Champions League: Wins for Inter, PSG, Arsenal, Manchester City, and Napoli’s sensational defeat

In the European Football Champions League, the first matches of the third round took place.

Italian vice-champion AC Milan "Inter" hosted Belgian "Royal Union" and won 4:0. Former captain of the Armenian national team, midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, was among Inter’s substitutes and did not play.

Italian champion "Napoli" hosted Dutch "PSV Eindhoven" and suffered a sensational 2:6 defeat. Title-defending French PSG defeated German vice-champion "Bayern" 7:2 in Leverkusen. English vice-champion "Arsenal" was strong at home in London, beating "Atletico Madrid" 4:0. English "Manchester City" won 2:0 against Spanish "Villarreal."

The leaders with 9 points each are PSG, Inter, and Arsenal.

Champions League, Third Round Results:

• Arsenal – Atletico Madrid 4:0 
  Gabriel Magalhães 57’, Gabriel Martinelli 64’, Viktor Djokeresh 67’, 70’

• Bayer – PSG 2:7 
  Ales Garcia 38’, 11m, 54’ – William Pacho 7’, Desire Due 41’, 45+3’, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia 44’, Nuno Mendes 50’, Ousmane Dembele 66’, Vitinha 90’
  Missed 11m: Alejandro Grimaldo (Bayer), 25’
  Red cards: Robert Andrich (Bayer) 33’, Ilya Zabarnyi (PSG) 37’

• Copenhagen – Borussia Dortmund 2:4
  Waldemar Anton 33’ (own goal), Viktor Dadason 90’ – Felix Nmecha 20’, 76’, Rami Bensebaini 61’, 11m, Fabio Silva 87’

• Newcastle United – Benfica 3:0
  Anthony Gordon 32’, Harvey Barnes 71’, 83’

• PSV Eindhoven – Napoli 6:2 
  Alessandro Buongiorno 35’ (own goal), Ismail Saibari 38’, Denis Man 54’, 80’, Ricardo Pepi 87’ – Kouhaib Driouch – Scott McTominay 31’, 86’
  Red card: Lorenzo Luca (Napoli) 76’

• Royal Union – Inter 0:4 
  Denzel Dumfries 41’, Lautaro Martinez 45+1’, Hakan Çalhanoğlu 53’, 11m, Francesco Esposito 76’

• Villarreal – Manchester City 0:2 
  Erling Haaland 17’, Bernardo Silva 40’

• Barcelona – Olympiakos 6:1 
  Fermin Lopez Martin 7’, 39’, 76’, Lamin Yamal 68’, 11m, Marcus Rashford 74’, 79’ – Ayub El-Kaabi 54’, 11m
  Red card: Santiago Ese (Olympiakos), 57’, second yellow card

Kairat – Pafos 0:0

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