There were some big results in the second night of UEFA Champions League clashes. Listed below are summaries of Wednesday’s eight European games:
Ajax 4 – Ranger 0
Ajax continued their impressive form with a dominant performance against Scottish club Rangers. Edson Alvarez, Steven Berghuis, Mohammed Kudus and former Tottenham winger Steven Bergwijn were the scorers of the night. Rangers were dominated from start to finish in their first UCL group stage match in 12 years. The only negative for the Dutch giants was the fact that Bergwijn was injured scoring the fourth goal and was forced to be substituted.
Eintracht Frankfurt 0 – Sporting 3
Although the Portuguese club apparently controlled the match, the home team actually had more shots on goal. In fact, Sporting managed just one total shot in the first half. However, the Lions scored three goals in the second half to take all three points from Portugal. Marcus Edwards and Trincao scored their goals three minutes apart and then Nuno Santos finished off Frankfurt in the 82nd minute.
Napoli 4 – Liverpool 1
In the most impressive score of the day, the Italians stun Liverpool by three goals. Piotr Zielinski, Andre-Frank Gamba Anguissa and substitute Giovanni Simeone scored their goals in the first half of the match. Zielinski added another goal in the second half before Luis Diaz pulled one back for the visitors. Victor Osimhen was forced to leave the match due to injury just 41 minutes into the game. Napoli could have quite easily scored at least another goal or two, as Liverpool’s defense was downright terrible.
Inter Milan 0 Bayern Munich 2
Bayern dominated Inter away from home thanks to the outstanding Leroy Sane. The German international scored the first goal and essentially set up another. Defender Danilo D’Ambrosio put the ball into his own net for the second goal after Sane and Kingsley Coman played some passes inside the Inter box. Andre Onana made his debut in goal for his new club.
Barcelona 5 – Viktoria Pilsen 1
The Spanish giants frustrated the visitors en route to an easy victory. Robert Lewandowski scored his sixth career UCL hat-trick, while Franck Kessie and Ferran Torres scored the remaining two goals for Barça. Jan Sykora scored a header for Plzen just before half-time, but it was left as a consolation goal. Ousmane Dembele also starred for Barça with two assists on the night.
Atletico Madrid 2 – Porto 1
Surprisingly, all three goals in this match came in added time. Defender Mario Hermoso’s shot went over Diogo Costa to make it 1-0 in the 91st minute. However, Porto were awarded a penalty four minutes later and Mateus Uribe made no mistake from the penalty spot. Atleti managed to steal all three points 10 minutes into added time when Antoine Griezmann headed in a corner on the last play of the game.
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Tottenham Hotspur 2 – Marseille 0
Spurs took care of Marseille with two second-half goals from Richarlison. The goals, both headed, came just five minutes apart. Richarlison’s opening goal in the 76th minute was his club’s first shot on goal of the match. The visitors were reduced to 10 men early in the second half thanks to a hard tackle from Chancel Mbemba over a sprint from Son Heung-Min.
Club Brugge 1 – Bayer Leverkusen 0
Abakar Sylla technically put his club ahead just before the half-time break, but replays showed Leverkusen goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky appeared to miss the shot. The Finnish international essentially carried the ball into his own goal. Leverkusen thought they had leveled the score in the 73rd minute with a header from Patrik Schick; however, VAR intervened and disallowed the goal for offside. Further checks showed that a Leverkusen player was offside due to the toe of his boot.
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