Champions League winners and losers

Release date: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:33 p. m.

People communicate about cycles in football, whether tactical adjustments from 4-4-2 and low lockdown to 4-3-3 and fake nine, to the typical three-year era of José Mourinho in a club before everything has sold out. It was a consultation for Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool before this season: how long will their cycle of domination last?

It was a comprehensive consultation for the Fab Three. How long can Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and Roberto Firmino be so consistently brilliant?That was a stupid question. With the exception of injuries, to which they seem fundamentally immune, there is no explanation as to why they may not be Liverpool’s arrowhead for at least the next three seasons.

No, the question, although liverpool’s non-enthusiasts among us feared the answer, actually deserved to have been: can they be even better?For love, yes, they can.

Those who have slightly exceeded the 40 million pounds spent on a player who does not start for wolves now reluctantly rank with that familiar sense of gratitude. Liverpool did it again: Diogo Jota is a future superstar.

Ready to answer the inevitable questions of whether Roberto Firmino can stay out after Jota’s very good hat-trick against Atalanta, Klopp replied: “We’re over 11 and tonight Diogo made a wonderful match and that doesn’t say. “about Bobby and nothing to do with causing me headaches.

He’s right, of course. Especially in a season like this, the Fab Three wanted a proper reinforcement and Klopp’s reasoning for taking Jota to Bergamo advised a field horse technique that he has already expertly negotiated with his midfielder.

But you’ll have to meet your favorite trio in private. And he loves – like us – Firmino, recognising his contribution to the construction of this Liverpool in what it is and its continued value, its form has diminished greatly. He doesn’t score goals and, more importantly, he doesn’t believe them either.

Imagine if you need a global in which your 3 forwards hit left, right and center aim. And now open your eyes because it’s a beautiful and terrible reality.

 

It is a comfortable, if not vintage, functionality of City; there are symptoms that they are moving at full speed after a carefree start to the season, Ferran Torres scored his 3rd in 3 Champions League matches, combining perfectly with Kevin De Bruyne and, above all, Liverpool next Sunday, Gabriel Jesús got here from the bench to score a biscuit.

Three wins, goals scored, one conceded. Work done for Pep Guardiola, who has given his players a well-deserved day off in the sunny Manchester climate.

 

 

I spent most of Real Madrid’s victory over Inter Milan marveling at how far they had fallen. It was the shadow of the team that won 3 Champions League trophies in the rebound, to some extent on staff: five of the players who started the 2018 win The opposition to Liverpool began on Tuesday, even more so in the absence of desire, quality and fear, a factor that permeates the white jersey in rival teams.

An attack at Bernabéu, even against a decent team like Antonio Conte’s Inter Milan, would have noticed, two seasons later, that the matches faced had sold out, if not for football played through the Real, then by the magnitude of the opportunity. of Madrid’s European history and his recent dominance would lead him to go through fites, without them also beting. The fites would eventually leave us wondering precisely how he won, the answer is simply “it’s Real Madrid, it’s Cristiano Ronaldo, which is what they do. “

Ronaldo left, like Real Madrid. Winning 2-1 with Inter in the ancestry, it was Zinedine Zidane’s bravery that disappointed the game, not an aerated superiority.

 

This glorious evening in Madrid will have to look like Shakhtar Donetsk a long time ago: Group B leaders at the start of the attack, who destroyed Zidane’s team at the Bernabéu before admirably protecting to get a tie at home against Inter, were dismantled through Borussia Monchengladbach and Alassane Plea.

The Frenchman’s hat-trick has been worried about seven of his team’s 10 Champions League goals this season, with four assists to his credit.

Shakhtar triumphs in the second game next time and the Bundesliga will only want a draw in one of their remaining two matches to qualify, leaving the two European heavyweights of the group to retire to football on Thursday night.

 

A call that, in an easier and less fucked-up era, would have been playfully related to an exclamation of bewilderment over a friend’s selection of bottled beer compared to the wide diversity of English beer brewed on tap, is now intrinsically connected to a global pandemic.

In fact, it is not a call that is in a hurry; The Mexican had two hands against Marseille and was the victim of a penalty foul in the 3-0 win for Porto. The time to lend a hand: a race to the center of Marseille’s defense and an orderly back. heel for Luis Diaz — it was very special.

 

Rio Ferdinand warned that among the large number of Chelsea players hired this summer, Hakim Ziyech could be the guy who will “make a difference” for Frank Lampard.

Ziyech’s influence, as impressive as him, is not comparable to that of Thiago Silva, who opened a chastity belt for Chelsea.

He got rid of the paintings made in Wednesday’s 70th minute. In the last two minutes, he first played a glorious cross-defensive ball for Reece James to create an opportunity, before expertly cutting off a damaging center on his own front post. and punish Ben Chilwell for not cutting the cross. First of all.

