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Epilogue. Jonathan Wilson was at St James’ Park to watch Newcastle continue their good form in the Champions League …
… while Manchester City’s stylish victory was witnessed by Jamie Jackson. Thanks for reading this Clockwatch.
Here’s what today’s action has done to the old Swiss model. Internazionale join Bayern Munich and Arsenal as the only teams with a 100 percent record at the halfway stage. Inter conceded a goal, though, so Arsenal are the only men left standing with a big fat zero in their against column. Manchester City and Newcastle are hot on their heels, with Liverpool and Spurs, winners both last night, tucked in just behind. Chelsea are the only English club to come away from this week feeling disappointed, and have some work to do as a result of their unexpectedly dropping points in Baku, but they’ll host Barcelona next time round, and on tonight’s evidence against Brugge, anything could happen at the Bridge. Meanwhile the entire table is propped up by two genuine giants of European football, Benfica and Ajax, who don’t have a point between them.
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Ajax 0-3 Galatasaray
Benfica 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen
Brugge 3-3 Barcelona
Internazionale 2-1 Kairat
Manchester City 4-1 Borussia Dortmund
Marseille 0-1 Atalanta
Newcastle United 2-0 Athletic Club
ShareFULL TIME: Newcastle United 2-0 Athletic Club
No real drama here, and no fuss, as Newcastle secure the three points. Dan Burn’s header a highlight you’ll see again and again. It’s been a good week in the Champions League for big goalscoring central defenders.
Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe celebrates with Dan Burn (right) after their Champions League victory over Athletic Club. Photograph: David Davies/PAShare
Updated at 17.15 EST
Brugge 3-3 Barcelona. Romeo Vermant steals the ball off Wojciech Szczęsny, who was faffing around with the ball at his feet, and whips it home! But the goal’s chalked off for some light contact as Vermant slid in. You could make a case for that either way, but it’s a big let-off for Szczęsny.
Brugge’s Romeo Vermant (left) and Barcelona’s keeper Wojciech Szczęsny tussle for the ball before Vermant stuck it into the net, only for the goal to be chalked off. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/APShare
Updated at 17.18 EST
FULL TIME: Manchester City 4-1 Borussia Dortmund
Four fine goals for Manchester City, who are on a heater.
Manchester City’s keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma celebrates after the match with Savinho alongside, Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki and Erling Haaland. Photograph: Phil Noble/ReutersShare
Updated at 17.08 EST
GOAL! Manchester City 4-1 Borussia Dortmund (Cherki 90+1)
There’ll be no capitulation from three goals up this time! Rayan Cherki dribbles in from the left and has a dig from the edge of the D. His low drive takes a nick off Emre Can, ensuring it nestles into the bottom right!
Rayan Cherki rounds off an emphatic victory for Manchester City. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/ReutersWhich he, and fellow goalscorer Phil Foden, are quite pleased about. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/ReutersShare
Updated at 17.00 EST
GOAL! Marseille 0-1 Atalanta (Samardzic 90). The goal stands! But that’s a controversial one, because Ederson certainly controlled the ball with his arm after it pinged up off his own boot. Roberto De Zerbi is booked for telling it as he sees it.
A late strike from Lazar Samardzic gives Atalanta the lead at Marseille. Photograph: Manon Cruz/ReutersShare
Updated at 17.03 EST
Marseille 0-0 Atalanta. Lazar Samardžić steams down the right, glides infield, and power-curls an unstoppable effort into the top-left corner from 25 yards! But it might not stand, because earlier on, the ball reared up and hit Ederson on his arm in his own penalty area. So will the goal be chalked off, so Marseille can be awarded a penalty instead?! What drama here!
Marseille 0-0 Atalanta. Ademola Lookman is subbed off for Yunus Musah. As he departs, he and coach Ivan Jurić exchange opinions in the full and frank style, and Jurić grabs his player by the arm. Lookman spins, frowning, and things look like seriously spilling over, before the pair are separated. Lookman’s love affair with Atalanta, for whom he secured a first trophy since 1963 just last year, appears over.
