'The worst goalkeeping performance I have seen'

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LHapless goalkeeper Antonio Adan had possibly the worst 23 minutes successful Champions League past successful Sporting Lisbon's 4-1 capitulation against Marseille.

The seasoned Spaniard made 2 costly errors that led to goals earlier being sent off for inexplicably handling the shot extracurricular of the box.

On a chaotic nighttime successful the southbound of France, Lisbon led aft conscionable 51 seconds arsenic Francisco Trincao scored the fastest extremity successful the Champions League this play with a near footed strike.

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But it was each downhill from determination for the visitors as Adan's fearfulness amusement began.

Under unit from Alexis Sanchez successful the 13th minute, the 35-year-old fired consecutive astatine the Chilean striker successful an effort to wide and the shot rebounded backmost into his goal.

Adan looked destabilised and was again astatine responsibility connected Marseille's adjacent extremity 3 minutes aboriginal aft different mediocre footwear landed astatine Matteo Guendouzi's feet.

The midfielder was speedy to walk the shot to Jonathan Clauss, who crossed it for Amine Harit to decorativeness disconnected the determination with a good header.

Adan past rushed retired to wide a shot successful the 23rd minute, lone to mistime his tally and grip extracurricular the area.

He enactment his caput successful his hands portion trudging disconnected disconsolate and making mode for replacement shot-stopper Franco Israel.

The net showed nary mercy.

After not scoring a extremity successful 2 opening losses successful Group D, Marseille ended Sporting's cleanable grounds arsenic Leonardo Balerdi and Chancel Mbemba besides got connected the scoresheet.

The crippled was played without fans pursuing the assemblage occupation during Eintracht Frankfurt's 1-0 triumph astatine Marseille past month.

And kickoff was delayed by much than 20 minutes aft the autobus carrying the visiting team's players was caught successful postulation and arrived precocious astatine the astatine the Velodrome Stadium.

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The hold had been acceptable to 15 minutes by UEFA and arsenic Marseille players waited successful the tunnel, manager Igor Tudor looked furious and complained to lucifer officials that their opponents were precocious to travel retired of the locker room.

Meanwhile, Leroy Sane scored doubly arsenic Bayern Munich acceptable a Champions League grounds by extending its unbeaten tally successful radical play to 31 matches with a 5-0 triumph implicit Czech champion Viktoria Plzen.

Bayern maintained its cleanable commencement to this season's run to interruption Real Madrid's people of 30 consecutive radical signifier matches without a loss, a streak stretching backmost to September 2017.

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Bayern besides hasn't mislaid astatine location successful Europe's premier contention since a 3-2 decision to Manchester City successful December 2013.

Since then, the Bavarian powerhouse has won 25 games and drawn 1 successful Munich.

Bayern recorded 2-0 victories implicit Inter Milan and Barcelona already successful Group C, but it had to look Plzen without Thomas Müller and Joshua Kimmich owed to COVID-19 infections.

No matter.

Sane opened the scoring successful the seventh infinitesimal erstwhile helium coasted past respective defenders earlier unleashing a changeable wrong the apical near corner, and Leon Goretzka pushed the shot done for Serge Gnabry to marque it 2-0 successful the 13th minute.

Adam Vlkanova had conscionable tried his luck for Plzen, but Manuel Neuer safely gathered the shot.

It was the visitors' lone existent accidental successful the archetypal half.

Sadio Mane turned connected the benignant to flick the shot implicit a defender, past breezed past 2 much earlier firing successful his archetypal Champions League extremity for Bayern successful the 21st minute.

Jamal Musiala thought helium had added the 4th successful the 37th aft a good worked squad move, but the extremity was ruled retired done VAR arsenic Mane was adjudged to beryllium conscionable offside earlier playing the last pass.

Coach Julian Nagelsmann took disconnected the awesome Musiala for Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting astatine the break, possibly to remainder the 19-year-old Germany planetary for Saturday's Bundesliga "Klassiker" astatine Borussia Dortmund.

Sane displayed a bully archetypal interaction to power Mane's transverse with the extracurricular of his boot, past wasted nary clip successful sending the shot with his adjacent interaction past the helpless Marian Tvrdon successful the Plzen extremity for Bayern's 4th successful the 50th.

It was Sane's 16th extremity successful his past 12 games successful the competition.

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The Germany winger had endured a hard commencement astatine Bayern, with injuries hampering his interaction amid precocious expectations since joining from City successful 2020.

But the fans that erstwhile whistled him showed their appreciation arsenic Sane went disconnected to thunderous applause successful the 58th infinitesimal with Nagelsmann bringing connected the 17-year-old Mathys Tel.

Choupo-Moting got the 5th extremity a infinitesimal later.

In Milan, Hakan Calhanoglu scored the lone extremity of the lucifer successful archetypal fractional stoppage clip arsenic Inter bushed Barcelona 1-0 to determination 2nd down Bayern.

Both sides besides had goals disallowed and Barcelona deed the post.

Inter thought it should person got a punishment midway done the archetypal fractional for a handball by Barcelona defender Eric Garcia but play was waved connected and, aft reviewing the incidental connected the pitchside monitor, referee Slavko Vincic decided that guardant Lautaro Martinez had been offside successful the buildup and interfering with play contempt not touching the ball.

The location broadside did person the shot successful the backmost of the nett a fewer minutes aboriginal but Joaquin Correa had been marginally offside erstwhile helium collected Federico Dimarco's walk and raced guardant earlier rounding Marc-Andre ter Stegen and depositing into an bare net.

Inter broke the deadlock connected the changeable of halftime erstwhile Dimarco laid the shot disconnected to Calhanoglu connected the borderline of the country and helium drilled a precise effort into the bottommost near country to acceptable the San Siro rocking.

Barcelona astir leveled successful the 61st infinitesimal but Ousmane Dembele's effort came disconnected the near post.

The visitors thought they had got the equalizer soon afterward erstwhile Inter goalkeeper Andre Onana flapped astatine a transverse from the close and Pedri tapped successful astatine the backmost station but, aft again taking to the pitchside monitor, Vincic disallowed it for a handball by Ansu Fati instantly anterior to the shot.

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