In group A victories in the group stage of the Champions League opened the “Manchester United” and Moscow “CSKA”.
The unexpected hero of the match at old Trafford was Marouane Fellaini. Overall the Belgian in the 19th minute to replace injured Field Pogba, and a quarter of an hour with a blow from the second stage opened the score in the match. Shortly before the final whistle Fellaini has been in the role of an assistant, got the goal for Marcus Rashford, who took seven minutes to score in his debut match in the Champions League.
Manchester United — Basel 3:0
Goals: Fellaini, 35, Lukaku, 53, Rushford, 84
Manchester United: De GEA — Young, Smalling, LindelEf, Blind — Pogba (Fellaini, 19), Matić Mata (Rashford, 77), Mkhitaryan, Martial (Lingard, 69) — Lukaku
Basel: Vaclík — Akanji, Dry, Balanta lang, xhaka, Zuffi, Riveros (Oberlin, 77) — Steffen, Elyounoussi – van Wolfswinkel (Bois, 66)
Warnings: The Young, Blind — Balanta, Lang, Jaka
The goalkeeper Moscow “CSKA” Igor Akinfeev missed in the 40th match of the Champions League in a row, that did not prevent his team suddenly on the road to beat Benfica. “Soldiers” in eight minutes turned the match, showing that at times the statistics has absolutely no value.
The players of Benfica 73% of game time possession of the ball, and suffered 23 blows to the side gate of the guests that did not save them from ignominious start to the competition.
Benfica – CSKA 1:2
Goals: Seferovic, 50 – for vitinho, 63 (penalty kick), Zhamaletdinov, 71
Benfica: Varela Almeida, Luisa Lopez (Rafa Silva, 89), Grimaldo (Gabriel, 77) – Augusto, Salvio, Pizzi, Zivkovic – Seferovic, Jonas (Jimenez, 70)
CSKA: Akinfeev – Fernandez, Vasin, A. Berezutski, V. Berezutski, Schennikov – Golovin (Kuchaev, 87), Wernbloom, Dzagoev (Nahta, 77) – for vitinho, Alamara (Zhamaletdinov, 67)
Warning: Golovin, Andre Almeida, Dzagoev, Wernbloom, Seferovic
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