Tottenham team defeated Red Star 4-0 in the Champions League group stage and will almost certainly qualify for the 1/8 finals of the tournament. Spurs starter Giovanni Lo Selso started for the first time in the 34th minute, and in the second part Hyun-Min Son scored two quick goals. Christian Eriksen added the fourth goal.
The British started off well, claiming a penalty shot at the beginning. However, when checking with VAR, it became clear that the ball had met the thigh of a Star player.
In the 13th Harry Kane missed a good chance of finding the result.
The Serbs were one step away from the opening goal in the 23rd minute. Then Milan Pavkov only had to overcome Paulo Gazaniga, but his shot was weak and the keeper saved.
Tottenham came forward in the 34th minute after a comic series of beams and gaps. After the counterattack, Harry Kane and Son hit the beams, but in the end Lo Selso was correct.
The Serbs missed the tie in the 44th, when a cannonball in Tottenham field led to two beams, but the ball never hit the net. Both beams were touched by guest players - Gazaniga and Davinson Sanchez.
Paris Saint-Germain team won with a minimum of 1-0 when hosting the Belgian Bruges in the fourth round of Champions League A. The only goal in the match was noted by Argentine shooter Mauro Icardi in the 22nd minute.
By the end of the first part again Di Maria had a chance to threaten the visitors' door, his shot boundary on the penalty box was inaccurate.
Last season's Belgian vice-champion stepped up in the second half. Within 60 seconds, David Okereke and Emmanuel Dennis missed chances in the 50th and 51st minutes.
In the 75th minute came the golden chance for Philip Clement's boys. Mbaye Dignier was shot down in the penalty box by Thiago Silva Parisians, after which Judge Bobby Maden decided that was enough to rule on the penalty. Behind the ball was Digner, who did, however, produce a terrible shot that fell straight into the hands of Kaylor Navas.
In this way, Paris Saint-Germain secured their continuation in the semifinal, collecting a maximum asset of 12 points after 4 matches. Bruges, for its part, remains in 3rd position with 2 points.
Bayern Munich won with 2: 0 Olympiakos in a Group B match in the Champions League. Robert Lewandowski opened the score in the 69th minute. Just before the end of regular time, Ivan Perisic sealed Bayern's victory. Bayern's team was the better team on the pitch, and they fully controlled the initiative on the pitch. The Bavarians fired 11 accurate shots, but only good interventions by goalkeeper Hode Sa prevented the result from swelling more. It was also the first Champions League game since the departure of Nico Kovac. With that win, Bayern continues to lead the group with a full pool of points, and have already secured themselves the qualification for the semifinals in the tournament.
The team of Bayern Munich won with 2: 0 Olympiakos in a Group B match in the Champions League. Robert Lewandowski opened the score in the 69th minute. Just before the end of regular time, Ivan Perisic sealed Bayern's victory. Bayern's team was the better team on the pitch, and they fully controlled the initiative on the pitch. The Bavarians fired 11 accurate shots, but only good interventions by goalkeeper Hode Sa prevented the result from swelling more. It was also the first Champions League game since the departure of Nico Kovac. With that win, Bayern continues to lead the group with a full pool of points, and have already secured themselves the qualification for the semifinals in the tournament.
Nikas Zule and Luca Hernandez missed Bayern Munich this evening. For the Greeks, only Papa Abu Cisse was not available to coach Pedro Martins.
Bayern Munich - Olympiakos 2: 0
1: 0 Robert Lewandowski 69 '
2: 0 Ivan Perisic 89 '
The meeting started with pressure from the hosts. In the fifth minute Leon Goretska fired the first accurate shot, but he was saved by the goalkeeper Jose Sa.
In the 15th minute, the visitors had a chance to level with their first more dangerous attack. Lazar Rangelovic got a good pass in the penalty area and fired, but the ball went past Manuel Neuer's left post.
Ten minutes later, Robert Lewandowski delivered a nice header after a centering pass but Ca made a brilliant save.
Kingsley Coman could have found in the 34th minute, but again Sa managed to save his team. A minute later, Thomas Mueller fired, but straight into the keeper.
In the last minute of the first half, the beam saved the guests after a hit by Benjamin Pavar.
Five minutes after the start of the second part, Goretzka scored with a header centered by a foul, but once again Sa displayed a great reflex to keep the score even.
In the 60s, the Portuguese guard parried another blow to Kingsley Coman.
In the 69th, however, even Jose Sa had nothing to do and Bayern found the result. Coman centered very sharply and Lewandowski directed the ball into the net for 1-0.
Two minutes later, the Bavarians had a chance for a second goal, but Coman did not detect a single pass from Serge Gnabri.
