PSG endured a troublesome night time within the Champions League as Bayern Munich maintained their very good begin, and there was extra frustration for Juventus.
Holders Paris Saint-Germain suffered their first defeat of this season’s Champions League and noticed Ousmane Dembele and Achraf Hakimi endure a first-half accidents as they had been overwhelmed 2-1 by Bayern Munich on the Parc des Princes.
PSG had made an ideal begin to their title defence with three wins from three together with an exciting victory at Barcelona.
However a rematch of the 2020 ultimate became a nightmare for Luis Enrique’s males.
Diaz damages PSG
PSG fell behind within the fourth minute when Luis Diaz fired in on the rebound after Lucas Chevalier stored out Michael Olise’s preliminary effort.
Dembele appeared to have levelled within the twenty second minute, solely to see his objective dominated out by VAR for offside, and three minutes later the Ballon d’Or winner limped down the tunnel as his night time got here to a untimely finish.
Diaz then pounced on an uncharacteristic error from Marquinhos to make it 2-0, however the Colombian’s eventful night time got here to a detailed in first-half stoppage time when he was despatched off for an terrible problem on Hakimi that led to the Morocco right-back being withdrawn.
PSG pulled one again within the second half by means of Joao Neves however couldn’t full the restoration effort.
Bayern are high of desk with 4 wins from 4 within the league section. They’ve received all 16 of their video games this season. Arsenal are stage with them on 12 factors after beating Slavia Prague 3-0, whereas Liverpool are three factors again following their 1-0 defeat of Actual Madrid. Tottenham are 4 factors behind the leaders, having stayed unbeaten within the competitors with a 4-0 rout of Copenhagen.
Juventus keep winless
Juventus have featured in among the most entertaining video games of the event to this point however stay and not using a win following a 1-1 draw with Sporting Lisbon in Luciano Spalletti’s second match in cost.
Maximiliano Araújo fired in off the submit to cap a shocking staff transfer to present Sporting an early lead, however Dusan Vlahovic’s close to submit end levelled issues.
It’s three attracts and one defeat from 4 video games for Juve, who are actually 5 matches and not using a win on this competitors stretching again to final season. That streak marks their longest such run since Juve went six and not using a win between April and November 2013.
Spalletti, although, was inspired by what he witnessed.
“We had a sophisticated begin, then this nice response, we took the sport in hand and deserved to take the lead, creating three or 4 good probabilities,” Spalletti informed Sky Sport Italia.
“In the beginning we misplaced the ball too cheaply, weren’t clear sufficient in our passing, struggled below stress, however normally after that the staff performed properly.
“We took possession off them and at instances had been a little bit too frenetic with our selections, giving the ball again after successful it. We needed to claw it off them with tooth and nail, whereas we gave it again to them too simply.
“I nonetheless imagine it is a robust staff, I’m satisfied that if we proceed with this spirit, we’ll win many video games.”
Atletico Madrid had been snug 3-1 winners over Union Saint-Gilloise because of objectives from Julian Alvarez, Conor Gallagher and Marcos Llorente, whereas Folarin Balogun’s end from a decent angle proved sufficient for Monaco to beat 10-man Bodo/Glimt 1-0.
Napoli had been held to a 0-0 draw by Eintracht Frankfurt, and there was one other stalemate in Piraeus, the place Ricardo Pepi struck within the 93rd minute to earn PSV Eindhoven a 1-1 draw at Olympiacos, who’re nonetheless ready for his or her first win.