The favorites of group D in the second round was marked by a difficult victoriae.
Juventus more than an hour could not open the defense of Olympiacos and the Greeks did not sit at his gate and often troubled Buffon dangerous on the counterattack. The fate of the match decided efficient replace Higuain – the Argentine had nine minutes to celebrate a goal scored. Ten minutes later a curious goal from Mandzukic has removed all questions on the winner of the game.
Juventus – Olympiakos 2:0
Goals: Higuain, 69, Mandzukic, 80
Juventus: Buffon — Chiellini, Barzagli, Alex Sandro — Cuadrado (Higuain, 60), Sturaro (Benatia, 81), Douglas Costa (Bernardeschi, 84), Matuidi, Bentancourt, Dibala — Mandzukic.
Olympiakos: Proto — Nicolau, Engels, Figueiras, Cutris — Odjidja-Ofoe, Zdelar (Fortune, 77), Pardo (Ben-Labuan, 72) — Romao, SEB, Emenike
Barcelona only thanks to an own goal on the road beat “sporting”. Messi and company in Lisbon was unusually passive. The owners particularly
allocated Fernandes, who had a few chances, but to upset the star visitors, the Portuguese failed.
Sporting Lisbon — Barcelona 0:1
Goal: Coates, 49 (own goal)
Sporting Lisbon: Patrício — Piccini, Coates, Mathieu, Pique (Silva, 73), Carvalho, Battaglia — Martins, Fernandes, Acuña (Cesar, 73) — Doumbia (Dost, 44)
Barcelona: Ter Stegen — Semed, the Peak, Umtiti, Alba — Rakitic, Busquets, S. Roberto (Gomes, 87) — Messi, L. Suarez (Vidal, 89), Iniesta (Paulinho, 80)
Warning: Martins, Coentrao, Doumbia, Acuña, Piccini, Coates — Semed
Standings: Barcelona – 6, sporting, Juventus 3, Olympiakos – 0.
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