PSG sinks Barcelona with late winner in Champions League, Manchester City held by Monaco

Trailing 1-0 on the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys and with out injured star forwards Ousmane Dembele, Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, defending champion PSG fought again for a 2-1 victory in opposition to one of many favourites to elevate the trophy in May.

“It doesn’t matter which of our gamers are within the workforce. When they’re sporting our shirt, carrying our badge on their shirt, then the quantity of angle and energy is non-negotiable,” PSG coach Luis Enrique mentioned.

Manchester City needed to accept a 2-2 draw with Monaco after Eric Dier scored a Ninetieth-minute penalty for the hosts.

Villarreal and Juventus additionally ended 2-2 after Renato Veiga’s late equaliser.

Arsenal beat Olympiakos 2-0.

PSG remains to be the workforce to beat

PSG’s journey to Barcelona was all the time seen because the standout conflict of matchday two. Both groups are anticipated to go far, with PSG aiming to hitch Real Madrid as the one different membership to efficiently defend the trophy within the Champions League period. Barcelona, a semifinalist final marketing campaign, is intent on turning final season’s home dominance right into a European triumph.

However, regardless of the anticipation, neither workforce was on the top of its powers, with quite a few gamers lacking.

While PSG was with out the attacking trio that fired it to victory final time period, Barcelona was additionally lacking the injured Raphinha, whereas Robert Lewandowski was on the bench.

Lamine Yamal was accessible, but it surely was Ferran Torres who gave the house workforce the lead within the nineteenth minute.

Senny Mayulu levelled the sport within the thirty eighth, and substitute Lee Kang-in got here near a winner by hitting the put up late on.

But there was nonetheless extra drama to come back when Achraf Hakimi squared the ball past Barca’s defence and Ramos slid within the winner.

It’s now two wins from two for PSG in the beginning of its defence of the title and an early assertion in opposition to considered one of its most important rivals.

“We misplaced at the moment, and I don’t like that. We have to just accept this defeat and admit that Paris are so good,” Barca coach Hansi Flick said. “We are disenchanted, the followers are disenchanted. We have to just accept that we had been crushed, however work on getting higher.”

Haaland scores 2 however Man City held

Erling Haaland did what Erling Haaland does with two extra targets within the Champions League, but it surely wasn’t sufficient to seal victory in Monaco.

Having grow to be the quickest participant to succeed in 50 targets within the competitors final month, the Norwegian seems sure to grow to be the quickest to succeed in 60. Lionel Messi managed it in 80 appearances. Haaland is on 52 after 50 video games.

But that might be of little consolation to Pep Guardiola, who watched his workforce squander two factors by conceding a late penalty that Dier transformed to seal the draw.

“It isn’t adequate,” Haaland said. “We must attempt to win the following sport. It is the one factor we will do.”

Hot shot Hojlund

Discarded by Manchester United, Rasmus Hojlund is exhibiting the kind of type that earned him an $82 million transfer to Old Trafford within the first place.

He struck twice to earn Napoli a 2-1 win over Sporting Lisbon. That’s three targets in 5 appearances — after having scored two in his final 13 video games for United.

It definitely helps when he can feed off the sort of service Kevin De Bruyne can ship and the previous Man City playmaker was supplier of each of Hojlund’s targets.

Borussia Dortmund routed Athletic Bilbao 4-1, and Bayer Leverkusen was held 1-1 at residence by PSV Eindhoven.

Perfect Arsenal

Another win for Arsenal and one other clear sheet.

The 2-0 victory over Olympiakos was its sixth shutout in 9 video games this season.

Goals from Gabriel Martinelli within the first half and Bukayo Saka in stoppage time maintained Arsenal’s 100% begin within the competitors.

Another workforce with an ideal file to this point is Qarabag after its 2-0 win over Copenhagen. Abdellah Zoubir and Emmanuel Addai had been on course for the Azerbaijani workforce.

Woltemade scores once more

Nick Woltemade is doing his greatest to make Newcastle followers overlook about Alexander Isak.

The club-record $93 million signing scored his third aim in 4 begins for Newcastle to arrange the 4-0 rout of Union Saint-Gilloise.

The German worldwide was signed to fill the sizable void left by Isak’s contentious transfer to Liverpool. And he has made an on the spot influence.

His Seventeenth-minute aim at Lotto Park may not have been the prettiest — diverting Sandro Tonali’s goalbound shot previous Kjell Scherpen — but it surely bought Newcastle off to the proper begin. It additionally highlighted his helpful knack of being in the fitting place on the proper time.

Woltemade has now scored in back-to-back video games after his aim in opposition to Arsenal on Sunday. He nonetheless has some option to go to show he can exchange Isak, who scored 54 targets in 78 Premier League begins for Newcastle, however the early indicators are promising after his transfer from Stuttgart.

Anthony Gordon struck twice from the penalty spot — scoring both aspect of halftime to place Newcastle in management, and substitute Harvey Barnes added a fourth.

More thrills for Juve

Last outing, Juventus was concerned in an eight-goal thriller in opposition to Dortmund, which led to a 4-4 draw, with all of the targets coming within the second half.

By these requirements, the 2-2 at Villarreal was comparatively delicate. But there was nonetheless a late twist as Veiga, who spent the second half of final season on mortgage at Juve, got here up with the equaliser.