The day after Manchester City’s pitiful defeat at Bodö/Glimt (3-1), Atlético de Madrid had the opportunity to move ahead of the Cityzens in the standings of the league phase of the Champions League. They didn’t succeed. For their match on the seventh day, the Colchoneros went to Turkey to face Galatasaray and they could only share the points (1-1).
Overall dominant in terms of ball possession throughout the game (55%), the Madrilenians took the lead very early, with a goal from Giuliano Simeone scored in the fourth minute. But a quarter of an hour later, they were weighed down by Marcos Llorente’s csc (1-1, 20th).
Nothing more will be scored until the final whistle and in the provisional ranking, Atlético moves up one place and finds itself eighth, tied on points with Manchester City (7th) and PSG (5th). Galatasaray regains some stability after two defeats in a row in the competition and is sixteenth.
Qarabag can believe it
At the same time, Qarabag snatched victory in stoppage time against Eintracht Frankfurt (3-2). At home, the Azerbaijani club was notably able to benefit from the form of its attacker, Camilo Duran, author of a double (4th, 80th). But on the German side, Can Yilmaz Uzun (10th) and Fares Chaibi (78th) knew how to keep their team afloat.
Everything finally changed at the end of added time, the moment chosen by Bahlul Mustafazada to offer victory to Qarabag (3-2, 90th + 4). After three defeats and a draw, the Azerbaijani club returned to success at the best of times and moved up to seventeenth place with ten points. As for Eintracht, the European campaign remains catastrophic with only one victory in seven days. He is thirty-third with four points.
