Goals, controversy and debutants on the first day of activity of the Champions League 2025/2026
Kylian Mbappé transformed two penalties and one Real Madrid In numerical inferiority, he traced to bend 2-1 to the Olympique de Marseilleon the opening night of the Champions League 2025/2026.
Madrid, 15 times European champion, became the first team in the history of the competition – since the change of name at the beginning of the 1990s – which reaches 200 victories.
Xabi Alonso won the triumph in his debut in Champions League As a club technician from which Europe was champion as a player.
American striker Timothy Weah advanced Visitor Marseille early, but Mbappé He responded immediately from the penalty point at 29 and 81 minutes.
The first penalty came after a foul committed on the Brazilian attacker Rodrygo Goes and the second by a defender.
Mbappé Now he has 50 goals in 64 games with the Madrid.
“It is a very great joy that continues to score goals and feel comfortable,” said Federico Valverde, the Uruguayan steering wheel of Madrid, about the French star. “Our work is to make the balls as well as possible, that it arrives more easily to the rival arch and has more opportunities.”
The Merengue Captain Dani Carvajal was expelled at 72 after an aggression to Argentine goalkeeper Gerónimo Rulli.
Weah, son of the former winner of the Gold Ball George Weah, was assisted by Mason Greenwood, who stripped the ball to Arda Gular near the midfield.
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s debut in the Champions League With Madrid it lasted only five minutes. The English defender was replaced by Carvajal due to an apparent muscle injury.
The Spanish Police faced Marseille fans before the party, but the situation was quickly suffocated.
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An early goal in the door of the Brazilian goalkeeper Luiz Junior gave him Tottenham A 1-0 victory over visitor Villarreal.
Borussia Dortmund and Juventus tied 4-4 in Turin. Juventus’s substitute, Dusan Vlahovic scored a goal in the discount and then attended the English defender Lloyd Kelly for the tie.
With a goal from the Colombian Camilo Durán, the Qarabag of Azerbaijan traced an adverse 2-0 and took the 3-2 home victory against Benfica.
In the second season of the new league phase format, the eight best teams advance to the round of 16. The following 16 enter a two -game playoff. From there they will leave eight more classified.
Arsenal decisive substitutes
Viktor Gyokes was not fine in his debut of the Champions con Arsenal.
However, the substitutes of the London club were decisive in the 2-0 victory of the Gunners against Athletic Bilbao on the opening night of the new edition of the Continental Tournament.
The Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli scored at 72 minutes, shortly after jumping into the field, and Leandro Trosssard, who had replaced Gyokeres, doubled the advantage at 87.
Gyokeres -the great signing of Arsenal that scored six goals in the Champions For Sporting Lisboa last season- wasted an unbeatable opportunity shortly after the break. The Swedish international evaded his score with ease and rose to receive a free kick well placed from Declan Rice, but his header was very diverted.
Martinelli and Trosssard also lavished two assists.
Memorable debut of Union Saint-Gilloise
In his first foray into the Champions Leaguethe Belgian Club Union Saint-Gilloise was victorious on the other side of the border by beating Psv Eindhoven 3-1.
This season’s first goal in the competition was a penalty converted by the Canadian international Promise David.
The penalty was granted when the American international Ricardo Pepi hit his loot on the leg of the English central defender of Union, Christian Burgess.
Goalkeeper Matej Kovar then launched himself in the wrong address in the prison at 9 minutes.
Another Pepi error led to the second goal of the Union before the break, a dribble exhibition and a perfect definition of Anou Ait el Hadj.
The Union, which was classified to consecrate champion of the Belgian League for the first time in 90 years, is one of the four clubs that debut in the highest European tournament this season. The others are Bodø/Glimt (Norway), Kaira (Kazakhstan) and pafos (Cyprus).
Argentine defender Kevin Mac Allister scored short distance to 81.
Ruben Van Bommel – son of the former Holland high school Mark Van Bommel – scored for the PSV at 90.
The PSV had remained undefeated in its 11 previous group or league games in UEFA competitions.
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