The Bayern players defeated the home team Atalanta in Bergamo with a score of 6-1, and the leading goal was scored by Josip Stanišić, while Mario Pašalić was the only scorer for the hosts. Igor Tudor’s Tottenham were convincingly defeated 5-2 away at Atletico, and Barcelona drew 1-1 away at Newcastle.
Bayern needed less than 12 minutes to take the lead in Bergamo. Great action launched from a free kick from the right flank. Serge Gnabry was the passer who took notice the entry of Josip Stanišićand the Croatian representative easily sent the ball into the net from a few meters for his first goal in the Champions League.
By the 25th minute, the Bavarians scored two more goals. The scorer was in the 22nd minute Michael Oliseand in the 25th minute he sent the ball into the net Serge Gnabry.
In the second half, Bayern scored their fourth goal from the first counterattack in the 52nd minute. Nicolas Jackson scored the fourth goal for the guests with a precise shot from 14-15 meters. They took care of Atalanta’s complete breakdown Michael Olise with a great goal in the 64th minute in the style of Arjen Robben, and Jamal Musiala with a goal for 6-0 in the 67th minute.
Atalanta managed to score a consolation goal in the third minute of stoppage time, and the scorer was a member of the Croatian national team Mario Pasalic.
The players had an incredibly bad start to the game Tottenham Hotspur on the road in Madrid at Atlético. Igor Tudor’s team scored three goals in the first 15 minutes of the match. At the first, in the 6th minute, the goalkeeper of Spurs Antonin Kinsky slipped on a pass attempt and sent the ball to the feet of Julian Alvarez. This one added Marcos Llorente who scored 1-0 with a precise shot from the edge of the penalty area.
In the 14th minute, Romero slipped when he was supposed to put the ball away, so he did Antoine Griezmann I headed towards the visiting goalkeeper and easily scored for 2-0. In the very next minute, Antonin Kinsky missed the ball when trying to shoot, and it rolled to Julian Alvarez, who walked into the goal with it for 3-0.
Tudor at that moment decided to withdraw the 22-year-old Czech goalkeeper from the game and introduce his first goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicari. But even that did not help the London club, because in the 22nd minute Robin Le Normand scored the fourth goal for Diego Simeone’s team.
In the 26th minute, Tottenham players showed that they can score a goal. He ended a nice action with a precise shot Pedro Porro and thereby gave some hope to the guests that they would not be completely embarrassed at the Metropolitan.
But that was not the end of Tottenham’s troubles. In the 55th minute, Richarlison had a great opportunity to reduce Spurs’ deficit to just two goals, but his header brilliantly defended by Jan Oblakso that in the continuation of the action, the home team scored the fifth goal. In two passes, Julian Alvarez was thrown into a counterattack from his own half. All defenders stayed too far to catch up with the Argentine who coolly beat Vicari 5-1.
That Atlético football players are only human was shown in the 76th minute, when goalkeeper Jan Oblak made a mistake in the pass, and the ball was won in the penalty area Dominic Solanke and beat the Slovenian goalkeeper with a strong shot under the crossbar.
A duel in Newcastle between home United and Barcelona it ended without a winner, and both goals came in the final ten minutes. The home team deservedly took the lead in the 86th minute with a goal by Harvey Barnes. In the fifth minute of added time, Dani Olmo knocked his keeper off balance at the entrance to the penalty area, he knocked him down and deflected the penalty kick. Lamine Yamal coolly sent the ball to the opposite side of the one where goalkeeper Ramsdale threw himself and scored for the final 1-1.
In the first match played earlier in Istanbul, Galatasary won in front of his fans Liverpool with 1-0, and the winning goal was scored by Mario Lemina in the 7th minute.
The return matches in these four pairs are scheduled for eight days, on March 18.
(Hina | Photo: FC Bayern)
