PSG scores seven and Barcelona hit six, City experience on Haaland strike on a goal-filled evening within the Champions League

Paris Saint-Germain scored seven, Barcelona hit six and Erling Haaland struck his twenty fourth objective of the season on an action-packed evening within the Champions League on Tuesday.

PSG’s Ousmane Dembele celebrates together with his teammates after scoring his facet’s sixth objective throughout a Champions League match(AP)

In all, there have been 43 objectives in 9 video games, with six groups scoring 4 or extra.

PSV Eindhoven routed Italian champion Napoli 6-2, whereas Arsenal and Inter Milan additionally had massive wins to keep up their good begins in Europe.

But it’s defending champion PSG that leads the way in which on the high of the standings after a wild 7-2 win towards Bayer Leverkusen in a match that noticed each groups decreased to 10 males within the first half.

Barcelona’s 6-1 win towards Olympiakos noticed it bounce again from a loss to PSG at the beginning of the month.

Premier League chief Arsenal beat Atletico Madrid 4-0, with Viktor Gyokeres scoring twice, and final season’s Champions League runner-up Inter beat Union Saint-Gilloise by the identical rating.

Haaland’s objective helped Manchester City to a 2-0 win at Villarreal.

PSG runs wild in Leverkusen

By halftime on the BayArena PSG was 4-1 up – however that did not come near telling the complete story of a chaotic first interval, which included a crimson card for every group and two penalties for Leverkusen.

Two objectives for Desire Doue put the French champion effectively in management and the motion continued after the break with Nuno Mendes extending the lead inside 5 minutes of the restart. Ousmane Dembele additionally got here off the bench to make a scoring return after damage.

“That’s three video games, three wins, and crucially we’re on the high of the UEFA Champions League desk,” Dembele mentioned. “We’ve began this marketing campaign very well, particularly contemplating how tough it was final season.”

Spare a thought for Aleix Garcia, although. As effectively as his first-half penalty, he scored the objective of the sport within the second half with a swerving long-range effort that was nothing greater than a footnote.

Lopez treble

Fermin Lopez scored a hat trick and Marcus Rashford hit two objectives as Barcelona blew away 10-man Olympiakos.

Barca took full benefit when Santiago Hezze was proven a contentious crimson card within the second half — scoring 4 objectives to finish the rout.

It was Lopez’s first hat trick of his profession, with Lamine Yamal additionally on the scoresheet from the penalty spot.

Olympiakos had no reply when Hezze was proven a second yellow card within the 57th minute, regardless of replays showing to point out he didn’t make contact with Marc Casado, who was making an attempt to tug him again.

Just three minutes earlier, the guests had acquired again into the sport at 2-1 after Ayoub El Kaabi’s penalty.

Then with the additional man Barcelona overwhelmed Olympiakos with 4 objectives in 11 minutes.

Rashford, on mortgage from Manchester United, now has 4 objectives in three video games within the Champions League this season.

“Sometimes it’s tough to interrupt opponents down, however we’ve so many goalscoring gamers in several areas that getting objectives is the least of our worries,” he mentioned.

Arsenal powers previous Atletico

Top of the Premier League and ideal in Europe, Arsenal is flying excessive.

A robust second half on the Emirates noticed Mikel Arteta’s group brush apart Atletico with summer time signing Gyokeres sealing the victory with two objectives in three minutes. Those objectives ended the striker’s seven-game scoring drought for Arsenal.

“I’m delighted as he totally deserves it. The workrate he brings to the group is excellent. We worth loads of issues that he does for the group and it was the largest smile on his face right now,” Arteta mentioned.

Goals from Gabriel Magalhaes and Gabriel Martinelli had given Arsenal a 2-0 lead earlier than Gyokeres struck.

Arsenal is third within the standings — behind PSG and Inter on objective distinction.

Red scorching Haaland

Haaland simply can’t cease scoring proper now.

The Norway worldwide’s opener at Villarreal was his twenty fourth in 14 video games this season and prolonged his present scoring streak to 12 video games in a row. He now has 53 objectives within the Champions League in simply 51 appearances.

The solely recreation he didn’t rating on this time period was City’s 2-0 defeat to Tottenham in August.

Bernardo Silva was additionally on the right track as City moved as much as fifth.

Napoli surprised in Eindhoven

The greatest shock of the evening was Napoli’s defeat at PSV.

That’s back-to-back losses for Antonio Conte’s group, following Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at Torino. And such a heavy loss in Europe will likely be notably humbling for the Italian champion, with three objectives conceded within the final 10 minutes after taking place to 10 males when Lorenzo Lucca was despatched off within the 76th.

Napoli has only one win from three video games in Europe to this point.

It’s going higher for Inter, which has a 100% document after three video games and comfortably overcame Union Saint-Gilloise, with Lautaro Martinez scoring for the third time within the Champions League this season.