Champions League LIVE SCORES: Harry Kane’s Bayern face Benfica, Aston Villa in action, PSG host Atletico – updates

Pep near frustrated successful Portugal

Football tin beryllium a cruel mistress astatine times.

Man City dominated the first-half against Sporting Lisbon but did not instrumentality their chances and paid the eventual price.

It means that Pep Guardiola’s broadside person present mislaid back-to-back games and the injuries are mounting up.

The curse of Kylian Mbappe

Signing arguably the champion striker successful the satellite seemed to marque Real Madrid unbeatable fixed their existent squad.

Mbappe’s vocation successful Madrid has not taken disconnected arsenic galore expected.

A subordinate who has ne'er won the Champions League, could his curse mean Ancelotti’s broadside miss retired connected the biggest trophy this season?

A dense decision astatine location against rivals Barcelona has been followed up by a 3-1 nonaccomplishment to AC Milan this evening.

Gaffer continues imagination start

Liverpool beryllium apical of some the Premier League and Champions League nether caller manager Arne Slot.

Nobody expected him to marque this commencement to his Reds’ vocation and helium continues to rewrite the grounds books.

Slot has won 14 of his archetypal 16 games arsenic Liverpool manager.

This could beryllium a play to retrieve for their fans if it continues however it has started.

GUNNER BE MISSED

Arsenal volition beryllium without Declan Rice for Wednesday night's Champions League clash with Inter Milan.

The England midfielder, 25, did not question to Italy with his Gunners team-mates.

Rice played the afloat 90 minutes as Arsenal were beaten 1-0 astatine Newcastle on Saturday.

But helium did not instrumentality portion successful training on Tuesday morning.

It is not yet wide wherefore Rice was absent.

But Gunners boss Mikel Arteta will person to bash without the £100million antheral arsenic his broadside instrumentality connected the Italian champions.

Champions League table

Here is however the league is looking successful the caller format Champions League earlier we caput into time night’s games:

Champions League fixtures

Club Brugge vs Aston Villa

Shakhtar Donetsk vs Young Boys

Bayern Munich vs Benfica

Feyenoord vs Red Bull Salzburg

Inter Milan vs Arsenal

PSG vs Atletico Madrid

Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona

Sparta Prague vs Brest

Stuttgart vs Atalanta

Arteta improbable to hazard talisman

There is nary doubting that Arsenal person looked a airy examination of their champion without Martin Odegaard.

The bully quality for Gunners' fans is that helium has returned to grooming a batch earlier than expected.

While helium is travelling with the squad to Italy, it remains to beryllium seen whether Mikel Arteta volition hazard him successful this important match.

Emery looking to bounce backmost from defeat

Aston Villa took a dense decision connected the chin connected the weekend.

Despite going up successful North London, Tottenham ran retired arsenic 4-1 winners successful the Premier League.

Unai Emery's broadside request to triumph if they privation to leapfrog Liverpool astatine the apical of the Champions League table.

Celtic support qualification hopes alive

When Brendan Rodgers' broadside got heavy bushed against Borussia Dortmund, galore expected yet different aboriginal exit from Europe's elite competition.

Having amassed 7 points from their archetypal 4 games, Celtic are present well-placed to physique connected this and unafraid a spot successful the second stages.

They showed grit and determination aft going a extremity down against RB Leipzig but turned the crippled astir to tally retired 3-1 winners.

Champions League table

Here is however the league is looking successful the caller format Champions League earlier we caput into time night's games:

The curse of Kylian Mbappe

Signing arguably the champion striker successful the satellite seemed to marque Real Madrid unbeatable fixed their existent squad.

Mbappe's vocation successful Madrid has not taken disconnected arsenic galore expected.

A subordinate who has ne'er won the Champions League, could his curse mean Ancelotti's broadside miss retired connected the biggest trophy this season?

A dense decision astatine location against rivals Barcelona has been followed up by a 3-1 nonaccomplishment to AC Milan this evening.

Pep near frustrated successful Portugal

Football tin beryllium a cruel mistress astatine times.

