Key events
RED CARD: Lucas Hernández (PSG)
Lucas Hernández swings an elbow into the face of Xavi Simons, and he’s got to walk.
FULL TIME: Liverpool 1-4 PSV
Arne Slot looks stunned. Arne Slot looks lost. This is now a full-blown crisis, if it wasn’t already, and it doesn’t appear Liverpool’s title-winning manager has any answers. He wears a proper thousand-yard stare, and a few boos from the Anfield crowd. The patience of some punters wearing thin … but others in the crowd break into supportive song. There will be debate, because this is an astonishing collapse.
GOAL! Liverpool 1-4 PSV (Driouech 90+1)
Liverpool attack. Liverpool lose the ball. PSV counter at speed. A ball pulled back from the right byline. Couhaib Driouech arrives on the penalty spot, opens his body, and whistles a low pass into the bottom-right corner. What a performance by PSV! The same statement also applies for Liverpool, but in a vastly different way.
Liverpool 1-3 PSV. The fan favourite Federico Chiesa is on. He skedaddles down the inside-left channel and aims for the bottom left. Deflected. The resulting corner is headed harmlessly wide by Virgil van Dijk. Quite a few fans heading out of Anfield.
GOAL! Olympiacos 3-4 Real Madrid (El Kaabi 81). A cross comes in from the left. Ayoub El Kaabi eyebrows a header across Andriy Lunin and into the right-hand portion of the net. Given Real’s dismal record at this ground – no wins in four – it’ll be a nervy final few minutes for Xabi Alonso’s side.
GOAL! Arsenal 3-1 Bayern Munich (Martinelli 77)
Manuel Neuer comes out to meet a long ball down the middle. Bad choice! Gabriel Martinelli rounds him, and this is some statement by Arsenal. Michael Butler has it all!
GOAL! PSG 5-3 Tottenham Hotspur (Vitinha 76 pen)
Vitinha shoots from the edge of the box. Cristian Romero, falling backwards, sticks his arm in the air and the ball pings off it. The referee points straight to the spot. Vitinha takes, dispatching into the bottom right to complete his hat-trick. Say what you like about Spurs, but are you not entertained?
GOAL! Sporting 3-0 Brugge (Trincao 70). Game over in Lisbon, as Francisco Trincao meets a low left-wing cutback, sweeping into the bottom-right corner from 12 yards.
GOAL! PSG 4-3 Tottenham Hotspur (Kolo Muani 72)
Randal Kolo Muani bursts through two weak challenges down the inside-right channel, and unleashes a low drive across Lucas Chevalier and into the bottom left! Spurs not out of this yet! Fair to say the attacks have been very much on top in Paris.
GOAL! Liverpool 1-3 PSV (Driouech 73)
Ibrahima Konaté misjudges a bouncing ball down the PSV left. Ricardo Pepi races off with it. He enters the box and shoots, hitting the base of the left-hand post. Couhaib Driouech is first to the rebound, and bobbles a shot across Giorgi Mamardashvili and into the bottom-right corner. Liverpool have now conceded three goals in each of their last three games. And this one’s not over yet.
GOAL! Arsenal 2-1 Bayern Munich (Madueke 70)
Arsenal are back in front, and it’s a lovely cross from the left by Riccardo Calafiori, who tees up Noni Madueke. Michael Butler has the details.
GOAL! PSG 4-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Pacho 65)
The Tottenham defence is falling apart like wet cake. A corner comes in from the left. Pape Sarr misses his clearing kick, teeing up Willian Pacho, who sweeps into the bottom right. That’s two defensive calamities in six minutes.
Liverpool 1-2 PSV. Alexander Isak has come on for Hugo Ekitike, who picked up an as-yet-unspecified injury. It never rains, etc.
GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 0-3 Atalanta (De Ketelaere 65). It’s three goals in just over five minutes for Atalanta, as Gianluca Scamacca smashes a shot off the crossbar, Charles De Ketelaere following up by converting the rebound.
GOAL! PSG 3-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Fabián Ruiz 59)
Cristian Romero and Pape Sarr get themselves into an awful mess playing out from the back. Fabián Ruiz nips in to snaffle possession and slot into the bottom left. PSG complete the turnaround as Spurs self-destruct.
