Things are beginning to look dire for Real Madrid’s Champions League hopes, after another loss against Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday night.
Zinedine Zidane, who coaches Real Madrid, also lost on Saturday against Alaves, making this new loss sting even harder.
Real Madrid kept themselves even with Shakhtar Donetsk in the first half, and even had a great scoring oppurtunity when Martin Odegaard set up Marco Asensio for a possible goal. But after not converting, the teams went to the locker rooms knotted at 0.
After the second half whistle blew, however, Shakhtar began to find its feet, and a fatal Dentinho strike in the 57th minute gave them the lead.
Real Madrid was unable to generate many scoring chances after going down 1-0. With eight minutes left to go, a Manor Solomon goal put the Ukranians up 2-0.
Los Blancos, now 3rd place in Group B with 7 points, must now hope for at least a point in their visit to Borussia Monchengladbach in order to finish the group stage successfully.
A win would propel them into the knockout round, a draw would mean they would depend on Inter Milan defeating Shakhtar, and a loss would send them crashing out of the Champions League. Only time will tell how this dog fight will end.
