Real Madrid lost 1-3 to AC Milan
Manchester City of the English professional soccer Premier League (EPL) became the victim of an upset, losing to Portuguese professional soccer team Sporting.
Coach Huben Amorim’s Sporting, who was selected as the next Manchester United coach, played against Manchester City in the 4th round of the 2024-2025 season UEFA Champions League (UCL) league phase held in Lisbon, Portugal on the 6th (Korean time). Won 4-1.
With this win, Sporting continued their undefeated record with 3 wins and 1 draw.
Manchester City suffered their first loss in the UCL this season (2 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss).
In addition, Man City fell into a swamp of three consecutive losses, including a 1-2 loss in the round of 16 of the English League Cup (Carabao Cup) against Tottenham, a 1-2 loss in the 10th round of the 2024-2025 EPL season against Bournemouth, and a loss today.
It has been about 6 years and 7 months since April 2018 that Man City lost three official games in a row.
The match on this day attracted attention as a match between Manchester City and the next Manchester United manager.
Manchester United chose coach Amorim as the successor to coach Eric Tenhag, who recently parted ways due to poor performance. Coach Amorim is scheduled to join Manchester United after the international match in November.
Manchester City took an early lead with Phil Foden’s first goal in the fourth minute of the first half.
However, the atmosphere turned around when Sporting’s Victor Yoqueres scored a consolation goal in the 38th minute of the first half.
In the first minute of the second half, Maximiliano Araujo even scored a comeback goal.
Afterwards, Yokeres, who scored consecutive penalty kicks in the 4th and 35th minutes of the second half, completed a hat trick, giving the team a 3-point victory.
Meanwhile, on this day, ‘defending champion’ Real Madrid (Spain) lost 1-3 in the home game against AC Milan of Italian professional soccer Serie A.
Real gave up the first goal to Milan’s Malik Thiau in the 12th minute of the first half, but rebalanced the game with Vinicius Junior’s equalizer in the 23rd minute of the first half.
However, in the 39th minute of the first half, Alvaro Morata allowed the go-ahead goal again and was pulled.
They attempted to equalize the score, but lost one more goal to Tiani Lijnders in the 28th minute of the second half.
In addition, Yang Hyun-jun, who plays for Scotland’s prestigious Celtic team, played as a substitute in the second half of the game against Leipzig (Germany) and contributed to the team’s victory.
Celtic won 3-1 in the match against Leipzig held at home that day.
Celtic, with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss (7 points), was in 13th place.
Yang Hyun-jun, who plays for Celtic, stepped on the field in place of Nicolas-Gerrit Quinn in the 29th minute of the second half when the team was ahead 3-1.
Although he played for about 16 minutes and did not record any offensive points, he contributed to the team’s victory.
(Seoul = Newsis)
Source: www.donga.com