In the 89th minute Bayern sealed their victory with a second goal. Kingsley Coman went for a break from his own half and reached the penalty area, where he passed to the left to Serge Gnabri. He tried a pass to the penalty spot, where a guest player failed to clear the ball and Ivan Perešić from close range scored for 2: 0.
Guilherme allowed Ronaldo's long-range free-kick to bounce and trickle through his legs, and the Welshman tapped his side's 300th Champions League goal into an empty net.
Lokomotiv, who knew victory would have kept their qualification hopes in their own hands, responded after going behind and Miranchuk scored his second goal in as many games against the Italian giants to level.
The forward headed against the post to beat the diving Wojciech Szczesny before converting the loose ball into an empty net.
Ronaldo - who was denied breaking the record for scoring against the most clubs in the Champions League by Ramsey's final touch in the first half - improved after the break.
The Portuguese forward forced Guilherme into a terrific save from a fierce shot as Juve pushed forward, while Leonardo Bonucci had to be sharp to clear Joao Mario's shot off the line at the other end, as the hosts threatened to snatch the winner against the run of play.
Qualification was secured when Costa finished off Gonzalo Higuain's through ball to send his side into the knockout stages, with two group games to play.
Juve become fifth club to hit 300 - the stats
Juventus have now beaten Lokomotiv Moscow in each of their four meetings in European competition, winning both matches in the 1993-94 Uefa Cup as well as the two matches in the Champions League this season
Juventus have kept just one clean sheet in their last five group stage matches in the Champions League - this after keeping six shutouts in their previous seven games at this stage of the competition
Aaron Ramsey's opening goal became the 300th goal Juventus have scored in the Champions League; the fifth club to reach this after Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester United
Aleksei Miranchuk's goal for Lokomotiv Moscow (11:45) was the earliest goal the club has scored in the Champions League since Dmitri Loskov netted against Inter Milan in the third minute of their meeting in October 2003 (02:38)
Miranchuk became the first player to score home and away during the group stages of a Champions League campaign against Juventus since Cristiano Ronaldo back in 2013-14
Ramsey's goal in the third minute of the match made him the first British player to score a European Cup/Champions League goal for Juventus
The Bernabeu were saluting the teenager as early as the fourth minute when he clinically opened the scoring, left-footed, from his fellow countryman Marcelo's pass.
He got his second three minutes later as he headed in superbly from another Marcelo cross, becoming the first player to score twice in the first seven minutes of a Champions League game.
England are on the brink of Euro 2020 qualification - but what steps must they take to achieve a dream Wembley final win next summer?
After near-misses at the World Cup and Nations League finals, Gareth Southgate will be hoping it's third time lucky for him and his squad, as they edge towards a third shot at silverware in consecutive summers.
What do England need to confirm qualification?
Three points against Czech Republic on Friday will be enough to guarantee England their place in next year's finals. Even without that, victory in Bulgaria on Monday would also seal qualification before the end of the international break.
However, England are in such a commanding position that even if they weren't to achieve that total, their final two qualifiers in November, against Montenegro (h) and Kosovo (a), would offer another chance to get over the line if necessary.
When is the draw and how does it work?
The draw for the finals will take place in Bucharest, Romania on November 30, with group games set to be played in 12 stadiums across 12 European countries.
Group A: Rome and Baku
Group B: Saint Petersburg and Copenhagen
Group C: Amsterdam and Bucharest
Group D: London and Glasgow
Group E: Bilbao and Dublin
Group F: Munich and Budapest
Because each group has been assigned two stadiums and host nations play two of their three group games at home, we know England will go into Group D. As well as Wembley, their other group game will take place at Hampden Park, as Glasgow is the other host city assigned to Group D.
With that in mind, Southgate and England supporters can start to plot a potential route to the final…
What's England's potential run to the final next summer?
If England were to win Group D, they would play a Round of 16 match at the Dublin Arena in Dublin against the second-placed team from Group F. With Munich and Budapest hosting fixtures in Group F, Germany or Hungary could lie in wait, should they qualify.
Win their last-16 clash and England will be on their way to Rome to play their quarter-final in the Olympic Stadium. The winners of Group E - which is set to include Spain - will be on a similar path.
Then it's back home to Wembley, which is hosting both semi-finals and the final…
en-man Real Madrid were handed their sixth defeat in La Liga this season and are fifth in the table after a lacklustre performance against Real Sociedad.
Real Madrid coach Santi Solari refused to directly answer questions about his future, following Sunday evening’s 2-0 La Liga defeat at home to Real Sociedad at an angry and one-third empty Bernabeu.
Madrid were behind inside two minutes when La Real striker Willian Jose coolly converted a penalty against his former side, with the Basques wrapping up the three points late on through Ruben Pardo’s close range header.
Having drawn derision in the local media for claiming that Madrid can be happy at fourth position and accept draws in some games, Solari’s team are now fifth in the table after losing at home to opponents in relegation trouble.
