Delayed again

The African version of the Total CAF Champions league unfortunately has been postponed for the second time. After September, new schedule was made for October and November, but the announcement from yesterday is telling that the 2019-20 edition got stuck again with couple of games left to be played until the end of the season.

Raja were on schedule to start its second semifinal, second leg on 01 November. However, the team from Casablanca reported 10 healthy players, while all the rest got infected with the virus, thus the match with Zamalek is currently on hold. As this number is not enough to commence any play, no one knows when will be completed. Mentioning it, the last duel can not be played as well which was scheduled on 06 November (where Al-Ahly is the first representative in the final), and who is now postponed on unspecified period of time.

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Couple of hat tricks achieved

Europa league group stage, single night, round 2 out of 6:

LASK - Ludogorets 4:3

Scorers: 1:0 02 (01.47) Husein Balic

               1:1 11 (10.54) Andreas Gruber

               2:1 14 (14.05) Elvis Manu

               3:1 34 (33.52) Marko Raguz

               4:1 55-own goal (54.59) Olivier Verdon

               4:2 66 (66.11) Elvis Manu

               4:3 73 (72.48) Elvis Manu

- Lukas Grgic (LASK) at 72 (71.52) was sent off because of two yellow cards.

Feyenoord - Wolfsberger 1:4

Scorers: 0:1 04-pen (03.41) Michel Liendl

               0:2 13-pen (12.38) Michel Liendl

               1:2 53 (52.58) Steven Berghuis

               1:3 60 (59.29) Michael Liendl

               1:4 66-pen (65.49) Dejan Joveljic

Zorya Luhansk - Braga 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 03 Joao Paulo Dias Fernandes (or just Paulinho)

               0:2 10 Nicolas Gaitan

               1:2 90+6 Dmytro Ivanisenya

CSKA Moscow - Dinamo Zagreb 0:0

Crvena zvezda - Slovan Liberec 5:1

Scorers: 1:0 06 (06.07) El Fardou Mohamed ben Nabouhane

               2:0 21 (21.01) El Fardou Mohamed ben Nabouhane

               2:1 41 (40.36) Jan Matousek

               3:1 49 (49.01) Milan Gajic

               4:1 67 (66.22) Aleksandar Katai

               5:1 69 (68.59) Diego Falcinelli

Qarabag - Villarreal 1:3 (played in Istanbul, Turkey)

Scorers: 1:0 78 (77.46) Owusu Kwabena

               1:1 79 (79.19) Yeremi Jesus Pino Santos

               1:2 84 (83.58) Francisco Alcacer

               1:3 95-pen (95.10) Francisco Alcacer

Gent - Hoffenheim 1:4

Scorers: 0:1 35-pen (35.00) Ishak Belfodil

               0:2 52 (51.24) Florian Grillitsch

               0:3 73 (72.36) Mijat Gacinovic

               1:3 90+2 (91.58) Tim Kleindienst

               1:4 90+3 (92.51) Mu'nas Dabbur

- An 11 metre shot from Roman Yaremchuk (Gent) was perfectly saved on 13 (13.07).

Lille - Celtic 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 28 (27.30) Mohamed Elyounoussi

               0:2 32 (31.57) Mohamed Elyounoussi

               1:2 66 (66.15) Mehmet Zeki Celik

               2:2 75 (74.31) Nanitamo Ikone

- The visiting goalkeeper Scott Bain saved an 11 metre shot from Jonathan David (Lille) at 40 (39.59).

Sivasspor - Maccabi Tel Aviv 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 54 (54.07) Olarenwaju Kayode

               1:1 68-pen (67.59) Dan Biton

               1:2 74 (73.37) Dor Peretz

- Samba Camara (Sivasspor) on 66 (66.02) have done a nasty foul in the penalty box for a direct red card.

Milan - Sparta Praha 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 24 (23.47) Brahim Diaz

               2:0 56 (56.20) Rafael Leao

               3:0 66 (65.55) Diogo Dalot

- Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Milan) at 36 (35.41) hit the crossbar from 11 metres. 

Antwerp - Tottenham 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 29 (28.32) Lior Refaelov

Glasgow rangers - Lech 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 68 (67.22) Alfredo Morelos

Slavia Praha - Bayer Leverkusen 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 79 (79.14) Peter Olayinka

- Nasty foul for a direct red card has done Karim Bellarabi (Bayer Leverkusen) on 21 (21.10).

- Slavia Praha had a penalty, but the shot from Nicolae Stanciu at 64 (64.16) was beautifully saved.

Benfica - Standard Liege 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 49-pen Luis Miguel Afonso Fernandes (known as Pizzi)

               2:0 66-pen (65.22) Luca Waldschmidt

               3:0 76 (75.40) Luis Miguel Afonso Fernandes (known as Pizzi)

Roma - CSKA Sofia 0:0

Cluj - Young boys Bern 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 61 (61.04) Mario Rondon

               1:1 69 (68.23) Christian Fassnacht

Granada - PAOK 0:0

Arsenal - Dundalk 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 41 (41.13) Eddie Nketiah

               2:0 43 (43.20) Joseph Willock

               3:0 46 (45.32) Nicolas Pepe

AZ - Rijeka 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 06-pen (05.55) Teun Koopmeiners

               2:0 20 (19.35) Albert Gudmundsson

               3:0 51 (50.37) Jesper Karlsson

               4:0 59 (59.07) Albert Gudmundsson

               4:1 71 (71.18) Sandro Kulenovic

Omonia - PSV 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 28 (28.06) Jordi Gomez

               1:1 40 (39.28) Donyell Malen

               1:2 90+2 (91.42) Donyell Malen

Molde - Rapid Wien 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 65 (64.52) Ohi Omoijuanfo

Real Sociedad - Napoli 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 55 (54.36) Matteo Politano

- At 92 Victor Osimhen (Napoli) left the pitch early because of two yellow cards.

