Bayern Munich hit Barcelona, while Liverpool beat Ajax Amsterdam 2-1 on Tuesday in the second round of Group A of the Champions League, to regain its balance following a humiliating defeat last week.
At Anfield, Cameroonian Joel Matip scored the winning goal with a header in the 89th minute, following Egyptian Mohamed Salah opened the score for the hosts in the first half (17) and Ghanaian Adel Mohamed Quddous for the guests (27).
And Liverpool fell a resounding fall in the first round in Italy 1-4 once morest Napoli, which Klopp described as the worst match since his arrival at the club. The English team’s biggest loss was a continental loss since losing to Ajax 1-5 in 1966 in the same competition.
Klopp’s team achieved its third victory this season out of eight local and continental matches, as it occupies seventh place in the league following six stages.
Liverpool has not played a match since its fall once morest Napoli, following the matches of the seventh stage of the English Premier League were postponed last weekend to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and its scheduled match on Sunday once morest its host Chelsea was postponed due to the events surrounding the Queen’s funeral and a lack of police resources.
The Liverpool squad witnessed the return of Portuguese Diogo Jota and midfielder Thiago Alcantara from injury, and replaced the Brazilian Firmino and James Milner compared to the squad that started once morest Napoli.
Matip also returned in place of Joe Gomez, and Greek Konstantinos Tsimikas participated in place of Scottish Andrew Robertson.
After the match began with a minute of silence in mourning for the Queen, Salah opened the scoring following he received the ball inside the area from Jota while he was unattended and shot it to the left of the goalkeeper (17).
However, Ajax just scored the only shot on goal for him in the first half, but in a superb way, following a cross crossed into the area for Qodds from Stephen Berchweis, he shot with a wonderful left-footed missile at the top of the right corner of the goal of Brazilian goalkeeper Alison Becker (27).
Then Liverpool dominated the course of the first half and had several chances and looked better with the return of Jota and Alcantara, first with a strong header of Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk, followed by a corner that was blocked by goalkeeper Rimko Pasfer (35).
Then the danger came through right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, who received the ball on the right side inside the area from the Colombian Luis Dias, dribbled and shot it strong with his left, blocked by the goalkeeper to bounce back towards him, followed it once more, sent by Psphere to a corner (42).
And once more Van Dyck found himself released following a corner, but the goalkeeper removed his header once more (44).
Liverpool continued their advantage in the second half and scored twice on goal through Jota (47) and Harvey Elliott (55), who were saved by the goalkeeper.
Then Klopp pushed Firmino and this season’s Uruguayan, Darwin Nunes, who has not found his level yet, instead of Elliott and Jota, respectively.
After he failed to threaten in the second half, Ajax waited until the 75th minute to pose a danger following Serbian captain Dusan Tadic raised a cross towards the second post, followed by Dale Blind, the former Manchester United player, with his head passed next to the post.
Nunes almost scored the winning goal following a group game, in which the ball was sent from Firmino to Salah inside the area and from him to the Uruguayan, who was in a favorable position, but he shot it near the post in the most dangerous opportunity of the second half (83).
However, Liverpool breathed a sigh of relief with a victory it needed with Matip’s header following a corner by Tsimikas, which crossed the goal line a little following it was confirmed by the referee’s “hour”.
The Glasgow Rangers match once morest its guest, Napoli, was postponed to Wednesday due to a lack of police resources for the passage of the Queen’s coffin in Scotland on Tuesday.
Sporting’s substitutes drop Tottenham in deadly time
Sporting defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 with two deadly goals for its substitutes in the second round of the group stage of the Champions League on Tuesday, to lead the fourth group.
Paulinho scored the first goal in the 90th minute, and Brazilian Arthur Gomes scored the second goal in stoppage time (90 + 3).
And each of the two teams won their first match, Spurs once morest Marseille 2-0 in London and Sporting away from home 3-0 once morest Eintracht Frankfurt, the German champion of the European League “European League” last season.
This was Spurs’ first loss in their last eight matches in all competitions.
Italian coach Antonio Conte made a single change to the squad that beat Marseille, putting Welshman Ben Davis in the defense instead of Frenchman Clement Langley, similar to coach Robin Amorim, who pushed Bennuo Santosh instead of Dutchman Jeremiah Saint-Just, who was injured once morest Frankfurt.
The first half of the hour did not witness dangerous opportunities on both sides, except for a shot by Pedro Gonsalves from the outskirts of the area following a rebound, which was pushed back by French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to a corner (7), and a header for the Brazilian Richarlison, the double once morest Marseille, following a cross towards the far post from Croatian Ivan Perisic, which was easy between The hands of goalkeeper Antonio Adan (26).
Then the Brazilian Emerson tried with a header for the guests, which was easy for the goalkeeper (30), before Richarlison found a way to the net following a deep pass, but he was offside (43).
The most dangerous opportunity came in the first half in stoppage time following great individual effort and skills from the Englishman Marcus Edwards, who started from regarding the midfield and dribbled several players on his way into the area to pass the ball to Francesco Trincao, who quickly returned it to him with a powerful shot that Lloris sent him to a corner ( 45+2).
The London club made a strong start to the second half, threatening in two batches through Emerson, first with a header (48) and then with a shot from close range (49), which was kept away by Adan.
