Barcelona’s Raphinha celebrates after scoring his facet’s third objective through the Champions League opening part soccer match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich on the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photograph/Emilio Morenatti)
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It was an awesome evening for English golf equipment, and for Barcelona captain Raphinha.
Premier League chief Liverpool moved stage on factors with Aston Villa on the high of the Champions League standings Wednesday by extending its excellent document to a few wins, and Manchester Metropolis set a brand new document for essentially the most consecutive video games undefeated within the historical past of the competitors.
Liverpool edged Leipzig 1-0 with a objective from Darwin Nunez. Metropolis routed Sparta Prague 5-0 with Erling Haaland scoring twice.
Raphinha scored a hat trick as Barcelona lastly beat Bayern Munich to finish a sequence of six consecutive wins for the German group of their head-to-head conferences that included a humiliating 8-2 loss for Barca within the quarterfinals in 2020.
This time, Barcelona got here out on high of an entertaining contest with a 4-1 assertion win.
After three rounds within the revamped match, Liverpool and Aston Villa have a two-point lead over seven golf equipment together with Man Metropolis and one other Premier League group, Arsenal. The 4 English groups within the competitors have conceded only one objective mixed to this point.
In Barcelona, the hosts opened the scoring inside a minute as Raphinha was discovered by Fermin Lopez’s by ball, then rounded Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer with ease.
Bayern leveled the rating with Harry Kane’s volley, however Barcelona responded with one objective from former Bayern nice Robert Lewandowski and two extra from Raphinha, who was later substituted to a standing ovation.
It was Barcelona’s first win over Bayern because the 2015 Champions League semifinals. Barcelona got here into the sport with out having scored in its 4 video games in opposition to Bayern since an 8-2 loss in 2020. Barcelona coach Hansi Flick was Bayern’s coach in that sport.
“It may have been a Champions League closing. Profitable like this, in entrance of our followers, is the perfect,” Raphinha stated. “What we’re doing on the pitch solutions what Barça can do on this Champions League.”
Arne Slot has guided Liverpool to first place within the Premier League early in his tenure as Jurgen Klopp’s alternative and now has the group on a most 9 factors within the Champions League.
The newest win in Europe got here at Leipzig, one of many golf equipment that Klopp can be overseeing in his new position as head of worldwide soccer at Pink Bull.
Nunez tapped in the one objective within the twenty seventh minute from Mohamed Salah’s header again towards objective and will have earned a penalty within the thirty eighth when he seemed to be tripped by Willi Orban.
“If we had left this place with a draw, I’d have actually felt we had misplaced one thing,” Slot advised TNT Sports activities. “For the 70 earlier minutes — besides, perhaps, for the primary 10 — we dominated.”
Leipzig is the one group from the massive 5 leagues to lose its three opening matches.
Manchester Metropolis’s new document will not please the purple half of the English metropolis.
By beating Sparta Prague, the English champions set the document for consecutive video games undefeated within the historical past of the competitors — even stretching again earlier than 1992 into the European Cup period. Metropolis is now on 26 matches unbeaten. Alex Ferguson’s Man United group from 2007-09 managed to remain unbeaten for 25 matches.
Phil Foden put the hosts forward with lower than three minutes gone. Haaland then scored a tremendous objective off the again of his heel. John Stones made it 3-0, Haaland grabbed his second and Matheus Nunes added extra luster to the emphatic win.
After beating Actual Madrid 1-0 within the earlier spherical, Lille received 3-1 at Atletico, which was unbeaten in its final 11 house matches within the Champions League.
The French facet had simply three photographs heading in the right direction, together with a penalty kick.
Julian Alvarez put the hosts in entrance with an early opener earlier than Edon Zhegrova curled in an equalizer near the hour mark. Jonathan David then scored from the spot within the 74th minute and accomplished a brace within the 89th minute.
“We could not have performed an awesome, nice sport, however we performed the sport we wanted to tonight,” Lille midfielder Benjamin Andre stated.
An outstanding objective from Pierre Lees-Melou helped minnows Brest to a 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen as each groups remained unbeaten.
The French group performed with verve all through the second half however was unable to search out the second objective.
Taking part in in Europe’s high competitors for the primary time, the newcomers confronted their hardest take a look at but in opposition to the German champions, who had additionally received their first two matches within the revamped match.
Florian Wirtz’s low shot gave Leverkusen the lead within the twenty fourth minute. It was his seventh objective in all competitions this season. Lees-Melou, who not too long ago returned from a damaged leg, leveled with a right-footed volley from exterior the field. It was his first objective since March.
Elsewhere, Celtic struggled however pissed off Atalanta with a 0-0 draw. Mario Pašalić hits the woodwork for the Italian group.
On the lookout for a 3rd consecutive win, Benfica misplaced 3-1 to Feyenoord, whereas substitute Marcus Thuram scored in stoppage time to assist Inter Milan scrape a 1-0 win at Younger Boys.
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