GOAL! Ajax 0-3 Galatasaray (Osimhen 78 pen). Another handball, another penalty slotted by Victor Osimhen – into the right-hand side of the net this time, securing his hat-trick – and Ajax boss John Heitinga’s jacket is on a shoogly peg less than six months into his reign.
Galatasaray’s Victor Osimhen celebrates scoring their third goal to complete his hat-trick. Photograph: Piroschka Van De Wouw/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.54 EST
GOAL! Brugge 3-3 Barcelona (Tzolis 77 og). Lamine Yamal crosses from the right. Christos Tzolis tries to head clear, but only manages to skim the ball off the top of his noggin, looping it across and over Nordin Jackers and into the top right. So unfortunate for the hosts, who were dreaming of going 4-2 up from the spot not so long ago.
All eye’s on the ball as it heads towards the net after coming off Christos Tzolis (right). Photograph: Yves Herman/ReutersLamine Yamal of Barcelona celebrates his team’s good fortune. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 16.47 EST
Manchester City 3-1 Borussia Dortmund. Pascal Gross, down the right, cuts back to Karim Adeyemi, who swivels and shoots from the penalty spot. John Stones throws himself in the road to block. What a defensive stand, because that looked goal-bound. I wonder if Pep has suddenly started thinking about this?
ShareGOAL! Manchester City 3-1 Borussia Dortmund (Anton 72)
Dortmund aren’t quite finished yet, and Julian Ryerson fizzes a cross in from the right. Waldemar Anton races in to meet at the near post and rams home. He couldn’t miss, such was the quality of the cross by Ryerson. It was a doozy.
Brugge 3-2 Barcelona. Carlos Forbs kicks Alejandro Balde’s heel as the pair enter the Barca box. A penalty’s awarded, but VAR gets referee Anthony Taylor to have another look, and he changes his mind. No pen. Barca hanging on.
GOAL! Internazionale 2-1 Kairat (Augusto 67). Inter reclaim the lead, Carlos Augusto teed up on the right-hand edge of the D and smacking a fierce daisycutter into the bottom-right corner.
Internazionale’s Carlos Augusto (right) fires home to restore his side’s lead against Kairat Almaty. Photograph: Luca Bruno/APAugusto celebrates. Photograph: Luca Bruno/APShare
Updated at 16.40 EST
Marseille 0-0 Atalanta. Charles De Ketelaere, out on the right, fires a low cross through the six-yard box. Ademola Lookman slams it home from close range, but it won’t count, because De Ketelaere was offside in the build-up.
Updated at 16.29 EST
GOAL! Ajax 0-2 Galatasaray (Osimhen 65 pen). A cross from the left rears up and strokes Youri Baas on the arm. It’s a harsh, soft call, but it’s given, and Victor Osimhen whistles the spot kick into the bottom left. Ajax, the bottom club, in all sorts.
Galatasaray’s Victor Osimhen celebrates scoring their second goal. Photograph: Piroschka Van De Wouw/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.38 EST
GOAL! Ajax 0-1 Galatasaray (Osimhen 59). A cross flashes in from the right. Osimhen stoops to flash a header home from close range. And not long after …
Victor Osimhen of Galatasaray steers his close range header past Ajax goalkeeper Remko Pasveer to open the scoring. Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 16.37 EST
GOAL! Benfica 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen (Schick 65). Benfica have been the better side, but they’re behind. Patrik Schick has a whack from a tight angle on the left. It’s batted away by the Benfica keeper Anatoliy Trubin, but a poor defensive header comes straight back to Schick, who heads home from close range.
GOAL! Brugge 3-2 Barcelona (Forbs 64). Barca weren’t level for long! Carlos Forbs is sent clear down the middle and dinks over Wojciech Szczęsny to reclaim the lead for the Belgians!