Nice - Hapoel Be'er Sheva 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 22 (22.00) Amine Gouiri

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It is still a 'success': two duels were clean without an 11 metre punishment

Group phase of Champions league, night 2 of 2, round 2 of 6:

Krasnodar - Chelsea 0:4

Scorers: 0:1 37 (36.34) Callum Hudson-Odoi

               0:2 75-pen (75.09) Timo Werner

               0:3 79 (78.57) Hakim Ziyech

               0:4 90 (89.48) Christian Pulisic

- Jorge Luiz Frello Filho (known as Jorginho, Chelsea) humiliated himself when his penalty shot hit the bar at 14 (13.27).

Basaksehir - PSG 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 63 (63.17) Moise Kean

               0:2 78 (78.16) Moise Kean

Ferencvaros - Dynamo Kyiv 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 27-pen (27.18) Viktor Tsyhankov

               0:2 41 (40.28) Carlos de Pena

               1:2 58 (58.19) Tokmac Nguen

               2:2 89 (89.12) Franck Boli

- On 85 (85.06) Serhiy Sydorchuk (Dynamo Kyiv) had to go early in the dressing room because of his second yellow card.

Juventus - Barcelona 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 14 (13.37) Ousmane Dembele

               0:2 90-pen (90.05) Lionel Messi

- For not being careful enough, the home defender Merih Demiral received his second yellow card on 85 (84.33).

Club Brugge - Lazio 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 13 (13.04) Joaquin Correa

               1:1 41-pen (41.09) Hans Vanaken

Borussia Dortmund - Zenit Saint Petersburg 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 78-pen (77.52) Jadon Sancho

               2:0 90+1 (90.27) Erling Braut Haland

Sevilla - Stade Rennais 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 55 (54.57) Luuk de Jong

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Equal number of home victories and draws

Group phase of Champions league, night 1 of 2, round 2 of 6:

Lokomotiv Moscow - Bayern Munich 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 13 (12.55) Leon Goretzka

               1:1 69 (69.03) Anton Miranchuk

               1:2 79 (78.43) Joshua Kimmich

Shakhtar Donetsk - Inter 0:0

Borussia Monchengladbach - Real Madrid 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 32 (32.10) Marcus Thuram

               2:0 58 (57.26) Marcus Thuram

               2:1 87 (86.27) Karim Benzema

               2:2 90+2 (92.18) Carlos Henrique Casimiro (or just Casemiro)

Porto - Olympiacos 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 11 (10.42) Fabio Vieira

               2:0 84 (84.14) Sergio Oliveira

Atletico Madrid - Red bull Salzburg 3:2

Scorers: 1:0 28 (28.20) Marcos Llorente

               1:1 40 (39.48) Dominik Szoboszlai

               1:2 46 (46.04) Mergim Berisha

               2:2 51 (51.04) Joao Felix

               3:2 84 (84.16) Joao Felix

Atalanta - Ajax 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 30-pen (29.27) Dusan Tadic

               0:2 37 (37.12) Lassina Traore

               1:2 53 (53.09) Duvan Zapata

               2:2 60 (59.23) Duvan Zapata

Liverpool - Midtjylland 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 55 (54.30) Diogo Jose Teixeira da Silva (known as Diogo Jota)

               2:0 90+2-pen (92.04) Mohamed Salah

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Protests against police brutality

For weeks throughout Nigeria there are mass protests against police brutality where people wants fair system for all. Unfortunately there are many deaths, most injured and because of that more and more athletes joins the campaign against the harassment, violence and torture from the ruling officials. Among them are the midfielder John Ogu who is proposing boycotting on future matches as a stage of protest, whilst Odion Ighalo is embarrassed from the Nigerian government calling them a 'shame to the world'.

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Second consecutive week of European club action

We are continuing in the same pace and for the last week of this month are scheduled to be played the second round for both European Cup (league) events. As usually in this stage, 40 new duels have to be staged in 3 successive nights.

At both nights of the Champions league there are eight matches. But instead of four and four, two of them will be played in the first time slot, while six awaits us in the second.

Tuesday, 27 October at 18.55 CET: Lokomotiv Moscow - Bayern Munich.

Tuesday, 27 October at 18.55 CET: Shakhtar Donetsk - Inter.

Tuesday, 27 October at 21.00 CET: Atalanta - Ajax.

Tuesday, 27 October at 21.00 CET: Atletico Madrid - Red bull Salzburg.

Tuesday, 27 October at 21.00 CET: Borussia Monchengladbach - Real Madrid.

Tuesday, 27 October at 21.00 CET: Liverpool - Midtjylland.

Tuesday, 27 October at 21.00 CET: Olympique Marseille - Manchester city.

Tuesday, 27 October at 21.00 CET: Porto - Olympiacos.

Wednesday, 28 October at 18.55 CET: Basaksehir - PSG.

