Real Madrid and City suffer Champions League humiliation while Liverpool win thanks to Alonso’s return

Real Madrid and Manchester City, two heavyweights of European football, suffered unexpected defeats in the Champions League on Tuesday.

The current champion of the tournament, the Spanish national team, lost at home to Milan, who won with a score of 3:1. Meanwhile, Erling Haaland missed a penalty and City squandered a lead four minutes later to lose 4-1 on the visit of Sporting Lisbon, whose coach will soon take the reins at Manchester United. internal rival.

The evening went much better for Liverpool. Colombian Luis Diaz scored a hat-trick and Cody Gakpo scored another in a 4-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen, the reigning German champions.

The Anfield result overshadowed Xabi Alonso’s return to his old home.

The current Leverkusen coach was warmly welcomed upon his return to the club, where he became one of the fans’ favorite players for five seasons from 2004 to 2009. Alonso won the Champions League with Liverpool in 2005.

Before the match, Sporting fans showed a huge message thanking Ruben Amorim in his last home match before taking over at Manchester United.

Phil Foden then gave City a great start and scored four minutes later. This was only the second goal Sporting conceded in four matches in the tournament.

But Swedish striker Victor Gyöckeres scored a hat-trick in response to Sporting’s reaction. Dieukeres equalized for the first time in the 38th after a perfect pass from Giovani Kenda.

Uruguayan Maximiliano Araujo made it 2-1 shortly after the break. Ghiokeres made it 3-1 in the 49th minute from the penalty spot after Josko Guardiol was penalized for pushing Francisco Trincao into the area.

Haaland’s penalty hit the crossbar before Gyökeres showed the Norwegian how it’s done, a penalty at the other end of the field completing the scoring and making it a hat-trick.

“In seven and a half years at the club, I don’t remember losing three games in a row,” said Bernardo Silva, City’s Portuguese midfielder.

In Madrid, Christian Pulisic headed in a corner from Malik Tio to give Milan the lead in the 12th minute. The Merengue side were thus at a disadvantage for the third match in a row in the Champions League this season.

Vinicius Junior leveled from the penalty spot in the 23rd after going down, but Alvaro Morata converted the rebound after Andrei Lunin blocked Rafael Leana’s shot to restore the visitors’ lead over his former club.

“The last two defeats are inexplicable. We are going to quickly analyze and react,” Lunin said, referring to Barcelona’s 4-0 win over Real Madrid in the previous Spanish La Liga match.

Since 2009, it has not happened that Madrid has lost two home games in a row, conceding at least three goals in each.

“We must straighten the path,” Lunin emphasized.

Morata has already received a hostile reaction from home fans, who obviously remember the goal he scored to take Juventus to the 2015 final at his side’s expense.

Tijani Reynders scored Milan’s third goal to the disappointment of the home fans at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

In addition, German striker Nicolas Kühn scored twice as Celtic beat Leipzig 3-1 at home and Juventus drew 1-1 with Lille.

Lille midfielder Edon Zhegrova eluded two defenders before delivering a perfect pass to Jonathan David, who fired home at the far post, only for Dusan Vlahovic to equalize with a penalty for the Italian club.

Donyell Malen scored late as Borussia Dortmund beat Sturm Graz 1-0 at home and Thilo Kehrer did the same as Monaco won 1-0 in Bologna.

American midfielder Malik Tillman scored and set up the play that led to another goal for PSV Eindhoven, who beat Girona 4–0.

Dinamo Zagreb inflicted a fourth defeat in a row on Slovan Bratislava in the tournament. The visitors came from behind to win 4-1 in Bratislava.