Carlos Forbs celebrates after bagging his second goal of the night to restore Brugge’s lead. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/APShare
Updated at 16.33 EST
GOAL! Brugge 2-2 Barcelona (Yamal 60). Eric García strides down the inside-left channel and launches a rising drive that caroms off the crossbar at warp speed. Had that nestled in the top-right corner, it would have been up there in the central-defender canon with Micky van de Ven’s effort last night. Seriously. But never mind, because Barca come again, Lamine Yamal exchanging elegant passes down the inside-right with a back-flicking Fermin Lopez, before flicking a shot across the keeper and into the bottom left! What a sequence!
Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal slots home their second goal to level the scores at Brugges. Photograph: Yves Herman/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.31 EST
GOAL! Internazionale 1-1 Kairat (Arad 55)
A Kairat corner comes in from the left. Carlos Augusto heads it straight up into the air. Ofri Arad battles to get to the dropping ball first, and powers a header into the left-hand side of the net, Yann Sommer no chance!
Ofri Arad (top right) heads home Kairat’s equaliser at Internazionale. Photograph: Luca Bruno/APArad (right) wheels away in celebration. Photograph: Claudia Greco/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.29 EST
GOAL! Manchester City 3-0 Borussia Dortmund (Foden 57)
… but it’s not Haaland who gets his second goal. Not yet, anyway. Here comes Phil Foden, spinning into space by the right-hand side of the D and curling powerfully into the bottom left. Almost a carbon copy of his first!
Phil Foden slots home his second, and Manchester City’s third goal of the night. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAFoden celebrates. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAShare
Updated at 16.26 EST
Manchester City 2-0 Borussia Dortmund. Erling Haaland fancies a second, and latches onto a pass down the inside-left channel to swing a shot straight at Gregor Kobel from a tight angle.
Brugge 2-1 Barcelona. Christos Tzolis rolls a pass down the inside-left channel to release Joaquin Seys, who stabs a shot from a tight angle straight at Wojciech Szczęsny. Barca go up the other end, Marcus Rashford cutting in from the left to cause bother, the ball breaking to Lamine Yamal, who slaps a shot straight at Nordin Jackers. It’s still 2-1; it could be 3-2.
ShareGOAL! Newcastle United 2-0 Athletic Club (Joelinton 49)
It’s third time lucky for Joelinton, who has had one goal chalked off for offside, and missed a sitter. Now he meets Harvey Barnes’ dinked cross from the left. He can’t go wrong from six yards, and plants a header into the top left. Great work from Barnes, too, whose shot from the left-hand edge had been blocked; he kept his concentration to pick up the rebound, burst down the channel, and carve out the assist.
Joelinton heads home to double Newcastle United’s lead. Photograph: Richard Lee/ShutterstockWhich he’s quite pleased about. Photograph: David Davies/PAShare
Updated at 16.22 EST
The second halves are underway. Peep! (redux, x7)
Half-time postbag. “In the derby of famously cursed teams, Leverkusen have been dreadful, though Benfica haven’t been able to score, despite plenty of attempts. If either team loses this match, their chances of qualifying for the knockouts will be very slim, but only Benfica seem to be aware of that” – Kári Tulinius
“A long-range header is always good because unlike close ones, there’s a bit of skill to get the ball out of the keeper’s reach in a way that a closer-in one needs more power to do the same. There are some exceptions to that though: Jared Borgetti’s header v Italy from the six-yard box is a fine one, because of the deliberate way it’s placed to wrong-foot the goalkeeper” – Andy ‘Not That One’ Flintoff
“Does Barca have a sponsorship deal with Stabilo?” – Mike Jarrey
FULL TIME: Qarabağ 2-2 Chelsea. The two-time winners took a point back from their 5,000-mile round-trip to Baku, but they were made to work for it. Jacob Steinberg was in Azerbaijan’s capital city to witness an entertaining match, and here’s his report.
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Ajax 0-0 Galatasaray
Benfica 0-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Brugge 2-1 Barcelona
Internazionale 1-0 Kairat
Manchester City 2-0 Borussia Dortmund
Marseille 0-0 Atalanta
Newcastle United 1-0 Athletic Club