Man City dominated the first-half against Sporting Lisbon but did not instrumentality their chances and paid the eventual price.

It means that Pep Guardiola's broadside person present mislaid back-to-back games and the injuries are mounting up.

Gaffer continues imagination start

Liverpool beryllium apical of some the Premier League and Champions League nether caller manager Arne Slot.

Nobody expected him to marque this commencement to his Reds' vocation and helium continues to rewrite the grounds books.

Slot has won 14 of his archetypal 16 games arsenic Liverpool manager.

This could beryllium a play to retrieve for their fans if it continues however it has started.

FT: Real Madrid 1-3 AC Milan

The large astonishment effect of the evening came successful Spain.

AC Milan scored 3 goals to stun Santiago Bernabau.

Alvaro Morata got the 3rd extremity arsenic the Spaniard rubbed brackish successful the coiled capping disconnected a superb show from the Italians.

Champions League results

PSV 4-0 Girona

Slovan Bratislava 1-4 Dinamo Zagreb

Bologna 0-1 Monaco

Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Sturm Graz

Celtic 3-1 RB Leipzig

Lille 1-1 Juventus

Liverpool 4-0 Bayer Leverkusen

Real Madrid 1-3 AC Milan

Sporting 4-1 Man City

FT: Celtic 3-1 RB Leipzig

A monolithic effect for Brendan Rodgers' side.

They fell down to a extremity from Cristoph Baumgartner but that is arsenic bully arsenic it got for the visitors.

Celtic determination to 7 points successful this season's Champions League.

View from SunSport's Charlie Wyett

Incredible 2nd fractional show from Liverpool.

There volition surely not beryllium immoderate Reds fans wishing Xabi Alonso was their manager alternatively of Arne Slot.

Next up astatine Anfield successful the Champions League are Real Madrid and what a crippled that could be.

FT: Sporting 4-1 Man City

What a mode to accidental goodbye to their fans.

Pep Guardiola's broadside person been trampled by Sporting Lisbon.

All of that aft having truthful galore chances to people earlier the hosts had adjacent registered their first.

View from SunSport's Martin Blackburn successful Lisbon

Who writes Ruben Amorim’s scripts?

A fairytale mode to accidental goodbye to the location fans astatine the Jose Alvalade – and endear himself to the caller ones astatine Old Trafford.

A nighttime they volition beryllium talking astir for years to travel successful this portion of Lisbon.

And what astir Viktor Gyokores – helium adjacent eclipsed Erling Haaland by scoring a hat-trick – portion the Norwegian thumped a pen against the bar. 

FT: Liverpool 4-0 Bayer Leverkusen

Many Liverpool fans wanted Xabi Alonso to regenerate Jurgen Klopp.

They got Arne Slot and they are apical of each league successful which they vie truthful acold this season.

A Luis Diaz hat-trick and a Cody Gakpo extremity marque for an emphatic triumph for The Reds.

Touch of people from the location fans arsenic they sing their Xabi Alonso chant erstwhile the triumph is sealed.

90+1. GOAL - LIVERPOOL 4-0 Bayer Leverkusen

His sanction is Lucho, helium came from Porto.....

.....he came to score, score, score.

Diaz gets his archetypal hat-trick successful a Liverpool shirt.

Levels.

Real Madrid 1-3 AC Milan

85. A immense cheer from the distant extremity astatine Santiago Bernabeu.

VAR has ruled retired Rudiger's goal.

Huge stroke for Madrid.

86. GOAL - Bologna 0-1 MONACO

Thilo Kehrer grabs a precocious extremity for the visitors.

Heartbreaking for the hosts astatine this signifier of the game.

The French broadside whitethorn person conscionable won this 1 precocious on.

85. GOAL - BORUSSIA DORTMUND 1-0 Sturm Graz

Donyell Malen gives past season's finalists the lead.

The visitors had worked truthful hard to effort and get a point.

Now that seems a distant dream.

82. GOAL - REAL MADRID 2-3 AC Milan

Antonio Rudiger claws 1 backmost for Madrid.

There is inactive clip successful this crippled to get thing from it.

Nervy times for the travelling fans.