Erling Braut Haaland scripts history on Champions League debut
Football | Sep 18, 2019, 07:11 AM ISTErling Braut Haaland scored a hat-trick as Austrian side Salzburg hammered Genk 6-2 in their Champions League opener.
Erling Braut Haaland scored a hat-trick as Austrian side Salzburg hammered Genk 6-2 in their Champions League opener.
Dortmund hit the crossbar, missed a penalty, wasted a host of chances and even kept Lionel Messi quiet on the Argentina star's first appearance of the season for Barcelona.
Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp was left livid over a penalty awarded to Napoli that helped the Italian side beat the defending champion 2-0 in their Champions League opener on Tuesday.
Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea are all in the pot of eight top-seeded teams along with Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Zenit St. Petersburg.
Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi scored for Liverpool as they beat Tottenham 2-0 at the Wanda Metropolitano to lift their first European title in 14 years.
Four teams had been fighting for the last two Champions League spots on Sunday and all won their games as Atalanta took third and Inter fourth.
Messi scored two early goals to help Barcelona beat United 3-0 on Tuesday and reach the Champions League semifinals for the first time in four seasons.
Tottenham did not offer a timeline for Harry Kane's return from his fifth ankle injury in three years.
Barcelona won the first leg of their quarterfinal 1-0 after United defender Luke Shaw unwittingly helped Luis Suarez's header into the net in the 12th minute.
The last time Barcelona advanced past the Champions League quarterfinals was in 2015, when they eventually won their fifth European title and completed the treble for the last time.
A win at Molineux would have lifted United into third place but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team stayed in fifth.
Liverpool beat Bayern Munich 3-1 at the Allianz Arena to secure a place in the last eight of the Champions League on Wednesday.
Lionel Messi scored two goals and assisted two more as Barcelona knocked Lyon out of the Champions League on Wednesday.
The Frenchman will not play against Olympique Lyonnais, as he is yet to recover completely from a muscle injury.
With a 7-0 thrashing of Schalke on Tuesday that completed a 10-2 aggregate victory, Manchester City eased into the last eight of Champions League.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick against the normally resilient Spanish side to send Juventus into the Champions League quarterfinals with a 3-0 win on Tuesday.
Over the course of a week, Real Madrid lost three games at home, possibly dooming the club to end the season without a trophy.
The Spanish club is already thinking about next season, and it appears the changes will start at the top, with coach Santiago Solari unlikely to keep his job.
The Brazilian star used an Instagram post to criticize VAR officials for awarding United a decisive penalty in injury time after defender Presnel Kimpembe jumped and blocked Diogo Dalot's shot with his elbow.
Real Madrid's embarrassing 4-1 loss to Ajax on home turf on Tuesday sent the three-time defending champions out of the competition in the round of 16.
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