Reds victorious in San Siro as Salzburg holds Bayern- UCL Review

The UEFA Champions League is back, and this time with an inviting fixture list of mouthwatering matchups. It all started yesterday with the much anticipated duel between French powerhouse and Qatari owned football club, Paris St German and All time Champions League winners and Spanish giants, Real Madrid. The game was sure to live up to its billing even though the magical Neymar started the match on the bench. Lionel Messi was at the heart of things PSG created, he had a good game and was unlucky to have seen his snap shot penalty saved by Thibaut Cortouis, the goal keeper was in a class of his own throughout the game. Although, PSG huffing and puffing was finally rewarded in the closing stages of the match when Neymar came off the bench to produce a sublime assist for Kylian Mbappe to finish with an outrageous piece of skill and fire sublimely under the legs of Courtouis. Few will argue the fact that the 21 year old French sensation is the game's next big thing and is on his way to the Santiago bernabeu, Madrid's capital stadium next season after rejecting offers to renew his Paris St German contract. The other game was a Five nil demolition of Sporting Lisbon by Pep Guardiola's guys, Manchester City in Lisbon, Portugal. There were four nil to the good in only the first half. It was a lively contest and it was made entertaining by the brilliant Bernando Silva's brace and an assist.

Elsewhere in the following day of the Round of 16 1st leg matches, which happened to be the final 1st week round, the reds, popularly called Liverpool made the trip to San Siro, hoping to make it Seven wins from Seven. They started somewhat on the back foot, unlike their previous visit against AC Milan in the stadium. Inter Milan were the better side and should have been ahead when Lautaro Martinez scuffed a shot at goal, only to end up in the side netting. Even Hakan Cahanologlu's quick fire shot crashed the bar, unarguably inter's best chance of the half. Liverpool have made it a habit of coming back into matches and grinding out results even when they weren't in their best form as evidenced by their victory over relegation threatened Burnley in the England Premiership. Inter allowed Liverpool gain hold of the ball, as they had previously dominated the start of the 1st half following a goalless first half and they were finally going to win the match when Diogo Jota sustained what later turned out to be an ankle injury and was replaced by Roberto Firmino, who later went on to score what looked like the winning goal following a fantastic flicked header from Andy Robertson's corner before another piece of masterclass from the Egyptian magician Mohammed Salah made it 2 nil, albeit a tap in shot from a fluffed Virgil Van dijk effort.

Also, German heavyweights Bayern Munich made another trip to Austria looking to inflict a 1st leg loss on the hosts, Salzburg. Many punters were pretty sure of a result given how dominant Bayern are in matches and the plethora of attacking qualities up front from Lewandowski to Sane, Coman, Gnabry and Muller despite the battering they were given by VFL Bocbum in their last German Bundesliga fixture. . Teenage sensation, Okafor had to be substituted for Salzburg and on came Adamu, he was lively and managed to put his team on the front foot following a quick counterattack after Bayern went high up the pitch. The 1st half was disappointing from Bayern as they displayed complete mediocrity throughout the 45 minutes. Late in the second half though, they would go on to break the hearts of the home fans by scoring a slick equaliser from the fronting Coman after receiving a perfectly weighted ball from Muller. It ended one apiece even though Bayern dominated the game and had nine shots on goal to the hosts five, it was worth noting that the Salzburg goalkeeper was excellent on the night and was unlucky to have conceded in the last stages after making eight saves in total, earning him my man of the match award..

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