Actual Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé celebrates with teammates after scoring their second penalty of their win over Olympique de Marseille.
(OSCAR DEL POZO through Getty Photos)
The opening day of the noticed a debut win from Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, Qarabağ stun the Portuguese League runners up, Kylian Mbappé rating twice, and a goal-fest between Juventus and Borussia Dortmund.
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Within the early motion, with second-half targets from substitutes Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard. Within the Netherlands, Royale Union SG received for the primary time within the Champions League with a . Promise David’s penalty within the ninth minute opened the scoring and Anouar Ait El Hadj doubled the champions of Belgium’s league earlier than halftime.
It was a profitable day for Premier League groups with through a fourth-minute personal purpose from Villarreal goalkeeper Luíz Júnior.
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Actual Madrid, in the meantime, after a first-half purpose from USMNT’s Timothy Weah. It was the primary time an American scored a Champions League purpose within the Bernabéu. Within the 72nd minute, Actual Madrid went right down to 10 males after an ill-advised headbutt noticed captain Dani Carvajal despatched off. However a pair of penalties from Mbappé secured the victory.
The French celebrity now has 50 profession targets with Los Blancos, although the final one was extremely controversial after Marseille’s Facundo Medina received hit with a hand-ball penalty whereas making an attempt to slip in. That was upheld after a evaluation, too, regardless of it trying like his arm got here down on prime of the ball.
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FK Qarabağ surprised Benfica 3-2 after Oleksiy Kashchuk put the Azerbaijan membership forward within the 86th minute. Benfica went up 2-0 by the sixteenth minute, however Leandro Andrade minimize the lead by halftime and Camilo Durán equalized three minutes into the second half.
The match of the day was in Turin as Juventus went from trailing 4-2 within the 86th minute to rescuing a degree with targets from Dušan Vlahović and Lloyd Kelly in stoppage time .
All eight targets got here within the second half.
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Champions League schedule – Matchday 1 outcomes
Arsenal 2, Athletic Membership 0Union St.-Gilloise 3, PSV Eindhoven 1FK Qarabağ 3, Benfica 2Borussia Dortmund 4, Juventus 4Real Madrid 2, Marseille 1Tottenham 1, Villarreal 0
This is how the matches unfolded in actual time: