Ninety five seconds from first opening

Champions league, group stage, round 5 (part 2):

Valencia - Chelsea 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 39 (39.03) Carlos Soler
              1:1 41 (40.51) Mateo Kovacic
              1:2 49 (49.19) Christian Pulisic
              2:2 81 (81.08) Daniel Wass

- The home team had a penalty on 64 (64.01) but Daniel Parejo did not convert it as it was perfectly saved.

Zenit saint Petersburg - Olympique Lyonnais 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 42 (41.25) Artem Dzyuba
              2:0 84 (83.32) Magomed Ozdoyev

RasenBallsport Leipzig - Benfica 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 20 (19.45) Luis Miguel Afonso Fernandes (or just Pizzi)
              0:2 59 (58.34) Carlos Vinicius
              1:2 90-pen (89.50) Emil Forsberg
              2:2 90+5 (95.00) Emil Forsberg

Slavia Prague - Inter 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 19 (18.52) Lautaro Martinez
              1:1 37-pen (36.46) Tomas Soucek
              1:2 81 (80.21) Romelu Lukaku
              1:3 87 (87.03) Lautaro Martinez

Lille - Ajax 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 02 (01.35) Hakim Ziyech
              0:2 59 (58.44) Quincy Promes

Barcelona - Borussia Dortmund 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 29 (28.36) Luis Suarez
              2:0 33 (32.38) Lionel Messi
              3:0 67 (66.46) Antoine Griezmann
              3:1 77 (76.47) Jadon Sancho 

Genk - Red Bull Salzburg 1:4

Scorers: 0:1 43 (42.38) Patson Daka
              0:2 44 (44.18) Takumi Minamino
              0:3 68 (68.08) Hwang Hee-Chan
              1:3 84 (84.10) Mbwana Samatta
              1:4 86 (86.12) Erling Braut Haland

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Quadruple scorer appeared in a high resulting visiting win

Champions league, group stage, round 5 (part 1):

Galatasaray - Club Brugge 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 11 (10.23) Adem Buyuk
              1:1 90+2 (91.23) Krepin Diatta

- Couple of footballers from Club Brugge in additional time received their second yellow cards: the goalscorer Krepin Diatta was send off for playing a 'look how strong I am' game in football pitch by taking off his shirt at 90+3 (92.29), while his colleague Clinton Mata followed him on 90+3 (92.50) for kicking the calm (until that moment) corner flag.

Lokomotiv Moscow - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 11 (10.34) Rifat Zhemaletdinov
              0:2 54 (53.23) Sven Bender

Manchester city - Shakhtar Donetsk 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 56 (55.51) Ilkay Gundogan
              1:1 69 (68.39) Manor Solomon

Juventus - Atletico Madrid 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 45+1 (46.14) Paulo Dybala

Real Madrid - PSG 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 17 (16.22) Karim Benzema
              2:0 79 (78.50) Karim Benzema
              2:1 80 (80.18) Kylian Mbappe
              2:2 83 (82.32) Pablo Sarabia

Crvena Zvezda - Bayern Munich 0:6

Scorers: 0:1 14 (13.38) Leon Goretzka
              0:2 53-pen (52.23) Robert Lewandowski
              0:3 59 (59.03) Robert Lewandowski
              0:4 64 (63.28) Robert Lewandowski
              0:5 67 (66.54) Robert Lewandowski
              0:6 89 (88.44) Corentin Tolisso

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In search of best Asian player

On 15 November the Asian football confederation has released a list of up to three names who are competing for the best footballer of the continent. In total there are 14 categories: three each on men and women section, best international and futsal player, plus six awards to be given for football associations.
An exciting reward and one of the most anticipated certainly is who will be the best footballer of 2019. The male contenders are: the number one goalkeeper of Persepolis and Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Reza Safarbeiranvand, Tomoaki Makino (Japanese defender, who plays for Urawa red diamonds) plus the striker of Qatar and Al Sadd Akram Hassan Afif. Li Ying (People's Republic of China), Loitongbam Ashalata Devi (India) and Saki Kumagai (Japan) are nominees from the women side.
The convention and exhibition center on 02 December in Hong Kong is going to give the answer, of who deserves to be named best for this year.

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Penultimate phase from European Cups next week, part two

Without any break given from the international matches, in the last week of this month will begin round number five from the European Cup competitions. As usual, the results from all 40 duels are going to be known in three nights time.

Two plus six, is the continuing (bad) recipe playing from round one for the Champions league. And the following 16 pairs are from the mentioned round one (which were in September), but the teams are now in reverse order.

Tuesday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Galatasaray - Club Brugge.
Tuesday, 26 November at 18.55 CET: Lokomotiv Moscow - Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Tuesday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Atalanta - Dinamo Zagreb.
Tuesday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Crvena Zvezda - Bayern Munich.
Tuesday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Juventus - Atletico Madrid.
Tuesday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Manchester city - Shakhtar Donetsk.
Tuesday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Real Madrid - PSG.
Tuesday, 26 November at 21.00 CET: Tottenham - Olympiacos.

Wednesday, 27 November at 18.55 CET: Valencia - Chelsea.
Wednesday, 27 November at 18.55 CET: Zenit saint Petersburg - Olympic Lyonnais.

Wednesday, 27 November at 21.00 CET: Barcelona - Borussia Dortmund.
Wednesday, 27 November at 21.00 CET: Genk - Red Bull Salzburg.
Wednesday, 27 November at 21.00 CET: Lille - Ajax.
Wednesday, 27 November at 21.00 CET: Liverpool - Napoli.
Wednesday, 27 November at 21.00 CET: RasenBallsport Leipzig - Benfica.
Wednesday, 27 November at 21.00 CET: Slavia Prague - Inter.

Europa league continues inequality, and for the third consecutive time it will have three different kick-offs. The previous two rounds were the same, but now three matches are going to begin basically in the afternoon (due to the different time zones with the rest of the continent).

Thursday, 28 November at 16.50 CET: Astana - Manchester united.
Thursday, 28 November at 16.50 CET: Krasnodar - Basel.
Thursday, 28 November at 16.50 CET: Trabzonspor - Getafe.

Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: AZ - Partizan.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Basaksehir - Roma.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Besiktas - Slovan Bratislava.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Braga - Wolverhampton.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: CSKA Moscow - Ludogorets.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Ferencaros - Espanyol.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Feyenoord - Glasgow rangers.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Olexandriya - Wolfsburg.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Saint-Etienne - Gent.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Wolfsberger - Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Thursday, 28 November at 18.55 CET: Young boys Bern - Porto.

Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Arsenal - Eintracht Frankfurt.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Celtic - Rennes.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: F91 Dudelange - APOEL.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Lazio - Cluj.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Lugano - Kobenhavn.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Malmo - Dynamo Kyiv.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Rosenborg - LASK.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Sevilla - Qarabag.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Sporting - PSV.
Thursday, 28 November at 21.00 CET: Vitoria - Standard Liege.

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Last winner completes the line-up

Champion number six (from the Asian Champions league) and Asian representative number two at the Club World Cup is Al-Hilal, who today was again a better team from Urawa red diamonds in their Saitama stadium. With this duel all teams are now known that will participate at the last official tournament (Club World Cup) in Qatar which starts in less than three weeks time.
The Saudi Arabian team is going to be the third debutant at the event, and will start from the second round where they are going to play against the African champions (Esperance de Tunis).

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