Second half goals from Dentinho and Manor Solomon secured a 2-0 win for Shakhtar Donetsk over Real Madrid in Group B of the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday night.
The defeat leaves Madrid’s fate in reaching the knockout stages out of their hands heading into the final round of matches.
The 13-times European Cup winners went behind in the 57th minute when substitute Dentinho capitalised on a lapse in concentration from defender Raphael Varane to score.
Israeli forward Solomon then wrapped up the home side’s shock win over the Spanish champions in the 82nd with a solo run on the counter and finish into the bottom corner.
Dentinho came on in the first half to replace striker Junior Moraes, who was injured after being hauled down by Varane in a bid to prevent the forward racing towards goal unchallenged.
Shakhtar, who beat Madrid 3-2 away in October, are second in Group B on seven points, level with Zinedine Zidane’s Real side but ahead due to their superior head-to-head record.
In the other early fixture, Salzburg defeated Lokomotiv Moscow 3-1 in Russia.
Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho watched Gareth Bale score the winner against Brighton – and then declared his intention to check the reaction in Madrid.
Bale climbed off the bench to head home the first goal of his second spell in north London and it was an important one as it earned a 2-1 victory which moved Spurs up to second in the Premier League.
The Wales international arrived back at Spurs on a season-long loan from Real Madrid in September after a torrid final couple of years in the Spanish capital, where he fell out of favour with Zinedine Zidane and was heavily criticised by the fans.
“He knows we care about him and we know he cares about us, the team and the club, Spurs. He’s the perfect fit, he’s very calm, very intelligent, he has good feelings.
“He had bad feelings before, because the training process was hard, and his body was suffering a little bit, but we gave him what he needs as a whole.
Protesters hit the streets of Madrid against virus restrictions on Sunday, a day before a partial lockdown is extended to more areas of Spain’s capital region try to curb a surge in coronavirus cases.
The city with its surrounding region is at the epicentre of a second wave of infections sweeping Spain.
Covid-19 has already claimed more than 31,000 lives among more than 700,000 cases nationwide, the highest infection rate in the European Union.
Some 850,000 people in 37 mainly densely-populated low-income districts in southern Madrid have since September 21 been confined to their neighbourhoods, unable to leave except for work, school or medical reasons — although they are able to move freely within their own areas.
Parks in the affected neighbourhoods are closed and restaurants and other businesses must shut at 10 pm in a country with a tradition of eating late.
The regional government of Madrid, which is responsible for health, will from Monday extend the restrictions to eight more districts home to another 167,000 people.
Its latest move falls short of a recommendation from Spain’s leftist central government that the partial lockdown should cover the entire city.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Madrid regional parliament in southern district Vallecas, one of the neighbourhoods under partial lockdown since last week, to protest against the restrictions.
Many complained of discrimination by the authorities.
“It’s not lockdown, it’s segregation!” the crowd chanted as they briefly blocked a road in front of the assembly.
“They don’t confine the rich,” was among one of the signs on display at the protest, which drew groups of young people, retired couples and young parents pushing baby strollers.
– ‘Makes no sense’ –
Similar smaller demonstrations were held in other parts of the city, including in front of city hall and at the seat of Madrid’s regional government in the central Puerta del Sol square.
“It makes no sense that you can go to work in a wealthier area but can’t go have a drink,” Marcos Ruiz Guijarro, a 27-year-old electrician who like many of his neighbours travels to the centre of Madrid every day to work, told AFP.
“Infections are rising everywhere, the rules should be the same for everyone.”
Many demonstrators complained that the regional government was failing to improve public healthcare or doing anything to reduce overcrowding in the transport system, where they said the virus could easily spread.
The protesters clapped in unison while calling for the resignation of regional leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso, under fire for saying that the “lifestyle” of people in the affected neighbourhoods was partly to blame for the rise in Covid-19 cases.
The regional government says it has targeted areas where the contagion rate is above 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.
– Hospitals overrun –
But national Health Minister Salvador Illa on Friday called on the regional government to extend its restrictions to the entire city as well to surrounding areas with more than 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
He warned that hospitals in the region of around 6.6 million people are already overrun with coronavirus cases, and it should prepare for some “hard weeks” ahead.
In a tweet on Sunday he once again urged the regional government of Madrid to “review the measures it announced and follow the recommendations of scientists and health experts”.
Since the central government ended its state of emergency on June 21, responsibility for managing the pandemic has been transferred to Spain’s 17 autonomous regions.
Over the past week, Spain has registered the highest number of new cases within the EU with a rate of nearly 300 per 100,000 inhabitants — but in the Madrid region, the figure is currently more than 700 per 100,000.
