Shakhtar Donetsk beat Real Madrid 3-2 in the first round of the Champions League group stage.
In the first half, Shakhtar, played in a weakened line-up due to the early detection of coronavirus (COVID-19) in a number of team players, managed to score three unanswered goals against the Royal Club. Brazilian Tete, Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane, and Shakhtar’s Israeli midfielder Manor Solomon scored a goal.
At the beginning of the second half, Real managed to win back two goals after accurate hits by Luka Modric and Vinicius Junior. In the last seconds of the match, Madrid managed to score the third goal after hitting Federico Valverde, but the goal was canceled after the referee watched a video replay due to offside position of one of the Spanish team’s players.
This group also includes the Italian Inter and the German Borussia (Mönchengladbach).
Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club will play in the group stage of the Champions League of 2019-2020 season with the English Manchester City, the Croatian Dinamo Zagreb and the Italian Atalanta.
These are the results of the draw, which took place in Monaco.
The champions of Ukraine played with Man City in the same group in the previous season and received 0:3 home defeat, and 0:6 in an away loss.
Ukrainian midfielder Ruslan Malynovsky plays for Atalanta from this season.
ATALANTA, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, DINAMO ZAGREB, MANCHESTER CITY, SHAKHTAR DONETSK
Donetsk’s Shakhtar squad beat German Hoffenheim away with 3: 2 score in the match of the fifth round of the Champions League group stage. On the 14th and 15th minutes, Brazilians Ismaily and Taison led the Ukrainian team ahead. Two minutes later, the Croatian striker Andrej Kramaric played one goal. And on the 40th minute, Steven Zuber equalized the score.
Shaktar will take on Lyon in the last round on December 12 to decide the second team from the group to go to the 1/8th final of the Champions League tournament.
Dynamo Kyiv Football Club could not defeat Amsterdam Ajax in the final round of the Champions League qualification. After the defeat in Amsterdam a week ago with a score of 1:3, the Ukrainian team played with Ajax in a draw at the home match.
Thus, the sum of two matches in the group stage of the Champions League is Ajax, and Dynamo will play in the group tournament of the Europe League.
The only representative of Ukraine in the Champions League will be Shakhtar. Vorskla will definitely play in the Europe League. Zaria competes for another ticket to the LE in the German Leipzig on Thursday.
Dynamo Kyiv will take on Ajax Amsterdam in the last qualifying round of the Champions League. In the second leg of the third qualifying round, the Dutch club defeated Belgium’s Standard 3-0 at home. The first game in Liege a week ago ended in a 2-2 draw.
Thus, Ajax will face Dynamo in the play-offs. The teams will play the first match in Amsterdam on August 22 and the return match in Kyiv on August 28.
AJAX AMSTERDAM, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, DYNAMO KYIV, FOOTBALL CLUB
The Boryspil airport has serviced a record number of passengers during the final of the UEFA Champions League in Kyiv – almost 53,000 people. “On that day we serviced 52,599 passengers, which is the absolute record in the history of the Boryspil airport. For comparison, we had 38,000 passengers during the Euro-2012 final. Last year we once hit the mark of 40,000 passengers,” Director General of the airport Pavlo Riabikin said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He said that on May 26, the airport serviced 31 charter flights with 6,393 fans of Real and fans of Liverpool used 40 flights (8,822 passengers). There were three flights with official delegations of the King of Spain, the prime minister of Gabon and the president of the Czech Republic, and 72 flights were additionally serviced. Riabikin said that the airport additionally earned UAH 31.5 million of net profit on that day.
