Champions League – Match 5 of 16: Barcelona vs Tottenham

Result: 1 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Barcelona: Ousmane Dembele 7′
  • Tottenham: Lucas Moura 85′

Match Statistics:

Barcelona Team Stats Tottenham
14 Shots 17
3 Shots On Target 7
48% Possession 52%
520 Passes 543
85% Pass Accuracy 85%
9 Fouls 19
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
4 Offsides 1
2 Corners 5

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Tottenham recognized what they needed to do at one of the houses of prayer of European football at the same time, in the meantime, they realized that their Champions League destiny may be chosen somewhere else – over in Milan, where Internazionale went up against PSV Eindhoven.
  • It indicated a night of blade edge of show, undermined by an odd sort of weakness, as they trailed to Ousmane Dembélé’s seventh moment goal for Barcelona, which was an individual fiasco for Spurs’ full Champions League debutant, Kyle Walker-Peters.

  • Mauricio Pochettino’s group expected to coordinate Inter’s outcome to advance and, notwithstanding being stayed up to date with occasions at San Siro, their center was to beat what was, successfully, a Barcelona B group. Lionel Messi was utilized just as a substitute.
  • The stages staggered when Inter evened out for 1-1 yet Spurs went ahead to the front foot all through a great second-half execution, conveying the battle to Barcelona.
  • The odds came and the odds went, with Jasper Cillessen making a few spares, none superior to the one from the substitute, Lucas Moura, on 75 minutes.

  • Spurs required something; they merited something and they got it when Harry Kane crossed and Lucas completed from short proximity. At the point when the attract Milan was affirmed Spurs finished what had been named “mission impossible”.
  • The tone of the night had been formed by the arrival of the Barcelona teamsheet. The forecasts had been for real changes however not to this degree. Messi had been 50-50 to be incorporated, with the Spanish press hoping to see him in the beginning XI.
  • When he was named among the substitutes, Tottenham’s expectations had flooded. Pochettino was really giggling in his pre-coordinate TV meet. There was no Marc-André ter Stegen; no Gerard Piqué; no Jordi Alba; no Sergio Busquets; no Arturo Vidal and no Luis Suárez.

  • Be that as it may, without Messi, and regardless of the undeniable quality in a significant number of the substitutions, Barcelona felt conquerable. It was not hard to envision the irateness at Internazionale but rather Ernesto Valverde had earned the privilege to do whatever he satisfied; to blood Juan Miranda, the 18-year-old left-back, and Carles Aleñá, the 20-year-old midfielder, at Champions League level.
  • Pochettino began with Dele Alli behind Harry Kane and Son Heung-min in an assaulting arrangement however his boldest determination had been that of Walker-Peters. Pochettino’s hand had been constrained by the wounds to Kieran Trippier and Serge Aurier.

  • Poor Walker-Peters. It was horrendous to perceive how he broke down for the early goal; how he took a substantial touch simply inside the Barcelona half, after a Spurs free-kick had been cleared and the ball made a beeline for him by Moussa Sissoko; how he was victimized by Dembélé and afterward severely uncovered by the forward’s singing pace.
  • The covering Harry Winks, who made a few first-half mistakes, devoted himself completely to a win big or bust square just for Dembélé to venture inside him and shoot low past Hugo Lloris. It was a complete of consummate class by a player who had been in the features for the wrong reasons after he detailed two hours late to prepare on Sunday.

  • At the point when Dembélé looked up Walker-Peters on midway, the pitch all of a sudden resembled a major and startling spot for the youth. The France forward’s running style is smooth to the point that he seems to glide over the turf. Walker-Peters, on the other hand, was tied in tangles. He would be reserved in no time a short time later for a draw on Miranda. His button was on the floor.
  • Tottenham balanced out towards the halfway purpose of the primary half and they began to make promising advances up within left channel, in spite of the fact that they battled for their typical force before the interim
  • Son’s pace and unequivocal quality was a risk and, when Danny Rose crossed low from the left on the half-hour, he stressed each ligament before goal yet could not get a touch.

  • Minutes after the fact, Son had an opportunity of a lifetime. Following Christian Eriksen’s ball forward, Thomas Vermaelen extended into a slide test and did not arrive. Son had just Jasper Cillessen to beat however the goalkeeper blocked.
  • The half finished with Philippe Coutinho venturing far from Winks and sidefooting against the outside of the far post however Spurs would have been cheered to hear that PSV were in front against Inter.
  • It was one of those odd events when the consequence of an amusement in another nation came to cast an inexorably extensive shadow. While PSV drove, the outcome here was rendered good for nothing. For long spells, the air was somewhat level, in spite of the endeavors of the making a trip fans to drive their group.

