Humiliated at home: Henry has a start as a manager

Monaco – Club Brugge 0-4

French football hero Thierry Henry had a league debut on the coaching career. Tuesday, his Monaco beat at home, losing 0 to 4 for the Belgian Club Brugge. Thus, the team has already been eliminated from the tournament.

Henry has not yet won his first coaching job. Tuesday's match was his fifth. Status to date: two draws, three losses and a goal difference of 3-10.

The meeting with the Belgian club was a fate trying to keep hoping to play European Cup football after the New Year.

It's also Monaco's biggest home defeat in the Champions League, writes the Opta Statistical Service.

The team of the South of France is also second in the league with seven poor points in 12 matches. In recent years, the club has sold a number of stars after the success of the Champions League in 2016/17, where it played until the semifinal.

Players like Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint Germain), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Benjamin Mendy (Manchester City), Thomas Lemar (Atlético Madrid), Fabinho (Liverpool) and Tiemoué Bakayoko (Chelsea – on loan at AC Milan) the main actors who were sold.

Henry had an adventurous career as a player. He won the World Cup and EM with France and won the championship with Monaco, Arsenal and Barcelona. With the latter, he also won the Champions League in 2009.

Unhappy Henry

"I'm not happy with our reaction to this situation, we started well, but stopped playing immediately after scoring." Henry said the guests scored three goals in 12 minutes.

Brugge could be delighted with its first win in the 13-year league league.

"In the Champions League, it's important to take advantage of the opportunities – it was not our best game of the tournament, but we scored four goals on four occasions," said Tom Vanaks.

Henry turned his head in search of a winning recipe for a Monaco team, which until recently was one of the most entertaining assault teams in Europe. On Tuesday, he sent with a diamond-shaped midfielder, who in the first minutes proved to be a success. The team put Bruges under pressure and created the first chance of the match. Sofiane Diop was played for free, but Ethan Horvath was saved.

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Bruges took advantage for 12 minutes, but again, Monaco's defense seemed to be suffering from some confusion. Mats Rits has reached the deadline and let in. The ball went past two defenders at home in Vanaken, who scored. Three minutes later, Antonio Barreca handed his own field and Vanaken scored on the penalty spot.

The evening was already dark for Henry and Monaco after the first half when the captain of Bruges, Ruud Vormer, played against Wesley. He fired Kamil Glik and scored the 3-0 goal as the match penalty.

Monaco tried to save their face by winning another round, but scored four in the bag when Vormer scored five minutes before full time.

Henry wrote at least the story when he replaced Han-Noah Massengo, 17, the youngest French player in the history of the championship.

The home team used three captains during the match. Radamel Falcao and Kamil Glik were both exchanged while they had Captain Binder, who continued to Djibril Sidibe.

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