Champions League: PSG strike in Barcelona, City held back by Monaco

The big match of the second day of the single group stage of the Champions League goes to PSG, the defending champions, who expurgated the ”Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys’ in Barcelona: the Blaugrana went ahead with Ferran Torres at 19′ but were overturned by the Parisians who equalized with Mayulu at 38′ and found the winning goal at 90′ with Gonçalo Ramos.

At ‘Stade Louis II’ Manchester City is stopped by Monaco: Citizens ahead twice thanks to usual Haaland but remounted in both cases: Teze sealed the momentary 1-1, while Dier on a penalty gave the Monegasques the equalizer. No problem, on the other hand, for Arsenal, which beat Olympiacos 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium with goals from Martinelli and Saka.

Round victory for Borussia Dortmund, which rifled a poker to Athletic Bilbao (4-1): at ‘Signal Iduna Park’ yellowoneri ahead with Svensson, Chukwuemeka doubled, Guruzeta halved the deficit but in the final Guirassy and Brandt closed the score for the Germans. Bayer Leverkusen, on the other hand, hit the brakes, not going beyond the 1-1 draw with PSV: at the ‘BayArena’ Saibari answered Kofane who had put the Aspirins ahead.

Newcastle thundered at ‘Lotto Park’ with ’Union Saint-Gilloise: Woltemade opened the scoring, Gordon sealed a double on a penalty kick and Barnes sealed the result at 4-0 for the English. Qarabag won again, beating Copenhagen 2-0 at Tofiq Bahramov Stadium with goals from Zoubir and Addai.