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UCL: Real Madrid suffer shocking 3-2 home defeat against Shakhtar

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October 22, 2020

Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid side were handed a shocking 3-2 home defeat by Shakhtar Donetsk during Wednesday night’s Champions League opener.

This comes after the Spanish Champions suffered a shocking 1-0 defeat at home on Saturday by newly-promoted side Cadiz.

Madrid will now have to triple their efforts if they are to defeat Barcelona in the first Classico of the season next Saturday.

Two second-half strikes by Luka Modric and Vinicius Junior made this look like a close encounter, but that is too kind to Zinedine Zidane’s Spanish champions, who lost 3-2 at home against rampant Ukranian visitors who were missing 13 players, including seven first-team regulars, due to a series of positive Covid-19 tests.

Madrid fell behind by 3-0 after the first half at the Alfredo di Stefano training ground stadium for the first time in the Champions League since February 2000, against Bayern Munich.

Tetê put the away side ahead in the 29th minute and four minutes later, Raphaël Varane’s own goal in the 33rd minute compounded Madrid’s woes before Manor Solomon made it three in the 42nd minute.

Luka Modrić pulled one back with a sublime strike in the 54th minute to begin a resurgence for the home side after a very unusual quiet display form the Croatian.

Vinícius Júnior added made it 3-2 five minutes later to move Zidane’s men closer to stealing a point but it wasn’t to be as the game ended in a five-goal thriller.

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