Wednesday, 28 October at 18.55 CET: Krasnodar - Chelsea.

Wednesday, 28 October at 21.00 CET: Borussia Dortmund - Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Wednesday, 28 October at 21.00 CET: Club Brugge - Lazio.

Wednesday, 28 October at 21.00 CET: Ferencvaros - Dynamo Kyiv.

Wednesday, 28 October at 21.00 CET: Juventus - Barcelona.

Wednesday, 28 October at 21.00 CET: Manchester united - Rasenballsport Leipzig.

Wednesday, 28 October at 21.00 CET: Sevilla - Stade Rennais.

The situation at Europa league is equal and unchangeable. Over here are also two kick offs and all of them are happening on a single night. Belief only remains that the following 48 clubs are going to show same incredible goals, turnarounds and good entertainment for all of us after the first magical phase.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: AEK - Leicester.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Antwerp - Tottenham.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Crvena zvezda - Slovan Liberec.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: CSKA Moscow - Dinamo Zagreb.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Feyenoord - Wolfsberger.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Gent - Hoffenheim.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: LASK - Ludogorets.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Lille - Celtic.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Milan - Sparta Praha.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Qarabag - Villarreal.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Sivasspor - Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Thursday, 29 October at 18.55 CET: Zorya Luhansk - Braga.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Arsenal - Dundalk.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: AZ - Rijeka.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Benfica - Standard Liege.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Cluj - Young boys Bern.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Glasgow rangers - Lech.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Granada - PAOK.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Molde - Rapid Wien.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Nice - Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Omonia - PSV.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Real Sociedad - Napoli.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Roma - CSKA Sofia.

Thursday, 29 October at 21.00 CET: Slavia Praha - Bayer Leverkusen.

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Manipulators were not careful enough so they got caught

Whether we like it or not, corruption is extremely deep rooted into this sport, and the latest case just prove this thesis from eight days ago.

Twenty people were detained on charges that they knew the results upfront from second and third league duels in Czech Republic. Police have conducted raids throughout the whole country, while the football association have only confirmed these reports whose its headquarters were also searched. Likewise among this criminal group there were rumors that the associate of the affiliation (and former referee) Roman Berbr was captured in this scandal, but this was not verified until now.

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Quality Asian club football on one place

First was one region, then the second and at the end was revealed the cream of the cake. After West zone from the Asian Champions league, the East also is going to play in Qatar, while last Friday it was just confirmed the inevitable: that the same nation will stage the very last game of the event. As it stands, the West region winner Persepolis is going to play against the counterpart of an unknown victory team from the East side in the big final duel of the season in Al Wakrah on 19 December.

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Lots of turnarounds, couple hat tricks, beautiful goals and exciting duels

Europa league group stage, single night, round 1 out of 6:

Lech - Benfica 2:4

Scorers: 0:1 08-pen (08.02) Luis Miguel Afonso Fernandez (known as Pizzi)

               1:1 15 (14.35) Mikael Ishak

               1:2 42 (41.52) Darwin Gabriel Nunez Ribeiro

               2:2 48 (47.54) Mikael Ishak

               2:3 60 (59.34) Darwin Gabriel Nunez Ribeiro

               2:4 90+3 (92.23) Darwin Gabriel Nunez Ribeiro

Standard Liege - Glasgow rangers 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 19-pen (18.31) James Tavernier

               0:2 90+2 (92.04) Kemar Roofe

PSV - Granada 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 45 (45.14) Mario Gotze

               1:1 56 (56.12) Jorge Molina

               1:2 66 (65.53) Darwin Machis

Hapoel Be'er Sheva - Slavia Praha 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 45 (44.36) Jhonatan Agudelo

               1:1 75 (74.44) Lukas Provod

               2:1 86 (85.28) Elton Acolatse

               3:1 87 (87.18) Elton Acolatse

Dundalk - Molde 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 34 (34.07) Sean Murray

               1:1 62 (61.25) Etzaz Hussain

               1:2 72-pen (71.37) Ohi Omoijuanfo

PAOK - Omonia 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 15 (15.05) Eric Bautheac

               1:1 56 (55.53) Thomas Murg

Young boys Bern - Roma 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 14-pen (13.37) Jean-Pierre Nsame

               1:1 68 (68.11) Bruno Peres

               1:2 73 (72.59) Marash Kumbulla

Rijeka - Real Sociedad 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 90+2 (92.02) Jon Bautista

Rapid Wien - Arsenal 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 50 (50.17) Taxiarchis Fountas

               1:1 70 (69.48) David Luiz

               1:2 74 (73.21) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

CSKA Sofia - Cluj 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 52 (52.09) Mario Junior Rondon Fernandez

               0:2 73-pen (73.05) Ciprian Ioan Deac

Napoli - AZ 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 56 (56.09) Dani de Wit

Braga - AEK 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 43 (43.20) Wenderson Galeno

               2:0 78 (77.24) Joao Paulo Dias Fernandes (or just Paulinho)

               3:0 88 (87.29) Ricardo Horta

Slovan Liberec - Gent 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 29 (28.53) Abdulla Yusuf

Leicester - Zorya Luhansk 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 28 (28.20) James Maddison

               2:0 45 (44.28) Harvey Barnes

               3:0 67 (66.29) Kelechi Iheanacho

Totenham - LASK 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 18 (17.39) Lucas Moura

