After a month-long break, football matches in the UEFA Champions League resumed in Europe. On the first matchday of the second round, many unexpected results were recorded. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
Thanks to a hat-trick by Nikola Tresoldi, Club Brugge defeated Inter in Milan 4-3. The 22-year-old German forward won the scoring duel against 2022 world champion Lautaro Martinez. The Argentine's brace was not enough for the Italians even to draw. The Belgian club, which lost at home to Aston Villa at the start of the Champions League, shocked the legendary San Siro.
Viking from Stavanger, following the Norwegian folk tradition established by Bodo/Glimt, caused a headache for Bayern Munich on their home field. The Munich side, through efforts of Englishman Harry Kane and Colombian Luis Diaz, turned 0-2 into 3-2. However, a foolish sending-off of Frenchman Michael Olise, who picked up two yellow cards in two minutes, left the visitors a man down. At the end of the match, Scandinavian defender Herman Heugen brought them a draw – 3-3.
In the same minute as Olise (74th), French defender of Manchester United Leny Yoro left the field for a last-man foul. Spanish Atletico Madrid was leading 1-0 at that moment. In the opening of the match in Madrid, Pablo Barrios stood out. In the 11v10 format, Nigerian Ademola Lookman finally tamed the Red Devils – 2-0.
Barcelona responded to the goal by Russian midfielder of Turkish Galatasaray Aleksey Batrakov in Istanbul with a collective poker. From the 43rd to the 65th minute, an international lineup of Portuguese Joao Cancelo, Spaniard Fermin Lopez, Englishman Anthony Gordon and German Karim Adeyemi stood out.
Another Spanish club followed Barca's path. Villarreal, giving a head start to Italian Napoli, presented the guests with three arguments in the form of goals by Georgian Georges Mikautadze, Uruguayan Santiago Mourino and Canadian Tani Oluwaseyi.
Arsenal at the Emirates resolved the Lille question in seven minutes. Dutchman Jurrien Timber with Englishmen Eberechi Eze and Bukayo Saka from the 64th to the 71st minute turned faceless zeros into eloquent figures 3-0.
⚽ INTER (Milan, Italy) – CLUB BRUGGE (Belgium) 3-4 (1-1). Goals: Tresoldi 30 penalty (0-1), Martinez 44 (1-1), Tresoldi 63 (1-2), Tresoldi 74 (1-3), Martinez 82 (2-3), Vermann 87 (2-4), Bonny 90+3 (3-4)
⚽ VIKING (Stavanger, Norway) – BAYERN (Munich, Germany) 3-3 (2-0). Goals: Stensness 2 (1-0), Christiansen 38 (2-0), Kane 54 penalty (2-1), Kane 60 (2-2), Diaz 71 (2-3), Heugen 90 (3-3). Sent off Olise (B, 74)
⚽ GALATASARAY (Istanbul, Turkey) – BARCELONA (Spain) 1-4 (1-1). Goals: Batrakov 28 (1-0), Cancelo 43 (1-1), Fermin 50 (1-2), Gordon 53 (1-3), Adeyemi 65 (1-4)
⚽ ATLETICO (Madrid, Spain) – MANCHESTER UNITED (England) 2-0 (1-0). Goals: Barrios 1, Lookman 79. Sent off Yoro (M, 74)
⚽ ARSENAL (London, England) – LILLE (France) 3-0 (0-0). Goals: Timber 64, Eze 67, Saka 71
⚽ VILLARREAL (Spain) – NAPOLI (Naples, Italy) 3-1 (2-1). Goals: Rrahmani 8 (0-1), Mikautadze 23 (1-1), Mourino 26 (2-1), Oluwaseyi 86 (3-1)
⚽ LEIPZIG (Germany) – PSV (Eindhoven, Netherlands) 1-0 (0-0). Goal: Gruda 75. Missed penalty: Perisic (P, 19) goalkeeper
⚽ LENS (France) – SPORTING (Lisbon, Portugal) 0-2 (0-1). Goals: Suarez 22, Dumbia 74
⚽ SABAH (Baku, Azerbaijan) – SLAVIA (Prague, Czech Republic) 2-0 (0-0). Goals: Parris 49, Mikkels 88
Following the results of the round, Kazakhstani Stas Pokatilov did not remain without good press. The captain of Azerbaijani Sabah repeatedly saved his team in the Baku game against Czech Slavia. In the first Champions League victory of the guys under Lithuanian coach Valdas Dambrauskas, there is also merit of our national team's goalkeeper.
The remaining matches of the second round of the 2026/27 Champions League will take place tomorrow.
Each of the 36 teams will play 8 matches against different opponents in the main round of the Champions League. The top 8 clubs from the overall table will advance directly to the Round of 16.
Teams that take places from 9th to 24th will participate in playoff matches for the right to play in the Round of 16. Moreover, clubs from 9th to 16th will be seeded in the playoff draw. Teams that take 25th-36th places are eliminated from the tournament.
Kazakhstani Kairat, which played in the Champions League last season, this time did not make it to the main tournament of the main European cup. Rafael Urazbakhtin's charges will start in the Conference League with an away match against Riga on October 15.