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These are the last eight matches of Champions League, Group stage Match Day 4 of 6. The highlights are appended below:

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Champions League – Match 9 of 16: Valencia vs Young Boys

Result: 3 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Valencia: Santi Mina 14′, 42′, Carlos Soler 56′
  • Young Boys: Roger Assale 37′

Match Statistics:

Valencia Team Stats Young Boys
10 Shots 10
5 Shots On Target 2
55% Possession 45%
471 Passes 381
83% Pass Accuracy 79%
14 Fouls 25
3 Yellow Cards 5
0 Red Cards 1
6 Offsides 5
2 Corners 5

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Valencia turned up the weight on Manchester United in Champions League Group H by beating Young Boys 3-1 on Wednesday as the Spanish side enlisted their first home win of the season.
  • Carlos Soler, the skilled 21-year-old, teed up two Santi Mina strikes in the principal half before finding the net himself to seal an uncommon win for a group whose season has so far been attacked by draws.

  • Young men leveled when Roger Assale crashed into the corner however equality kept going just five minutes, as Mina reestablished Valencia’s lead towards the finish of the main half.
  • Any black out any desires for a Swiss rebound were dashed when Sekou Sanogo was sent off with 13 minutes staying for a wild test on Francis Coquelin.
  • It was the perfection of a feisty experience that highlighted five yellow cards in the primary half alone, a record in the current year’s competition.
  • For Valencia, triumph was immensely vital to their expectations of achieving the Champions League thump out stage as they move one point above Manchester United, who play Juventus in Turin later on Wednesday.

  • That trip anticipates Valencia next yet they will have the upside of facilitating Jose Mourinho’s side at the Mestalla in the last round of the gathering stage, in the event that they can keep in contact that long.
  • In the wake of securing fourth place in La Liga last season, triumphs and objectives have both been rare for Valencia this term.
  • They sit fifteenth in the class, with eight draws from 11 amusements, while in Europe, they had overseen only one objective from 42 shots coming into this match.
  • This was the first occasion when they had scored three goals in a match since March.

  • Young Boys, in any case, were liberal in resistance, while Soler and Mina demonstrated the kind of heartlessness in advance that has been so ailing lately.
  • The principal goal came following 14 minutes as the enthusiastic Rodrigo Moreno chose Soler’s dashing kept running in behind. Soler did splendidly to chip the goalkeeper yet there was a trace of fortune in the ball bouncing back off the far post and landing impeccably for Mina to package home.
  • Young Boys looked unsafe on the break and Assale botched an amazing opportunity before taking an unquestionably troublesome one in the 37th moment. He moved his studs over the ball before boring it through the legs of Gabriel Paulista and into the far corner.

  • Valencia immediately reestablished their leeway. Soler’s first-time cross got the Young Boys barrier off guard Mina jabbed into the net on the stretch.
  • The guests ought to have pulled level again however Moumi Ngamaleu sidefooted high when free at the back post and Valencia made them pay after the interim.
  • Soler avoided free after a flawless one-two with Rodrigo and with no test, crashed into the case, before releasing a shot into the corner.
  • Valencia were home and dry however Sanogo ensured with a rash handle on Coquelin that was high and confounded. Coquelin was in the long run ready to proceed as Valencia clutched help their expectations of achieving the last 16.

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Champions League – Match 10 of 16: CSKA Moscow vs Roma

Result: 1 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • CSKA Moscow: Arnor Sigurdsson 51′
  • Roma: Kostas Manolas 4′, Lorenzo Pellegrini 59′

Match Statistics:

CSKA Moscow Team Stats Roma
12 Shots 17
6 Shots On Target 6
51% Possession 49%
452 Passes 431
77% Pass Accuracy 77%
14 Fouls 16
0 Yellow Cards 0
1 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 1
4 Corners 3

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Kostas Manolas and Lorenzo Pellegrini gave Roma a valuable 2-1 win away to 10-man CSKA Moscow, which for all intents and purposes places them in the Champions League Round of 16.
  • The Giallorossi were joint best of the gathering running in with Real Madrid on six, yet CSKA were not far behind on four, having beaten the authoritative heroes at the Luzhniki Stadium a month ago.
  • Daniele De Rossi, Luca Pellegrini, Diego Perotti and Rick Karsdorp were still out of activity, while the hosts missed Viktor Vasin, Kristiijan Bistrovic, Konstantin Kuchaev, Aleksandar Makarov and ex-Palermo striker Abel Hernandez.

