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MOTD Champions League analysis: Vinicius Junior’s hat-trick performance against Borussia Dortmund
Match of the Day pundits reflect on Vinicius Junior’s performance in Real Madrid’s thrilling 5-2 comeback victory against Borussia Dortmund and discuss whether the Brazilian will win this year’s Ballon d’Or.
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Thuram's injury-time winner sinks Young Boys
Marcus Thuram scores an injury-time winner to hand Inter Milan a narrow 1-0 win over Young Boys in the Champions League.
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Man City 5 Sparta Prague 0: Erling Haaland defies physics to score wonder goal as Pep’s side run riot again
ERLING HAALAND continues to defy belief.
Manchester City aren’t far off doing the same on night’s like this.
An absolutely dominant display topped off by a goal from Haaland the likes of which The Etihad has never seen.
More of that later.
They were set on their way last night through the brilliance of his home grown favourite Phil Foden to give them a half time lead.
Haaland seemed to defy physics, gravity and everything else to turn the ball homeon 58 minutes.
John Stones with a looping header on 64, Haaland with his second four minutes later and Matheus Nunes from the spot two minutes from time completed the rout.
First Foden who put his own name in the history books last season winning both the Football Writers and PFA players of the year trophies after bagging 28 goals for his club and country.
The start to this season has not been without it’s problems, however, with many wondering why this was only his fourth start to the campaign.
Particularly with Kevin de Bruyne out injured.
Manager Pep Guardiola has tried to clear it up claiming injury niggles and ilness have been to blame for his stuttering start.
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He showed with a cracking goal and an assist in the 4-0 win over Slovan Bratislava on mathday two of this season Champions League that he has lost non his skill for all that.
He kept his place against Fulham and it was his ball in for John Stones last gasp goal after coming on as a sub in the second-half.
As Guardiola says: “You realise immediately when he is happy and fit and mentally in the right moment, you realise immediately he’s getting better and better.”
He showed that after just three minutes against Sparta.
Receiving a ball from Manuel Akanji he ducked inside two men, moved the ball onto his left foot and arrowed a shot back arcoss Peter Vindahl into the far bottom corner.
City off and running and immediately looking for a second.
With his very first touch on 10 minutes Erling Haaland’s header was only denied by a spectacular save from Vindahl.
Ilkay Gundogan was making is 100th Champions League appearance, only the 48th player in history to do so and second in City colours after Fernandinho.
His corner on 27 minutes found Haaland again with a header but this time his effort was hacked away from in front of the goal.
In an instant Sparta broke through Veljko Birmancevic and nearly had an equaliser but City number two goalkeeper Stefan Ortega dived full length to deny him with his finger tips.
He was one of five changes to the starting City side.
You can change the names but the football always seems to stay the same.
They were camped in the Sparta half for most of game and that dominance showed in the scoreline after the break.
Just three three minutes into that second period from Foden’s corner Angelo Preciado headed the ball off his own post.
In the ensuing scramble Nathan Ake turned it in but the VAR also spotted a handball by the City player.
No worries, City kept at it and when Savinho crossed another Haaland header was denied by another fine save.
Then the two combined again and this time the net bulged and the crowd gasped.
Savinho raced to the byline and chipped the ball back across goal and then this happened.
Haaland took to the air like a karate champion with his back to goal and in mid air flicked out his left boot out to connect with the ball on the volley and send it past a stunned Vindahl.
Nobody in the stadium was quite sure at first how he had scored it.
Even Pep Guardiola who has seen it all was checking with his bench what had happened.
As the feat was replayed on the stadiums big screens the roars were replaced by expressions and sounds of disbelief.
Wow just wow.
Sunday’s hero Stones popped up with the third, a towering header from Matheus Nunes cross.
The fourth was another thing of beauty for different reasons as City glided their way upfield sharing the ball between the players.
Rico Lewis, having a fine game turned and began it all finding Foden who strode down the centre of the park like he owned.