GOAL! Olympiacos 2-4 Real Madrid (Mbappe 60). That’s four for Kylian Mbappé, set up by Vinícius Júnior’s delightful dribble down the left.
GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 0-2 Atalanta (Lookman 62). Ademola Lookman turns provider, rolling a defence-splitting diagonal pass in from the left for Éderson, who flicks into the bottom right. There was 93 seconds between the two goals!
GOAL! Eintracht Frankfurt 0-1 Atalanta (Lookman 60). A ball comes curling in from the right, and Ademola Lookman isn’t missing that from ten yards. He opens his body and slams into the bottom left!
GOAL! Atletico Madrid 1-1 Internazonale (Zielinski 54). Piotr Zielinski jinks in from the left and slots into the bottom right. Such a crisp finish, and that equaliser had been coming.
GOAL! PSG 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Vitinha 53)
… and also to be filed under It’s Happening Again: another screamer of an equaliser from Vitinha! He dances in from the right, enters the box, and curls powerfully into the left-hand side of the net!
GOAL! Liverpool 1-2 PSV (Til 56)
Liverpool had started the second half quickly … but then PSV came back at them, pinning the hosts back. And now they’ve got their reward! Mauro Júnior, dropping deep, sends a cute diagonal in from the left to release Guus Til, who steers into the bottom right! Anfield falls quiet. It’s happening again!
GOAL! Olympiacos 2-3 Real Madrid (Taremi 52). Mehdi Taremi’s header reduces Olympiacos’s arrears … and here’s a reminder that Real don’t have the best record in Greece. It couldn’t be happening again, could it?
GOAL! PSG 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Kolo Muani 50)
A Spurs corner comes in from the left. Richarlison wins a header at the far stick. Archie Gray hooks it goalwards from close range, but Willian Pacho clears off the line. No matter, though, because PSG loanee Randal Kolo Muani is on hand to absolutely lash home from eight yards. Spurs retake the lead! PSG stunned!
Atlético Madrid 1-0 Internazionale. Seconds into the second half, Nicolò Barella nearly equalises for last season’s runners-up. He’s pinged into space down the inside-right channel, taking the ball down and looping a delicious shot over Juan Musso, towards the top-left corner, and off the bar.
Liverpool 1-1 PSV. Liverpool, shooting towards the Kop in this second half, as is their wont, are on the front foot early doors. Dominik Szoboszlai aims a long-distance rake towards the bottom right, but it’s easy for Matěj Kovář.
The games are restarting all over the continent. Here we go again.
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The half-time scores
Arsenal 1-1 Bayern Munich
Atletico Madrid 1-0 Internazionale
Copenhagen 3-2 Kairat (FT)
Eintracht Frankfurt 0-0 Atalanta
Liverpool 1-1 PSV
Olympiacos 1-3 Real Madrid
Pafos 2-2 Monaco (FT)
PSG 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur
Sporting 2-0 Club Brugge
GOAL! PSG 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Vitinha 45)
Vitinha equalises for the champions with an absolute pearler. The ball rolled across the edge of the box, left to right. He shuffles his feet to meet it first time, and arrows a rising bullet tight into the right-hand corner. A sickener for Spurs, who had executed their first-half gameplan so well, but there’s no stopping that.
Olympiacos 1-3 Real Madrid. Aurélien Tchouaméni pings a 25-yard shot off the junction of crossbar and right-hand post. Real have responded so impressively to falling behind. Incidentally, Kylian Mbappé completed his hat-trick in six minutes and 42 seconds, the second-fastest in Champions League history behind this six-minutes-and-12-seconds Mohamed Salah effort.
Liverpool 1-1 PSV. It’s turned into a basketball game at Anfield. Neither team capable of any sort of control whatsoever. Whither Slotball?
GOAL! PSG 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Richarlison 35)
This is a lovely goal from Spurs. Lucas Bergvall’s cute flick down the left sends Archie Gray into space. Gray crosses long. Randal Kolo Muani, on loan from PSG, rises at the far stick and heads back across goal for Richarlison, who can’t miss from a couple of yards. He couldn’t miss from 45 on Sunday either, to be fair. Lovely team goal!
Liverpool 1-1 PSV. … and to further illustrate that, Hugo Ekitiké prods with power towards the bottom right from a tight spot on the edge of the box. Matěj Kovář does well to get down and parry.
