To the tune of a hat trick from Karim Adeyemi, Borussia Dortmund had a goal feast against Celtic on Tuesday. In turn, Barcelona and Manchester City scored their first victories in the new Champions League format.
Adeyemi scored his hat trick in the first half and Dortmund beat Celtic 7-1 at home. It was the second big win by a German club in this edition of the tournament, after Bayern Munich crushed Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 on the opening date.
Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring in the eighth minute and converted a penalty in the second half as Barça beat visiting Young Boys of Switzerland 5-0. New captain Raphinha and defender Iñigo Martínez also scored in the first half, while the fifth was an own goal from Mohamed Camara
İlkay Gündoğan, who played for the Catalans last season, scored the first goal in City’s 4-0 victory at the home of Slovak club Slovan Bratislava. Erling Haaland scored his 42nd goal in his 41st Champions League game.
City had just drawn 0-0 against Inter Milan on the first day, while Barça succumbed 2-1 against Monaco — the first defeat suffered in the cycle of their new coach Hansi Flick.
“It was important to add these three points, win and with this 5-0. We deserved it,” said Flick. “We have seen, at the beginning, that with a little more confidence, after the first goal, everything is easier. And confidence has returned, we have to continue like this in the next games, and in this way we will play well prepared in the next Champions League match.
In London, Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal was vastly superior by beating Luis Enrique’s Paris Saint-Germain 2-0. Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka scored in the first half for the Gunners. Luis Enrique’s bet, to leave Ousmane Dembélé on the bench, did not work.
“If someone does not meet the team’s requirements it means they are not ready,” Luis Enrique said on Monday.
Arteta was a PSG player, a spell of 18 months on loan from Barcelona.
Also on Tuesday, Inter annihilated Red Star Belgrade 4-0 and German champion Bayer Leverkusen defeated visiting AC Milan 1-0.
Argentine Lautaro Martínez scored Inter’s third goal at San Siro.
With a late goal from Daniel Bragança, Sporting Lisbon rescued a 1-1 draw at PSV Eindhoven.
The Champions League radically modified its format for this edition, adding four teams. The 36 teams participate in a single league competition and all are placed within a single table, playing eight games against eight different opponents.
First matches
Stade Brest had never competed in the Champions League until this edition.
The French club defeated local Salzburg 4-0 for its second victory in as many games in Europe’s top tournament. Senegalese attacker Abdallah Sima scored a double and reached three goals in two games. He had also scored in Brest’s debut and they won 2-1 against the Austrian champion Sturm Graz.
Mahdi Camara and Mathias Pereira Lage scored the other goals.
Salzburg has conceded seven goals in its first two games. They had just lost 3-0 in the fiefdom of Sparta Prague.
With a free kick from Finnish midfielder Kaan Kairinen, Sparta Prague earned a 1-1 draw at Stuttgart in the other game that was played early on Tuesday. Enzo Millot put the German club ahead with a header in the seventh minute and Kairinen leveled it in the 32nd.
Stuttgart received its first Champions League match since a 1-1 draw against Barcelona in February 2010, when Zlatan Ibrahimović scored for the visitors.
