Elbahrain.net the Champions League made a spectacular return.
These are the key lessons learned from Tuesday’s games.
With 36 teams playing in Europe’s top club tournament for the first time, the new campaign introduces a redesigned league-style framework.
Bayern’s goals, which broke records
Bayern Munich’s Vincent Kompany era is already off to a great start.
The German behemoth launched its European campaign with a bang on Tuesday, winning all three of its Bundesliga matches.
Bayern became the first club in Champions League history to score nine goals in a single game as they defeated Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 at Allianz Arena. Bayern last accomplished a comparable victory in a European soccer competition when they defeated Anorthosis Famagusta 10-0 in the 1983–84 UEFA Cup.
Harry Kane, the striker, scored four goals, three of which came from the penalty spot. Michael Olise, making his Champions League debut, scored two goals, becoming the first Frenchman to do so since Thierry Henry in 1997. The remaining three goals for Bayern were scored by Leon Goretzka, Leroy Sané, and Raphaël Guerreiro.
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The two clubs combined for 11 goals, which is the second-highest in the competition’s history behind Borussia Dortmund’s 8–4 victory over Legia Warsaw in November 2016.
Following the triumph, Kompany, who oversaw Burnley’s Premier League relegation as manager last season before being named Bayern’s manager in the summer, responded to his detractors.
Kompany told reporters, “I will tell you something in a fast way just to prove a point.” My father was a refugee who fled the Congo and arrived in Belgium. I was born in the northern part of Brussels.
What were my odds of ever playing in the Premier League, making it to the top, being a winner as a player, or being a member of the national team? What percentage of 0.000 were the odds? I am a coach now. Do you simply quit believing in yourself as a result of what other people say, is the question. Do the opinions of others cause you to lose hope in your own abilities?
The idea is to keep going because, in the end, you can always improve yourself. If you succeed, you succeed; if you fail, you fail. You can always find something online, so I do not really take it personally.
