The teams that had the most to lose on the first day of the outcome of the Champions They consummated their misfortune. As he Seville As the Manchester United They were left out of Europe after wasting the opportunities that destiny offered them to correct two ghostly seasons. For its part, the Royal Society reaffirmed itself as seeded for the round of 16 after achieving a hard-fought draw against Inter.
The Champions League day began with Sevilla’s last bullet to continue in Europe. The fortunes of the Seville team did not change, as they ended up deprived of their favorite competition, the Europa League, which they have won seven times. Lens will play it – Arsenal, first, and PSV, secondsigned a tie before the round of 16, the team that defeated the Sevillistas in a tense match in the previous with the ban and late rectification to allow the visiting public at the Stade Félix Bollaert.
Goodbye with controversy
Despite controlling the match, Diego Alonso’s men, who this defeat left on the brink of the precipice, experienced an agonizing outcome. Two arrivals from Lens and two goals, the last in the 96th minute, the work of Fulgini. The VAR hurt Sevilla in the first local goal, which Frankowski converted.
“I have always been a defender of the VAR to check the plays. But only they have seen the penalty. I don’t know what happens to them with us. If it is a lack of respect or something else,” protested Sergio Ramos, scorer of the tying goal, also from eleven meters. He scored ‘panenka’ in what was his 17th goal in the Champions League which makes him the highest scoring defender in history.
An individual merit that does not hide the collective misfortune, that scenario in which Manchester United also fell, defeated by Coman’s goal. The ‘red devils’ received a Bayern Munich already classified as leaderalthough injured by the recent 5-1 that Eintracht Frankfurt had inflicted on him.
Total English disaster
There is no need to remember how much the German team likes an injured rival. He is a specialist in plunging victims into his misfortune. Furthermore, Ten Hag’s team, a coach completely divorced from his staff, depended entirely on of what happened in Copenhagen – Galatasaray. Both rivals, like United, were playing everything for everything. However, exempt from extreme English pressure.
Bayern slept the game against an incapable opponent who conceded after Lerager’s goal for Copenhagen. A goal that sent the Danish representative to the second round – Galatasaray will be in the Europa League -, where they will presumably be one of the most affordable teams.
However, the crazy adventure of the Champions League admits and removes labels much more easily. of what teams like United wanted, reduced to the British universe. Only two other Premier League teams had finished last in the group in the history of the great club competition.
Real Sociedad, a great sensation in the group stage, knew how to retain first place against the only team that has minimally known how to calm its impetus. He did not achieve it, except for an isolated goal, in the first leg. In the return, Imanol Alguacil’s men did not cower before the atmosphere of the Giuseppe Meazza, which was activated after a ‘swim’ from Kubo. In the other match in the group, Benfica made an insufficient effort (1-2) to snatch the Europa League spot from Salzburg.
Madrid achieves full
In group C, Real Madrid achieved full success in the group stage with a double from Joselu and a goal from Ceballos against Unión Berlin. All healing goals. The German team, against the trend of modern football, said goodbye to Europe after taking the lead on the scoreboard against the great dominator of the competition.
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Before, Modric joined Rodrygo, Joselu and Vinicius (in preseason) in the lack of success that haunts the whites from the eleven meters. White leadership was the only certainty and Napoli’s second place had many reasons to be so.. It didn’t take long for Walter Mazzarri’s men to get back on track before the match against Braga, who has just completed a month on the Diego Armando Maradona bench.
First with an own goal from the Portuguese team and shortly after with a goal from Osimhen. There were no revelation actors in the initial part of the outcome of the group stage, which erased two fundamental teams in its competitions from the European map – Sevilla and United – and left the illusion of Real Sociedad intact.