There was no photo at Anfield between Liverpool and Real Madrid (2-0). The French at Casa Blanca experienced a catastrophic match: Eduardo Camavinga was injured, Kylian Mbappé missed a penalty and Ferland Mendy caused one. The Reds continue their success, the Merengues are on the edge of the abyss.
The only club to have obtained 4 victories in 4 matches, Liverpool received a Real Madrid deprived of Vinicius Jr, hurt. Aligned to the left, its preferred position, Kylian Mbappé was eagerly awaited. What could have been his benchmark match turned into a nightmare (2-0).
The dominant Reds
From the 4th minute, he lost a ball in the Liverpool camp due to lack of speed. Author of the interception, Mo is wrong developed a counter express. Darwin Núñez crossed his shot, Thibaut Courtois deflected the ball with his hand, Raul Asencio came close to the csc but tackled at the last minute on his line to avoid opening the score.
The Madrid defender had a lot to do for his first Champions League match and he came close to being penalized after an altercation with Núñez who ended up on the ground: François Letexier finally warned the two players (12th).
Real Madrid tried to slow down the pace of the Reds, without really succeeding. Courtois saved his team again, by pouncing on Núñez who took the ball back from the Merengue defenders who had returned just in time (23rd).
Opposite to Conor BradleyMbappé had a rare opportunity to show off his burst of speed in a quick transition. Alas, the Northern Irishman made a supersonic return before making a high-class sliding tackle which delighted Anfield (32nd).
The dynamic was Liverpool. On a little pricked balloon, Alexis Mac Allister surprised the entire defense and Núñez placed a header towards the opposite side net: delivery for Luis Diaz or brand desire? Whatever the case, Courtois was not unhappy to see this attempt narrowly missed (33rd).
Apart from a free kick aboveArda Guler (22nd), Real Madrid’s offensive production was very poor and it was Edward Camavinga who was most in evidence for his team, which is hardly encouraging.
Mac Allister frees Anfield
The second period did not change the trend. Still not close, Mac Allister delivered a perfect cross to Bradley’s head: Courtois quickly bent to make a prodigious right hand save (51st).
But after a while, the Belgian can’t do everything. A few moments later, it was Bradley who found Mac Allister: the Argentinian slipped in an unstoppable cross shot to open the scoring (52nd).
The dike had just blown up and the Argentinian did not immediately take advantage of it. Alone at the entrance to the area, he did not work his ball enough while the whole stadium already saw the 2-0 goal: his shot went wide (54th).
Stunned, Real Madrid were on the ropes and Camavinga requested a change, injured in the thigh (57th) Besides Dani Ceballos, Lucas Vazquez came into play and it was he who changed the tone of the match, by causing a penalty ofAndy Robertson (59e).
Mbappé misses a penalty, Mendy causes one
But the tone of the meeting changed mainly for Mbappé. Little in spirits from the start, he could have made up for it by changing the sentence. Alas, he hit mid-height and with a slight rear imbalance: Caoihmin Kelleher started on the right side to deflect the Frenchman’s strike (61st).
The performance of the Madrid Tricolores took another hit when Ferland Mendyalso in great difficulty on the left side, committed a foul on Salah. The Egyptian wanted to take justice into his own hands: he found the post (70th).
Liverpool were clearly above their opponent. And inevitably, a new breach has opened. On a corner hit at Reims, Robertson found Cody Steel absolutely alone to place an unstoppable angry header for Courtois less than ten minutes after coming into play (76th).
Not capable of much offensively, Real Madrid did not really react despite the presence ofEndrick during the last quarter of an hour. Courtois avoided the correction by diverting a final try from Diaz, guilty of a second check that was too long (90th + 1).
5 matches, 5 wins, 15 points: Liverpool are at the top of the league stage. On the other hand, Real Madrid is on the edge of the precipice with only 6 points which equates to 24th place, just ahead of PSG first eliminated.
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