Match 5 of 16: Manchester United vs Juventus

Result: 0 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Juventus: Paulo Dybala 17′

Match Statistics:

Manchester United Team Stats Juventus
6 Shots 14
2 Shots On Target 5
39% Possession 61%
413 Passes 644
81% Pass Accuracy 89%
16 Fouls 14
1 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
3 Offsides 2
2 Corners 6

Highlights:

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  • An amazing Juventus beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford on Tuesday to take order of Champions League Group H with a total of 9 points from 3 matches and show exactly how far Jose Mourinho’s side are from Europe’s top teams.
  • Paulo Dybala’s seventeenth moment goal, a basic transformation after a low cross from the privilege by previous United most loved Cristiano Ronaldo, won yet the predominant Italian bosses could have won by a considerably more persuading edge.
  • Manchester United required their Spanish goalkeeper David de Gea to be in best shape as he made a progression of good spares, including a fantastic exertion to keep out a second-half strike from Ronaldo.

  • Whenever Manchester United fans can see little any expectation of their side getting up to speed the best trio in the Premier League they will likewise know after this match that there is valuable possibility of them improving the situation in mainland activity.
  • With four points abandoning them second in their gathering, in front of Valencia and Young Boys, Manchester United may in any case advancement to the knockout stages however the inlet among them and a group prepared to achieve the last stages was very apparent.
  • Manchester United were unaltered from the group that attracted at Chelsea the Premier League on Saturday however the guests immediately showed that they had no dread of the undertaking before them.

  • Maybe United’s players would have been exceptional joining their administrator Jose Mourinho on the 10-minute stroll from the group’s lodging to the stadium than sitting in rush hour gridlock for a hour on the group transport since they made a woefully moderate beginning.
  • Ideal from the beginning, Massimiliano Allegri’s side were more honed, quicker, more exact and demonstrated more reason than Mourinho’s men, who attempted to try and match the beat of the Italian heroes.

  • The most perplexed Juventus looked in the early trades was the point at which a fan attacked the pitch just to be captured by security before he could achieve his clear target, Ronaldo. It was nothing unexpected at all when, in the seventeenth moment, Juve led the pack.
  • Ronaldo separated the privilege and put in a low cross towards the close post which Chris Smalling and Juan Cuadrado tested for before the ball fell merciful to Dybala, who changed over easily.
  • Juventus detected the dread in their adversaries and searched for a fast second as Joao Cancelo burst unchallenged into the territory and after that tried De Gea with a furious drive.
  • It was a bustling opening half for the Spanish guardian – Ronaldo struck a swerving free kick directly at De Gea, who at that point did well to keep out the subsequent exertion from Blaise Matuidi.
  • The half-time measurements demonstrated a momentous predominance for a meeting side at Old Trafford with Juve appreciating 67 percent of ball possession and twofold the measure of passes.

  • Ronaldo, working in a free job, wandering wide when he felt it would be productive, brought another fine spare from De Gea seven minutes after the interim with a roaring shot subsequent to being set up by Cuadrado.
  • Manchester United’s exertion could not be blamed, anyway much trickiness and entrance they needed, and they could have attracted level the 75th moment when Paul Pogba, confronting his previous club, hit the post with a left-footed shot from fresh.

  • At the last shriek, another fan attempted to welcome Ronaldo and came up against security officers however the Portuguese demanded taking a photo with the gatecrasher and left the field to the adulation of the two arrangements of fans.
  • By and by, United fans were left with an indication of their radiant past in the state of their old kid Ronaldo. It was their solitary comfort after a match in which their present shortcomings were so completely uncovered.

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Match 6 of 16: Hoffenheim vs Lyon

Result: 3 – 3

Goal Scorers:

  • Hoffenheim: Andrej Kramaric 32′, 47′, Joelinton 90+2′
  • Lyon: Bertrand Traore 26′, Tannguy Ndombele 59′, Memphis Depay 67′

Match Statistics:

Hoffenheim Team Stats Lyon
26 Shots 12
9 Shots On Target 6
55% Possession 45%
504 Passes 423
85% Pass Accuracy 81%
15 Fouls 5
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
5 Offsides 2
4 Corners 2

Highlights:

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  • Hoffenheim’s Joelinton scored in stoppage time to give the German club a sensational 3-3 draw against Olympique Lyon in a rollercoaster Champions League Group F coordinate on Tuesday.
  • Hoffenheim originated from a goal down to lead 2-1 preceding the guests scored twice to return in front until the Brazilian’s late tap-in.
  • Lyon are second place on five points in Group F, one behind Manchester City. Hoffenheim are as yet sitting tight for their first win after 3 matches and have two points.
  • The French, who hit the post right off the bat in the match, had the high ground towards the beginning and could have proceeded a long time before Bertrand Traore’s opener in the 27th moment.

  • However, the hosts continued discovering space down the wings and they were compensated when Andrej Kramaric struck twice to put them ahead.
  • Kerim Demirbay verged on including another for the hosts right off the bat in the second-half however Tanguy Ndombele’s roaring shot from a tight edge against the run of play beat attendant Oliver Baumann to level.
  • Some messy guarding from Hoffenheim permitted Memphis Depay to hook onto a profound cross from Houssem Aouar, dash clear and beat Baumann in the 67th moment
  • In any case, with seconds left on the clock, Joelinton snuck into the 18-yard-box to interface with a reduction and protect a point for the hosts.