With Virgil van Dijk injured, is there a central defender in the Premier League?

 

Erling Haaland now has as many Champions League goals as Brazilian duo Adriano and Ronaldo, who played 27 and 34 games respectively to score 14 goals. Haaland took 11.

He also tried the post-match interview stranger of all time, of a journalist whose thighs we can assume rubbed his thighs with a mocking smile on his face at the time . . .

– FootballBible (@FutbolBible) November 5, 2020

Four goals in 3 matches from Champions. La Juventus is the position for him.

Juventus’ new strike association begins feeding a typhoon ? ? pic. twitter. com/JYlJB1QqBF

– Football at BT Sport (@btsportfootball) November 2020

 

The orange monitor handed out the slices at half-time, the players, with their legs crossed on the ground, picked up the dust from their lap, and the manager looked at the parents, wondering which of them would run the line at the middle moment. . C is what happened when I played for the U9 Badgers, who came to the brain after seeing the first forty-five minutes of Manchester United’s 2–1 defeat to Istanbul Basaksehir.

They were comically bad. Either they don’t know what to do or they can’t be encouraged to do it, it’s almost a mixture of the two. It’s a scenario that baffles us, spectators, but almost all ex-players admit to being components, or at least conscious, at some point. “They stopped running for the technician” who “lost the locker room. “

No matter if it’s the tactics of the coach or the players who don’t attach to those tactics, they both terribly reflect Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

He loses to Everton on Saturday and the party is fine and in fact it’s over. Give United a great two-week break abroad to clean the Pritt Sticks and Magic Markers, install fuel taps, buy conical vials and rent the instructor they deserve. have selected first: Mauricio Pochettino.

 

PSG has won six red cards this season in three games. Marseille’s notorious 3 opposites at the time of the match of the season followed some other retreat opposed to Metz, followed by two more in the 2–1 loss to RB Leipzig on Wednesday. Idrissa Gueye’s expulsion was harsh, but Presnel Kimpembe’s stupid cynic sank Yussef Poulsen with about 30 minutes to play.

With the 3 Neymars, Kylian Mbappé and Mauro Icardi absent, PSG rarely threatened and dived into the moment part to verify the return of that bitter taste in the mouth that had been softened thanks to their lively and entertaining presentations. last year’s competition.

 

Isn’t that right? Snoring, but pay attention to me. The challenge is now the possibility of handball.

Undoubtedly, fortune is an important component of football: a deflected shot; a slip of the defender; Injury But while the powers in position do everything imaginable to restrict the odds in all other facets of the game, by forensic analysis of fouls and offside decisions of toenails to eliminate the possibility of referees, they carry a new layer through the law. handball and its interpretation.

Chelsea’s penalty moment was a coincidence, a shot of Tammy Abraham well blocked through Chagas Estevao de Rennes, with his foot, yes, he deviated from his arm, and yes, you might think he’s in a ‘non-herbal position’ (The shivers of disgust are welcome at the mention of prayer), however, as Glenn Hoddle said in the commentary : “Everyone who has played, controlled or watched football knows that this is not a penalty.

If Estavao had his arm outstretched and the ball hit him directly, then it was perfect, it’s stupid. But not so, he shouldn’t be punished for doing everything right.

The referee had resigned himself to giving the penalty and looked like a guy who had just aspired to the hamster from headquarters while showing him the yellow card of the moment. Estavao left the area painfully with a child’s gaze wondering why never the mouthpiece. in nibbles’ cage.

 

2-0, then 2-1, but with an additional boy when Jesús Navas expelled, Krasnodar ended up wasting Seville, lately 15th in La Liga.

Youssef En-Nesyri would possibly be unlucky not to win this week, after leaving the bench to turn a deficit into a win, but it was the result of Russia’s action. Brazilian defender Kaio literally passed the ball to En-Nesyri on the edge of penalty dominance for his first, before the total team forgot how vital Ivan Rakitic’s one-shot ball is for his second.

Up with seven points, Sevilla and Chelsea will be able to progress with victories next time.

 

Luis Suarez is the most Luis Suarez he can get.

– Sporting Life Football (@SportingLifeFC) November 3, 2020

 

Yuri Zhirkov, Artem Dzyuba, Aleksandr Yerokhin, with a combined age of 100, combined magnificently to give Zenit the upper hand, with Dzuyba and Yerokhin hitting and directing the ball into penalty dominance before locating the net.

But former Man City goalkeeper Felipe Caicedo, who scored a winning goal in the 98th minute in Serie A last weekend, got a away point for Lazio, keeping them in the race for qualifying and leaving Zenit with a solitary point at the foot of Group F.

 

Three games, one goal, no point.

 

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There are no representatives of Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester City on our list of the ten most sensitive players of the season. It’s not Manchester United, of course, but does Jay Rodriguez come in?!

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