Key occasions
We are again underway within the second halves.
The particulars from these earlier matches.
Kári Tulinius will get in contact: “PSG look in the groove. It helps that they’re in their familiar 4-3-3 shape, unlike at Saint James, when Luis Enrique channeled another famous Parisian club, and allowed his inner Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli to jazz up the selection and sent his team out in a 4-2-4.”
And some half-time studying:
The different half-times
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Antwerp 1-0 Porto
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PSG 1-0 Milan
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Leipzig 1-0 Red Star
And from earlier than
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Feyenoord 3-1 Lazio
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Barcelona 2-1 Shakhtar
Half-time: Young Boys 0-0 Manchester City
Not as anticipated although Pep’s pre-match complaints in regards to the pitch have been dropped at bear in an oddly stilted show.
Half-time: Celtic 2-1 Atletico
That’s been a traditional first half from Celtic, scoring two high-quality objectives. What spirit they’ve proven towards a nonetheless top-class Atleti group. Can they cling on?
Half-time: Newcastle 0-1 Dortmund
Rather controversially, Dortmund are pulled again by the half-time whistle once they had escaped on one other counter just like the one from which they scored.
Goal! Newcastle 0-1 Dortmund (Nmecha, 45)
On the counter, Reus performs the ball extensive after a high-quality sort out by Schlottenberg, whose go out of defence is great.The ball is slipped inside to Nmecha, who scores a high-quality objective. That was a bit of too simple.
Young Boys 0-0 Manchester City
City appear a bit slowed down by the plastic pitch although Jeremy Doku has simply had a shot saved. It’s all a bit sluggish.
PSG 1-0 Milan
Suddenly Mbappe seizes on a unfastened ball and he performs in Dembele, who then has a shot saved. The Parisians trying by far the higher group. Or actually extra harmful.
Celtic 2-1 Atletico
Matt O’Riley forces a high-quality save from Oblak from the sting of the realm. Chances at each ends for each groups in a match doing justice to its historic standing.
Goal! Antwerp 1-0 Porto (Yusuf, 36)
The ball drops to the Nigerian through a deflection and the end is wonderful from Alhassan Yusuf.
Goal! PSG 1-0 Milan (Mbappe, 32)
The nice man cuts within the from the left, shifts the ball from foot to foot and scores. Zaire Emery’s run from deep made it. What a participant he’s when he’s bothered.
Leipzig 0-0 Red Star
Red Star got a penalty that’s now been dominated out.
Goal! Celtic 2-1 Atletico (Palma, 28)
Celtic again in entrance, the ball swinging from the left, and from the precise, Palma takes one contact and wallop.
Goal! Celtic 1-1 Atletico (Griezmann 25)
Oh no. You can’t hold a participant like Griezmann down. Greg Taylor dedicated a foul, and Griezmann took a penalty that Hart saved just for the rebound to fall to the World Cup winner.
Young Boys 0-0 Manchester City
Lots of neat passing by the holders however not a lot else occurring.
Newcastle 0-0 Dortmund
It all sounds so tense at St James’ as the house group have come below critical strain
Celtic 1-0 Atletico
A story of blonde ambition as Antoine Griezmann has a shot saved down low by Joe Hart.
Antwerp 0-0 Porto
Well achieved to Pepe, one of many nicest males in soccer. Off the pitch.
Newcastle 0-0 Dortmund
Isak has needed to come off, and that brings on Callum Wilson. Isak should be a doubt for Saturday’s journey to Wolves.
Goal! RB Leipzig 1-0 v Red Star (Raum, 12)
A objective that got here at pace, as Leipzig went from wire to wire and Raum completed from a decent angle.
Newcastle 0-0 Dortmund
Two fines saves from Nick Pope, first from Malen and then from Fullkrug.
PSG 0-0 Milan
Pulisic appears to be taking the lifeless balls for Milan and he takes one quick and creative to Leao who smashes extensive.
Young Boys 0-0 Manchester City
Matheus Nunes, now not among the best gamers on the planet since he joined City, goes shut, and takes a nasty skid on that plastic pitch in Bern. I’ve truly been to a sport there earlier than the plastic and it grew to become like a quagmire on the Wankdorf.
Celtic 1-0 Atletico
Looks like Hatate, such an essential participant for Celtic, has broken his hamstring. He’ll be a giant loss as he leaves the sphere.
Goal! Celtic 1-0 Atletico (Kyogo, 4)
That one’s for the boys of 1974. A extremely slick passing transfer and an excellent end by the Japanese poacher. What a noise too!
Young Boys 0-0 Manchester City
From a nook, Rodri heads extensive.
Newcastle 0-0 Dortmund.
Instant likelihood for Dortmund as Malen bursts past the Newcastle defence and Nick Pope makes a high-quality save. That’s adopted by Anthony Gordon forcing a save.
And we’re off!
The mania has already set in among the many crowd in Newcastle. Lots of boos when Dortmund have the ball.
Around Europe, the Champions League anthem is being heard. Nice banner of Jean-Paul Belmondo in Paris. Now, who will probably be left breathless?
Some Newcastle information, not welcome for the membership however anticipated.
Although nothing has been confirmed, the 23-year-old’s attorneys have held a collection of conferences with federal prosecutors in Italy and have been understood to be finalising a plea discount on Wednesday. Although the participant’s alleged offences – particularly using unlawful playing web sites and the inserting of bets on his former group, Milan – carry a compulsory three-year ban, that time period will be diminished by request for forgiveness, cooperation with investigators and a willingness to interact in counselling.
Full-time: Feyenoord 3-1 Lazio
Big large win for the boys from Rotterdam, they prime the group forward of the grudge match in Glasgow. Santiago Gimenez, together with his two objectives, appears to be like an excellent discover.
