Club Brugge played against Atlético Madrid on Tuesday evening. The Belgians won 2-0 at home against Diego Simeone’s team, which means that wintering in the Champions League is now very close. Bruges is in the lead in Group B with nine points from three matches. FC Porto won 2-0 in Portugal against Bayer Leverkusen, after a first half that ended in a crazy situation.
Club Brugge – Atletico Madrid 2-0
It was attacker Kamal Sowah who gave the Belgians the lead. Ferran Jutglà was able to easily walk through the Atlético defense after a combination with the Ghanaian, after which Jutglà gave Sowah an unmissable chance with a hard and low cross: 1-0. Jutglà almost got himself on the scoreboard shortly after the break. The Spaniard took a cross to his chest and lashed out quickly and hard, but ran into Atlético goalkeeper Jan Oblak.
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Brugge come home to Atlético on a 2-0 lead ??#ZiggoSport #UCL #BRUATM pic.twitter.com/60hZDD1ci8— Ziggo Sport Football (@ZS_Voetbal) Oct 4, 2022
Fifteen minutes after the break it was hit for the Spaniard. Jutglà got the ball with some luck through Tajon Buchanan and then shot hard and placed in the far corner: 2-0. Atlético was allowed to moor from eleven meters through Antoine Griezmann fifteen minutes before the end to get back into the game. However, the Frenchman shot hard against the bar. The Spaniards then again captured the ball and Griezmann did hit the mark from the attack that followed. However, the attacker was offside, Bruges held on to the comfortable lead.
FC Porto – Bayer Leverkusen 2-0
The Germans thought they would take the lead after more than twenty minutes via Chelsea mercenary Callum Hudson-Odoi. The winger fired hard in a Robert Andrich cross at the far post, but the goal was reversed by the VAR. Andrich is said to have committed a foul when he captured the ball from the Portuguese. The same happened to FC Porto shortly before half-time. Mehdi Taremi gave his team the lead with a great volley, but that goal was also rejected by the video referee.
Most notably, the goal was reversed due to a handball into David Carmo’s own box at the start of the attack that resulted in the Portuguese goal. England referee Anthony Taylor, on the advice of VAR, went to the screen and gave Leverkusen a penalty. Patrik Schick therefore had the perfect opportunity to score the opening goal on the stroke of half-time. However, the Czech ran into Porto goalkeeper Diogo Costa, as a result of which the crazy first half ended without goals.
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Porto secures the 3 points at the expense of Bayer Leverkusen! ??#ZiggoSport #UCL #PORLEV pic.twitter.com/HRfONAqwfb— Ziggo Sport Football (@ZS_Voetbal) Oct 4, 2022
In the seventieth minute, the opening goal finally came on the scoreboard. Zaidu Sanusi nodded in a high cross from Taremi at the far post, giving Porto the lead: 1-0. Galeno decided the game four minutes before the end. The Brazilian received the ball from Taremi and then shot in through keeper Lukas Hradecky: 2-0. Junior International Jeremie Frimpong was sent off with a second yellow card in the final phase.