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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE returns for different thrilling nighttime of enactment aft Tuesday's goal-fest.
Aston Villa look a mammoth brushwood against German giants Bayern Munich portion Liverpool big Italian outfit Bologna.
And some English sides volition beryllium determined to travel successful the footsteps of Arsenal who cruised to a 2-0 win against French champions PSG oregon Manchester City who thrashed Slovakian kings Slovan Bratislava 4-0.
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Contender for Man Utd occupation crushed broadside successful Champions League past night
Inter Milan brag Simone Inzaghi is being considered if Manchester United regenerate Erik 10 Hag.
His broadside ran retired 4-0 winners implicit Serbian outfit Red Star Belgrade successful Italy connected Tuesday nighttime to permission them 5th successful the standings.
Inzaghi besides held Manchester City to a 0-0 bore draw a fortnight agone astatine the Etihad.
He made the Champions League last successful 2022-23, lone to suffer 1-0 to Pep Guardiola's treble winning side.
Lautaro Martinez listens to Inter Milan's Italian manager Simone Inzaghi
Tonight's Champions League docket
Here’s each the Champions League enactment scheduled for Wednesday with Villa and Liverpool successful action:
5:45pm
- Girona vs Feyenoord
- Shakhtar Donetsk vs Atalanta
8pm:
- Aston Villa vs Bayern Munich
- Benfica vs Atletico Madrid
- Dinamo Zagreb vs Monaco
- Lille vs Real Madrid
- Liverpool vs Bologna
- RB Leipzig vs Juventus
- Sturm Graz vs Club Brugge
Arsenal's defence ends awesome PSG run
Paris Saint-Germain had scored successful their last 51 Champions League group signifier matches earlier they met this Arsenal defence.
The Gunners enactment successful a nonrecreational show astatine the Emirates, acknowledgment to first-half goals from Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka.
They too, similar City, picked up their archetypal triumph of the caller European play aft being held to 0-0 gully astatine Atalanta.
Arsenal's defence extremity PSG stat tally for goals scored successful Champions League radical stages
Foden silences theories of autumn retired with Pep
Three of Foden's six Premier League appearances this word person travel disconnected the bench.
There's adjacent a growing content that brag Guardiola has a enigma problem with the 24-year-old among fans.
But Foden claimed Man of the Match connected his archetypal commencement of the play past nighttime arsenic Man City thumped SK Slovan Bratislava 4-0.
Foden enactment the visitors 2-0 up with a delicate dink wrong 15 minutes earlier mounting up sub James McAtee for his side's fourth.
The England prima had to beryllium diligent successful his instrumentality to nine shot aft Euro 2024, with a microorganism slowing his prep for the season.
But helium looked backmost to his champion successful the Slovakian capital, arsenic City picked up their archetypal Champions League triumph of the season, pursuing a 0-0 gully with Inter Milan a fortnight ago.
Phil Foden won Player Of The Match successful City's archetypal Champions League triumph of season
Peter Schmeichel connected lad Kasper's awkward Celtic evening
Goalkeeper Schmeichel conceded SEVEN against Dortmund - including 5 earlier half-time.
Dad Peter, who won the Champions League with Man Utd successful 1999, looked exasperated arsenic helium watched connected from the gantry.
Peter, 60, told CS Sports: "It truly is difficult. Because you ever privation the champion for your children.
"It doesn't substance what concern they find themselves in, and of people contiguous was conscionable 1 of those days that you tin ne'er ever explain.
"I spoke to Kasper arsenic helium came retired of the crippled present and I said, "This was a atrocious bad time astatine the bureau and instrumentality it arsenic thing more.
'Move on, beryllium 1 of the leaders successful the dressing country and assistance everyone retrieve from this."'
Celtic would spell connected to suffer 7-1 successful Germany, with Karim Adeyemi bagging a hat-trick earlier the break.
Kasper Schmeichel looked dejected astatine full-time
Dad Peter Schmeichel with Celtic brag Brendan Rodgers
The Danish keeper conceded 5 earlier half-time arsenic Celtic collapsed
Full Champions League Results
Here are the afloat results from Tuesday's Champions League action:
- Red Bull Salzburg 0-4 Brest
- Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague
- Borussia Dortmund 7-1 Celtic
- PSV Eindhoven 1-1 Sporting Lisbon
- Slovan Bratislava 0-4 Manchester City
- Barcelona 5-0 Young Boys
- Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 AC Milan
- Inter Milan 4-0 Red Star Belgrade
- Arsenal 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain
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Rodgers addresses embarrassing defeat
Celtic brag Brendan Rodgers says helium needs to find a mode to "inspire the players again" aft the 7-1 thrashing by Borussia Dortmund.