               2:0 27-own goal (26.44) Andres Andrade

               3:0 83 (83.16) Son Heung-min

Ludogorets - Antwerp 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 46 (45.44) Higinio Marin Escavy

               1:1 62 (62.04) Pieter Gerkens

               1:2 70 (69.53) Lior Refaelov

Maccabi Tel Aviv - Qarabag 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 09 (09.14) Yonatan Cohen

Hoffenheim - Crvena zvezda 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 64 (63.22) Christoph Baumgartner

               2:0 90+3 (92.24) Munas Dabbur

Celtic - Milan 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 13 (13.16) Rade Krunic

               0:2 42 (41.32) Brahim Diaz

               1:2 76 (75.44) Mohamed Elyounoussi

               1:3 90+2 (91.43) Jens Petter Hauge

Wolfsberger - CSKA Moscow 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 04 (04.14) Adolfo Gaich

               1:1 42-pen (41.33) Michael Liendl

Sparta Praha - Lille 1:4

Scorers: 0:1 45 (44.55) Yusuf Yazici

               1:1 46 (45.57) Borek Dockal

               1:2 60 (59.37) Yusuf Yazici

               1:3 65 (65.12) Jonathan Ikone

               1:4 75 (74.29) Yusuf Yazici

- Ladislav Krejci II (Sparta Praha) deservedly received a direct red card who did a nasty foul on 23 (22.36).

Dinamo Zagreb - Feyenoord 0:0

- At 07 (07.16) the home goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic beautifully saved an 11 metre punishment from Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord).

- For two yellow cards Marcos Senesi (Feyenoord) had to leave the game on 72 (72.01).

Villarreal - Sivasspor 5:3

Scorers: 1:0 12 (12.04) Takefusa Kubo

               2:0 20 (19.37) Carlos Bacca

               2:1 32 (32.07) Olarenwaju Kayode

               2:2 42 (42.04) Mustapha Yatabare

               3:2 56 (56.09) Juan Foyth

               3:3 64 (63.22) Max-Alain Gradel

               4:3 74 (73.25) Francisco Alcacer

               5:3 78 (77.33) Francisco Alcacer

- Carlos Bacca (Villarreal) had an 11 metre punishment on 36 (36.02), but it was perfectly saved by the visiting number one Mamadou Samassa.

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Identical results going different ways

Group phase of Champions league, night 2 of 2, round 1 of 6:

Red bull Salzburg - Lokomotiv Moscow 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 19 (18.22) Ederzito Antonio Macedo Lopes (or just Eder)

               1:1 44 (44.16) Dominik Szoboszlai

               2:1 50 (49.39) Zlatko Junuzovic

               2:2 74 (74.05) Vitaly Lisakovich

Real Madrid - Shakhtar Donetsk 2:3

Scorers: 0:1 28 (28.11) Mateus Cardozo Lemos Martins (more known as Tete)

               0:2 32-own goal (32.03) Raphael Varane

               0:3 42 (41.31) Manor Solomon

               1:3 53 (53.04) Luka Modric

               2:3 59 (58.30) Vinicius Junior

Midtjylland - Atalanta 0:4

Scorers: 0:1 26 (25.39) Duvan Zapata

               0:2 36 (35.48) Alejandro Dario Gomez

               0:3 42 (41.29) Luis Fernando Muriel Fruto

               0:4 88 (87.57) Aleksei Miranchuk

Bayern Munich - Atletico Madrid 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 28 (27.49) Kingsley Coman

               2:0 41 (40.40) Leon Goretzka

               3:0 66 (65.26) Corentin Tolisso

               4:0 71 (71.10) Kingsley Coman

Ajax - Liverpool 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 35-own goal (34.30) Nicolas Tagliafico

Manchester city - Porto 3:1

Scorers: 0:1 13 (13.12) Marulanda Fernando Luis Diaz

               1:1 20-pen (19.54) Sergio Aguero

               2:1 65 (64.40) Ilkay Gundogan

               3:1 72 (72.09) Ferran Torres

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Winner in stoppage time

Group phase of Champions league, night 1 of 2, round 1 of 6:

Zenit Saint Petersburg - Club Brugge 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 63 (62.25) Emmanuel Bonaventure

               1:1 74-own goal (73.35) Ethan Horvath

               1:2 90+3 (92.50) Charles de Ketelaere

Dynamo Kyiv - Juventus 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 46 (45.48) Alvaro Morata

               0:2 83 (83.16) Alvaro Morata

Stade Rennais - Krasnodar 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 56-pen (55.47) Serhou Guirassy

               1:1 59 (58.36) Cristian Ramirez

Barcelona - Ferencvaros 5:1

Scorers: 1:0 27-pen (26.47) Lionel Messi

               2:0 41 (41.06) Anssumane Fati

               3:0 52 (51.28) Philippe Coutinho

               3:1 70-pen (69.25) Ihor Kharatin

               4:1 82 (81.54) Pedro Lopez (known as Pedri)

               5:1 89 (88.50) Ousmane Dembele

- At 68 (67.43) Gerard Pique (Barcelona) deservedly received a direct red card for stopping the opposing player to score in a sloppy way.