  • It took all of four minutes to break the stop, as Lorenzo Pellegrini’s corner coasted over Igor Akinfeev and Kostas Manolas took off over the group for a looking header into the far best corner.
  • Mario Fernandes flew into a sliding tackle on Aleksandar Kolarov, however recovered an incidental knee in the of the head as the Roma man went down and must be stretchered off.
  • Nikola Vlasic bored wide of the close post and Justin Kluivert made a spotless handle on Ivan Oblyakov in the penalty territory. Alessandro Florenzi was in a further developed job and should have made it 2-0 on the half-hour when sent clear on goal by Justin Kluivert, yet he bumbled at the urgent minute and for all intents and purposes thumped it back to Akinfeev.

  • Kolarov’s free kick was palmed out of the close base corner and Edin Dzeko terminated the bounce back over from a tight edge.
  • CSKA had an incredible opportunity to balance just before half-time, as Oblyakov again spilled in from the privilege and his finish off Manolas, circling up for Georgi Schennikov to gesture over the for all intents and purposes void net.
  • Straight after the restart, Kluivert’s pass discovered Dzeko generally plain from 12 yards, yet the Bosnian wavered and the shot was in the end pursued.

  • Rather, the hosts got their equalizer, as Ilzat Akhmetov went on a solid run and set up Arnor Sigurdsson, who swung rapidly to foresee Davide Santon and cleared into the far base corner.
  • Nonetheless, minutes after the fact Hordur Magnusson cut down Kluivert simply outside the penalty region for his second bookable offense, leaving CSKA down to 10 men.
  • Roma took quick favorable position, as Cristante’s endeavored shot from the D was scuffed to the point that it transformed into a help for Lorenzo Pellegrini to put a calculated drive past the on-surging Akinfeev.

  • Dzeko squandered another brilliant open door with a frail complete at the goalkeeper and Federico Fazio gestured a Pellegrini free kick simply wide.
  • Oblyakov was the last to give in and jumped on a Cristante mistake, however Robin Olsen did well to cover the shot. Roma ran maybe such a large number of dangers against 10 men, yet hung on for a triumph that puts them five points clear of CSKA Moscow.

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Champions League – Match 11 of 16: Manchester City vs Shakhtar Donetsk

Result: 6 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Manchester City: David Silva 13′, Gabriel Jesus 24′ (P), 72′ (P), 90+2′, Raheem Sterling 48′, Riyad Mahrez 84′

Match Statistics:

Manchester City Team Stats Shakhtar Donetsk
15 Shots 8
8 Shots On Target 2
62% Possession 38%
736 Passes 447
91% Pass Accuracy 83%
14 Fouls 5
0 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
4 Offsides 0
4 Corners 2

Highlights:

Champions League

  • A second 6-goal execution inside seven days took Manchester City to the verge of capability for the Champions association knockout stage – yet for Hoffenheim’s late equalizer they would have turned into the main group to proceed with this triumph – it was only a pity the night will be associated with a Norman Wisdom pratfall as opposed to the football created to cover Shakhtar Donetsk.
  • Raheem Sterling did his best to present appropriate reparations with a fine individual goal toward the beginning of the second half yet the penalty he was granted to break Shakhtar hearts in the principal half was a crime, the sort of thing that straightforward ought not occur in an opposition of this gauge.

  • VAR would have upset the choice on the double, or if nothing else when the audit board had quit chuckling. So, there can be no uncertainty City were meriting victors.
  • A component of the principal half was the simplicity with which Riyad Mahrez could discover space on the correct flank and the style with which he was regularly chosen by long balls from Aymeric Laporte or shorter ones from Bernardo Silva.
  • The opening goal following 13 minutes originated from the last source, however when Mahrez assembled the ball regardless he had bounty to do. Two bluffs and the same number of alters of course later, the Shakhtar safeguard, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, had totally lost his man and most likely his orientation as Mahrez came to the byline unobstructed to send in a cross that left David Silva a tap-in.

  • Shakhtar had really had the principal endeavor on target when Júnior Moraes sent in a shot that Ederson secured effortlessly yet still figured out how to bumble, however when Silva struck for the main goal the guests were starting to end up stuck back by the precision of City’s passing.
  • All things considered, Shakhtar scarcely merited the outrage and shamefulness of what occurred in the 24th moment when City multiplied their lead through a snapshot of high comic drama or low joke, contingent upon your perspective.

  • Sterling demonstrated his standard transform of speed to venture a Fernandinho ball into the crate before Mykola Matviyenko, just to convey a smooth parabola through the air and land in a stack on the ground before he had figured out how to decide on shooting.
  • It appeared at first sight as if he had not been contacted by the protector, and replays unmistakably settled Matviyenko was qualified for challenge his honesty.
  • Sterling had really stalled out in the turf, delivering a noticeable divot and losing his funds receivable to the sudden loss of force, yet when he got to his feet – without engaging whenever for a penalty – he found the match referee, Viktor Kassai, indicating the spot.

