Wednesday's UCL Recap: Matchday 4
The Champions League continued on Wednesday with teams from Groups E to H competing for those knockout places. Here are the four things learned from Wednesday's night.
Mourinho: How do you like me now?
Despite the negativity with Mourinho this season, United recently have been going results but many saw their chances of getting a result against Juventus at Turin very slim which was evident when Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring. However, United managed to come from behind in the last five minutes to beat the Italian giants 2-1 from Juan Mata and an own goal from Alex Sandro. While it's partly Juve's own making for wasting their chances, it was the perfect shut up response for Mourinho giving United some confidence ahead of the Manchester Derby this coming weekend and their next two UCL games in group H as they're now two points behind Juventus.
Madrid got their goal-scoring boots
Real Madrid are picking up form under intern coach Santiago Solari as they beat Viktoria Plzen 5-0. This is the first time Madrid have scored five goals in a single match this season with Karim Benzema becoming the seventh Madrid player to score 200 goals for Los Blancos. Gareth Bale, Casemiro and Toni Kroos also got on the scoresheet as Madrid are on nine points alongside Roma in Group G with Madrid on top on head-to-head. Another point against Roma will seal qualification for Real.
Another 6 runs for City
Manchester City have scored six goals in back-to-back games in all competitions after they battered Shakhtar Donetsk 6-0. Gabriel Jesus scored his first career hat-trick while David Silva, Raheem Sterling and Riyad Mahrez also got on the scoreboard. Despite their dominance in the game (62% possession & 8 shots on target), there was controversy with one of the penalties City were awarded when Sterling went down in the penalty area with minimal contact. It wouldn't have made any difference in the result but raised more questions on the need of VAR. For City, they top group F with nine points scoring the most goals with 12.
Who joins City in Group F?
With Manchester City likely to top Group F, the question would be who will go through with them after Lyon's 2-2 draw against Hoffenheim. For the Ligue 1, they will be disappointed to go away with a point with goals from Nabil Fekir and Tanguy Ndombele as well as having 11 shots on target. Hoffenheim, who had a man sent off early in the second half, managed to come back with Kramarić and Pavel Kadeřábek exploiting Lyon's weakness as they've faced 19.4 shots per game this season. Lyon remain second with 6 points while Hoffenheim third with 3 points while Shakthar are bottom with 2 points. Very competitive group.
My UCL Player of Matchday 4: Harry Kane
For one reason. Before scoring, Spurs were on the brink of elimination from the Champions League which would seriously damage their season so far with two important goals ⚽⚽ plus having all his four shots on target 🎯, three dribbles completed and a 81% pass completion, he stepped worth it mattered.
Mourinho: How do you like me now?
Despite the negativity with Mourinho this season, United recently have been going results but many saw their chances of getting a result against Juventus at Turin very slim which was evident when Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring. However, United managed to come from behind in the last five minutes to beat the Italian giants 2-1 from Juan Mata and an own goal from Alex Sandro. While it's partly Juve's own making for wasting their chances, it was the perfect shut up response for Mourinho giving United some confidence ahead of the Manchester Derby this coming weekend and their next two UCL games in group H as they're now two points behind Juventus.
Madrid got their goal-scoring boots
Real Madrid are picking up form under intern coach Santiago Solari as they beat Viktoria Plzen 5-0. This is the first time Madrid have scored five goals in a single match this season with Karim Benzema becoming the seventh Madrid player to score 200 goals for Los Blancos. Gareth Bale, Casemiro and Toni Kroos also got on the scoresheet as Madrid are on nine points alongside Roma in Group G with Madrid on top on head-to-head. Another point against Roma will seal qualification for Real.
Another 6 runs for City
Manchester City have scored six goals in back-to-back games in all competitions after they battered Shakhtar Donetsk 6-0. Gabriel Jesus scored his first career hat-trick while David Silva, Raheem Sterling and Riyad Mahrez also got on the scoreboard. Despite their dominance in the game (62% possession & 8 shots on target), there was controversy with one of the penalties City were awarded when Sterling went down in the penalty area with minimal contact. It wouldn't have made any difference in the result but raised more questions on the need of VAR. For City, they top group F with nine points scoring the most goals with 12.
Who joins City in Group F?
With Manchester City likely to top Group F, the question would be who will go through with them after Lyon's 2-2 draw against Hoffenheim. For the Ligue 1, they will be disappointed to go away with a point with goals from Nabil Fekir and Tanguy Ndombele as well as having 11 shots on target. Hoffenheim, who had a man sent off early in the second half, managed to come back with Kramarić and Pavel Kadeřábek exploiting Lyon's weakness as they've faced 19.4 shots per game this season. Lyon remain second with 6 points while Hoffenheim third with 3 points while Shakthar are bottom with 2 points. Very competitive group.
My UCL Player of Matchday 4: Harry Kane
For one reason. Before scoring, Spurs were on the brink of elimination from the Champions League which would seriously damage their season so far with two important goals ⚽⚽ plus having all his four shots on target 🎯, three dribbles completed and a 81% pass completion, he stepped worth it mattered.
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