In the 90th minute of the Champions League match between Atletico Madrid and Porto, it looked like this will be the first game in this year’s competition which will end in in a goaless draw, and then both teams put all the excitement in the next 11 minutes, and scored no less than three goals in stoppage time. And by irony, the man Atletico Madrid only plays for 29 minutes, in order to avoid paying Barca 40 million euros was the saviour again: Atletico – Porto 2-1.90+ – Atlético Madrid vs Porto is only the second match in UEFA Champions League history to see three goals scored in the 90th minute or later (excluding extra-time), after Porto vs Atlético Madrid in December 2021. Mayhem. pic.twitter.com/sqJE2qDWfT— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) September 7, 2022 Accepting Cholo Simeone’s style, the guests entered the duel cautiously and with their guard up, but as the match drew closer, they attacked more concretely and made a steady Jan Oblak suffer. The home team keeper had a couple of great saves before Atletico got a great help from Porto’s Mehdi Taremi, who forgot that he was living in the era of VAR technology, and got the second yellow card for simulation in the 81st minute.
After they got the numerical advantage, Atletico finally started to attack a bit more and in the 91st minute, Mario Hermoso converted the action on the right flank to Angel Correa’s pass from the heart of the penalty area. But the potential hero turned into a guilty man just minutes after. Deep in stoppage time, Hermoso handballed and gave Porto an opportunity to equalize from the penalty spot. Mateus Uribe was responsible for taking the penalty kick and time, Oblak was powerless – 1-1 in the 106th minute. The rollercoaster in the Spanish capital did not end with a Colombian goal, however, because in the 11th minute of stoppage time, Antoine Griezmann deftly reacted at the second post after a corner and scored three points for Atletico at the start of the group stage.
At the same time, Club Brugge and Bayer Leverkusen competed in Group B, and the Belgian team managed to pull off a surprise and defeat the Bundesliga side with a goal by Abakar Sila in the 42nd minute. However, the home team’s triumph will remain in the shadow of the offside, practically invisible to the eye, which was the reason for Leverkusen’s 73rd minute goal to be disallowed by Patrick Schick.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 1Tuesday Dinamo Zagreb – Chelsea 1-0 (1-0)/Orsic 13/Dortmund – Copenhagen 3-0 (2-0)/Reus 35, Guerreiro 42, Bellingham 83/Salzburg – Milan 1-1 (1-0)/Saelemaekers 40 – Okafor 28/Celtic – Real Madrid 0-3 (0-0)/Junior 56, Modric 60, Hazard 77/RB Leipzig – Shakhtar 1-4 (0-1)/Simakan 57 – Shved 16, 58, Mydruk 76, Traore 85/Sevilla – Man City 0-4 (0-1)/Haaland 20, 67, Foden 58, Dias 90+2/Benfica – Maccabi Haifa 2-0 (0-0)/Silva 49, Grimaldo 54/PSG – Juventus 2-1 (2-0)/Mbappe 5, 22 – McKennie 53/Wednesday Ajax – Rangers 4-0 (3-0)/Alvarez 17, Berghuis 32, Kudus 33, Bergwijn 80/Eintracht Frankfurt – Sporting CP 0-3 (0-0)/Edwards 65, Trincao 67, Santos 82/Atletico Madrid – Porto 2-1 (0-0)/Hermoso 90+2, Griezmann 110 – Uribe 90+6 pen/Barcelona – Viktoria Plzen 5-1 (3-1)/Kessie 13, Lewandowski 34, 45+3, 68, Torres 71 – Sykora 44/Club Brugge – Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 (1-0)/Sylla 42/Inter – Bayern 0-2 (0-1)/Sane 25, D’Ambrosio 66 og/Napoli – Liverpool 4-1 (3-0)/Zielinski 5 pen, 47, Anguissa 31, Simeone 44 – Diaz 49/Tottenham – Olympique de Marseille 2-0 (0-0)/Richarlison 76, 81/