  • On the off chance that the prospect of owning up to the official jumped out at the player it was just communicated in a shrug and a timid motion as he cleared a path for Gabriel Jesus to score the penalty.
  • It was anything but a jump, at any rate not a planned one. Sterling probably would not win any Robbie Fowler grants for sportsmanship, however by a similar token the Hungarian group of authorities – bear in mind there is an additional right hand behind the goalline for European matches – ought to most likely not expect another excursion except if it is for a Specsavers promotion sooner rather than later. Murdering the match in such a way rather scammed the paying open and also Shakhtar.

  • The match and the climate fell a little level from that point onward, however City had a few better than average possibilities previously the interim, Jesus holding up too long when one-on-one with Andriy Pyatov then Bernardo Silva terminating over from the edge of the zone.
  • Any expectations Shakhtar may have had of pawing their way once again into the amusement vanished three minutes onto the second half when Sterling grabbed a go from David Silva amidst the field, quickened far from two or three safeguards at that point took out two more by veering appropriate to beat Pyatov with a twisting right-footed shot from the edge of the region.
  • Jesus botched another great opportunity from open play, putting a short proximity header over the bar, before including his second of the night from the spot after Taras Stepanenko cut down David Silva in the territory.

  • This time there was certainly contact. There might have been some degree for discussion yet alongside the firs-half occurrence it was night and day.
  • With Shakhtar dead on their feet after a night of pursuing shadows, Mahrez scored a fifth a little ways from time after Jesus and Ilkay Gündogan had parted from midway. The winger gathered Gündogan’s heaved pass on his chest to flame in from a restricted point, before Jesus finished the defeat in the end seconds with a merited objective from open play, the cutest of chips over a stranded goalkeeper from outside the region.

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Champions League – Match 12 of 16: Lyon vs Hoffenheim

Result: 2 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Lyon: Nabil Fekir 19′, Tanguy Ndombele 28′
  • Hoffenheim: Andrej Kramaric 65′, Pavel Kaderabek 90+2′

Match Statistics:

Lyon Team Stats Hoffenheim
28 Shots 16
11 Shots On Target 6
52% Possession 48%
488 Passes 447
83% Pass Accuracy 79%
7 Fouls 15
2 Yellow Cards 4
0 Red Cards 1
3 Offsides 3
6 Corners 9

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Pavel Kaderabek scored in stoppage time to rescue a 2-2 draw for 10-man Hoffenheim at Lyon on Wednesday and keep alive a promising sign for the German club in the competition.
  • With Manchester City whipping Shakhtar Donetsk 6-0 in Group F’s other amusement, a misfortune would have put Hoffenheim out of dispute. Be that as it may, Kaderabek, a Czech worldwide, put the groups level with a basic strike from a free kick two minutes into included time subsequent to being left plain at the far post.

  • Lyon would have stepped toward the knockout stage with a win yet squandered a two-objective lead and could not exploit Kasim Adams Nuhu’s sending off in the 51st moment following a second yellow card for a foul on Nabil Fekir.
  • City drives the gathering with nine points, three more than Lyon. Hoffenheim is in third place with three in front of Shakhtar on two.
  • Fekir and Tanguy Ndombele scored first-half goals for the seven-time French heroes before Croatia forward Andrej Kramaric pulled one back after the interim for Hoffenheim.
  • Lyon mentor Bruno Genesio explored different avenues regarding another framework, playing with three focus parts out of the blue this season. Be that as it may, his players attempted to adjust to the vital move and the guests commanded early trades.

  • They stayed outdoors in Lyon’s half for delayed periods until protector Ferland Mendy hit the woodwork in the nineteenth moment with a great shot from the edge of the territory.
  • Fekir recuperated the ball from the bounce back yet couldn’t beat guardian Oliver Baumann, who denied an exertion from Tanguy Ndombele straight a short time later. A scramble in the case pursued and brought about Fekir establishing the net from short proximity with his correct foot in the twentieth moment.
  • Hoffenheim had an astounding opportunity to level about instantly however Anthony Lopes made a fantastic spare to deny a point-clear strike from Ishak Belfodil from a corner.

  • With the energy gone, Hoffenheim went two objectives down in the 28th moment as Ndombele associated with a cut-back go from Mendy simply inside the case toward the finish of a quick move and rifled a shot that took a diversion and wrongfooted Baumann.
  • Kramaric scored in the 65th moment with a fine shot from fresh before Kaderabek acted the hero in included time.

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