Player Ratings Dinamo Kiev 3-3 Club Brugge Second Leg Champions League 2019 | Percy Tau Red Carded, Mignolet ships in three

There was plenty of late drama in Kyiv as Club Brugge scored twice to draw the game 3-3 and win the two legged tie 4-3 on aggregate. In the first leg that marked Simon Mignolet’s debut for Brugge, the former Liverpool goalkeeper had kept a clean sheet. Here he shipped in three goals, but was still one of the better Brugge players on show, as can be seen in these Belgian paper ratings below (he got a 7/10- the only other players with a 7 were Brugge’s three goal scorers on the evening)

Percy Tau was red carded (two yellows)- a tad unjustly, as Brugge coach Philippe Clement mentioned after the game. Nevertheless the South African star was criticised for “forgetting his defensive duties” at certain times in the fixture, and was rated a 5/10

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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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