Tuesday, November 02, 2021
Juve does it like FC Bayern
Ronaldo has to save United again
A super talent makes FC Barcelona happy, the troubled club is taking on the trail of FC Bayern in the Champions League. Defending champion FC Chelsea win narrowly, while Juventus Turin opposes the dreary everyday life of the league. And Cristiano Ronaldo does Cristiano Ronaldo things.
In addition to Bayern Munich, Juventus Turin also advanced to the Champions League round of 16. The Italian record champions, who were ailing in the domestic league, prevailed in front of their own audience 4: 2 (1: 1) against Zenit St. Petersburg and can no longer be displaced from the first two places in Group H. Paulo Dybala (11th / 58th), Federico Chiesa (74th) and Alvaro Morata (82nd) scored the goals for Juve, who like Munich have a flawless record after four matchdays after the 5-2 win against Benfica Lisbon.
Defending champions FC Chelsea and Thomas Tuchel have the move into the knockout phase after the 1-0 (0-0) at the Swedish champions Malmö FF 1-0 (0-0) – and FC Barcelona breathes a sigh of relief. In the second game under interim coach Sergi Barjuan, the Catalans struggled with national goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen to a 1-0 (0-0) at Dynamo Kiev and are second in the Bayern group behind the Munich team. Top talent Ansu Fati (70th) redeemed FC Barcelona from returning ex-Dortmund Ousmane Dembele in a tough duel with Kiev after the break.
For Chelsea, Hakim Ziyech (56th) was successful against an extremely low host, national player Kai Havertz gave the Blues back the center forward in the absence of the further injured Timo Werner and Romelu Lukaku.
Ex-Munich celebrates in Seville
The troubled English record champions Manchester United averted a setback thanks to the 138th and 139th Premier League goals by Cristiano Ronaldo at 2-2 (1-1) at Atalanta Bergamo. The superstar was once the team’s life insurance: In his 180th CL game, he scored just before the break (45th + 1) and in stoppage time (90th + 1). Josip Ilicic (12th) and Duvan Zapata (56th) each put Atalanta in the lead.
United, the team of the criticized team manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is now second in the table in Group F, which trained by Europa League winners Villarreal after a 2-0 (1-0) against ex-Schalke coach David Wagner Young Boys Bern is cited. Etienne Capoue (36th) put the Spaniards in the lead before Danjuma (89th) finalized the balance of power shortly before the final whistle.
In Wolfsburg Group G, French champions OSC Lille moved up to second place after a 2: 1 (1: 1) at FC Sevilla, the Wolves are in second place after beating leaders Salzburg (2: 1) with two remaining Play third. Lucas Ocampos (15th) gave Seville the lead, but Jonathan David (43./pn penalty) and Jonathan Ikoné (51.) gave the team around the former Munich Renato Sanches the important away win.