"Shakhtar" with his head held high, lost "Manchester City"

27 September 2017, 04:28 | Sports 
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Donetsk "Shakhtar", in the second round of the group stage of the Champions League, lost to the English "Manchester City" with a score of 2: 0.

"Miners" have shown quite good football, but the class of players "townspeople" decided the fate of this confrontation.

At the 48th minute, Kevin De Bruijn with a magnificent shot from outside the penalty area led his team forward. And just before the final whistle, Rahim Sterling, who appeared in the game from the bench for the doubles, doubled the advantage of the British thanks to a powerful strike under the crossbar from a close distance.

It should be noted that in the 72nd minute, Andrey Pyatov defeated a penalty kick in the performance of Sergio Aguero.

In a parallel meeting of this group, the Italian "Napoli" inflicted the second defeat to the Netherlands "Feyenoord" in the group stage, beating 3: 1. Goals for "Parthenopians" were scored by Lorenzo Insignet, Jose Callejon and Dries Mertens. Thus, after two rounds in Group F there is such a situation - "Manchester City" has 6 points, "Napoli" and "Shakhtar" have three points, and "Feyenoord" has no points yet. The next round will take place on October 17: Feyenoord will take the miners, and Napoli will go to Manchester City.

Источник: ТСН.ua