Santiago Gimenez took a quick life with Milan after his change of $ 33 million in Feyenoord earlier this month while the winter transfer window closed. The International of Mexico City, born in Argentina, 23, received the n ° 7 jersey from the Rossoneri is emblematic by the legendary Andriy Shevchenko in San Siro. Two games and Gimenez has already provided a goal and a assist and now the former star of Cruz Azul should face his former employers where he has become the best Mexican scorer of all time in the history of Eredivisie with 45 goals who Improved the “Chucky” recruitment the best of Lozano of 34 with PSV Eindhoven. Feyenoord has since separated from head coach Brian Priske, but the Dutch outfit will fear that their former stars attacker returns so little time after leaving Kuip when they try to pass the Italian giants in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers.
Here are some other memorable opportunities where players have scored against their former clubs on the UCL stage.
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- Date: Wednesday February 12 | Time: 3. PM
- Location: Stadium Feijenoord – Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Odds: Feyenoord +220; Draw +250; AC Milan +115
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Honorable mention: Angel Di Maria (PSG)
The former legendary International of Argentina had some obstacles with several exs while undoubtedly playing the strongest sustained period of his career with Paris Saint-Germain. Not only “El Fideo” provided a pair of assists when he returned to Old Trafford with the bets in a 2-0 victory against Manchester United in 2019, but that same year He also came across Real Madrid and scored twice in 3-0 success that he celebrated without restraint during a memorable evening at Parc des Princes.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
The Portuguese superstar wrote its legend with Real Madrid but was already a familiar name with United before leaving for Santiago Bernabeu. Although Ronaldo has only faced his former clubs several times during his European career, two of these occasions were the pair of legs of a meeting of 16 in 2012-13 when Los Blancos spent beyond the Red Devils with Portugal Talisman marking in both games but refusing to celebrate the scoring at Old Trafford.
David Luiz (PSG)
The European career of the Brazilian defender was full of ups and downs and many eccentric moments, but few people may be as high as his return to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea in the Channel of UCL 16 when he was A PSG player during a spell in the French capital taken sandwich between two relays with the Londoners. In 2014-2015, Luiz marked the first of the two heroic equalizations for the giants of Ligue 1 While they retaliated twice to win a 2-2 draw after an additional time, which eliminated blues’ goals on goals despite the loss of Zlatan Ibrahimovic to an early red card. The future Chelsea captain Thiago Silva has marked the other crucial objective with another head, but Luiz was memorable for his emotional celebrations against his previous and future employers.
Thibaut Courtois (Atletico Madrid)
Similar to Fernando Morientes to whom we will arrive shortly, Thibaut Courtois found himself on loan with Atletico Madrid in 2013-2014 against the Chelsea parent club in the semi-finals of the Champions League. The Belgian international presented, although there was no shortage of debate on this subject before the match until UEFA judged that a reported clause which could have cost Atleti 3, $ 1 million per game was “zero, avenue and inapplicable”, and he kept a clean sheet at home at home while Diego Simeone’s men knocked out the 3-1 blues on two legs.
Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich)
PSG expects their former players to hunt them both at the national level and on the continent over the years, but few cases are doing as much harm as the final of the 2019-20 Champions League against Bayern Munich. Graduated from the Kingsley Coman Academy, who joined the German giants via Juventus, scored the only goal of the game with a rare header To win the sixth crown UCL from Bavarians while refusing a first first in Paris. It was also a first historic body of a marking player against his former club in the final.
Philippe Coutinho (Bavaria Munich)
It is another Bayern player who undoubtedly set the even higher bar in terms of embarrassment of his former club with Philippe Coutinho causing damage to Barcelona when he was loaned in Germany. The Brazilian sought to rejuvenate his career in moving and although we have since since he was unable to do so, he appreciated a fairly productive spell with the Bundesliga giants who saw him win a good quantity of silverware. The main moment in his bavarian passage, however, came in the 2019-2020 quarterfinals He helped the future Barça Robert Lewandowski star before adding two late goals In an 8-2 demoralizing destruction of the Catalan giants of free falls. He also appeared in the final victory on PSG, but his time with Barça and Bayern will always be encapsulated by this appearance of Camée.
Fernando Morientes (Monaco)
The only better thing than a player marking twice in a match against a former club is undoubtedly doing it several times on different games, which is why Fernando Morientes “as a Monaco loan, belonging to Real Madrid, is The legendary fabric. Jet to secure his signature. Cross of real Morientes in the quarter -finals and His crucial goal in a 4-2 defeat in the front row was added by another strike in a famous 3-1 victory Above the Spanish giants of Stade Louis II with a final scorer of 5-5 aggregates sending the maintenance of the principality to the semi-finals.
