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After Galatasaray versus Juventus with seven goals, this Tuesday (17) featured three more matches for the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 playoffs.
Including the most anticipated duel: the reunion between Benfica and Real Madrid after Trubin's historic goal.
Which was marred by an alleged case of racism against Vini Jr.
There was also the current French champion facing Monaco and Dortmund against Atalanta.
Check out a summary of the matches below.
🇫🇷 Monaco 2 x 3 PSG 🇫🇷
There was plenty of excitement in the Principality already during the first half.
Facing a distracted PSG, Monaco took a good lead with two goals from Balogun (2' and 18').
Vitinha had the chance to reduce the deficit from a penalty, but saw Köhn come out on top.
However, PSG reacted before the break thanks to Doué – who had just come on – and Hakimi picking up the rebound from the number 14's shot.
Monaco got into trouble early in the second half after Golovin's challenge on Vitinha turned into a red card following VAR intervention.
And they achieved the comeback thanks to Doué's starring role (67').
PSG had space and pressed hard in search of the fourth.
They didn't succeed, but celebrated a great result.
🇩🇪 Dortmund 2 x 0 Atalanta 🇮🇹
The match started 15 minutes late due to the BVB delegation's delayed arrival at Signal Iduna Park.
Dortmund took the lead just three minutes in after another assist from Ryerson to Guirassy.
Atalanta didn't feel the "blow" and tried to react. But without great chances.
It was up to BVB to be lethal once again in the first half.
Lethal counter-attack and pass from Guirassy for Beier to score (44')
The second half saw Dea trying to reduce their deficit.
But they didn't succeed. BVB controlled the actions, didn't even threaten the opponent's goal, and later celebrated a good advantage.
🇵🇹 Benfica 0 x 1 Real Madrid 🇪🇸
The first big chance was from Aursnes, forcing Courtois to work.
Real grew in production as the minutes passed. And made Trubin work. He made at least two great saves.
Arbeloa's team went into the break better against a Benfica struggling without the ball.
Real opened the scoring against Benfica five minutes into the second half.
Vini Jr. scored a great goal after getting past Dedic and sending it into Trubin's left corner.
The Brazilian celebrated with a "little samba" in front of one of the corner flags.
Which earned him a yellow card for possible "disrespect".
This celebration left many Benfica players dissatisfied.
And fans started throwing various objects towards the number 7.
The sequence had Vini Jr. reporting being the target of racist insults.
And the anti-racism protocol being activated.
The match was halted for a few minutes, with a conversation between Vini and Mourinho. But it resumed after about ten minutes.
Benfica tried to press.
But the equalizer didn't come. Real goes to the Santiago Bernabéu with an advantage.
The four return matches of this Tuesday's duels will be held next Wednesday (25).
What's coming up 📅
Wednesday – 18/2
2:45 PM – 🇦🇿 Qarabag x Newcastle 🏴
5:00 PM – 🇧🇪 Brugge x Atlético de Madrid 🇪🇸
5:00 PM – 🇳🇴 Bodø/Glimt x Inter Milan 🇮🇹
5:00 PM – 🇬🇷 Olympiacos x Bayer Leverkusen 🇩🇪
Return matches on Tuesday (24).
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.