Asked directly at the post-game news conference whether he felt he deserved to continue in the position — just over two months after he replaced Julen Lopetegui on the Madrid bench — the former Argentina midfielder replied: “We compete to win the next game.”
With 30 after 18 games, Madrid’s points total is the club’s worst at this point of the season since 2005-06 and Solari responded with a stare after it was suggested that Solari’s public comments about being happy with the team’s form showed he did not understand the standards demanded at the Bernabeu.
“We compete to win, always compete to win,” the former Madrid player and Castilla youth team coach said. “We always fight to win. We never underestimate the competition, never underestimate anybody. The only one who has that luxury is he who has never competed. You can never question our winning character; we showed character today, despite the difficulties. Unforgivable would be to lack that.”http://sports-tornado.com/2019/01/06/santi-solari-ignores-questions-about-his-future-after-real-madrid-lose-again/
In the end, there was something fitting about the fact that the breakthrough finally came from a throw-in. This was no classic clash but the tournament has another late goal, 31% of them having now come from the 87th minute on; it also has another team through to the next round. Italy’s afternoon closed with their players running towards the stand and throwing themselves to the turf in front of their supporters, celebrating a second victory that guarantees a place in the last 16, thanks to Éder’s superb winner.
“We are very pleased,” the coach, Antonio Conte, said. “Very few people would have envisaged us making the last 16 after just two matches and a number of people questioned if we would even get through the group. There were a few skeletons in the closet, those ghosts from the past that may have affected the performance, but we should be very happy to be through.”
If Sweden are to join them they must defeat Belgium and to do that, their coach, Erik Hamren, admitted, they must improve their attacking. They must shoot more accurately, for a start. Two games into , they have not yet had an effort on target. Their top scorer is Own Goal and their top player, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, spent too much of this game too far from goal, his touch impressive but his threat limited. When he did find himself a yard out with an open goal he inexplicably put it over, although the linesman’s flag had been raised anyway.
For a long time here it looked as if no shots on target in two games might still yield two draws for Sweden, but it was not to be. Not only did Italy eventually score, getting a goal that only rarely felt imminent in a game that was mostly dull when it wasn’t duller, but also a last-minute appeal for a penalty when Andreas Granqvist tumbled was turned down by the referee, Viktor Kassai. “The players feel that it was, but in my position I can’t say,” Hamren said.
“A draw would not have changed much,” Hamren admitted. “We need to win a match, even with a draw today. It changes things for the Republic of Ireland, but for us it is not a big change.”
For Ireland, this result may have further significance, with Conte saying he will make changes in the final game, giving opportunities to some of those players who have not had minutes so far. They can afford to now, having scored the winner with two minutes left.
Italy’s substitutes surged from the bench, cheering. There is certainly something about this team; they may not always be that much fun to watch but they are worse to play and no one will want to face them next. Conte admitted that his side had not played well with the ball, in the first half especially, and he will seek improvement. But this is a team aware of their limitations and able to accept, minimise and hide them; able to make the tiniest advantages pay, too. “This team’s strength is that it knows what it is good at ... and what it is not good at,” Conte said.Marco Parolo had hit the bar from close range after a wonderful ball from Emanuele Giaccherini with eight minutes to go. Then in the 88th minute a throw-in inside his own half from Giorgio Chiellini, whose foot lifted as he launched the ball, was headed down by the substitute Simone Zaza, and Éder dashed from the left. Surging past three players and into the area, he struck a wonderful shot low into the bottom corner. It was the only shot on target in the whole of the second half. “Those small details can make a big difference,” Éder said. “We prepare for everything, even throw-ins, and the fact that the goal came from a situation like that pleases me even more.”
Sweden had more of the ball here but it could hardly be said that they had enjoyed possession, nor that they did much with it. Italy, who had hit the bar just before the goal, cede so little ground and still carry a threat even when they appear not to attack. They are comfortable in an uneventful game and this was certainly one of those: no game has had so few shots (12) since 1980.
He was trying to pump up the fans, too, calling on supporters to play their part. A touch of jealousy took him as he looked up at the stands here, even if what occurred on the pitch pleased him.Much has been made of this being a poor team, the least talented in recent memory, but Italy are Italy again and they appear to be growing. “I hope these two wins can give us greater confidence, self-esteem and awareness of our ability,” Conte said. “At the start we had flat tyres; now we are trying to pump them up a bit, game by game.”
“We need to be happy, pleased, we need to create enthusiasm. I want us to convey passion to those watching us, to our fans back in Italy,” he said. “I want our supporters to put on a blue shirt. When you see everyone in yellow [Sweden] shirts it’s wonderful. It doesn’t have to be an Italy shirt necessarily, just a normal blue T-shirt will do, [to make] a wave of blue. There were 9,000 today but they were all quite dispersed. I want everyone to be involved, to feel responsibility. I want us to convey passion to them.”
