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Two goals conceded in the closing stages
Fantastic game with a very bitter ending: Borussia Mönchengladbach also shook Real Madrid badly, and again they did not win. Coach Marco Rose’s team led the Champions League with two goals until the 87th minute on Tuesday night. After a rough and unfortunate final phase, it was only enough to score 2: 2 (1: 0) against the set of stars. Marcus Thuram (33./58.) He was successful after the assists of the strong Alassane Pléa. Karim Benzema (87º) and Casemiro (90º + 3) scored for the Madrilenians around the international Toni Kroos.
After 2-2 at Inter Milan the week before, Gladbachers still has a good chance of reaching the knockout round. Next Tuesday, the match against leader Shakhtar Donetsk in tough group B.
Shortly before kick-off, Rose described the Real professionals as “world-class players.” “But these are just people,” the 44-year-old said on pay-TV “Sky”. Correspondingly brave, he created his own team. The Gladbacher tried in the early phase with high pressure, but had to be extremely careful against extremely safe opponents not to be overdone with two or three quick passes.
Real, who had traveled to Germany with the confidence of winning 3-1 in the FC Barcelona Classic, initially determined the first meeting of the two clubs in 35 years, driven by Kroos. Gladbach’s playing structure used to be disrupted by three or four Real professionals very close to Borussia goalkeeper Yann Sommer’s penalty area.
Casemiro (7th) and Benzema (16th) fired their first shots on goal heading into the summer, which stopped Kroos’s long shot (29th). Real got stronger, played faster and posed problems for Borussia’s defense with the individual class, especially Marco Asensio. And then came Thuram. The 23-year-old, whose father Lilian and Real Madrid coach Zinédine Zidane were proclaimed world champions in 1998, completed a lightning-fast attack after the all-star Madrid team lost the ball.
Like father Like Son …
By then, Gladbach’s offense had almost stalled. Compared to the 3-2 victory in Mainz, Rose had ordered five regular players back to the starting lineup, who, after Thuram’s first goal in the premier class, gained safety against the injured royal once again. Last week, Real lost 3-2 to Donetsk. The Ukrainian champions parted ways with Inter 0-0 on Tuesday.
At Gladbach, Sommer was there against Asensio (38th), who hit the post after the restart (46th). During this phase, Gladbach awaited a counterattack – Christoph Kramer almost used one (54th) – and scored again through Thuram. The Frenchman was right when Pléa fired and took off. Then Borussia appeared. Lars Stindl fired off the post (65th). Real responded with furious but erratic attacks. Zidane responded with a double change (71), Kroos went for Luka Modric. Substitute Eden Hazard hit the side net (74), Benzema artistically to the connecting goal.
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