Artem Stepanov became the youngest Ukrainian to make his debut in the Champions League. In other matches of the Tour, Arsenal defeated Sporting, and Lewandowski reached the 100-goal mark.
Alexander Zinchenko's Arsenal defeat Sporting Lisbon, Daniil Ignatenko's Slovan Bratislava is minimally inferior to Milan, the 17-year – old Ukrainian striker makes his debut for Bayer Leverkusen and sets a new achievement, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City continues to be feverish-this is how the 5th round of the Champions League went, writes UNN.
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The 5th round of the Champions League was opened by Slovan Bratislava, for which our compatriot Daniil Ignatenko plays, and Milan of Italy.
In the middle of the first half, AC Milan opened the scoring with Christian Pulisic's goal from Tammy Abraham's pass. In three minutes, Slovan managed to equalize the score. Tigran Barseghyan scored a goal for the Slovak club.
In the 68th minute, Rafael Leao, who came on as a substitute at the beginning of the second half, put Milan ahead with a pass from Yusuf Fofan – 2:1. in the 71st minute, Abraham scored the third goal of Milan after a mistake by defenders. Slovan managed to close the gap in the 88th minute thanks to a goal from Nino Marcella. The final whistle recorded the victory of "Milan" – 3:2.
Daniil Ignatenko entered the field in the 66th minute with the score 1:1. during this time, he made three ball selections and received a score of 6.5.
In another match, Sporting Lisbon and Arsenal London met, for which Ukrainian Alexander Zinchenko plays, who started the match on the bench.
Arsenal made the game already in the first half – in the 7th minute Gabriel Martinelli opened the scoring with a pass from Jurien timber, in the 22nd minute Kai Havertz with a pass from Bakayo Saka doubled the advantage of his team, and at the end of the half, defender Gabriel, scoring with a header from the corner, brought the score to a crushing 3:0.
At the beginning of the second half, Sporting managed to do it – Inaciu did it with Trinkau's feed. In the 65th minute, Bakayo Saka scored 4 goals for his team from the penalty spot, and Leandro Trossard put an end to the match, scoring 5 goals from a pass from Mikel Merino.
Arsenal Ukrainian defender Alexander Zinchenko appeared on the field in the 78th minute instead of Ricardo Calafiori. For 13 minutes, the Ukrainian did not distinguish himself with effective actions. The player scored 8 touches on the ball, 7 accurate passes out of 8 (88%) and 1 loss of the ball. Zinchenko received a score of 6.1 points.
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, who have not won 5 consecutive matches, and Feyenoord of the Netherlands met in a parallel match.
"Mancity" thanks to a goal from the penalty spot in the 44th minute took the lead-the penalty was executed by Erling Goland. In the 50th minute, Erkay Gundogan doubled the advantage of his team, and 3 minutes later Holland brought the score to a crushing 3:0. The curtain of the match was a real disaster for ManCity.
First, Anis Musa scored the first goal for his team in the 75th minute, 7 minutes later Santiago Jimenez closed the gap, and in the 89th minute Feyenoord equalized-a goal on the account of David Gantzko.
Manchester City have not won in 6 consecutive games, which has already become an anti-record for Pep Guardiola. The last time the" Citizens "won was at the end of October, beating" Southampton " – 1:0. During the match, the broadcast directors recorded Guardiola with a scratched face.
Yes, I did it with my finger, with my fingernail. I want to hurt myself, right
– Pep said at a press conferenceexplaining the episode.
Bayer Leverkusen and Salzburg of Austria met in another match, knocking Dynamo Kyiv out of the Champions League. By the 30th minute, Bayer Leverkusen was already leading 3-0. Florian Wirtz scored from the penalty spot in the 8th minute, Alejandro Grimaldo doubled the lead in 3 minutes, and Wirtz scored a double in the 30th minute. Patrick Schick scored 4 goals in the 61st minute, and 10 minutes later Aleix Garcia set up the final score-5:0.
In the 73rd minute, Shik was replaced by Ukrainian Artem Stepanov, who became the youngest Ukrainian (17 years, 3 months) to make his debut in the Champions League – surpassing the record of Dmitry Chygrinsky (18 years, 1 month). During his time on the pitch, the 17-year-old striker touched the ball twice, made 2 accurate passes out of 2 (100%) and fouled once.
Stepanov's game was rated by two statistical portals: WhoScored – at 6.0, – at 6.5.the native of Lutsk is a graduate of the Shakhtar Donetsk Academy. In the summer of 2022, he moved to Bayer Leverkusen, where he played for the U-17 team. in January of this year, he signed a contract with the club, which runs until June 30, 2027.
They will remember this game in the future. Today they got their chance, and it's important to give them a good feeling when they first enter the field
head coach Xabi Alonso commented on the debut of Stepanov and Oneka.
In another match on Tuesday, Catalan "Barcelona" and French "Brest"met.
Barcelona managed to score in the 10th minute of the match-Robert Lewandowski converted a penalty. In the 66th minute, Dani Olmo doubled the Catalans ' lead, and at the end of the match, Lewandowski scored a double, scoring his 100th and 101st goals in the Champions League.
The Polish striker took the 3rd place of the top scorers of the Champions League. Only Lionel Messi is ahead with 129 goals and Cristiano Ronaldo with 140 goals.
I am very happy, I never believed that I would achieve such indicators in the Champions League. I am currently in the company of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Our goal is to win every game. At times we played too slowly, but thanks to patience we managed to score
Lewandowski said after the match.
The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Denisova