Rasenballsport Leipzig - Basaksehir 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 15 (15.15) Jose Angel Esmoris Tasende (or just Angelino)

               2:0 20 (19.25) Jose Angel Esmoris Tasende (or just Angelino)

Chelsea - Sevilla 0:0

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Termination of contract at an very early stage

Only six days have passed when Santos ended the contract with Robson de Souza (more known as Robinho). After much pressure from the spectators and team sponsors, last Friday the Brazilian club forcefully had to terminate the deal with the striker because he is charged on an gang rape of a 22-year-old Albanian woman at a nightclub in Milan (Italy) at 2013. In 2017 the court in Milan sentenced the 36-year-old to nine years in prison who ever since have denied everything. Letting go from his football activities can now be more focused on proving his innocence.

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Playing duels at group stage - the beginning

Usually these two competitions are taking place around middle of September each year, but due to known health issues they were delayed one month later. Because of that, in the following three midweeks consecutively we are going to be entertained with the European Cups (league) that also marks the official start of 2020-21 season in the continent. After qualifiers are over part number two (until December) will be - the group phases.

Eight equal duels on two successive nights with couple of kick off times. In short, this is the recipe for the Champions league. The only clubs playing here from Denmark and Turkey, together with Krasnodar and Stade Rennais, are going to participate for the first time in this event.

Tuesday, 20 October at 18.55 CET: Dynamo Kyiv - Juventus.

Tuesday, 20 October at 18.55 CET: Zenit Saint Petersburg - Club Brugge.

Tuesday, 20 October at 21.00 CET: Barcelona - Ferencvaros.

Tuesday, 20 October at 21.00 CET: Chelsea - Sevilla.

Tuesday, 20 October at 21.00 CET: Lazio - Borussia Dortmund.

Tuesday, 20 October at 21.00 CET: PSG - Manchester united.

Tuesday, 20 October at 21.00 CET: Rasenballsport Leipzig - Basaksehir.

Tuesday, 20 October at 21.00 CET: Stade Rennais - Krasnodar.

Wednesday, 21 October at 18.55 CET: Real Madrid - Shakhtar Donetsk

Wednesday, 21 October at 18.55 CET: Red bull Salzburg - Lokomotiv Moscow.

Wednesday, 21 October at 21.00 CET: Ajax - Liverpool.

Wednesday, 21 October at 21.00 CET: Bayern Munich - Atletico Madrid.

Wednesday, 21 October at 21.00 CET: Inter - Borussia Monchengladbach.

Wednesday, 21 October at 21.00 CET: Manchester city - Porto.

Wednesday, 21 October at 21.00 CET: Midtjylland - Atalanta.

Wednesday, 21 October at 21.00 CET: Olympiacos - Olympique Marseille.

Club competition number two which is playing unfortunately on one single night have 24 duels. Because of many matches that kickoff in the same time there may be difficulties what to watch among the most interesting Europa league: 12 at the first time slot and 12 in the second. Here from next week are going to appear five debutants: the only teams from Cyprus and Turkey plus Antwerp, Granada and Leicester.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Bayer Leverkusen - Nice.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: CSKA Sofia - Cluj.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Dundalk - Molde.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Hapoel Be'er Sheva - Slavia Praha.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Lech - Benfica.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Napoli - AZ.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: PAOK - Omonia.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: PSV - Granada.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Rijeka - Real Sociedad.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Standard Liege - Glasgow rangers.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Rapid Wien - Arsenal.

Thursday, 22 October at 18.55 CET: Young boys Bern - Roma.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Braga - AEK.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Celtic - Milan.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Dinamo Zagreb - Feyenoord.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Hoffenheim - Crvena zvezda.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Leicester - Zorya Luhansk.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Ludogorets - Antwerp.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Qarabag.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Slovan Liberec - Gent.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Sparta Praha - Lille.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Totenham - LASK.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Villarreal - Sivasspor.

Thursday, 22 October at 21.00 CET: Wolfsberger - CSKA Moscow.

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Yearly earnings and expenses

Last Saturday La Gazzetta dello sport released a list of salaries from players and costs of each 20 teams at Italian Serie A. Here will be presented only few of them.

Biggest wage on the Apennine Peninsula has Cristiano Ronaldo who is earning 31 million euros per year. Defender Matthijs de Ligt is second with 8 million, while 7.3 million euros is receiving the striker Paulo Dybala which is in third spot...

As clubs are concerned, the large spender here is Juventus who is giving salaries in total amount of 236 million. Inter is following them with 149 million euros, 112 million goes to Roma, costs in Napoli are 105 million euros, 90 million have Milan...whilst expenses at Spezia are the lowest among all the clubs in the championship who separates 22 million euros on wages.

Overall all earnings in comparison from last year have been dropped by 72 million, and the reason is very obvious why that happened.

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Various news from two opposing clubs

Last week couple of fierce rivals, which their derby is the most famous in the world (and where next Saturday will be their first clash of this season), have released different statements: one is concerning the future international club tournament while the other is a news from natural case that began seven months ago.

Past Tuesday the European football association have announced that Real Madrid will not play their group games of the Champions league (which is starting next week) on its well-known stadium. Due to the renovation of Santiago Bernabeu the three home duels are going to be shifted to the reserve (arena) estadio Alfredo di Stefano. No matter of the low capacity of 6.000 seats, at the moment fans cannot attend matched in the competition, so this was the perfect time that the major stadium is redeveloped. In the meantime, if spectators can be allowed to be present. the club said that they will return at the new renewed venue from the knockout stage, but only if the health situation is improved.

