Lille missed their debut in the new Champions League format by losing to Sporting Portugal Lille (2-0) and finishing with ten men on Tuesday, while Real beat Stuttgart (3-1) with a goal from Kylian Mbappé.
The match turned sour two minutes before half-time for Losc, who conceded a goal from Lions gunner Viktor Gyökeres (38) and lost Angel Gomes who was sent off for a second warning (40).
A powerful strike from Zeno Debast (65) finished spoiling the evening for the Northerners for this first day of the regular phase.
The evening’s big win was achieved by Bayern Munich, who crushed Dynamo Zagreb (9-2) with a quadruple from Harry Kane and a double from Michael Olise, the new French international.
The Bavarian giant therefore takes the lead in this 36-team mini-championship on goal difference, pending the matches on Wednesday and Thursday, since UEFA had chosen to expose its new eight-match 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 (68). Mbappé had opened the scoring on a superb service from Rodrygo (46).
Maignan injured, Konaté scores
But his German defender Antonio Rüdiger (83rd) and his Brazilian striker Endrick (90th+5) ensured the victory at the end of the match (83).
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 (23), who equalized for the “Reds” after Christian Pulisic opened the scoring (2). Then his central defense partner Virgil van Dijk (41) and the Hungarian Dominik Szoboszlai (67) reversed the “Rossoneri”.
This victory is good for the new Dutch coach of LFC, Arne Slot, who was coming off a defeat at Anfield against Nottingham Forest (1-0).
In Milan, on the other hand, the new coach Paulo Fonseca is in difficulty, and he has 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 3rd day and Brest for the 6th, and Aston Villa won in Bern against Young Boys (3-0).
On Wednesday, PSG enters the stage at the Parc des Princes against Girona, Brest plays on Thursday, like Monaco, against Sturm Graz.