Then it was Harry Kane’s turn, who hit a powerful ball from the left side of the area, which was pushed away by the goalkeeper, and hit the chest of one of his colleagues and almost deceived him and continued her way to the goal, but he picked it up (54).
After the second half did not witness many chances until a powerful shot from the Spaniard Pedro Boro in the last minute saved by Loris brilliantly and turned it into a corner. And from the resulting ball, which was executed by Gonçalves, Paulinho, who entered in the 76th minute, continued the ball header into the net.
And just seconds following coming down, Gomes made a superb skill break on the left arcade and passed several players inside the area before putting the ball between Lloris’ legs (90+3).
In the other match, Frankfurt defeated Marseille with a clean goal, signed by the Danish Jesper Lindstrom in the 43rd minute.
Leverkusen defeats Atletico
In the second group, Atlético Madrid suffered a fatal loss 2-0 once morest its German host Bayer Leverkusen, while Club Brugge of Belgium achieved a wonderful 4-0 victory at Porto, Portugal, to be at the top.
Atlético had a dramatic 2-1 victory in the first round once morest Porto in Madrid in a match that scored its three goals in stoppage time in the second half, while Brugge beat Leverkusen 1-0.
In Germany, Robert Andrich (84) and French Moussa Diaby scored the two goals of the meeting (87) to give their team the first points.
In Porto, the goals of Brugge were scored by Spaniard Ferran Khotgla (15 from a penalty kick), Ghanaian Kamal Soah (47), Denmark’s Andreas Skov Olsen (52) and Norway’s Antonio Nosa (89).
Bayern ousts Barcelona
Bayern Munich’s lead over Barcelona came even following the latter succeeded in obtaining the services of the Bavarian club’s top scorer, Robert Lewandowski, by defeating him 2-0, on Tuesday, in the second round of the third group competitions of the European Champions League.
After a great start for the two teams, Bayern defeated Inter in the latter’s land 2-0 and Barcelona over Viktoria Plzen 5-1 thanks to Lewandowski’s hat-trick, attention turned to the “Allianz Arena” site, which witnessed the return of the Polish to the stadium where he was crowned top scorer in the German League six times in the past seven seasons.
The confrontation was a retaliation for Barcelona, who bid farewell to the competition last season from the group stage for the first time since 2000-2001 for losing back and forth once morest the Bavarian giant with a score of 0-3, following he was humiliated a year earlier by the Bavarian club by leaving the quarter-finals, which was held in the assembly system of one match. In Portugal due to the Corona virus, with a historic loss of 2-8.
But coach Xavi Hernandez’s men were unable to capitalize on their field superiority and the opportunities they obtained, especially in the first half, and they paid the price by receiving two goals separated by four minutes of French Lucas Hernandez (50) and Leroy Sane (54).
Bayern led with six points, compared to three for both its Catalan guest and Inter, who won, on Tuesday, over its host Viktoria Plzen 2-0, thanks to Bosnian Edin Dzeko, who paved the way for him by scoring the advance goal (20) before passing the ball for the second goal of Dutchman Denzel Dumfries (70) following he completed The owner of the land with ten players since the 61st minute.
Wholesale opportunities for Lewandowski
In his first touch as an opponent at the “Allianz Arena” since April 2014, when he was defending the colors of local rivals Borussia Dortmund, Lewandowski would have been behind the goal for his new team, had it not been for the brilliance of goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in the face of Pedri’s shot (9).
And in an unintended pass from his former colleague Neuer, Lewandowski would have opened the scoring had it not been for the timely intervention of French defender Dayo Obamecano to remove the ball to a corner (14).
From a counter-attack led by Frenchman Othman Dembele, who delivered the ball to Gavi, Lewandowski got a golden opportunity to net his former teammate Neuer, but he hit the ball strong a little over the crossbar (18), then followed it with a header from close range, Noir starred in stopping it (21).
Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann had to make an early emergency substitution following Frenchman Benjamin Bavar was injured, replacing him with Moroccan newcomer Nassir Mazraoui (21).
Bayern seemed unable to build attacks and deliver the ball to Thomas Muller, Jamal Musila and Senegalese Sadio Mane, in exchange for a great danger to Barcelona in the quick counterattacks that once more almost resulted in a goal with a long shot from Brazilian Rafinha following a pass from Lewandowski, but the ball passed along the post (26). .
Bayern waited until the 30th minute to score their most dangerous attacking presence with a shot from Austrian Marcel Sabitzer that passed by the right post, but he would have ended the first half lagging had it not been for Mazraoui’s brilliance in blocking another attempt by Lewandowski (42).
The course of the match did not change in the second half, with another chance for Barcelona through Rafinia, which passed along the post (46), Bayern responded with a far attempt to substitute Leon Goretzka, the brilliance of his compatriot goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Schengen in stopping it, but he returned and bowed seconds later from a corner kick by Joshua Kimmich, so Hernandez rose to her high and turned his head into the net (51).
Bayern quickly complicated matters for its Catalan guest with a second goal that came following a beautiful build-up of the attack, which Musila ended by passing the ball to Leroy Sane, and the latter hit it on the ground to the right of Ter Stegen (54).
After a phase of losing balance, Barcelona returned to threaten his host’s goal in search of a return, but Pedri was lucky following his shot rebounded from the post (63), and then was unable to reach his host’s goal, except for an attempt by the substitute Ferran Torres, who passed by the post (87), to end up He received his first defeat this season in all competitions.