And speaking of that health situation, like any other club in the globe, Barcelona too have lost plenty of finances. On 05 October have released a detailed report that from planned 1.058 billion euros the income has ended with 855 million, which is 203 million euros less at the financial 2019-20 year. Including taxes, the team have lost a total amount of enormous 97 million euros. Main cause for this loss lies on the epidemic. For 2020-21 the club is expecting revenues of 791 million, of course if the mentioned thing will disappear forever, so that tourism and slowly returning fans on the stadium can somewhat improve the situation.

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Host on first region awarded to welcome teams for second as well

After successfully finished matches from the West zone on 03 October, the other region of the Asian Champions league is going to completed on the same place. Last Friday the Qatar football association has only confirmed that duels from the East zone of the competition is going to be played on its soil. Beginning from round of 16 (or first knock out phase) and up until the semifinal, each of these seven duels will be on from 18 November as far as 13 December.

Six nights later (19 December, where Persepolis is a victorious club of the West region) on schedule is the big final, and where will be staged is going to be announced in the following months.

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Completion of round four

Nations league 2020-21 season - European version, round 4, night 2 out of 2:

Lithuania - Albania 0:0

Finland - Republic of Ireland 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 66 (65.57) Fredrik Jensen

Belarus - Kazakhstan 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 35 (35.03) Yevgeniy Yablonskiy

               2:0 90+3 (92.54) Roman Yuzepchuk

Estonia - Armenia 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 08 (07.39) Kamo Hovhannisyan

               1:1 13 (12.57) Rauno Sappinen

Russia - Hungary 0:0

Portugal - Sweden 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 21 (20.21) Bernardo Silva

               2:0 43 (43.08) Diogo Jose Teixeira da Siva (known as Diogo Jota)

               3:0 72 (71.52) Diogo Jose Teixeira da Siva (known as Diogo Jota)

Moldova - Slovenia 0:4

Scorers: 0:1 08 (07.37) Sandi Lovric

               0:2 36-pen (36.17) Haris Vuckic

               0:3 42 (41.41) Haris Vuckic

               0:4 54-pen (54.18) Haris Vuckic

Greece - Kosovo 0:0

- The home team had a punishment at 19 (18.56), but the shot from Anastasios Bakasetas was beautifully saved by Arijanet Muric (Kosovo).

Slovakia - Israel 2:3

Scorers: 1:0 16 (15.56) Marek Hamsik

               2:0 38 (37.47) Robert Mak

               2:1 68 (67.40) Eran Zahavi

               2:2 76 (75.48) Eran Zahavi

               2:3 88 (88.14) Eran Zahavi

Bulgaria - Wales 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 84 (84.08) Jonathan Williams

Turkey - Serbia 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 21 (20.58) Sergej Milinkovic-Savic

               0:2 49-pen (48.41) Aleksandar Mitrovic

               1:2 56 (55.58) Hakan Calhanoglu

               2:2 75 (75.20) Ozan Tufan

- Burak Yilmaz (Turkey) was sent off in 90 (90.01) due to two yellow cards.

Italy - Netherlands 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 16 (15.54) Lorenzo Pellegrini

               1:1 25 (24.56) Donny van de Beek

England - Denmark 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 35-pen (34.42) Christian Eriksen

- For two yellow cards at 31 (30.40) Harry Maguire (England) had to leave the pitch.

Norway - Northern Ireland 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 67-own goal (66.41) Stuart Dallas

Scotland - Czech Republic 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 06 (05.46) Ryan Fraser

Romania - Austria 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 75 (74.52) Alessandro Schopf

Iceland - Belgium 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 09 (08.50) Romelu Lukaku

               1:1 17 (16.29) Birkir mar Saevarsson

               1:2 37-pen (37.07) Romelu Lukaku

Poland - Bosnia and Herzegovina 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 40 (39.41) Robert Lewandowski

               2:0 45 (44.59) Karol Linetty

               3:0 51 (50.58) Robert Lewandowski

- Direct red card in this duel picked up the visiting player Anel Ahmedhodzic for a nasty foul at 14 (13.58).

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Breathtaking and insane elimination matches from South America

Qualifiers for World Cup Qatar 2022 - South American region, round 02, single night / morning:

Bolivia - Argentina 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 24 (23.41) Marcelo Marins Moreno

               1:1 44 (44.19) Lautaro Martinez

               1:2 79 (78.24) Joaquin Correa

Ecuador - Uruguay 4:2

Scorers: 1:0 14 (14.11) Moises Caicedo

               2:0 45+4 (48.29) Michael Steveen Estrada Martinez

               3:0 52 (52.00) Michael Steveen Estrada Martinez

               4:0 75 (74.41) Gonzalo Plata

               4:1 84-pen (83.24) Luis Suarez

               4:2 90+5-pen (94.50) Luis Suarez

Venezuela - Paraguay 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 85 (84.51) Gaston Gimenez

- Yangel Herrera missed a perfect chance to equalize for Venezuela when his shot was perfectly saved at 90+4 (94.16).

Peru - Brazil 2:4

Scorers: 1:0 05 (05.17) Andre Carillo

               1:1 28-pen (27.47) Neymar da Silva Santos junior

               2:1 59 (58.31) Renato Tapia

               2:2 64 (63.58) Richarlison de Andrade

               2:3 83-pen (82.33) Neymar da Silva Santos junior

               2:4 90+3 (93.19) Neymar da Silva Santos junior

- The home team ended this match with nine players: Carlos Caceda was first sent off at 85, while on 88 Carlos Zambrano followed him in the dressing room (both receiving direct red cards).