  • Tottenham pushed in the second half and Barcelona’s new back four truly looked powerless. With Eriksen examining and great development in front of him, the guests discovered holes and possibilities. He drew a flying recovery out of Cillessen, Kane shot uncontrollably in the wake of surpassing Clement Lenglet and Son likewise worked the goalkeeper.
  • Pochettino swapped Walker-Peters, who blocked fearlessly from Coutinho on 54 minutes, for Érik Lamela and moved Sissoko to appropriate back while there was an incredible applause when Messi entered soon after the hour.

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Champions League – Match 6 of 16: Red Star Belgrade vs PSG

Result: 1 – 4

Goal Scorers:

  • Red Star Belgrade: Marko Gobeljic 56′
  • PSG: Edinson Cavani 9′, Neymar 40′, Marquinhos 74′, Kylian Mbappe 90+2′

Match Statistics:

Red Star Belgrade Team Stats PSG
7 Shots 15
3 Shots On Target 9
29% Possession 71%
266 Passes 675
73% Pass Accuracy 88%
20 Fouls 12
4 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
6 Offsides 3
0 Corners 3

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Paris Saint-Germain crushed Red Star Belgrade 4-1 out and about in Group C, and the French bosses anchored a spot in the knockout rounds of the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday.
  • Edinson Cavani gave the guests the preferred standpoint following nine minutes after heavenly work by Kylian Mbappe, with Neymar multiplying the lead after a staggering solo exertion in a matter of seconds before the interim.
  • Red Star fought their way once again into the challenge in the second half, and the hosts were compensated for their battle after Marko Gobeljic found the back of the net following 56 minutes.

  • The environment was electric as the Serb side pursued the diversion, yet PSG did what was necessary to climate the tempest.
  • Marquinhos gave the executioner blow following 74 minutes, heading home from Angel Di Maria’s exactness set piece.

  • Mbappe completed his exertion in style with his side’s fourth in the diminishing seconds of the match.
  • PSG advance as gathering victor. Liverpool grabbed second place subsequent to beating Napoli 1-0 at Anfield.

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Champions League – Match 7 of 16: Monaco vs Dortmund

Result: 0 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Dortmund: Raphael Guerreiro 15′, 88′

Match Statistics:

Monaco Team Stats Dortmund
6 Shots 14
0 Shots On Target 4
38% Possession 62%
451 Passes 756
86% Pass Accuracy 88%
10 Fouls 12
4 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
2 Offsides 4
4 Corners 6

Highlights:

  • Raphael Guerreiro scored twice to anchor Borussia Dortmund an away win over Monaco and best spot in their Champions League match.
  • Raphael Guerreiro scored twice as Borussia Dortmund jumped on Atletico Madrid’s foul up to progress as Group A champs with a 2-0 triumph at Monaco on Tuesday.
  • Portugal national Guerreiro struck in every half to help the Bundesliga pioneers discard their hapless has and jump Atletico, held to a goalless draw against Club Brugge, on account of a better head-than head record.

  • Dortmund’s to a great extent clear win was accomplished in spite of Lucien Favre resting nine individuals from the group that triumphed 2-1 over Revierderby rivals Schalke on the end of the week.
  • Chances were meager after they proceeded in the fifteenth moment, however top spot and a fifth clean sheet in six Champions League commitment made for a fruitful outing to the territory.
  • Favre’s progressions dissolved none of his group’s musicality and it was nothing unexpected when Maximilian Philipp squared for Guerreiro to tap in the opener.

  • Monaco, however kept from ball possession and domain, were disastrous not to be granted a spot-kick halfway through the half, Sofiane Diop’s cross striking Abdou Diallo’s arm.
  • They were before long squeezed once again into protection and ex-Monaco man Diallo ought to have broadened the edge, however the defender directed wide from Guerreiro’s first-time ball over the essence of goal.
  • Another shot traveled every which way for Thierry Henry’s group minutes after the restart as Kamil Glik headed Youri Tielemans’ corner over the bar at short proximity.

  • It demonstrated their last genuine any desire for maintaining a strategic distance from a seventh progressive European home annihilation at the determination of a forgettable mainland crusade, Dortmund’s conclusive three points affirmed with Guerreiro clearing home Christian Pulisic’s reduced in the 88th moment.

