The new format of the Champions League began this Tuesday and its first day ended yesterday evening with the successes of Stade Brestois and AS Monaco. We take stock of the results and the provisional ranking.
The excitement from the Champions League must already fade, to make way for the championships that will continue until the next international break. Defeated for its first appearance, in Lisbon against Sporting CP (2-0), LOSC must wait until October 2 to try to catch up. Facing Real Madrid, it will be necessary to roll up its sleeves. Exactly, how are the future opponents of the Dogues doing in the most prestigious of European competitions?
Unsurprisingly, or almost, LOSC will have to show their muscles to fight with Real Madrid, winner of VfB Stuttgart (3-1), Atlético de Madrid, superior to RB Leipzig (2-1), Liverpool, who pushed Paulo Fonseca’s AC Milan into crisis (1-3), and Juventus Turin, who inaugurated the first day of the Champions League with a victory over PSV Eindhoven (3-1). On the other hand, Bologna, neutralized by Shakhtar Donetsk (0-0), SK Sturm Graz, defeated by Stade Brestois (2-1), and Feyenoord, powerless against Bayer Leverkusen (0-4), did not have an intoxicating start and seem, more than ever, to be opponents within reach of Bruno Genesio’s men.
For the big performance of the day, Bayern Munich crushed Dinamo Zagreb in Germany (9-2). Never had so many goals been scored by a single team in such a match. Finally, in addition to Lille’s defeat, all the French clubs shone with a victory for Paris Saint-Germain over Girona (1-0), another for AS Monaco over FC Barcelona (2-1) and finally the success of Stade Brestois previously mentioned.
All the results of the 1st day of the Champions League
In terms of accounting, LOSC is in thirtieth place in the rankings, six positions away from qualifying for the last sixteen of the Champions League. In total, fifteen teams have suffered the same fate as the Dogues, defeat, and it is the number of goals conceded and scored that then allows the clubs to decide. Bayern Munich dominates this European hierarchy with three points gleaned, but also and above all a goal difference of +7. On the other hand, it is obviously Dinamo Zagreb who bring up the rear. To conclude, in addition to the Lille team in France, Paris Saint-Germain, AS Monaco and Stade Brestois are respectively fifteenth, fourteenth and thirteenth, therefore on target.
