Eugene Music singles out what the Ukrainian fans will remember 6 rounds of the Champions League season 2016/2017.

That's the end of the group stage of the Champions League 2017/2018. Let us recall the most vivid of his events, which were very many.

Records and antirecords Barcelona was not expected to experience problems with leaving the group. Before the start it was expected that Juventus would force the Catalans to fight for first place. But already in the first round of the Catalans showed who in the house owner, sending to the gate of Buffon three goals. Unrequited. As a result, Barca in the 11th time out of the group in the Champions League, which was the record of the tournament.

PSG set a record of the effectiveness of the group stage of the Champions League, scoring 25 goals. And, in order to beat last year's record of Borussia D (21 goals), the Parisians needed only 5 games. Is it any wonder that the record of effectiveness beats the team, to which the three attacks cost almost half a billion euros?.

When we say "records", then we mean that somewhere near will be Cristiano Ronaldo. Indeed, the Portuguese became the first who managed to excel in each of the six matches of the group stage. It should be noted that together with Real in the quartet were Tottenham, Borussia D and APOEL. On account of the Portuguese 9 goals in the group stage and thus he repeated the record of Lionel Messi.

Dortmund Borussia set a sad record - for the minimum number of points for clubs that flew to the Europa League. Instead of the expected fatal fight with Real and Tottenham, the "bumblebees" scored only two points in the meetings with APOEL ... For more than 10 years, Igor Akinfeev consistently missed every match of the Champions League (meaning only the group stage). But all once comes to an end, that's the anti-record mark of Igor ended in 43 fights. Could not score a Russian Benfica, completely failed tournament.

Andrew Pyatov after the game with Man City joked that he will soon beat the Akinfeev's record - because the Ukrainian missed in all six games of the group stage. Do not do this, Andrew, do not try to sacred!.

Powerful game of English clubs Long gone are the times when English teams dominated the Champions League, sending to the semifinals of the tournament three clubs. Is it a joke - the last time the team from the championship, which is called the most powerful league of the world, won the Champions League in the season 2011/2012, and then - well, it's very strained.

Now, all five English teams went to the playoffs of the tournament. This happened for the first time in history, because last year not all Spanish teams managed to overcome the group stage. Well, before just a winner of the Europa League did not get into the Champions League. And 4 out of 5 English clubs went to the playoffs in the rank of the winners of the groups. Suffered only Chelsea, failed a duel with Roma, which cost the team Antonio Conte first place.

Surprises and failures Atletico accustomed to the battles for the Champions League trophy, but this year the lot of "mattress" will be more modest - the European League.

It was about the same surprise, as well as the fact that the brilliantly playing in Serie A, Napoli could not beat Shakhtar in the fight for the second place in the group. Italians auknulos Kharkov defeat of the "miners" - 1: 2. Yes, in the last round, they also lost to Feyenoord, but it seems that the war was still lost in Kharkov.

And if the failures of these clubs can still be understood, then the performances of Borussia Dortmund, Benfica and Monaco can not be characterized by any other word, like "failure".

The German team took third place after Tottenham and Real. In itself, this result would not look so terrible, if not for what is behind it. "Bumblebees" were simply tormented and not that they could not get around the English or the Spaniards - they even did not win APOEL. The patience of club bosses of Dortmund, who have not yet dismissed Peter Bos, just iron.

Defeat, defeat, defeat, defeat, defeat, defeat - these are the results showed the champion of Portugal Benfica in the current Champions League. And it's not to say that group A is a "death group", because in addition to the United States there were completely passable Basel and CSKA. The only bright spot for "eagles" - Mile Svilar, who became the youngest player in the history of the Champions League. Jan Cloud, Ederson - it seems that soon in the row of the top goalkeepers who announced themselves in the club of Lisbon will also be Svilar.

After the draw, it seemed that last year's semifinalist Monaco would quietly secure his first place in the group and would watch Porto, Besiktas and Leipzig fight for the second line. But there it was, the bloodless Monegasques without Benjamin Mendy, Bernard Silva and Kilian Mbappa scored only 2 points - the 4th place in the group.

Ukrainian in a foreign team in the Champions League Not long ago, Eugene Konoplyanka acted in the Champions League for Seville. Zhenya, of course, the star of the Ukrainian national team, but still he had such an excitement as his partner Andrei Yarmolenko did not cause.

Personally, the Ukrainian great started in the new team in the Champions League, scoring a stunning goal Tottenham, but this was not enough Dortmunds even for a draw - 1: 3.

4 matches in the starting lineup, 2 substitutions, 1 goal and 1 assists - these are the indicators of Yarmolenko in the first Ligochepionovskom season with Borussia. Now we need to shift our attention to the Bundesliga in order to listen again to the anthem of the Champions League live next year.

The exit of the Ukrainian team in the playoffs of the Champions League Star Manchester City, the magnificent Napoli and very strong Feyenoord from the fourth basket - the lot gave Shakhtar not the easiest group. Of course, there were those who believed in the success of the Ukrainian team, but there were hardly more of them who feared that the Donetsk club would take the last place in the group.

For example, the most likes on Football. ua after the draw, commented that "the third place will be for happiness" (38), although there was also a lot of comments with an exact forecast of the places that the teams will take (23).

But the "miners" immediately started from the spot into the quarry, beating in the first round of Napoli 2: 1, and having won quite deservedly. Next was the defeat of Man City with a generally decent game, exhausted, but from no less important victory in two games with Feyenoord, a painful slap from Napoli and finally a victory over the semi-duplicating line-up of Manchester City.

Yes, Ukrainians were lucky with the calendar, because the meeting that Shakhtar decided everything, for Man City did not mean anything. Perhaps someone will blame Pep Guardiola for not putting the strongest squad on the miners - but what about the Spaniard before when he has an extremely busy Christmas schedule in front of him? In Naples, tears are poured, well, and that part of Ukraine, which is sick for all our clubs in European competition, celebrates.

Bonus:

Paulo Fonseca dressed as Zorro On the eve of Halloween, Paulo Fonsecu was asked before the match with Feyenoord what suit he would put on the holiday. The Portuguese told that in his childhood he liked Zorro and even promised to come in this suit to a press conference if the team leaves the group.

No sooner said than done. "Miners" overcame the group stage, and Fonseca came to the press conference in costume Zorro. It turned out an excellent cherry on the cake of the "miners", is not it? Well, we expect a new suit after 1/8, Seo Fonseca!.

Author: Евгений Музыка.