September 13.
Liverpool 2-1 Ajax (Group A)
Porto 0-4 Club Brugge (Group B)
Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 Atlético Madrid (Group B)
Viktoria Plzeň 0-2 Inter Milan (Group C)
Bayern Munich 2-0 Barcelona (Group C)
Sporting CP 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur (Group D)
Marseille 0-1 Eintracht Frankfurt (Group D)
Liverpool got their first win in Group A by breaking a stubborn Ajax team that seemed to be okay with a point from Anfield.
Liverpool completed the comeback when the goal-line technology confirmed that Joel Matip’s header had crossed the line in the 89th minute.
Mohammed Kudus scored to get Ajax on level terms 10 minutes after Mohamed Salah had opened the scoring for the game to hand Liverpool a lead in the 17th minute.
Napoli is top of the group after a 3-0 win in Glasgow against a 10-man Rangers.
Napoli could have won by a bigger margin had Piotr Zielinski converted from the penalty spot. Zielinski had a chance to retake his missed penalty and missed the retake. Matteo Politano scored 8 minutes later from the penalty spot to get Napoli in the lead in the 68th minute. Giacomo Raspadori and Tanguy Ndombele added a goal each in the final 10 minutes to make it a 3-0 win for Napoli against Rangers in Glasgow.
Three goals in the second half did the damage to Porto, as Club Brugge used a 4-0 win at Porto to seal their second victory in Group B. Porto at bottom of the group.
Atletico Madrid followed a dramatic win against Porto with a defeat with a 1-0 defeat at Leverkusen. Bayer Leverkusen made up for their opening day defeat with a deserved win at home against an Atletico Madrid side that was offering little in an intent to win the game. Jeremie Frimpong enter the game in the 69th minute and played a role in both of Bayern Leverkusen’s goals. Frimpong assisted Robert Andrich’s game-winning goal in 84th minute, and Moussa Diaby’s insurance goal three minutes later.
Viktoria Plzen is going through what many fans would’ve anticipated after another defeat in Group C. Inter Milan made up for their opening day defeat through a win against a 10-man Viktoria Plzen.
It was the biggest game of the night, and Bayern Munich came out slightly taller when the giants in Group C faced off. Bayern Munich scored two in the second half to get a 2-0 win in Munich against Barcelona. On the balance of play, Barcelona deserved a lot better than a 2-0 defeat.
Arthur Gomes scored a solo goal in the third minute of added time to add to Paulinho’s 90th minute game-winning goal for Sporting CP to secure another win in Group D by handing Tottenham a 2-0 defeat.
Marseille followed up a defeat in London with a defeat at home to Eintracht Frankfurt. Jesper Lindstrom’s goal in the 43rd minute was good enough to get Eintracht Frankfurt a 1-0 win.
September 14.
Rangers 0-3 Napoli (Group A)
AC Milan 3-1 Dinamo Zagreb (Group E)
Chelsea 1-1 Red Bull Salzburg (Group E)
Shakhtar Donetsk 1-1 Celtic (Group F)
Real Madrid 2-0 RB Leipzig (Group F)
Manchester City 2-1 Borussia Dortmund (Group G)
Copenhagen 0-0 Sevilla (Group G)
Juventus 1-2 Benfica (Group H)
Maccabi Haifa 1-3 Paris Saint-Germain (Group H)
Mislav Orsic pulled a goal back for Dinamo Zagreb in the 56th minute to make it 2-1 but after 10 minutes of getting substituted into the match, Tommaso Pobega scored the insurance goal for AC Milan in the 77th minute.
Olivier Giroud scored at the end of the first half from a penalty to get AC Milan a goal up in the 45th minute, and Alexis Saelemaekers doubled the lead at the start of the second half in the 47th minute.
Graham Potter’s first game as Chelsea’s manager was a 1-1 draw at home in the Champions League. Chelsea has a point from their opening two matches after RB Salzburg came from a goal down to take a point at Stamford Bridge. The result leaves Chelsea at the bottom of Group E.
The goals came in the opening half-hour of the game for Shakhtar Donetsk and Celtic shared a point in a 1-1 draw. Enough to keep Shakhtar unbeaten and Celtic with a point in Group F
Real Madrid found the two goals to win against RB Leipzig in the last 10 minutes.
Both goals were stunning. Federico Valverde scored the winner in the 80th minute and Marco Asensio doubled the lead in the first minute of the final added time.
Manchester City came from a goal down to avoid a humiliating home defeat to Borussia Dortmund.
A stunning goal from John Stones in the 80th minute erased the lead Jude Bellingham had given Dortmund in the 56th minute. Erling Haaland acrobatically scored the winning goal for Manchester City 4 minutes after the equalizing goal.
Copenhagen and Sevilla picked up their first point after a goalless draw. To many, it was an opportunity for Sevilla to make a push for the three points in Group G.
Benfica and Paris St. Germain doubled their win while doubling the defeat for Juventus and Maccabi Haifa
Benfica came from a goal down to double their win by leaving Turin with a 2-1 win against Juventus.
Paris St. Germain came from a goal down to double their win by leaving Haifa with a 3-1 win against Maccabi Haifa.
GROUP STANDINGS
GROUP A
Napoli – 6 points
Liverpool – 3 points
Ajax – 3 points
Rangers – 0 points
GROUP B
Club Brugge – 6 points
Bayer Leverkusen – 3 points
Atletico Madrid – 3 points
Porto – 0 points
GROUP C
Bayern Munich – 6 points
Barcelona – 3 points
Inter Milan – 3 points
Viktoria Plzen – 0 points
GROUP D
Sporting CP – 6 points
Tottenham – 3 points
Eintracht Frankfurt – 3 points
Marseille – 0 points
GROUP E
AC Milan – 4 points
Dinamo Zagreb – 3 points
Red Bull Salzburg – 2 points
Chelsea – 1 point
GROUP F
Real Madrid – 6 points
Shakhtar Donetsk – 4 points
Celtic – 1 point
RB Leipzig – 0 points
GROUP G
Manchester City – 6 points
Dortmund – 3 points
Copenhagen – 1 point
Sevilla – 1 point
GROUP H
Paris St. Germain – 6 points
Benfica – 6 points
Juventus – 0 points
Maccabi Haifa – 0 points