Hooliganism has scarred the European Championship once more. Croatia fans fought among themselves and injured a steward with one of several flares thrown on to the pitch in Saint-Étienne and their team’s superiority over the Czech Republic disappeared amid the ugly scenes. Late goals from the substitutes Milan Skoda and Tomas Necid, the latter with a 93rd‑minute penalty, gave thea point that had appeared beyond them until Croatia self-imploded on and off the pitch.
Not even the appeals of the captain, Darijo Srna, who played despite the death of his father this week, and the threat of abandonment halted the in-fighting among their supporters late in the second half.
All eyes were on Srna during the Croatian national anthem and his were filled with tears as it echoed around the Stade Geoffroy Guichard. The Croatia captain was told his father, Uzeir, had died after the win over Turkey on Sunday. He went home to Metkovic for the funeral and returned for a game that must have meant more to the Shahktar Donetsk defender than any other person in the stadium. “My father’s last wish was that I play here, as this is my last competition for Croatia,” the 34-year-old said. “He was at his happiest when I played for Croatia.” His son did him proud in Saint-Étienne.
The Czech Republic were in urgent need of points after their backs-to-the-wall job against Spain ended in late defeat but they were a distant second best from the start. Petr Cech conceded a needless corner in the opening minute that resulted in the Arsenal goalkeeper taking evasive action from Mario Mandzukic’s looping header, and his team struggled to retain possession thereafter. Croatia were too strong, too quick and, in Luka Modric, too incisive with their passing for Pavel Vrba’s team. The question was whether they could find the cutting edge to match as several promising moves, through balls and dangerous free-kicks passed without an end product.
Uncertainty in the Croatia defence offered the Czech Republic early hope in the first competitive meeting between the countries but, once Modric began to orchestrate matters in central midfield and his team-mates settled, there was one dominant force. Cech unwittingly denied Mandzukic when he missed a deep cross from Croatia’s impressive left-back, Ivan Strinic, yet blocked the striker’s header at the back post with his face as he fell.
Ivan Perisic just failed to connect with Mandzukic’s ball across the penalty area when Croatia broke while Czech Republic appealed in vain for a penalty from the referee Mark Clattenburg. Ivan Rakitic shot high over the bar when it was returned from the right wing. It was 8-0 in terms of attempts on goal when Strinic sliced over in the 28th minute.
The pressure on Cech’s goal was unrelenting. Those in front of him lacked belief or quality in possession to stem the tide. The veteran keeper saved with his legs from the Barcelona midfielder Rakitic but was exposed once again when Milan Badelj dispossessed Jaroslav Plasil in central midfield and the ball broke to Perisic in space on the left. The Internazionale midfielder advanced into the area, the central defender Tomas Sivok backed off, and he accepted the invitation to drive a low finish into the far corner of Cech’s goal. Perisic immediately pointed to Srna as the celebrations commenced before running to the technical area to embrace Marijan Mrmic, the Croatia goalkeeping coach, who also lost his father this week.
Vedran Corluka used the break in play to have his head bandaged for the second game in succession. The former Tottenham Hotspur defender aggravated an injury he suffered against Turkey and, having had time to work on his head wear since Sunday, reappeared for the second half in some kind of patriotic swimming cap. He looked absolutely ridiculous.
The knock may have been responsible for the lack of communication that prevented Croatia doubling their advantage before the break. Rakitic swept another inviting free-kick over the Czech defence and both Corluka and Domagoj Vida should have converted only to get in the other’s way.
Despite a more determined start to the second half, the Czech Republic gifted Croatia a seemingly comfortable lead when Plasil was again caught in possession in midfield. Marcelo Brozovic was at his heels this time and, with the Czech defence parting before him while playing a woeful offside trap, threaded a simple pass through to Rakitic who advanced on goal before beating Cech with a nonchalant chip.
England once again failed to start a major tournament with victory as Vasili Berezutski's stoppage-time header gave Russia a draw they barely deserved in the Stade Velodrome.
Roy Hodgson's side were dominant and fully merited the lead given to them when Eric Dier crashed a 20-yard free-kick high past keeper Igor Akinfeev with 17 minutes left.
Hodgson then removed man of the match Wayne Rooney, who had earlier seen a shot pushed superbly on to the post by Akinfeev, and replaced him with Jack Wilshere to preserve England's advantage.
It was a move that failed when Russia snatched a point - and extended England's record of never starting a European Championship with a win - two minutes into four minutes of stoppage time, Berezutski soaring above Danny Rose at the far post to send Georgi Schennikov's header looping over keeper Joe Hart.
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