We went successful precocious successful confidence. We felt we were successful a truly bully place. We had to commencement overmuch amended than we did, arsenic we gave distant truly inexpensive goals.
And we got punished for escaped bits of play and passes. They were ruthless successful their finishing. It was unthinkable to see.
It's precise hard for america to get to that level. It's a antithetic level, with the top respect. We privation to beryllium much competitive, that's what was disappointing from our perspective.
My occupation is to spell distant and animate the players again. We request to larn from it oregon we volition get punished astatine this level.
Brendan Rodgers
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Champions League schedule
Here's each the Champions League enactment scheduled for Wednesday:
- Girona vs Feyenoord
- Shakhtar Donetsk vs Atalanta
- Aston Villa vs Bayern Munich
- Benfica vs Atletico Madrid
- Dinamo Zagreb vs Monaco
- Lille vs Real Madrid
- Liverpool vs Bologna
- RB Leipzig vs Juventus
- Sturm Graz vs Club Brugge
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More from Arteta
Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta claims the awesome Champions League triumph implicit Paris Saint-Germain proves his squad tin vie with everybody.
I deliberation it raises the assurance and the content that we tin vie with immoderate squad astatine this level successful games that are precise antithetic to the Premier League.
We showed maturity and enactment our stamp successful Europe against the apical teams. I truly liked that.
I sensed thing antithetic successful [the players] tonight. They wanted to beryllium a point. We tin beryllium ourselves and this is different step. We person to transportation connected with doing that.
I deliberation they needed this. I deliberation it's a peculiar nighttime against a large European club. It lifts the content and tone of everybody. It shows we tin bushed them.
Mikel Arteta
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Foden regaining form
Manchester City prima Phil Foden claims he's "back astatine it" aft a "slow start" to the season.
I had much chances to score, connected different nighttime it could've been much - but we're delighted to triumph 4-0.
It's been a dilatory commencement to the play for me, truthful it was bully to get backmost retired determination and score.
I'm feeling good now, I'm backmost astatine it. It was that dilatory commencement to the play but I'm getting backmost into it now.
Phil Foden TNT Sports
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Champions League schedule
The Champions League enactment continues connected Wednesday with the pursuing fixtures:
- Girona vs Feyenoord
- Shakhtar Donetsk vs Atalanta
- Aston Villa vs Bayern Munich
- Benfica vs Atletico Madrid
- Dinamo Zagreb vs Monaco
- Lille vs Real Madrid
- Liverpool vs Bologna
- RB Leipzig vs Juventus
- Sturm Graz vs Club Brugge
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Guardiola connected Foden
Manchester City brag Pep Guardiola stated Phil Foden is "still not astatine his best" but he's "on his mode back".
We said astatine half-time we needed 1 much extremity and 3-0 would marque it astir over. They started with a spot much courage, with 4 astatine the back, but aft we went 2-0 up they sat backmost much similar galore teams.
Ilkay [Gundogan's] crippled astatine Newcastle wasn't truly good, possibly 1 of the worst I person seen from him but successful his position, holding midfield, helium is truly intelligent and played a fantastic crippled today.
Phil Foden is inactive not astatine his best, helium scored a truly bully extremity - walk the shot to the post, don't shoot. He had much chances, but he's connected his mode back.
Pep GuardiolaTNT Sports
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Arteta praises Havertz
Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta praised Kai Havertz and described him arsenic a "main player".
Really, truly blessed with the performance. We played an hostile that has a batch of personality, is truly hard to woody with erstwhile you don't person the ball.
The archetypal fractional was precise ascendant and we created a batch of chances and past the 2nd fractional was a antithetic story.
We suffered overmuch much than we should person done. The Champions League brings antithetic demands but I deliberation we handled it truly well."
He has been unbelievable. His shot brain, the mode helium understands space, his timing, helium brings radical together. Hs enactment ethic is unthinkable and present helium is simply a existent menace astir the box. He is 1 of our main players astatine the moment.
Mikel ArtetaAmazon Prime
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Updated Champions League table
Borussia Dortmund apical the Champions League array truthful acold successful Gameweek 2.
Dortmund person the aforesaid points arsenic Brest and Bayer Leverkusen but are successful archetypal spot owed to goals scored aft hammering Celtic 7-1.
Manchester City are fourth, portion Arsenal are eighth truthful far.
More below:
Slovan Bratislava vs Man City Stats
Manchester City dominated 76 per cent of possession against Slovan Bratislava.
City registered a staggering 28 shots, fractional of which were connected target.
Slovan, connected the different hand, lone managed a full of 3 shots, each of which were disconnected target.
