Club Brugge continued their perfect start in the Champions League with their third consecutive victory at Atlético Madrid 2-0 in Group B, while Porto revived their hopes with a 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen .
Club Brugge were armed with an iron defence, having not conceded a single goal in Europe this season, and owed their victory over Atlético to their young Ghanaian midfielder Kamal Sawa, 22, who had just arrived from Dutch Alkmaar after he was alone in the penalty area. The area after a pass by the Spaniard Ferran Gutgla followed the ball into the net In the 36th minute.
Striker Gutgla became the top scorer after French striker Antoine Griezmann lost the ball in midfield to reach the Spanish midfielder, who tricked Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak in the 62nd minute.
In the second match of the same group stage, Czech striker Patrick Schick missed his Leverkusen team’s opportunity by missing a penalty awarded by the referee after returning to VAR for handballing Porto defender David Carmo and goalkeeper Diogo Costa in the 45th minute.
Porto waited until the second half to open the scoring, starting with a header from substitute Nigerian defender Zido Sanusi in the 69th minute before doubling through Brazilian striker Wenderson Galino in the 89th minute.
Brugge raised their record to 9 points, leading the second group to continue with full marks and put one foot into the final price, 6 points ahead of each of their new runners-up Porto, Leverkusen III and Atlético. end of the league table.
Source: agencies