Fruste instead of liberation: The English football champion Manchester City and his star coach Pep Guardiola threatens the end of the league in the Champions League. On the sixth of eight game days at Juventus Turin, City lost 0: 2 (0-0) and only goes into the new year with eight points.
The first eight of 32 teams reach the round of 16 directly, teams in the places nine to 24 play the other eight participants. Manchester has to go to Paris Saint-Germain on the penultimate matchday (January 22nd), which also has to tremble tremendously as 25 (7 points). Finally (January 29) a home game against FC Bruges is waiting for Mancity.
In a narrow league, in which the third is only three points before the 19th, FC Arsenal hibernates with the strong Joker Kai Havertz (3rd /13 points) after a 3: 0 (1: 0) against AS Monaco Good chances of the direct round of 16. Benfica Lisbon (15./10), who came to a 0-0 against FC Bologna with the substitute Jan-Niklas, and Italy’s old master AC Milan (12./12), who with Malick Thiaw Mühsam 2: 1 (1 : 0) won against Red Star Belgrade, must buy after the turn of the year.
Goalkeeper Timon Wellenreuther won 4: 2 (3: 1) against Sparta Prague with Feyenoord Rotterdam and is ranked 18 (10). In the two early games, Atletico Madrid (11./12), thanks to double scorer Antoine Griezmann, had won important victories in the 3-1 (2: 0) against Slovan Bratislava and OSC Lille (8th /13).
In Turin, Juventus took the lead through a rather strange goal by striker Dusan Vlahovic (53rd), in which mancity keeper Ederson did not look particularly good. The ex-Schalke Weston McKennie (75th) made the decision.
Havertz came into play in London in the 73rd minute, first prepared the second goal of Doppelpacker Bukayo Saka (78th) and himself set the end (88th). At Monaco, ex-international Thilo Kehrer was in the starting eleven.