the French team, defeated in four of its last five matches in all tournaments until its return to the Champions League, in which it resumes its rhythm, relaunched with 13 points in the table of the 18 for which it has competed, with a victory this Tuesday by punch and by their goalkeeper, the indispensable Marco Bizot, who was magnificent.
2-1
Bruges gets on the bandwagon and Sporting continues in free fall
Bruges confirmed this Tuesday its good streak in the Champions League, with 2 wins and a draw in the last three games, after beating an unknown Sporting de Portugal at home, adding its second consecutive defeat with a goalless Gyokeres.
2-3
Barkley’s late goal puts Aston Villa on course for the round of 16
A goal with five minutes remaining in regulation time by Ross Barkley, who had just entered the field, allowed Aston Villa to achieve an important victory (2-3) on their visit to the Leipzig field, which puts to those of the Spanish Unai Emery heading to the round of 16.
As if twenty-one years had not passed since their last participation in the top continental competition, the English team seems to be moving like a fish in water in the Champions League.
0-3
PSG avoids the cataclysm in Salzburg
Paris Saint-Germain clings to the Champions League, a competition that showed them the precipice of elimination at the first turn, a cataclysm that they avoid for now with a win against a weak Salzburg (0-3) that is sinking in Europe.
Far superior in all facets of the game, the French scored as much as in the previous five days and, finally, saw one of their forwards, the Portuguese Gonçalo Ramos, pierce the rival goal, the first to do so in Europe since Kylian Mbappé last April.
1-5
Bayern Munich takes positions
The third consecutive victory, obtained with a comeback, placed Bayern Munich at the top of the Champions League among the top eight, with the status of contender on their side that accompanies them every start of the season in every competition.
Vincent Kompany’s team has forcefully resolved the consecutive setbacks suffered against Aston Villa and Barcelona that put their continental situation in question. After that, he has emerged reinforced by consecutive wins against Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain and now against Shakhtar. An apparently trap commitment. Encouraging because it is being played in Germany, in Gelsenkirchen, because of the war in Ukraine, but at the whim of its rival’s moment.
*Information from EFE was used in this report
