Lastnight it was a disaster for both the European giants Bayern Munich & Inter Milan

               Lastnight it was a disaster for both the European giants Bayern Munich & Inter Milan while both the teams have lost their away matches against their easier opponents in UEFA Champions League first leg of round of 16. The story didn’t happen as it was expected, all the predictions gone wrong, in both the cases the hosts FC Basel & Olympique Marseille managed to secure 3 points in front of their homecrowd. It could be said that both the visitors are a little bit of unfortunate while both of them swallowed the goals in the dying moments of the game.

               

           In St. Jacob Park, Basel, Switzerland in front of 70000 visitors the entire match was dominated by the visitors from the beginning, the hosts couldn’t do anything apart from scoring the goal against the complete run of the play in 86^th minute.  Substitute Valentin Stocker scored the decider  four minutes from the schedule  time  to occupy  a famous first-leg victory & secured 3 points for his team also. Two of his sitters denied by the barpost before.

           

         Meanwhile  in Stade Vélodrome , Marseille, France the hosts  fought really well against their superior opponent Inter Milan, hosts took the entire home advantage & secured 3 points in their first leg. André Ayew scored the decider  through a header in the end moment of the three minutes of added time.

      

               In an another match of EUROPA league second leg of round of 32 Manchester City smashed the Portugesse side FC Porto in a  4-0 margin in Manchester  & stepped the next round in a 6-1 aggregate. The goals are serially scored by Aguero 1’, Dzeko 76’, Silva 84’ & Pizarro 86’.  In EUROPA league  second leg of round of 32 Manchester United will take on the Dutch side Ajax  in Old, Trafford tonight. ManU are already in strong position with their 2-0 victory from the away match.

                    That was a disaster day for Indian football while they are smashed by the superior side Oman by a clean 5-1 margin in Muscat, Oman during a practice match today. Since last one week Indian team are in Dubai for preparing themselves for the upcoming AFC  cup but Indian team never looked  in a committed rhythm to do anything better in that match  rather the Oman side looked  well determined form the beginning. Serially the goals are scored by the hosts  Mohamad al Gasani 5’, Ismail Alajmi scored twice in 7’ & 58’, Hasan Rabea 87’ &  Abdullah Thuwaini 90’. The only consolation goal for India scored by  Joaquim Abranches in the 64^th minute of the match.

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