Actual Madrid suffers shock defeat to Lille in Champions League as Mbappe comes off bench

Lille gamers have fun after the Champions League match as Actual Madrid’s on the Decathlon Enviornment Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille, France on October 2, 2024
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Kylian Mbappe got here off the bench however could not forestall defending champion Actual Madrid from dropping 1-0 at unheralded Lille within the revamped Champions League.

With Mbappe a substitute after a minor hamstring harm, the opening aim got here from Canada striker Jonathan David ‘s penalty deep into first-half stoppage time. A video evaluation dominated that midfielder Eduardo Camavinga dealt with the ball.

David scored a hat trick final weekend and shot confidently previous goalkeeper Andriy Lunin, who was changing the injured Thibaut Courtois. Mbappe got here on within the 57th.

It was Madrid’s first loss within the competitors since a 4-0 hammering by Manchester Metropolis within the 2023 semifinal return leg.

Actual Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti didn’t excuse his gamers.

“We made quite a lot of errors. Within the first half, we had quite a lot of points within the transitions,” he stated. “We weren’t aggressive sufficient. We weren’t capable of create probabilities, we weren’t nice in possession. We have been sluggish, we lacked concepts. We’ve forwards that must play vertically, and, if we will not provide that, it is troublesome…. It was the identical the final time we misplaced a match.”

Madrid hadn’t misplaced in 36 official matches, since a 4-2 defeat in additional time to Atletico Madrid within the Copa del Rey in January.

A brighter observe noticed Brazil teenager Endrick turning into the youngest Champions League starter for Madrid at 18 years, 73 days previous. He surpassed the mark set by former Madrid nice Raúl González, who was 18 years, 78 days previous when he confronted Ajax in 1995.

Liverpool coach Arne Slot received his first style of a European evening at Anfield and noticed his workforce beat Bologna 2-0, due to objectives from midfielder Alexis Mac Allister and prolific ahead Mohamed Salah, who arrange the primary aim.

Salah teased the protection with an Eleventh-minute cross for Mac Allister to attain from shut vary and curled in a rising shot within the seventy fifth as Liverpool carried over the arrogance from easing previous AC Milan 3-1 at San Siro two weeks in the past.

Bologna, taking part in within the competitors for the primary time in 60 years, continues to be searching for a aim after drawing 0-0 with Shakhtar Donetsk within the first spherical.

Juventus wins regardless of goalkeeper’s purple card

Juventus had goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio despatched off within the 59th for a handball but nonetheless received 3-2 at Leipzig.

Slovenia ahead Benjamin Sesko scored each objectives for Leipzig however Serbia’s Dusan Vlahovic did the identical for 10-man Juve earlier than Francisco Conceição netted within the 82nd.

Atletico Madrid humiliated

Kerem Akturkoglu, veteran Ángel Di Maria, Alexander Bah and Orkun Kokcu scored for Benfica in a 4-0 rout of Atletico Madrid.

Benfica’s victory equaled the largest successful margin by a Portuguese workforce towards a Spanish one in Europe’s elite membership competitors. Additionally they claimed the opposite victory, defeating Actual Madrid 5-1 again in February 1965.

So as to add to the ache, it was Atleti’s joint-biggest margin of defeat in UEFA membership competitions.

Different matches

Earlier, Atalanta and Feyenoord received their first wins within the competitors’s second spherical of matches.

Italian workforce Atalanta coasted to a 3-0 win over Ukraine’s Shakhtar whereas Dutch membership Feyenoord secured a gritty 3-2 win at match newcomer Girona.

Albanian Berat Djimsiti, Nigerian Ademola Lookman, and Italian Raoul Bellanova scored for Atalanta within the German metropolis of Gelsenkirchen. It was formally a house recreation for Shakhtar, which is taking part in at German membership Schalke’s stadium due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Girona led by means of center-back David López’s close-range end, however the guests equalized with an personal aim from Yangel Herrera and took the lead on Antoni Milambo’s Thirty first-minute strike.

Donny van de Beek made it 2-2 however one other personal aim, this time from Ladislav Krejci, gave Feynoord — Slot’s former membership — victory in a match the place each groups missed a penalty.

Monaco netted a last-minute equalizer in a 2-2 draw at Dinamo Zagreb due to Denis Zakaria’s penalty.

Additionally, Sturm Graz misplaced 1-0 at house to Membership Brugge, which received due to a curling strike from Christos Tzolis.