Champions League today: surprises, disappointments and controversies in the round of 16 | Analysis 2020 | Champions League

This Saturday the round of 16 phase ended, quite atypical after a long pause due to the covid-19 pandemic. Eight teams advanced to the quarterfinals and already The keys, dates and times of these final phases are defined.

The day of the remaining matches (Barcelona-Napoli, Real Madrid, -Manchester City, Bayern-Chelsea and Juventus Lyon) left great surprises, disappointments and controversies in the commitments.

The good:

There were several surprises. The first, and most important, was that of Lyon. The French team managed to maintain their advantage against Juventus, the titan of Italy, and were left with a very tough passage to the quarterfinals in Turin (2-1 lost, but qualified by visiting goal).

Manchester City continued with its firmness and made the Spanish champion look bad; the real Madrid. The team led by Pep Guardiola won 2-1 against Zinedine Zidane and is one of the favorites.

Bayern Munich, on the other hand, did not have much surprise and thrashed, walked and humiliated Chelsea. There the offensive power of Lewandowski, who is the top scorer with 13 annotations, was demonstrated.

Barcelona, ​​although with a football that leaves something to be desired, beat Napoli 3-1 and qualified for the quarterfinals. Messi had a superb game and was one of the great figures. His ’10’ is back.

In all four games, there was fair play. Although Lyon had 7 yellow cards in the game, in none of the games was rough, malicious play and, therefore, there were no red cards.

The bad:

The image that Real Madrid and Zinedine Zidane showed. The coach was questioned about the approach, as it did not work as expected. Among these is Varane, the center-back who gave away both City goals and had the worst night of his career.

Juventus, Sarri and more. Cristiano Ronaldo was the standout, but he couldn’t alone. Dybala was injured and did not shine as usual. The elimination was a terrible blow and Sarri was removed from office.

The Colombians: neither of them, Ospina with Napoli and Cuadrado with Juventus, qualified for the next phase. They both had bad matches and said goodbye to the tournament.

The arbitration. In the Juventus-Lyon and Barcelona-Napoli matches there were big decisions discussed about what happened on the field of play. In Turin, he was able to influence the outcome.

The controversial:

The VAR. In the Juventus-Lyon meeting there were several discussions. The two penalties (one for each team) were whistled with the acceptance of the judge and the VAR, who took drastic and curious decisions.

In Barcelona against Napoli, the VAR also influenced. The first goal, from Lenglet, could have been a lack of a push. In addition, there was a controversial hand of Messi in a goal that was annulled from the VAR. Everything is very fine.

The ugly:

Lionel Messi’s attitude at the end of the game. The Argentine star and star was not happy with the game and the refereeing, leaving the judge with his arm outstretched, who was looking to greet him.

The statistical:

Mister Chip, the star of the data, highlighted the elimination of Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo, since since they are not together they have been eliminated in the second round on both occasions.

There was no goalless match and all teams managed to score. In total, of these four encounters, 15 goals were scored in the different games.

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