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Had football matches not lasted 90 minutes, but only 75 minutes, Red Bull Salzburg would have halted Bayern Munich’s almost disturbing winning streak in the Champions League on Tuesday night and applauded for a well-deserved 2-2 draw that it feels like a victory. Because the corona pandemic is currently reducing the number of spectators, but not the length of the game, the cops were left like poodles in the Salzburg rope rain after 90 plus two minutes of repeated minutes. The perceived victory had turned into a 2: 6 debacle in the final phase of a ghost game with the character of an action movie.
75 minutes “outstanding”
Rarely have there been as many praise for a team after a loss as for the playful Salzburgers, who enjoyed meeting the Champions League winners at eye level. “For 75 minutes we were outstanding. The guys played over their limits,” said coach Jesse Marsch, who was clearly affected by the unhappy ending. It is not surprising. The strategic order of march to replace the offensive Berisha by the defensive Onguene in the 76th minute and thus stretch a chain of five men in front of the bull’s goal went into the pants. Salzburg conceded Boateng’s header goal to 2: 3 (79th) after a corner kick, despite being dominated in their own penalty area, and then stumbled, after the five-man chain broke, in a swagger dance in which Sane (83rd), Lewandowski (88th) and Hernández (92nd) scored as scorers.
Final against Atlético?
“Salzburg really put us to the test again and again,” Bayern manager Hansi Flick said after his team’s 14th consecutive victory in the Champions League. While the defending champion’s entry to the round of 16 is almost fixed, it will be difficult for the Salzburg team. Since sympathy points are not reflected in the table, the Austrian champions only have one counter after three games. In the “second leg” against Bayern on November 25, there will be hardly anything to win, a week later the Bulls will visit Lok Moscow.
The last match of the group stage on December 9 could become a final to remain in a European competition. Atlético de Madrid is a first-rate European team whose defensive chains are forged in stainless steel, and not in tin, as was the case with the Salzburgs on Tuesday night.
Mönchengladbach “greetings from above”
Borussia Mönchengladbach proved it with a 6-0 away win over Schachtar Donetsk. “Half is played, we salute you from above,” said coach Marco Rose, who led Stefan Lainer to the starting line-up and Valentino Lazaro to the game fifteen minutes before the end. In Real Madrid’s 3-2 win over Inter Milan, defender Sergio Ramos scored his 100th goal in competition for the Spanish.
Article of
Christoph Zöpfl
Head of sports department
