Champions League ’18-19 – Highlights: Paulo Dybala’s Hattrick Sets The Tone For Juventus

These are the first eight matches of Champions League, Group stage Match Day 2 of 6. The highlights are appended below:

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Match 1 of 16: Hoffenheim vs Manchester City

Result: 1 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Hoffenheim: Ishak Belfodil 1′
  • Manchester City: Sergio Aguero 7′, David Silva 87′

Match Statistics:

Hoffenheim Team Stats Manchester City
5 Shots 15
2 Shots On Target 6
33% Possession 67%
330 Passes 642
77% Pass Accuracy 90%
12 Fouls 16
1 Yellow Cards 4
0 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 2
1 Corners 8

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Manchester City spluttered towards the beginning of the Champions League and required a late David Silva victor to beat Hoffenheim. A sketchy showcase pursued the opening thrashing to Lyon, means that Pep Guardiola can has still very much to worry about.
  • This was Hoffenheim’s home match in the opposition and Julian Nagelsmann’s side can be pleased with thumping their proclaimed rivals out of their mood.
  • Manchester City persevered through a bad dream beginning, going behind after under 60 seconds attributable to a rest strolling guard. At the point when Ishak Belfodil kept running on to a smooth pass, Aymeric Laporte, City’s left-back for the match, was left trailing and the Hoffenheim striker beat Ederson expertly.

  • Slice to a stoney confronted Guardiola and keeping in mind that City endeavored to retain the stun Joelinton verged on making a second, after a run tp the right. Fortunately for City his shot was hit straight into Ederson’s arms.
  • The equalizer came straight from the Guardiola playbook: Leroy Sané got in behind Hoffenheim and Sergio Agüero terminated past Oliver Baumann.
  • Pavel Kaderabak was demonstrating a peril. The 26-year-old winger’s pace was excessive, notwithstanding for Kyle Walker and he may have won a penalty when going to ground.

  • Guardiola had chosen as solid a XI as he could, which implied Agüero at focus forward, in spite of a foot rear area issue. The match was the first of “five finals” the City manager talked about amid the development and as Hoffenheim lost at the end of the week and are eleventh in the Bundesliga City started as top choices.
  • After 30 minutes, Manchester City had built up predominance as they peppered the Hoffenheim region with crosses and corners. However the strain was outlined by Guardiola accepting an address from the arbitrator, who was obviously troubled at the supervisor for venturing out of his territory.

  • At that point, when Hoffenheim figured out how to push ahead they typically debilitated, which will have stressed Guardiola. Belfodil skimmed a ball that Ederson did well to gather, at that point Joelinton hit a wild shot the attendant beat away.
  • Belfodil almost scored again when the 2nd half began with a close identical representation of his opener yet this time he flashed a shot crosswise over the bar.

  • Ederson went near being humiliated when he charged out to clear and missed the ball.
  • Considering their youth Hoffenheim were performing outstandingly. However when Sané was pulled around Baumann it was a secret why City were not granted a penalty.
  • By the ending time, Hoffenheim were holding tight as City squeezed for a winning goal that came when Silva ghosted into the region to wound past Baumann.

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Match 2 of 16: Juventus vs Young Boys

Result: 3 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Juventus: Paulo Dybala 5′, 33′, 69′

Match Statistics:

Juventus Team Stats Young Boys
17 Shots 6
8 Shots On Target 1
61% Possession 39%
635 Passes 417
88% Pass Accuracy 81%
8 Fouls 14
0 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 1
5 Offsides 0
3 Corners 2

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Paulo Dybala acheived his first ever Champions League hattrick, and could have had more as Juventus ruled Young Boys 3-0.
  • The Bianconeri had a 100% record in all opposition this season, yet Cristiano Ronaldo was suspended after his dubious red card against Valencia. With Douglas Costa, Mattia De Sciglio, Leonardo Spinazzola and Sami Khedira harmed, Max Allegri moved to a 3-4-1-2 arrangement with Federico Bernardeschi behind the strikers, resting defender Giorgio Chiellini.

  • Swiss side Young Boys lost their opener 3-0 at home to Manchester United and came to Turin without Gregory Wuthrich, Pedro Teixeira and both right-backs Jordan Lotomba and Kevin Mbabu, so Thorsten Schick needed to move from right-midfield to a more profound job.
  • It took only 5 minutes for Paulo Dybala to have an effect in the Champions League this season, as he struck a long Leonardo Bonucci ball coast over the highest point of Camara and set a padded volley with within his left boot.

  • Not long after, Miralem Sulejmani should have exploited Bonucci being off the field because of a thump, as he went round Wojciech Szczesny, however limited the edge excessively and Blaise Matuidi got back for an unequivocal square.
  • Bernardeschi’s strike was just pushed away by David von Ballmoos, at that point Bernardeschi kept running on to a long ball and moved it crosswise over for Dybala, just for La Joya to scrape the complete directly at the goalkeeper.