Match 7 of 16: Roma vs CSKA Moscow

Result: 3 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Roma: Edin Dzeko 30′, 43′, Cengiz Under 50′

Match Statistics:

Roma Team Stats CSKA Moscow
21 Shots 12
13 Shots On Target 4
53% Possession 47%
525 Passes 458
84% Pass Accuracy 78%
6 Fouls 12
0 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
2 Offsides 3
5 Corners 10

Highlights:

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  • Edin Dzeko scored two and helped Cengiz Under to give Roma their seventh back to back Champions League home win, beating CSKA Moscow 3-0.
  • The Giallorossi were back in emergency mode after a stunning 2-0 home annihilation to SPAL, where their Serie A record was very surprising to Europe. Without a doubt they came into this match on the back of six continuous Champions League home triumphs and were unbeaten in seven.

  • Aleksandar Kolarov, Justin Kluivert, Diego Perotti, Javier Pastore and Rick Karsdorp passed up a great opportunity, so Davide Santon moved over to left-back. CSKA were shockingly best of the gathering with four points after a 2-2 draw with Viktoria Plzen and stun 1-0 triumph over Real Madrid.
  • Goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was suspended, with Kristijan Bistrovic, Abel Hernandez, Konstantin Kuchaev, Makarov, Georgi Schennikov and Viktor Vasin harmed.
  • These groups have met four times previously, home and away in the second round of the 1991-92 Cup Winners’ Cup and again in the 2014-15 Champions League amass stage.

  • Robin Olsen needed to palm away long-run strikes from Fedor Chalov and Nikola Vlasic early entryways, at that point Lorenzo Pellegrini neglected to benefit as much as possible from a poor freedom, putting his hurl over the vacant net.
  • Daniele De Rossi’s header was fingertipped over the bar and Roma led the pack to some degree against the run of play. It was a very much worked move, with give-and-go goes among Pellegrini and Stephan El Shaarawy, at that point the move crosswise over for Edin Dzeko to tap in.
  • Dzeko squandered a promising counter and Olsen again had his gloves stung by Vlasic from separation, however Roma were more clinical before objective.
  • Lorenzo Pellegrini flooded through the center and El Shaarawy’s smart slide-manage pass enabled Dzeko to spring the offside snare, boring into the far base corner.

  • Straight after the restart, a savage Alessandro Florenzi half-volley flashed simply off target, yet didn’t need to sit tight ache for the third goal. Dzeko thumped down the Florenzi glided ball over the best and Cengiz Under let it bob to hit a rocket into the top of the net from 12 yards.
  • Kirill Nababkin thought he had pulled one back, however his goal was governed offside on the hour stamp. It was right around a Dzeko hattrick, yet he gestured wide of the back post from a corner.

  • El Shaarawy’s styler was fingertipped over the bar in the last minutes, at that point Kostas Manolas was at full stretch to meet a Florenzi free kick, yet Pomazun by one means or another fingertipped it on to the upright. Florenzi attempted again from separation, with Pomazun giving a decent record of himself remaining in for veteran Akinfeev.

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Match 8 of 16: Shakhtar Donetsk vs Manchester City

Result: 0 – 3

Goal Scorers:

  • Manchester City: David Silva 30′, Aymeric Laporte 35′, Bernardo Silva 70′

Match Statistics:

Shakhtar Donetsk Team Stats Manchester City
14 Shots 24
2 Shots On Target 6
47% Possession 53%
488 Passes 543
80% Pass Accuracy 85%
5 Fouls 15
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 4
5 Corners 5

Highlights:

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  • Manchester City started to pull their weight like legitimate Champions League heavyweights when they turned into the primary English group to win at Shakhtar Donetsk in European rivalry with a 3-0 win in their gathering F coordinate in Kharkiv on Tuesday.
  • City, who  began in their battle with their solitary loss of the season at home to Olympique Lyonnais, were a completely extraordinary recommendation, waltzing to triumph with goals from David Silva, Aymeric Laporte and substitute Bernardo Silva.
  • What looked a possibly troublesome 1,700-mile visit to the Ukrainian bosses, who had beaten Pep Guardiola’s men in the group stages a year ago, was made to look easily standard as the stunning David Silva organized their predominance.

  • City could without much of a stretch have scored all the more yet the triumph put the English victors best of the gathering on six, a point clear of Lyon, who drew 3-3 at Hoffenheim, who have two alongside base set Shakhtar.
  • The Premier League pioneers, with Kevin De Bruyne back for his first full beginning of the season after damage cutback, proceeded with their ongoing stunning structure by taking control from the opening shriek.
  • In the principal half hour, Riyad Mahrez could and maybe ought to have scored twice, once after City had broken with stunning pace from their own half, before he at that point additionally set up David Silva to flick impudently against Shakhtar’s post.
  • However the Spanish maestro committed no error with a left foot volley soon after the half-hour to remunerate City’s authority.

  • After five minutes, De Bruyne’s corner tumbled to Laporte, who was very plain as he stooped to head home.
  • Despite the fact that the home side assaulted irregularly, City could have scored three more in the space of the initial 12 minutes of the second half.
  • Bernardo Silva had been in the pitch for only 90 seconds after the astounding De Bruyne’s withdrawal when another staggering City counter observed the Portuguese midfielder race through and space his 71st moment left-foot shot in off the far post.
  • It fixed Shakhtar’s first thrashing in 12 coordinates in all rivalries, leaving their odds of fitting the bill for the knockout stages looking somber.

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