Tuesday’s Champions League matchday, in addition to the defeats of Real Madrid and Girona, offered many goals and great games. Among them, the most notable was the victory that Manchester City took during their visit to Sporting de Portugal (4-1), whose coach will join United on November 11, and the one Liverpool gave to Leverkusen (4-0) to keep the ‘reds’ at the top of the table with full victories.
Ruben Amorim He was announced last Friday as the new coach of the Old Trafford team, although he would join in the upcoming international break. In his local and European farewell to Sporting, he received an entire City team, which took the lead after four minutes thanks to Foden’s goal.
After sustaining the push of the ‘citizens’, came the gale of Sporting and, above all, of Viktor Gyökeres. The fashion forward in Europe, in an intractable state of form, added a stellar hat-trick to lead his team to ten points and increase his record to 23 goals in 17 games.
For its part, the most attractive match of the day involved Liverpool and Leverkusen at Anfield. The duel between two of the most prolific attacks in Europe was decisively won by Arne Slot’s team. Three goals from a great man Luis Diaz and one from Gakpo allowed the ‘reds’ to add another victory, their fourth in four days, to continue leading the Champions League standings.
The giant killer Lilleafter beating Madrid and Atlético, could not add Juventus to its select list of victims. Despite taking the lead on the scoreboard thanks to the brilliant partnership of assistant Zhegrova and scorer Jonathan David, the siege of the Italians was such that they finally found the prize of the tie with a penalty converted by Vlahovic (1-1).
He Borussia Dortmund and the Monaco They won two victories, both by one goal to zero, at the buzzer to remain at the top of the table. The Germans got rid of Sturm Graz with a goal from Malen in the 86th minute, and the French did the same in Bologna, thanks to Kehrer’s goal in the 87th minute.
For their part, Dinamo Zagreb came back and beat increasingly bottom-place Slovan Bratislava (1-4), while Celtic also turned the score around to beat Leipzig (3-1), who still haven’t opened their points tally .
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