Champions: De Zerbi in the groups with out of breath. The Sheriff and the Salzburg also pass

Salzburg, Shakhtar and Sheriff Tiraspol in the Champions League group. They queue up in Malmo, Benfica and Young Boys.

Shakhtar-Monaco 2-2 d.t.s

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Aguilar’s tears, De Zerbi’s scream. Shakhtar go into extra time against the Monegasques and go to the groups. The French defender’s own goal was decisive in the 115th minute, unlucky to deflect a simple simple pass on the net by the blond Mudryk, who arrived like a train from the rear. The beauty is that the Ukrainian talent had recovered the ball, 2001, one of the best of his generation. Tackle accurate in his half of the field and shot to Marcel Jacobs to propitiate the own goal 50 meters away. Even if the game had gone badly: Ben Yedder’s brace in the first half and Shakhtar down by two goals. Marlos, however, takes his team to extra time with a leap 15 ‘from the end. The rest is known: Aguilar and Roby’s own goal in the Champions League. Fourth consecutive participation in the group stage for the Ukrainians. In nine games with Shakhtar De Zerbi he won 7 – including the first leg against Monaco – and lost one. Today the first draw, but it’s worth a win.

Brondby 1-2 Salzburg

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The baby Salzburg asphalts the Danes of Brondby and flies to the Champions League groups. Two goals in the first leg and the same number in the return, a couple of Under 20s were decisive: the first flash was by Benjamin Sesko, born in 2003, a very fast forward who threw her in after just 4 ‘. The second, however, is all of the American Aaronson, twenty years old, good at taking advantage of a mistake by the goalkeeper Hermansen and doubling down. No night for Brondby’s number one, starring in a couple of red pencil mistakes. Aaronson, on the other hand, will also hit a crossbar. The second half is an Austrian monologue, Jaissle’s boys look for the trio, they expose themselves, but at the first good chance the Danes score. Maxso shortens with a header in the 62nd minute. In the end, however, Salzburg passes. Third participation in a row in the Champions League groups.

Dinamo Zagabria-Sheriff T. 0-0

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No peer has been more beautiful. Sheriff Tiraspol drew 0-0 against Dinamo Zagreb and landed in Europe that counts for the first time. No Moldovan team had pushed itself so high, even if the Sheriff trains, plays and comes from… “A country that doesn’t exist”. Tiraspol is the capital of the Republic of Transnistria, a strip of land between Moldova and Ukraine, which declared itself independent in 1990. It has a currency and an official anthem, the flag recalls the old Soviet Union, but the state is not recognized by the international community. The Sheriff was founded in 1997, has won 19 Moldovan championships out of 21 participations and boasts a top-level sports center. Now he will show it off in the Champions League. Al Maksimir ends even, the Croats try for all 90 ‘but the Moldovan wall holds. In the second half a goal to Orsic was canceled for offside (75 ‘). And the club of the country that does not exist becomes history. The 3-0 victory in the first leg was decisive.