The UEFA champions league was quite in the preliminaries with many teams causing upsets until the real rhythm was set straight.
Yesterdays fixtures saw Club Brugge hosting Manchester City, Besiktas hosted Sporting CP, Paris Saint Germain hosted RB Liepzig, FC Porto hosted AC Milan, Atletico Madrid hosted Liverpool FC, Ajax hosted Dortmund, Inter Milan hosted Sheriff and Shakhtar Donetsk hosted Real Madrid.
The surprise for on the night werethe games between Ajax vs Dortmund, Shakhtar Donetsk vs Real Madrid.
Real Madrid lost their previous UEFA Champions league against newly promoted site Sheriff FC at their own backyard and needed to put up a performance to redeem their image, playing against Shakhtar Donetsk was another cracker as their previous meeting went in the favour of the Ukrainian team but this time around the Los Blancos took the game to their host.
With a solid defensive setup for Shakhtar in the early quarter of the game, Real Madrid could only keep knocking at their door for an opener until Sergey Krivtsov, the skipper of Shakhtar in an attempt to clear the approaching pressure from Karim Benzima lofted the ball over his goal keeper to put the Los Blancos in the lead at the Stadion NSK Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv.
Vinicius Junior turned on the heat in the second half as he scored a brace in the 51′ and 56′ to put Real Madrid 3 goals adrift the hosts.
9′ after his brace, Vinicius Junior provided an assist to Rodrygo who netted the forth for the Los Blancos. It was a done deal for the home side as all seemed finished until France international Karim Benzima added the last to make it 5-0 in the 90+1′.
His work rate and performance for the night capped with a goal saw Benzima crowned MOTM. Real Madrid now place second on the group with Sheriff FC after the latter were defeated by Internationale Mila by 1-0 at the Giuseppe Meazza.
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