The forward Sandro Kulenovic was more than enough for him Dinamo Zagreb achieved its first victory in the Champions League and sank its rival, the Salzburg (0-2) who extended their losing streak, are still scoreless, and are part of the teams in the competition who have yet to score.
The attacker scored the goal that put the visitors ahead, sealing victory in the final stretch thanks to Bruno Petkovicand caused the goalkeeper to be sent off Alexander Schlager which left Salzburg with ten players, the score against and almost no options.
In a rivalry between two of the teams destined to drop out and disappear from the competition’s qualifiers that reached this third round without knowing victory, Dinamo Zagreb held its cards best and came out louder from the Red Bull Arena.
The Austrian team, previously defeated by Sparta Prague and Brest, teams out of the spotlight as well, without success. He scored Karim Konate and Amar Dedic in the first minutes but the threat of Kulenovic appeared after half an hour. It was the clearest chance up to that moment that the Pole had been dismasted Kamil Piatkowski on the line, that goal has been exceeded.
From that moment on, the Croatians dominated the game and at the start of the second half, a cross from the left by Takuya Ogiwara found its way into the area. Stephen Ristovsky which helped Sandro Kulenovic narrowly beat Alexander Schlager to complete a swift attack action.
He tried to react Salzburgwho had yet to score a goal in the competition, but found another mistake, another attacking error that kept them low. The purpose Alexander Schlager He left the area to stop a counterattack and thwart the run of Sandro Kulenovic when he faced his goal with the Polish Kamil Piatkowski.
The local team showed courage. He even managed to tie Karim Konate but five from the end, in a counter attack came the sentence signed by Bruno Petkovic after a wall with Stefan Ristovski.
RB SALZBURG
02
DINAMO ZAGREB
0 – Salzburg: Alexander Schlager Amar Dedić, Kamil Piatkowski, Samson Baidoo, Aleksa Terzić (Dauda Guindo, m.82); Mads Bidstrup (Nicolas Capaldo, m.58), Mamady Diambou (Stefan Bajcetic, m.58), Maurits Kjærgaard; Adam Daghim (Dorgeles Nene, m.58), Karim Konate and Oscar Gloukh (Janis Blaswich, m.69).
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2 – Dinamo Zagreb: Ivan Nevistic; Stefan Ristovski, Kevin Theophile-Catherine, Maxime Bermauer, Raul Torrente; Petar Sucic (Luka Stojkovic, m.88), Josip Misic, Arijan Ademi (MarkoRog, m.59); Martin Baturina (Lukas Kacavenda, m.88), Takuya Ogiwara (Ronael Pierre-Gabriel, m.77) and Sandro Kulenovic (Bruno Petkovic, m.77).
The
TheObjectives: 0-1, m.49: Sandro Kulenovic; 0-2, m.77: Bruno Petkovic.
The
TheReferee: Danny McKelie (NED). He sent off goalkeeper Alexander Schlager with a straight red card (m.66), from Salzburg, and showed yellow cards to Mads Bidstrup, Amar Dedic and Kamil Patkowski, also from the Austrian team, and Marko Rog, from at Dinamo Zagreb.
The
TheEvents: match on day three of the Champions League group stage played at the Red Bull Arena in Salzburg in front of around 24,000 spectators.
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Source: La Verdad
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