Chile - Colombia 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 07 (06.42) Jefferson Lerma

               1:1 37-pen (37.15) Arturo Vidal

               2:1 41 (40.55) Alexis Sanchez

               2:2 90+1 (90.40) Radamel Falcao

Additional information: unbelievably 20 goals were scored from only 5 games on the exciting night in South America plus there were the first direct red cards, plenty of disallowed targets, lots of converted and saved punishment/s, together with the first hat trick who has already arrived. And this is only the second round played out of 18 in total...

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Six targets was given in a single game, but no one has won

Nations league 2020-21 season - European version, round 4, night 1 out of 2:

Azerbaijan - Cyprus 0:0 (played on neutral place: Elbasani, Albania)

- Gara Garayev (Azerbaijan) did not convert a penalty as his shot was perfectly saved at 26 (26.11).

Latvia - Malta 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 90+6 (95.49) Steve Borg

Faroe islands - Andorra 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 19 (18.50) Klaemint Olsen

               2:0 33 (32.26) Klaemint Olsen

- Faroe islands had a punishment on 35 (35.16) when the shot from Hallur Hansson was beautifully saved.

Liechtenstein - San Marino 0:0

Ukraine - Spain 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 76 (75.37) Viktor Tsyhankov

Germany - Switzerland 3:3

Scorers: 0:1 05 (04.33) Mario Gavranovic

               0:2 26 (25.55) Remo Freuler

               1:2 28 (27.47) Timo Werner

               2:2 54 (54.10) Kai Havertz

               2:3 56 (55.58) Mario Gavranovic

               3:3 60 (59.42) Serge Gnabry

- The visiting team finished this game with 10 men, because at 90+3 (93.08) Fabian Schar picked up his second yellow card.

Montenegro - Luxembourg 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 33 (33.07) Igor Ivanovic

               1:1 41 (41.04) Edvin Muratovic

               1:2 85 (85.12) Daniel Sinani

- Before this duel has ended, three players were sent early in the dressing room because of ugly fighting on the pitch: on 90+5 (94.49) both Marko Jankovic (Montenegro) and Olivier Thill (Luxembourg) deservedly received direct red cards, while second yellow was for Marko Simic eight seconds later [90+5 (94.57)].

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Deal on a three year basis

More and more companies are interested to cover the best of football has to offer from the Asian continent. The latest corporation who have struck an agreement with the confederation is FPT Telecom from Vietnam. Couple of days ago the company won the rights to show all major national teams and club tournaments on its digital and pay channels from 2021 through the 2024 period: in a showing of both men and female section, youth tournaments as well as official competitive events (qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup - Asian region, Asian Cup 2023 together with Champions league and AFC Cup).

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Round two with all five duels on one night

Sixteen targets at the opening phase or 3.2 goals on each 5 matches. This is in short the statistics after the successful commencing of the elimination stage at South America for the winter World Cup in 2022 at Qatar. Next week on schedule is the second and last round in this month, where (at the most) peacefully we can watch three full games and enjoy the football charms this continent has to offer.

Tuesday, 13 October at 22.00 CET: Bolivia - Argentina.

Tuesday, 13 October at 23.00 CET: Ecuador - Uruguay.

Wednesday, 14 October at 00.00 CET: Venezuela - Paraguay.

Wednesday, 14 October at 02.00 CET: Peru - Brazil.

Wednesday, 14 October at 02.30 CET: Chile - Colombia.

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Going into second halves of group plays

After the disappointing and dreadful performance in the last couple of nights, there is one more round from the Nations league this month. Hopefully in the fourth stage, which is starting next week, we will see plenty of goals from the teams who needs to be a little more effective on half / empty stadia, and at least copy somewhat what is happening on the other side of the globe at the moment in South America. One kick-off time is removed here, thus we are going to have only two, and most duels are going to be played in the late session.

Tuesday, 13 October at 18.00 CET: Azerbaijan - Cyprus.

Tuesday, 13 October at 18.00 CET: Latvia - Malta.

Tuesday, 13 October at 20.45 CET: Faroe islands - Andorra.

Tuesday, 13 October at 20.45 CET: Germany - Switzerland.

Tuesday, 13 October at 20.45 CET: Liechtenstein - San Marino.

Tuesday, 13 October at 20.45 CET: Montenegro - Luxembourg.

Tuesday, 13 October at 20.45 CET: Ukraine - Spain.

Wednesday, 14 October at 18.00 CET: Finland - Republic of Ireland.

Wednesday, 14 October at 18.00 CET: Lithuania - Albania.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Belarus - Kazakhstan.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Bulgaria - Wales.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Croatia - France.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: England - Denmark.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Estonia - Armenia.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Greece - Kosovo.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Iceland - Belgium.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Italy - Netherlands.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Moldova - Slovenia.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Norway - Northern Ireland.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Poland - Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Portugal - Sweden.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Romania - Austria.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Russia - Hungary.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Scotland - Czech Republic.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Slovakia - Israel.

Wednesday, 14 October at 20.45 CET: Turkey - Serbia.

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More four dull games happened tonight where also finally first hat trick has arrived

Nations league 2020-21 season - European version, round 3, night 2 out of 2:

Republic of Ireland - Wales 0:0

- The home team finished the game with 10 men on the pitch, because James McClean was sent off for two yellow cards at 83 (82.25).

