The Champions League kicked off on Tuesday September 16 after last season ended with PSG beating Inter Milan in the final 5 – 0 and the games did not disappoint!
Arsenal started the new season beating Athletic Club 2 – 0 as both Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossad came off the bench and scored the only two goals to secure the win for Arsenal.
Juventus faced Borussia Dortmund in a thriller as Lloyd Kelly equalized in the dying minutes for Juventus to earn a point for the team, the score ending in 4 – 4.
Tottenham are back in the Champions League after 2 years being out of the competition. They recently won the Europa League last season as their former captain, Son Heung-min led them to glory. At the end, Tottenham Hotspur faced Villarreal and won 1 – 0. An own goal thanks to Luiz Júnior.
Kylian Mbappe continued his hot form as he scored a brace for Real Madrid beating Marseille 2 – 1. The American Timothy Weah scored the first goal representing the United States but it wasn’t enough. Real Madrid won 2 – 1.
Harry Kane back at his best as he scored a brace for Bayern Munich beating the blues (Chelsea) 3 -1 as Cole Palmer will be disappointed as he put the team on his back and put his all to make sure Chelsea at least gets a point. Bayern Munich ended up winning 3 -1 versus Chelsea.
The reigning champions PSG are back in the Champions League after beating Inter Milan in the final last season 5 – 0 and lifted the beautiful trophy. PSG faced Atalanta as their first opponent for the new season and the Parisians did not hold back. Goals from Marquinhos, Khvichava Kvaratskhelia, Nuno Mendes and Gonçalo Ramos. PSG won 4 – 0.
Another famous European night at Anfield enters the history books as Liverpool score, very late to seal a 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid! Liverpool were leading at halftime 2-1 thanks to Andrew Robertson and Mohamed Salah and a goal right at halftime from Marcos Lloronte. Lloronte scored again in the 81st minute thinking they would earn a point but Liverpool’s captain, Virgil Van Dijk rose up for a corner to send a bullet header into the bottom corner and put the reds 3-2 up in injury time.
A redemption arc for Marcus Rashford as he comes back to London and scores a brace for Barcelona earning the team all 3 points for them, beating Newcastle United 2 – 1. The headlines will also shine bright in the midfield duo with Pedri Gonzales and Frenkie De Jong as they absolutely made Newcastle’s trio midfield nonexistent. They could not take the ball of Pedri and Frenkie De Jong as both of them held the ball when Newcastle scored a goal back, having all the momentum to tie the game.
Kevin De Bruyne is back at the Etihad Stadium facing his former club but his reunion was cut short as he had to subbed off in the 26th minute as his teammate Giovanni Di Lorenzo got a red card as he was the last man after he took out Erling Haaland who was through on goal. In the 56th minute, Erling Haaland scored a header after some nice link up play between him and Phil Foden. Then in the 65th minute, Jeremy Doku received the ball from Nico O’Reilly on the left hand side and the belgium took the ball onto his stride and skipped by 3 Napoli players and shot the ball onto the right side of the net to make it 2-0. In the end, Napoli could not get into the game, which resulted Manchester City winning 2-0.
