UEFA Champions League

Krasnodar 0-1 Porto Player Ratings Champions League 2019 | How did Marcus Berg & Sergio Oliveira play?

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FC Porto beat Russian side FC Krasnodar 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League qualifying clash. A big victory for Porto, given it came away from home, and they’ll be favourites to progress next week in Portugal.

How did Marcus Berg play for Krasnodar against Porto?

This was a terrible day at the office for Berg, to mildly put it. Across the three media ratings we’ve compiled, he was the worst Krasnodar player on show. Two newspapers gave him 1/5 and 1/10, and a third gave him 4/10.

How did Sergio Oliveira rate?

As the player who scored the winning goal (and it came in the 89th minute), Oliveira walked away with most of the plaudits.

Here is a look the player ratings for Krasnodar vs Porto from three different Portuguese papers.

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Player Ratings Club Brugge 1-0 Dinamo Kiev 2019 Champions League- How did Mignolet and Percy Tau play?

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Simon Mignolet made his club debut for Bruges in their Champions League clash against Dinamo Kiev in front of a 27,018 strong crowd on 6 August, 2019. The former Liverpool keeper was the only one on the evening to keep a clean sheet (the other four CL games all produced goals for both sides). Ethan Horvath was benched for this game, with Mignolet moving into the starting XI.

Mignolet made a crucial save in the 15th minute of the game to prevent Dynamo Kyiv from taking the lead. The save was mentioned in his rating by a Belgian newspaper, who gave hm a 7/10.

South African midfielder Percy Tau, on loan at Brugge from Brighton, also made his CL debut, having joined the Belgian outfit at the end of last month.

Tau was given a 7/10 rating, with the paper praising his “dynamism” and work rate before the interval, although they did add that he lost a bit of his spark after the interval.

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New Roma coach Paulo Fonseca- Giallorossi appoint “Zorro” as manager

Italian giants AS Roma have confirmed that Paulo Fonseca will be their new manager. The 46 year old Fonseca, who once playfully dressed up as “Zorro” after guiding Shakhtar to a Champions League victory over Man City in 2017, has inked a two year deal with the Giallorossi, with the option of an extension till 2022.

Fonseca has a good past track record- he guided Shakhtar to three consecutive Ukrainian titles since taking over from Mircea Lucescu, despite the Donetsk outfit having to play their home games 250 miles away in Kharkiv owing to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

He was also Pacos de Ferreira manager in 2012/13, and guided them to a shock third place finish and a spot in the Champions League play-off round, where they lost to Zenit. He also had a solid stint with Braga, winning a domestic Cup and taking them to the last eight of the Europa League.

Fonseca’s immediate task would be to get Roma back into the Champions League- the Giallorossi finished 6th last season, parting company with both Eusebio di Francesco and Claudio Raneiri, and will have to be content with a Europa League spot in 2019/20.

Shakhtar haven’t officially named a replacement yet, but Luis Castro, another Portuguese gaffer, looks set to take over the reigns of the club.

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