Dortmund scored 7 goals. Victories of Barcelona, Manchester City and Arsenal in the new Champions League
Borussia Dortmund enjoyed a goal celebration against Celtic on Tuesday to the sound of Karim Adeyemi’s hat-trick. In turn, Barcelona and Manchester City won their first victories in the new format of the Champions League.
Adeyemi scored a first-half hat-trick as Dortmund beat Celtic 7-1 at home.
Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring in the eighth minute and converted a second-half penalty as Barca beat visiting Young Boys of Switzerland 5-0. New captain Rafinha and defender Iñigo Martinez also scored in the first half, with the fifth goal an own goal from Mohamed Camara.
Ilkay Gundogan, who played for the Catalans last season, scored the first goal in City’s 4-0 win at the home of Slovakian club Slovan Bratislava. Erling Haaland scored his 42nd goal in his 41st Champions League game.
City had just drawn 0-0 with Inter Milan on the opening day, while Barca lost 2-1 to Monaco – the first defeat suffered by their new coach Hansi Flick.
Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal beat Luis Enrique’s Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 in London. Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka scored first-half goals for the Gunners.
Arteta was a PSG player on loan from Barcelona for 18 months.
Also on Tuesday, Inter defeated Red Star Belgrade 4-0, and German champion Bayer Leverkusen defeated visiting Milan 1-0.
Argentine Lautaro Martinez scored Inter’s third goal at San Siro.
Thanks to a late goal from Daniel Braganza, Sporting Lisbon salvaged a 1-1 draw against PSV Eindhoven.
In this edition, the Champions League radically changed its format by adding four teams. 36 teams compete in one league competition and are all placed in the same table, playing eight games against eight different opponents.
First matches
Before this competition, Stade Brest had never participated in the Champions League.
The French club defeated the local Salzburg with a score of 4:0 and won their second victory in as many games in the main European tournament. Senegalese striker Abdalla Sima scored a brace and scored three goals in two matches. He also scored on his debut for Brest as they won 2-1 against Austrian champions Sturm Graz.
The other goals were scored by Mahdi Camara and Matias Pereira Lage.
Salzburg conceded seven goals in the first two matches. They had just lost 3-0 at Sparta Prague.
A free kick from Finnish midfielder Kaan Kairinen earned Sparta Prague a 1-1 draw with Stuttgart in another game early on Tuesday morning. Enzo Milhaud gave the German club the lead with a header in the seventh minute and Kairinen equalized in the 32nd.
Stuttgart played their first Champions League game since a 1-1 draw against Barcelona in February 2010, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic scoring for the visitors.