Full-time: Barcelona 2-1 Shakhtar
Barca get a helpful win, after objectives from Ferran Torres and Fermin Lopez, and have an ideal file from Group H. They made heavier climate of that because it went on.
Goalflash: Feyenoord 3 Lazio 1 (Rodriguez Pedro Pen 83)
Lazio get one again. Long means again although.
Goalflash: Feyenood 3-0 Lazio (Santiago Gimenez 74)
A primary ever match within the Champions League has gone very properly certainly for the Mexican.
It’s all occurring at Montjuic, Barcelona’s momentary house.
Fermin Lopez had the ball within the internet. just for it to be dominated out.
Goalflash: Barcelona 2 Shakhtar Donetsk 1 (Georgiy Sudakov 62)
Newcastle v Borussia Dortmund groups
Newcastle: Pope, Trippier, Lascelles, Schar, Burn; Longstaff, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Almiron, Isak, Gordon. Subs: Dubravka, Karius, Dummett, Tonali, Wilson, Targett, Hall, Livramento, Murphy, Willock
Borussia Dortmun: Kobel; Wolf, Hummels, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Can, Nmecha, Sabitzer; Reus, Fullkrug, Malen. Subs: Meyer, Lotka, Ozcan, Reyna, Haller, Moukoko, Sule, Adeyemi, Blank, Bynoe-Gittens.
Young Boys v Manchester City groups
Young Boys: Racioppi, Blum, Camara, Benito, Garcia, Niasse, Lauper, Monteiro, Ugrinic, Elia, Itten. Subs: Amenda, Lakomy, Colley, Chaiwa, Janko, Nsame, Persson, von Ballmoos, Lustenberger, Ganvoula, Males, Marzino.
Manchester City: Ederson, Lewis, Akanji, Dias, Ake, Kovacic, Rodri, Doku, Matheus Luiz, Grealish, Haaland. Subs: Walker, Phillips, Stones, Ortega, Alvarez, Bernardo Silva, Gomez, Gvardiol, Carson, Foden, Bobb, Hamilton.
Celtic v Atletico Madrid groups
Celtic: Hart, Alistair Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor, O’Riley, McGregor, Hatate, Maeda, Furuhashi, Palma. Subs: Lagerbielke, Phillips, Yang, Turnbull, Oh, Iwata,
Bernardo, Bain, Morrison, Forrest, Ralston, Michael Johnston.
Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Savic, Witsel, Hermoso, Molina, De Paul, Koke, Saul, Galan, Morata, Griezmann. Subs: Grbic, Azpilicueta, Soyuncu, Correa, Llorente, Barrios, Riquelme, Gomis.
Antwerp v FC Porto groups
Antwerp: Butez, Bataille, Alderweireld, Coulibaly, De Laet, Vermeeren, Ekkelenkamp, Yusuf, Muja, Janssen, Balikwisha. Subs: Engels, Wijndal, Kerk, Ilenikhena, Ejuke, De Wolf, Van Den Bosch, Corbanie, Valencia, Lammens.
FC Porto: Costa, Joao Mario, Kleper Pepe, Carmo, Wendell, Andre Franco, Stephen Eustaquio, Varela, Galeno, Eduardo Pepe, Taremi. Subs: Fabio Cardoso, Grujic, Francisco Conceicao, Claudio Ramos, Sanchez, Gonzalez, Loader, Navarro, Baro,
Martinez, Evanilson, Borges.
PSG v AC Milan groups
PSG: Donnarumma, Hakimi, Skriniar, Marquinhos, Hernandez, Zaire Emery, Ugarte, Vitinha, Dembele, Muani, Kylian Mbappe. Subs: Fabian, Goncalo Ramos, Danilo Pereira, Lee, Mukiele, Carlos Soler, Barcola, Letellier, Tenas.
AC Milan: Maignan, Kalulu Kyatengwa, Thiaw, Tomori, Hernandez, Musah, Krunic, Reijnders, Pulisic, Giroud, Leao. Subs: Calabria, Adli, Jovic, Kjaer, Pobega, Florenzi, Nava, Traore, Mirante, Bartesaghi.
As these early video games kick off, right here’s a stay up for the later matches. Good to see Kevin Keegan nonetheless getting as excitable as ever.
And Pep having an excellent outdated bitch.
Half-time scores from these early matches:
Barcelona 2-0 Shakhtar
Feyenoord 2-0 Lazio
Fermín López scored a magnificence for Barça’s second. Next expertise off the manufacturing line? Lazio enjoying in a raucous outdated environment in Rotterdam.
Preamble
After final night time’s drama, there’s the prospect of extra within the final set of matches earlier than the group levels flip for house. There’s some historical past on the road, too, since any Celtic FC fan could have unhealthy recollections of Atletico Madrid, 49 years in the past, and the hacking that Jinky Jimmy Johnstone, Kenny Dalglish and the remaining bought from an Atleti group that completed with eight males. That Atleti have determined to put on the identical strip as all these years in the past appears provocative, to say the least. Let’s hope there’s no more of the identical…who’re we kidding right here? If it leads to a ruck and no one will get severely damage these are scenes we in all probability wish to see.
To put aside that, of the 8pm kick-off instances, Newcastle v Borussia Dortmund ought to see the stadium seethe with environment, whereas PSG v Milan within the different sport in that group has pivotal look, too.
Manchester City to place Young Boys to the slaughter? That appears doubtless, and of their group, RB Leipzig and Red Star Belgrade are competing for second place, the Europa League.
A few early kick-offs, Barcelona v Shakhtar and Feyenoord v Lazio could have an have an effect on on the video games at Celtic and between Porto and Antwerp.
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