He offloaded the ball to Nunes, and as the Sparta players looked this way and that the ball came back inside for Haaland to curl a low shot in.
Nunes got the goal his performance deserved after two assists as he was allowed to take the late penalty.
City exceptional.
Haaland, unbelievable.
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UEFA Champions League: RB Leipzig 0-1 Liverpool – Arne Slot post-match interview
Liverpool manager Arne Slot praises his side’s performance after Liverpool secured a 1-0 win at RB Leipzig on match week three of the UEFA Champions League.
MATCH REPORT: Nunez scores as Liverpool extend fine start under slot
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Ben Thomas: Utility back admits Cardiff flak after Gatland praise
Gatland now faces a conundrum as to where he plays “the best back in Wales”.
Thomas has played 12 in each of Cardiff’s five URC outings so far this season, but faces stiff competition from Eddie James, Max Llewellyn, Owen Watkin and Nick Tompkins for the Wales shirt.
Thomas said he is aware of conversations between Cardiff head coach Matt Sherratt and Gatland over his positioning.
“I think generally speaking both sets of coaches have been pretty relaxed on where I’m playing week to week as there are those transferrable skills between both positions,” he said.
“It’s definitely a conversation that I’m aware of, thus far it’s gone pretty smoothly.”
Thomas said he is also happy to step up to the tee, for club or country, should he be needed as a goal kicker, having put in plenty of mid-week practice.
“Gats is pretty good in not putting too much expectation on the kicking, he knew that it was not something I was doing every week,” he said.
“It’s trying to get as much composure as possible when you’re in the heat of battle and just focussing on each kick as a separate part of the game.”
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Champions League LIVE RESULTS: Haaland scores OUTRAGEOUS goal in win, Nunez scores Reds winner, Barca THRASH Bayern
Matchday three comes to an end
That’s all from us at the end of another thrilling night of Champions League football.
We’ve seen Barca batter Bayern, Haaland stun Sparta, and Liverpool triumph again.
Elsewhere, Celtic held firm in Bergamo, Lille toppled another Madrid giant, and Inter left it late to hurt Young Boys.
Then there was teenager Milambo shining at the Estadio da Luz, Brest and Bayer remaining unbeaten, and Salzburg going down against Dinamo.
And breathe. Follow all that, Europa League. We’ll be back here tomorrow to see if it can.
Thanks for joining us, and goodnight.
The bottom 12
Before we sign off for the night, here’s how the bottom 12 stand in the League Phase, the sides that are contemplating elimination.
Indeed, the bottom six are yet to register a point, and they include both Red Bull clubs (and Red Star).
Slot’s Reds keep on rolling
Another game, another win for Liverpool. Who said following Jurgen Klopp would be the hardest of tasks?
In the process, Arne Slot has become the first manager to win as many as 11 of his first 12 games in charge across all competitions in English top-flight history.
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Erling Haaland goal: Man City forward hailed after acrobatic goal in Champions League win over Sparta Prague
Words hardly do justice to the athleticism and quality required to produce the finish Haaland achieved, and even his team-mates were in awe.
In his pitch-side interview after the game, Foden told TNT Sports: “I just spoke to him and said: ‘If I tried to do that I’d pull by groin!’
“I don’t know how he does it. It shows he has this talent that no-one else can do.”
The strike was reminiscent of one Haaland scored against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League two years ago.
But that, as brilliant as it was, was a volley scored when he was facing towards the net. His goal against Sparta Prague on Wednesday was as he was facing the wrong direction, but somehow managed to twist and produce enough power with his backheel volley to score.
“It was an amazing goal,” Nunes said. “I was speechless after that shot.
“When he scored against Dortmund I was watching on TV. To see this live was amazing.”
Former Manchester City defender Joleon Lescott said on TNT Sports: “It was a unique finish.
“It is not a finish many strikers would attempt or even execute. It is unique to him and his athleticism.”
Ex-Manchester City defender and England captain Steph Houghton said on Match of the Day: “That finish was something else.
“He is the only striker in the world who can score from those positions.”
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