A goal feast at the home game at 4 am on the 18th
Liverpool come from behind to win 3-1 away at AC Milan
National soccer team defender Kim Min-jae won his first game in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League (UCL) with his team Bayern Munich (Germany), but the result was evaluated as relatively disappointing.
Munich won 9-2 in the first leg of the ‘2024-2025 UCL’ league phase against Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) held at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany at 4 am (Korean time) on the 18th.
Munich have won five straight matches in all competitions since the season began under new manager Vincent Kompany, who took over last summer.
Kim Min-jae started in the match that day after earning a starting spot alongside Dayo Upamecano, and played for 69 minutes until the 24th minute of the second half.
The link-up was stable with a pass success rate of 96% (73 out of 76 successful attempts), but the defense was relatively low with an aerial duel success rate of 20% (1 out of 5 successful attempts) and a ground duel success rate of 0% (0 out of 2 successful attempts).
Soccer statistics media outlet ‘Sofascore’ gave Kim Min-jae a disappointing rating of 6.2, the lowest among the Munich defense.
Munich will play Aston Villa (England) in the second leg of the league phase at Villa Park in Birmingham, England at 4:00 AM on the 3rd of next month.
It was a one-sided match. Munich quickly took the lead in the 15th minute of the first half when Kane converted a penalty kick earned by Aleksandr Pavlovic.
Munich, who had opened the floodgates, quickly widened the gap with an additional goal in the 33rd minute of the first half through a fantastic volley by Raphael Guerreiro and a header by Michael Olisse in the 38th minute.
Zagreb counterattacked with consecutive goals from Marko Pjaca and Takuya Ogiwara in the second half, but a comeback was impossible.
Munich widened the gap again in the second half when Kane scored multiple goals in the 12th minute and Olise scored multiple goals in the 16th minute.
Manager Kompany brought on Thomas Muller, Leroy Sane and Eric Dier, with Kim Min-jae replacing Dier and ending the game.
Kane completed his ‘four-trick’ by scoring consecutive penalty kicks in the 28th and 33rd minutes of the second half.
In the remaining time, Munich added goals from Leroy Sane and Leon Goretzka to win 9-2.
On the same day, Liverpool (England) won 3-1 in an away match against AC Milan (Italy).
Liverpool struggled in their last league match, losing 0-1 to Nottingham Forest, but they bounced back by beating AC Milan.
AC Milan took the lead early on, but conceded goals in succession and even allowed a comeback, ending in defeat at home.
AC Milan was the first to laugh. In the 3rd minute of the first half, Christian Pulisic broke through from the halfway line to the penalty box and calmly scored a goal with a shot.
Liverpool also fought back. Ibrahima Konate equalized with a header from a free kick in the 23rd minute of the first half, and Virgil van Dijk scored the winning goal from a corner kick in the 41st minute.
Liverpool won 3-1 with Dominik Szoboszlai scoring the winning goal in the 21st minute of the second half.
In addition, Juventus (Italy) won 3-1 against PSV (Netherlands) and Real Madrid (Spain) won 3-1 against Stuttgart (Germany).
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2024-09-19 00:23:36