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Mercato Day offers you a summary of the match between Real Madrid and Borussia Monchengladbach at the top of today’s matches, Wednesday 9-12-2020, on the sixth and last day of the Champions League group stage, which ended with Real Madrid winning two unanswered goals, scored by Franco-Algerian star Karim Benzema during the first half with two heads.
Following this victory, Real Madrid secured the top of Group Two with 10 points, two points behind Monchengladbach II, despite the team’s modest start to the competition when they lost 3/2 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine. , and drew 2/2 with Monchengladbach in Germany, before losing again. In Ukraine, Shakhtar face two unanswered goals in the fifth round.
And the right-back Lucas Vásquez became the first Real Club scorer with a perfect center in the 9th minute, which went through all the Monchengladbach defenders to find the head of Karim Benzema, who deposited it on the right end of goalkeeper Zomer, to celebrate the first goal.
Control of Real Madrid in the course of the first half was condemned to 68% possession, to get the second goal from the same side (right), but this time with a center from right forward Rodrigo Jos, Karim Benzema caught another spectacular header in the 32nd minute.
Fortunately for Real Madrid, the Ukrainian Shakhtar Donetsk drew goalless against Inter Milan in Italy during the same day, to move to the head of the group against the men of Zinedine Zidane, in an unexpected scenario due to what happened in the opening of the competition with the team.
Shakhtar Donetsk moved to the European League after their goalless draw with bottom team Inter, where they added 8 points, for which Monchengladbach was nominated with the same balance of points at the price of the Champions League final thanks to his superiority in head-to-head matches and the number of goals over Shakhtar.
The match “Real Madrid and Borussia Monchengladbach” was broadcast on BN Sports 1, with the voice of the commentator “Issam Chawali”, as well as BT Sport 3, the British channel.
The match was held at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium, under the direction of the Dutch referee, “Bjorn Kuibers”, and began at exactly 20:00 GMT, 22:00 Egypt time, 23:00 KSA.
Real Madrid were unusually out of first and second place in the sixth round of the Champions League, but the thirteen-time European champion managed to decide to qualify for the semi-final stage as the leader after beating Borussia Moenchengladbach tonight.
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Real Madrid 2-0 Mönchengladbach
Fredo Di Stéfano Stadium (Madrid – Spain)
European Champions League (Group 2 – Round 6)
Timed out
Real Madrid squad: Courtois – Ferlan Mendy – Sergio Ramos – Raphael Varane – Lucas Vázquez – Luka Modric – Carlos Casemiro – Toni Kroos – Vincius Junior – Rodrigo Jos – Karim Benzema.
Real Madrid bench: Isco – Altobi – Areribas – Marcos Asensio – Dani Carvajal – Nacho Fernandez – Andrei Lunin – Marcelo – Eder Militao – Odriozola.
Real Madrid absences ❌: Mariano Díaz – Eden Hazard – Luka Jovic – Martin Odegaard – Fedi Valverde.
Moenchengladbach Assortment: Zoomer – Elvedi – Vendt – Gentier – Linear – Kramer – Newhouse – Marcus Thuram – Lars Stindel – Al Hassan Bilya – Empolo.
Gladbach Bank: Bennis – Pierre – Groene – Hermann – Lange – Lazaro – Poulsen – Chebel – Traore – Wolf – Denise Zakaria
Gladbach’s absences ❌: Ramy Bansabeni – Hoffman – Yanchke.
the match summary
Real Madrid beat Germany’s Borussia Monchengladbach 2-0, but reached the last 16 of the European Football League because the second match of this second group between Italian Inter and Ukrainian Shakhtar Danetsk ended in a negative draw on Wednesday .
The Spanish champion led the group with 10 points against Mönchengladbach (8), who beat Shakhtar (8), who would go on to the European League, while Inter completely deposited the continental competitions with six points.
Frenchman Karim Benzema was the hero of the first match, scoring two goals with two headed in the 9th and 32nd minutes to keep the pressure on his compatriot and coach Zinedine Zidane.
The start of the real team, which holds the record for the number of continental titles (13 times), was not ideal in this competition because they fell at home to Shakhtar 2-3, and then again to him 0-2 in the fifth round before the last and therefore he was bound to win to join the elite clubs. Qualified.
Influential Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos returned to the squad after missing his team’s last three games with a torn thigh injury he sustained during his country’s historic victory over Germany, Spain, with six clean on 15 November.
Benzema played his 527th game with Real Madrid in various competitions, according to Opta Statistics, thus equating the record registered on behalf of Brazilian Roberto Carlos as the most foreign player defending the colors of the Royal Selection.
Benzema opened the scoring for Real Madrid with a header, taking advantage of a Lucas Vásquez cross (9).
A golden opportunity arose for Monchengladbach to equalize when Frenchman Al-Hassan Bella was left alone with Real Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, lifting the ball from above but passing the left post (23).
Brazilian Rodrigio made an individual effort on the right wing before passing a center to logic, which Benzema once again chased the German net, raising his score to 4 goals this season in continental competition (32).
The referee annulled a goal to Real Madrid by Croatian veteran Luka Modric due to infiltration by Brazilian Vinicius Junior (42).
The pace of the game calmed down in the second half, especially by Real Madrid, but despite that, the most dangerous opportunities were for the owners of the field through a new header from Benzema in the hands of the Swiss goalkeeper Jan Sommer ( 52) and a powerful shot by German Toni Kroos that was also tackled by Sumer (63).
Sumer intervened brilliantly to save his goal from Ramos’ header (69), then banned the post from Benzema from scoring a hat-trick (73).
On the other hand, Inter took a painful blow by falling into the trap of a goalless draw at home with Shakhtar, forever even leaving to participate in the European League because they were last in the group.
With Real’s victory over Moenchengladbach, Inter’s victory would have put them in the final round at the expense of the German team thanks to the two direct confrontations, but they did not take advantage of their chances.
The humiliating departure may put a question mark on the fate of Inter manager Antonio Conte, especially as the club’s management has spent huge sums of money to sign players to compete locally and in Europe, but the results were not up to scratch. of hopes.
The Nerazzurri dominated the course of the match and were the most possession of the ball and the most dangerous, but Shakhtar knew how to control the keys to play in it, especially their Belgian striker Ramelu Lukaku.
Despite the entry of Chilean striker Alexis Sánchez and Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen from the bench, and the constant pressure in the last quarter of an hour, the Inter players were unable to visit the guest box.