  • Bernardeschi was given a considerable measure of opportunity to meander and he turned Leonardo Bertone at the touchline just to get the last pass wrong for Mario Mandzukic.
  • Dybala gained from the Von Ballmoos blunder and was prepared to tap in when the goalkeeper again scooped away a Matuidi strike towards the finish of a decent group passing move.
  • There should have been a 3rd goal on the stroke of half-time, when Alex Sandro swung an unsafe ball over the case, yet Dybala slipped and Juan Cuadrado totally missed his shot.

  • After the restart, Dybala thought he had finished a hattrick, when set up by Bernardeschi, yet the calculated drive beat Von Ballmoos just to ricochet off within the far post.
  • Minutes after, Dybala had all the earmarks of being scythed around his previous Palermo partner Steve von Bergen, yet the official waved play on and there was no VAR to depend on in the Champions League.
  • Guillaume Hoarau’s exertion was diverted wide, however Juventus included a 3rd goal with a long passing move. In the long run Alex Sandro crossed to the back post, where Cuadrado thumped it straight once again into the center for Dybala to come sliding in for his hattrick.

  • Mohamed Ali Camara absurdly got 2 yellow cards one after another, the second for a push on Dybala, as Young Boys completed with 10 men.
  • Juventus  should have included a 4th goal when Cuadrado pulled once again from the by-line, yet substitute Sami Khedira’s header was inches wide of both the far post and Bonucci.

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Match 3 of 16: AEK vs Benfica

Result: 2 – 3

Goal Scorers:

  • AEK: Viktor Klonaridis 53′, 63′
  • Benfica: Haris Seferovic 6′, Alex Grimaldo 15′, Alfa Semedo 74′

Match Statistics:

AEK Team Stats Benfica
15 Shots 11
7 Shots On Target 6
65% Possession 35%
604 Passes 336
87% Pass Accuracy 79%
13 Fouls 9
2 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 1
6 Offsides 0
8 Corners 4

Highlights:

Champions League

  • Benfica finished their Champions League hoodoo as Alfa Semedo scored a dazzling goal to anchor a 3-2 triumph at AEK Athens in Group E.
  • Viktor Klonaridis’ 2nd-half double strike, hoped to have secured an offer of the crown jewels for AEK, who had taken full favorable position of Ruben Dias’ red card late in the principal half.
  • However Benfica, who were 2-0 up by the fifteenth minute, on account of Haris Seferovic and Alex Grimaldo, encouraged through substitute Semedo’s performance exertion on his debut in the Champions League.

  • The triumph closes Benfica’s 8-games losing streak in the league, getting them off the check in a firmly challenged Group E.
  • Benfica were ahead inside 6 minutes, Seferovic responding strongly to tuck home on the bounce back after Vasilios Barkas parried Gedson Fernandes’ strike.
  • AEK were cut open again not long after, Grimaldo committing no error with a perfect header from six yards.
  • The hosts were given a lift on the stroke of half-time, notwithstanding, when Dias got a second reserving for a high kick on Ezequiel Ponce.

  • Dias’ neglectfulness was before long rebuffed – Klonaridis showing signs of improvement of his marker to turn in Niklas Hult’s low cross.
  • AEK’s weight told again after the hour, Marios Oikonomou’s thump down leaving Klonaridis with a basic wrap up.
  • Klonaridis ought to have finished the turnaround with 19 minutes staying, just to flame directly at Odisseas Vlachodimos, and Semedo before long made the hosts pay.
  • Having gotten the ball inside Benfica’s a large portion of, the young Semedo fueled through AEK’s midfield before dispatching coolly to secure the 3 points.

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Match 4 of 16: CSKA Moscow vs Real Madrid

Result: 1 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • CSKA Moscow: Nikola Vlasic 2′

Match Statistics:

CSKA Moscow Team Stats Real Madrid
8 Shots 26
3 Shots On Target 4
27% Possession 73%
302 Passes 776
72% Pass Accuracy 91%
13 Fouls 6
2 Yellow Cards 0
1 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 2
4 Corners 6

Highlights:

Champions League

  • 3-time consecutive Champions league winner, Real Madrid tumbled to a dazzling 1-0 vanquish at CSKA Moscow in their second Champions League Group G diversion on Tuesday.
  • Madrid were without Gareth Bale, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo and Isco, and Julen Lopetegui’s alternative squad attempted to adapt on a nippy night in Moscow.

  • Nikola Vlasic struck in the 2nd minute for the hosts, jumping on a horrendous Toni Kroos back-pass and opening past Keylor Navas at the close post.
  • CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was sent off in 2nd-half stoppage time for shouting the official. Georgi Kyrnats supplanted him in goal and saw out the triumph.

  • The win places CSKA in the lead position in the gathering with four focuses. Genuine, who won their opener against Roma, have three focuses from their two matches.
  • Real Madrid will next host Viktoria Plzen on Oct. 23, while CSKA will visit Roma that equivalent day.

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