Talk astir the League Phase making the Champions League much entertaining...
Arsenal vs PSG Stats
Paris Saint-Germain dominated 65 per cent of possession against Arsenal.
However, PSG produced 10 shots but lone 2 of them were connected target.
The Gunners, connected the different hand, deed six shots, 5 of which were connected target.
More below:
Arsenal subordinate ratings
DAVID RAYA – 7/10
RICCARDO CALAFIORI – 6
WILLIAM SALIBA – 7
GABRIEL MAGALHAES – 7
JURRIEN TIMBER – 8
DECLAN RICE – 7
THOMAS PARTEY – 8
LEANDRO TROSSARD – 8
BUKAYO SAKA – 7
GABRIEL MARTINELLI – 7
KAI HAVERTZ – 9
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Word from Bratislava
Erling Haaland passed different Champions League milestone - arsenic helium near Sergio Aguero trailing successful his rear presumption mirror.
The Norwegian guardant latched onto a beauteous done shot from Rico Lewis and finished with the minimum of fuss conscionable earlier the hour.
That was a 42nd extremity successful conscionable 41 appearances successful a contention that the £51.4million bargain admits helium loves playing in.
That takes him past City’s all-time starring scorer Aguero’s tally successful Uefa's astir presitigious tourney – and don’t hide Haaland is inactive lone 24.
He was subbed a fewer minutes aboriginal and mightiness person felt somewhat annoyed with Pep Guardiola – arsenic determination were much goals successful this 1 for him.
This was small much than a grooming workout for the English champs against the Slovakian rookies – and the lone astonishment was they lone scored four.
But aft a gully successful their archetypal European crippled against Inter Milan 2 weeks ago, they are good and genuinely up and moving now.
Slovan had played 8 games conscionable to scope the league signifier of the contention – and connected their opening nighttime a fortnight agone they were thumped 5-1 by Celtic successful Glasgow.
Yet they were thrilled to beryllium welcoming the 2022/3 winners and each the prima names to their location and were determined to bask the night.
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Word from Arsenal
Arsene Wenger utilized to moan until the cows came location astir the impossibility of competing with state-owned oil-rich clubs.
Mikel Arteta simply gets connected with it - and with progressively awesome levels of success.
Having fixed Abu Dhabi’s Manchester City a superior fright successful a 2-2 gully astatine the Etihad 9 days ago, present were the Arsenal strolling to triumph against the pridefulness of Qatar, Paris Saint-Germain.
It helped that PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma went a agelong mode to gifting first-half goals to Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka.
But Arteta’s broadside - unbeaten successful 4 against Pep Guardiola’s City by the mode - are looking progressively comfy backmost connected the Champions League signifier which they vacated during Wenger’s second years.
This was a conflict betwixt arguably the 2 astir celebrated European clubs ne'er to person ruled the continent - and connected this evidence, Arsenal look acold person than the French champions to yet lifting Old Big Ears.
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Full-time crossed the board
Here are the afloat results from tonight's Champions League action:
- Red Bull Salzburg 0-4 Brest
- Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague
- Borussia Dortmund 7-1 Celtic
- PSV Eindhoven 1-1 Sporting Lisbon
- Slovan Bratislava 0-4 Manchester City
- Barcelona 5-0 Young Boys
- Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 AC Milan
- Inter 4-0 Red Star Belgrade
- Arsenal 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain
Barcelona 5-0 Young Boys
Young Boys thought they got a consolation extremity astatine the Olympic Stadium against Barcelona.
Joel Monteiro deed the backmost of the nett but VAR ruled it retired successful the archetypal infinitesimal of stoppage time.
PSV Eindhoven 1-1 Sporting Lisbon
Sporting Lisbon equalise against PSV Eindhoven astatine the Philips Stadion.
Daniel Braganca raises Sporting's hopes of a constituent distant connected 83 minutes.
Inter Milan 4-0 Red Star Belgrade
Inter Milan support connected scoring against Red Star Belgrade astatine the San Siro.
Mehdi Taremi scores - aft providing 2 assists - from the punishment spot connected 81 minutes.
Barcelona 5-0 Young Boys
Barcelona are besides continuing with the thrashing of Young Boys.
Mohamed Camara scores an ain extremity connected 81 minutes.
Borussia Dortmund 7-1 Celtic
Borussia Dortmund proceed pummelling Celtic with Felix Nmecha's decorativeness connected 79 minutes.
If Dortmund people again past they volition adjacent the biggest triumph successful presumption of scoreline successful Champions League history.
BVB would necktie Juventus' 7-0 triumph implicit Olympiacos successful 2004 and Arsenal's 7-0 triumph implicit Slavia Prague successful 2007.
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