Champions League roundup: Barcelona and PSG romp to victories | Champions League

A Fermin López hat-trick and two objectives from Marcus Rashford powered Barcelona to a commanding 6-1 Champions League victory in opposition to Olympiakos, whereas Ousmane Dembélé scored on his return to the Paris Saint-Germain aspect as they received 7-2 away in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen in a battle of two 10-man groups.

The match acquired off to a flying begin when the 22-year-old López opened the scoring from a rebound within the seventh minute and he doubled his tally within the thirty ninth, ending off a lightning-quick counterattack.

Olympiakos had a glimmer of hope early within the second half when Ayoub El Kaabi reduce the deficit to 2-1 with a penalty, however the visiting aspect’s momentum was short-lived as Santiago Hezze was controversially despatched off within the 57th minute for a second yellow card.

The choice incensed Olympiakos however gave Barcelona a numerical benefit of which they made essentially the most, as Lamine Yamal fired dwelling their third from the penalty spot after Rashford was fouled within the field within the 68th minute, with the Englishman including his personal title to the scoresheet within the 74th minute from inside the realm.

López accomplished his hat-trick three minutes later earlier than Rashford then wrapped up the rout together with his second purpose within the 79th minute following a swift counterattack.

“We wanted a win like this forward of Saturday’s el clásico in opposition to Actual Madrid,” López advised Movistar Plus. “My first hat-trick with Barça is only a dream come true. We’re going into to el clásico feeling very constructive. It’s a vital recreation for the membership, for us and for the Barça followers.”

Paris Saint-Germain scored 3 times in seven minutes on the finish of a rollercoaster first half on the way in which to crushing Bayer Leverkusen, after each groups performed with 10 males for nearly an hour.

PSG took a seventh-minute lead by way of Willian Pacho’s far-post header. Leverkusen had the possibility to degree with Alejandro Grimaldo’s Twenty fifth-minute penalty however the Spaniard hit the publish and it acquired worse for the hosts when their captain, Robert Andrich, was despatched off for elbowing Désiré Doué within the thirty second minute. Nevertheless, PSG went all the way down to 10 males when Illia Zabarnyi felled Christian Kofane to offer the hosts one other spot-kick.

Aleix García equalised however Leverkusen’s pleasure lasted solely three minutes, with Doué placing the guests again in entrance earlier than Khvicha Kvaratskhelia made it 3-1 with a shot off a publish and Doué struck once more.

Nuno Mendes slotted dwelling to make it 5-1 within the fiftieth minute earlier than García pulled a purpose again 4 minutes later however Dembélé, the Ballon D’Or winner, scored within the 66th minute with a straightforward tap-in and Vitinha accomplished the rout.

PSV Eindhoven’s Dennis Man scored twice as the house aspect handed Napoli a 6-2 thrashing after coming from a purpose all the way down to get their first win within the Champions League this season.

Scott McTominay put the Italian aspect forward within the thirty first minute however the Dutch champions swept right into a 2-1 lead inside seven minutes as Alessandro Buongiorno put the ball into his personal web after which Ismael Saibari scored on the counterattack.

After half-time Man scored twice as PSV took benefit of a frenzied environment on the Philips Stadion to advance to 4 factors from three video games, yet one more than the Serie A champions.

Napoli’s Lorenzo Lucca was despatched off 14 minutes from time for protesting so as to add to the guests’ woes, though McTominay scored their second 5 minutes from time from a nook.

Straight from the restart, nonetheless, Couhaib Driouech arrange Ricardo Pepi, on instead, to attain together with his first kick of the sport and inside a minute Driouech acquired one himself with a thumping strike on the finish of a sequence of swift one-touch passes.

Felix Nmecha scored in every half as Borussia Dortmund overcame conceding an personal purpose to comfortably beat FC Copenhagen 4-2. Nmecha pulled off an excellent dummy on the sting of the realm earlier than rifling dwelling the opener within the twentieth minute, however Dortmund had been pegged again when the defender Ramy Bensebaini’s tried clearance ricocheted off Waldemar Anton and into the guests’ web 13 minutes later.

Dortmund regained the lead by way of a Bensebaini penalty within the 61st minute earlier than Nmecha grabbed his second, and Fábio Silva scored his first purpose for Dortmund to offer them a 4-1 lead. Viktor Dadason, 17, got here off the bench to attain his first senior purpose with a header for Copenhagen within the ninetieth minute nevertheless it was too little, too late.

Francesco Esposito made up for an earlier horror miss to attain his first Champions League purpose as Inter thumped Union Saint-Gilloise 4-0 in Brussels to make it three wins from three within the competitors this season.

Denzel Dumfries fired within the first purpose for Inter from shut vary after he was left unmarked within the field, earlier than the prolific Lautaro Martínez swept the ball into the highest nook from 15 yards simply earlier than half-time.

Kevin Mac Allister, brother of the Liverpool midfielder Alexis, dealt with the ball within the field and Hakan Calhanoglu simply slotted the spot-kick into the bottom-left nook.

It ought to have been 4-0 when Dumfries arrange Esposito for a tap-in from 5 yards however the 20-year-old striker someway missed the goal for what’s going to go down as one of many misses of the season within the Champions League. However Esposito did rating his third purpose for the membership, and first within the Champions League, as he slid in and related with Ange-Yoan Bonny’s low cross to spare his earlier blushes.

The early recreation between Kairat Almaty and the Cypriot crew Pafos completed 0-0, regardless of the guests’ João Correia being despatched off after solely 4 minutes in Kazakhstan. Pafos had an personal purpose by Kairat’s goalkeeper, Temirlan Anarbekov, dominated out due to an offside within the buildup.

Within the video games involving English sides, Arsenal received 4-0 at dwelling in opposition to Atlético Madrid, Newcastle beat Benfica 3-0 at St James’ Park, and Erling Haaland scored for the ninth successive membership recreation as Manchester Metropolis received 2-0 at Villarreal.