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Champions League – Match 8 of 16: Liverpool vs Napoli

Result: 1 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Liverpool: Mohamed Salah 34′

Match Statistics:

Liverpool Team Stats Napoli
22 Shots 8
4 Shots On Target 3
48% Possession 52%
500 Passes 540
79% Pass Accuracy 76%
16 Fouls 6
3 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
5 Offsides 4
3 Corners 3

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Maybe it would extend reality a little to state this triumph for Liverpool be recollected among on the rundown of extraordinary European evenings here. That, in any case, is simply because the rundown is as of now so broad and the celebration at the last shriek recounted its own story.
  • Liverpool had endured and can be incredibly energized by the manner in which they dealt with a conceivably slippery night.

  • Jürgen Klopp’s group have lost all their three outside trips in Group C yet they have endured as sprinters up graciousness of Mohamed Salah’s first-half champ on a night when Paris Saint-Germain’s triumph against Red Star Belgrade implied the French heroes additionally qualified.
  • In the midst of nerve-destroying show, it required a splendid spare from Alisson, the Liverpool goalkeeper, to keep out the substitute Arkadiusz Milik in stoppage time however that was an uncommon open door for Napoli and, on the parity of play, it would have been tremendously crooked if the home side were denied so late.
  • For Liverpool, the hazard factor was high. That made it a night full of peril and the releases from Belgrade, with PSG driving following 11 minutes, simply added to the dramatization.

  • However there is a good hypothesis that is the way Anfield likes it best: under the floodlights, with the volume turned up and a kaleidoscope of pennants on the Kop reminding everyone about the club’s family in Europe.
  • Liverpool’s supporters knew from the beginning their group could win and still be disposed of. It made for a convincing night and, for the two sides, an examination of their demeanor as much as their expertise.

  • On that front, Liverpool’s course to last season’s last gave the hard proof they could hold their nerve and, more than anything, their remarkable player from that raced to Kiev has unmistakably shaken off whatever was keeping him down before in the season.
  • Salah left behind the match’s first clear shot with a poor bit of control inside the punishment territory at the same time, while that may have jolted his certainty two or three months prior, this time he set out to say it right.
  • In the 34th moment, the ball came his way through within right channel. In one move of his body, he had held off Mário Rui, the Napoli left-back, and abruptly he was getting pace. Entering the zone, Salah escaped the until now amazing Kalidou Koulibaly and as he proceeded with his run, corner to corner, it was his sideways look that tricked David Ospina into speculation a cross was coming, as opposed to a shot.

  • The trickery was splendid and Salah’s shot experienced Ospina’s legs as the previous Arsenal goalkeeper got off his line. It was the eighth time this season Salah had opened the scoring for his group.
  • It was not some time before the TV cameras selected one of the Italian supporters in tears at the same time, at that arrange, there were as yet 66% of the match to play and Napoli, as of now second in Serie A, had just indicated they knew the benefit of finding an goal for themselves.

  • Marek Hamsik’s shot was an early cautioning and once they were behind Carlo Ancelotti’s group may have been required to submit more players into assault, realizing that it was presently basic they could score.
  • An equalizer, all things considered, would have put Napoli through and implied the home side expecting to score twice more to spare themselves. Considering that, it was an unexpected the group in blue did not respond all the more critically to the possibility of being put out of the opposition.

  • On occasion Liverpool’s protectors were allowed to pass the ball between themselves with no supported weight from their adversaries. With such a great amount in question, Napoli appeared to be shockingly aloof now and again, indiscreet with the ball and attempting to make any genuine energy.
  • The inquiry for Liverpool was whether they could close out their adversaries for the rest of the match and 14 clean sheets from their past 18 home match’s recommended they could. Similarly, we should know enough about Klopp’s ethos at this point to acknowledge there was no chance his group would quit squeezing forward.
  • Andy Robertson’s assaulting attacks from left-back was a noticeable component of Liverpool’s execution and right off the bat in the second half there was another possibility for Salah to focus on the guests’ goal. Roberto Firmino’s pass had put him through yet Salah hauled his shot barely wide.

  • Salah had another chance in the 74th moment yet this time Ospina constrained him wide and after that pawed away an endeavor to twist the ball into the best corner.
  • Sadio Mané, who denied by an offside banner when he was put the ball in the net in the principal half, at that point misused two brilliant shots, while the main genuine open door for Napoli before stoppage time was a far-post chance for José Callejón after an uncommon slip by from Robertson.
  • The drawback for Liverpool was a first-half reserving for Virgil van Dijk in the wake of winning the ball in a test on Dries Mertens yet finishing his studs to interface with the Belgian. Van Dijk’s yellow card implies he will be suspended from the opening leg of their last-16 tie, with the attract to come on Monday. That separated, Liverpool can think about a colossally fulfilling night.

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