Kazakhstan - Albania 0:0

Norway - Romania 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 12 (12.14) Erling Braut Haland

               2:0 39 (38.22) Alexander Sorloth

               3:0 64 (63.35) Erling Braut Haland

               4:0 73 (73.13) Erling Braut Haland

Lithuania - Belarus 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 07 (06.49) Arvydas Novikovas

               1:1 59-pen (58.47) Vitaly Lisakovich

               1:2 66 (65.50) Alyaksandr Sachywka

               2:2 74 (74.13) Karolis Laukzemis

Croatia - Sweden 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 31 (30.57) Nikola Vlasic

               1:1 66 (65.30) Marcus Berg

               2:1 83 (83.10) Andrej Kramaric

Armenia - Georgia 2:2 (played on neutral venue: Tychy, Poland)

Scorers: 1:0 05 (05.06) Khoren Bayramyan

               1:1 46 (45.23) Nika Kacharava

               1:2 74 (73.52) Tornike Okriashvili

               2:2 88-pen (88.02) Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Finland - Bulgaria 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 52 (51.51) Robert Taylor

               2:0 67 (66.21) Fredrik Jensen

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Netherlands 0:0

England - Belgium 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 16-pen (15.27) Romelu Lukaku

               1:1 39-pen (38.27) Marcus Rashford

               2:1 64 (63.51) Mason Mount

France - Portugal 0:0

Russia - Turkey 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 28 (27.44) Anton Miranchuk

               1:1 62 (61.50) Kenan Karaman

Israel - Czech Republic 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 14-own goal (13.52) Joel abu Hanna

               0:2 47 (46.58) Matej Vydra

               1:2 55 (54.59) Eran Zahavi

Iceland - Denmark 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 44-own goal (44.06) Runar mar Sigurjonsson

               0:2 46 (45.47) Christian Eriksen

               0:3 60 (60.11) Robert Skov

Scotland - Slovakia 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 54 (53.51) Lyndon Dykes

Kosovo - Slovenia 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 21 (21.19) Haris Vukcic

Serbia - Hungary 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 20 (19.55) Norbert Konyves

Northern Ireland - Austria 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 42 (41.49) Michael Gregoritsch

Greece - Moldova 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 45+2-pen (47.14) Anastasios Bakasetas

               2:0 50 (49.50) Petros Mantalos

- On 45+1 (45.59) Veaceslav Posmac (Moldova) received the first direct red card in this round. 

- Beautiful save from the home goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos stopping the 11 metre shot from Nicolae Milinceanu (Moldova) on 87.

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Unpopular outcome has appeared

Nations league 2020-21 season - European version, round 3, night 1 out of 2:

Montenegro - Azerbaijan 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 09 (08.32) Stevan Jovetic

               2:0 71 (70.46) Igor Ivanovic

Luxembourg - Cyprus 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 11 (11.12) Daniel Sinani

               2:0 26 (25.35) Daniel Sinani

Liechtenstein - Gibraltar 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 09 (09.14) Tjay de Barr

Faroe islands - Latvia 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 24 (24.05) Janis Ikaunieks

               1:1 28 (27.41) Odmar Faero

Spain - Switzerland 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 14 (13.41) Mikel Oyarzabal

Ukraine - Germany 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 19 (19.12) Matthias Ginter 

               0:2 48 (48.17) Leon Goretzka

               1:2 76-pen (76.00) Ruslan Malinovskyi

Andorra - Malta 0:0

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Zero goals from the visitors - eight from their rivals

Qualifiers for World Cup Qatar 2022 - South American region, round 01, night or morning 2 out of 2:

Colombia - Venezuela 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 16 (15.52) Duvan Zapata

               2:0 26 (25.22) Luis Fernando Muriel Fruto

               3:0 45+2 (47.14) Luis Fernando Muriel Fruto

Brazil - Bolivia 5:0

Scorers: 1:0 16 (15.35) Marcos Aoas Correa (better known as Marquinhos)

               2:0 30 (29.41) Roberto Firmino

               3:0 48 (48.19) Roberto Firmino

              

               4:0 65-own goal (65.11) Jose Maria Carrasco Sanguino

               5:0 72 (72.14) Philippe Coutinho

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Neutral stadium pretends to be home place

Because currently they are playing another kind of stupid game between each other, this Tuesday the European football association announced that Armenia and Azerbaijan will have to be host elsewhere their duels from the Nations league, or far away from its borders. As the war conflict unfortunately deepens between these two, the first country is going to play at 'home' with Georgia in the Polish town Tychy this Sunday. Its east neighbor at Elbasan (Albania) will welcome Cyprus next Tuesday.

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Only one team failed to score

Qualifiers for World Cup Qatar 2022 - South American region, round 01, night or morning 1 out of 2:

Paraguay - Peru 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 52 (51.48) Andre Camillo

               1:1 66 (65.44) Angel Romero

               2:1 81 (80.42) Angel Romero

               2:2 84 (84.04) Andre Camillo

Uruguay - Chile 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 39-pen Luis Suarez

               1:1 53 (53.05) Alexis Sanchez

               2:1 90+3 (92.29) Maximiliano Gomez Gonzalez

Argentina - Ecuador 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 12-pen (12.17) Lionel Messi

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