A status to be confirmed to stay in the circle of the 20 best teams on the continent, even better if affinity: the objective of the AS Monaco
was clear this Thursday, at the dawn of his new European campaign. The Principality club tackled this edition of the Champions League with the full ambition, on the lawn of the Bruges club, at the start of the evening.
Until then, the Monegasques cultivate this paradox to chain victories without convincing in the proposed content. The cursor had to be raised in this raised competition. Because Bruges may not have the prestige of a seeded, but this historic Belgian stable had real assets to assert. And the Monegasques learned it at their expense. Brutally.
Adi HĂĽtter had still bet on a 4 offensive system system, with the Biereth-Balogun tandem on the attack front. Choices that question, after the fact, about the reliability of such animation at the highest level. Overwhelmed in the recovery of the balloon, drafts in its use and ineffective in the two areas of truth, the Monegasque was west in all the compartments of the game.
Monaco did not see the light of day
The evening could obviously have been able to take another turn if Akliouche had the good idea to transform the penalty he had caused at the start of the match, but since all the shooters of the French clubs seem angry with this exercise, the neo-blue failed because of his lack of conviction (10th). A turning point as much as a symbol.
Because behind, this marrow without a marrow team was born. Bruges made the seat in the Monegasque surface to the rest, multiplying hot situations in fairly unimaginable proportions (21st, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 30th) before logically unlocking the situation by Tresoldi on a beautiful collective movement (1-0, 32nd).
The continuation was linked like a hurricane, until half-time. Onyedika following a boost on corner (2-0, 39th), then Vanaken with a pretty volley (3-0, 41st) allowed Bruges to seal the match from half-time. Condemned to save the honor, the Monegasques will just be able to boast of having stopped the hemorrhage in the second period.
Fati unlocks his meter
This did not prevent Bruges from salting a little more the addition on a victorious shot from the old RĂ©mois Diakhon (4-0, 75th), but Ansu Fati, out of the bench and launched in the deep end, offered itself a lightening by reducing the score of a well-adjusted strike to treat its beginnings with the red and white jersey (4-1, 90th+1). It will take more to find a smile, tomorrow, in the cozy atmosphere of the Principality. Adi HĂĽtter has work to do.
