Real Madrid fall back to Shakhtar and are threatened with leaving the Champions League

Shakhtar Danetsk of Ukraine revived his hopes of reaching the second round of the UEFA Champions League football competition and fulfilled the mission of his guest, Real Madrid, the Spanish record holder in number of titles in the competition (13), when he renewed their 2-0 victory over the Olympic Stadium in Kiev on the fifth penultimate matchday. From the second group competitions to the first round of the UEFA Champions League football competition.

The Ukrainian club decided the outcome of the match with two goals from two counterattacks that Brazilian substitute Bruno Ferreira “Dentino” (57) and Manor Salomon (82) translated into two goals.

It is Shakhtar Donetsk’s second win, after the first, against the royal club in the back of the last home 3-2 in the first round in the absence of more than six key players from the new Corona virus.

The Ukrainian club returned to the winning path after a draw and two losses, raising their score to seven points in second place, with a difference in the two direct confrontations against Real Club, which runs the risk of leaving empty-handed .

It was very difficult for Real Madrid to break through the Shakhtar defense, who conceded 10 goals in their matches against Borussia Monchengladbach in the third and fourth rounds.

Former French international striker Karim Benzema returned to the Royal Club squad after recovering from injury, while Danny Carvajal, captain Sergio Ramos, Uruguayan Federico Valverde and Belgian Eden Hazar were absent for the same reason, while Serbian Luka Jovic was absent due to his contagion of the emerging Corona virus.

The real French coach, Zinedine Zidane, made 4 adjustments to the squad that lost on Saturday to Deportivo Alavés 1-2 in Madrid in the domestic league, for which he joined his compatriot Ferlan Mendy instead of the Brazilian Marcelo, the Norwegian Martin Odegaard, the place of the other Brazilian Casemiro, and the last citizen Rodrigo in the place of Hazar, and Benzema is the place of the Dominican Mariano Díaz.

Real Madrid was the best game for most of the game and the greatest possession without much danger for the Ukrainian team, who piled hard in their half of their stadium leaving no space for the visiting forwards.

The opportunities were scarce in the first half, the most outstanding was a powerful shot from Asensio from close range, to which the left post responded (4), and another from Benzema from outside the area, which was taken out with his fists by the goalkeeper Anatolin Tropin before the defense distracted her (11), then Trubin continued her brilliance by taking a powerful shot from Asensio from inside the area. A corner (29).

Courtois saved his goal from an investigator by addressing Brazilian Tyson alone on the Ukrainian team’s first attempt in the match (53).

The Ukrainian team managed to open the scoring from a counterattack by Mendy on the edge of the region, so the ball was ready in front of the Brazilian Dentinho inside him, so he followed it inside the goal of Courtois (57) .

Zidane, Díaz, Isco and the Brazilian Vinicius Junior pushed the place of Benzema, Odegaard and Rodrigo in their eagerness to understand the situation (77), but Shakhtar dealt him the final blow by scoring the second goal through substitute Salomón from a counterattack that launched from the center of the field and finished off with a powerful shot that dragged from the edge of the area to Courtois. (82).