{"id":620119,"date":"2026-09-10T07:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620119\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:20:09","slug":"champions-league-wrap-psg-and-barca-start-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620119\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League wrap: PSG and Barca start with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick after Ousmane Dembele’s early brace as Paris St Germain started the defence of their Champions League crown with a 6-1 rout of Slovan Bratislava.<\/p>\n

After spurning an early chance, Dembele struck in the 17th and 23rd minutes to give the holders a comfortable early advantage, and the France forward then set up the first and third of Torres\u2019s strikes as the summer signing from Barcelona scored his first Champions League hat-trick.<\/p>\n

Suleiman Camara provided a brief highlight for the visitors on a bruising night, cutting in from the left to lash home a powerful strike from a tight angle, but Fabian Ruiz had the final word for PSG.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Jesus scored his first goal in Barcelona colours to cap a 5-1 win over Feyenoord after Raphinha continued his superb start to the season with a brace.<\/p>\n

Raphinha made it eight goals in five games to start the campaign as he scored a brace, coming either side of Karim Adeyemi\u2019s curled strike.<\/p>\n

Lamine Yamal\u2019s 77th minute free-kick stretched the lead but Sem Steijn pulled one back for Giovanni van Bronckhorst\u2019s side before Jesus headed in five minutes from time.<\/p>\n

Liverpool came from behind to beat Atletico Madrid 2-1<\/a> at Anfield, trailing to Marcos Llorente\u2019s early strike before Dominik Szoboszlai levelled and Alexis Mac Allister struck a fine winner five minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n

Martin Odegaard\u2019s second-half goal was enough for Arsenal to edge out Napoli 1-0 in Italy<\/a>, with the Norwegian scoring 15 minutes from time after last season\u2019s beaten finalists had spurned a number of opportunities.<\/p>\n

Ermedin Demirovic struck a hat-trick in the space of just 12 minutes as Stuttgart beat Champions League debutants Viking 3-1, while Sporting recovered from conceding just five minutes in to beat Galatasaray 3-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick after Ousmane Dembele’s early brace as Paris St Germain started the defence of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-620119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}