Lille loses to Sporting Portugal, wins for Mbappé and Real against Stuttgart

Lille missed their debut in the new Champions League format by losing to Sporting Portugal (2-0) and finishing with ten men on Tuesday, September 17. Real Madrid beat Stuttgart (3-1) with a goal from Kylian Mbappé.

The match ended two minutes before half-time for LOSC, who conceded a goal from Viktor Gyökeres (38th), and lost Angel Gomes who was sent off for a second warning (40th). A powerful strike from Zeno Debast (65th) finished off the evening for the Northerners for this first day of the regular phase.

The big hit of the evening was scored by Bayern Munich, who crushed Dynamo Zagreb (9-2) with four goals from Harry Kane and a double from Michael Olise, the new French international.

The Bavarian giant therefore takes the lead in this mini-championship with thirty-six teams on goal difference, pending the matches on Wednesday and Thursday, since UEFA had chosen to expose its new eight-day format as much as possible by spreading the first over three days.

The defending champion, Real, almost missed their entry when they were joined by VfB Stuttgart by a header from Deniz Undav (68th). Mbappé had opened the scoring on a superb service from Rodrygo (46th). But his German defender Antonio Rüdiger (83rd) and his Brazilian striker Endrick (90th+5) secured the victory at the end of the match (83rd).

Paris Saint-Germain-Girona, Wednesday

Liverpool also started well by winning at the San Siro against AC Milan (3-1) in the first night’s clash, before the Manchester City-Inter Milan and Monaco-FC Barcelona matches on Thursday.

Another French international scored, Ibrahima Konaté (23rd), who equalized for the “Reds” after Christian Pulisic (2nd) opened the scoring. Then his central defense partner Virgil van Dijk (41st) and Hungarian Dominik Szoboszlai (67th) overturned the “Rossoneri”. This victory is good for Liverpool’s new Dutch coach, Arne Slot, who was coming off a defeat at Anfield against Nottingham Forest (1-0). At AC Milan, on the other hand, the new coach Paulo Fonseca is struggling, and he lost his goalkeeper Mike Maignan, who is also the Blues’ goalkeeper, who went out with a left knee injury.

For the first two matches of the day, at the end of the afternoon, Juventus easily disposed of PSV Eindhoven (3-1), opponents of Paris Saint-Germain for the third day and Brest for the sixth, and Aston Villa won in Bern against Young Boys (3-0).

On Wednesday, PSG will take to the stage at the Parc des Princes against Girona, and Brest will play on Thursday against Sturm Graz.