There was additionally a shock defeat for Tottenham Hotspur at Sporting Lisbon, and Atletico Madrid had been crushed on their journey to play Bayer Leverkusen.
Bayern Munich’s German midfielder Leroy Sane celebrates scoring the 2-0 purpose in the course of the UEFA Champions League Group C soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona in Munich, southern Germany on 13 September 2022. Picture: CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP
PARIS – Bayern Munich obtained the higher of Barcelona as Robert Lewandowski returned to face his former membership on Tuesday, whereas a late Joel Matip purpose allowed Liverpool to beat Ajax and get their Champions League marketing campaign up and operating.
There was additionally a shock defeat for Tottenham Hotspur at Sporting Lisbon, and Atletico Madrid had been crushed on their journey to play Bayer Leverkusen.
Both Spanish guests to Germany got here away on the dropping facet, with Barcelona happening 2-0 on the Allianz Arena in Group C as Lewandowski got here again to the membership he left in the summertime after eight prolific seasons in Bavaria.
The Pole scored a hat-trick on his Champions League debut for Barca because the Catalans beat Viktoria Plzen 5-1 final week.
He was desperately near opening the scoring within the first half in Munich, nevertheless it was Bayern who went in entrance 5 minutes into the second half when Lucas Hernandez headed in from a nook.
Leroy Sane burst by 4 minutes later to make it 2-0 as Julian Nagelsmann’s Bayern made it two wins out of two within the group.
They have now received their final 5 conferences with Barcelona, together with two in final season’s group stage and their 8-2 victory within the 2020 quarter-finals.
“I think for ‘Lewy’ it was really an emotional game to come back – a little bit like coming home, because he was so successful here,” Bayern captain Manuel Neuer informed Amazon Prime of his outdated teammate.
“The luck in the decisive moments wasn’t on his side – and that became our luck.”
Barcelona subsequent face Inter Milan, who obtained their first factors with a 2-0 win away to Plzen within the Czech Republic.
Edin Dzeko and Denzel Dumfries obtained the targets for Inter whereas the house facet had Pavel Bucha despatched off within the second half.
MATIP THE HERO
Liverpool obtained off to a disastrous begin in Group A once they misplaced 4-1 to Napoli in Italy, however they bounced again from that to beat Ajax 2-1 at Anfield.
Mohamed Salah shook off a poor run of type to place Jurgen Klopp’s facet forward within the seventeenth minute, just for the Dutch champions to equalise earlier than the half-hour courtesy of an emphatic end from their thrilling Ghanaian expertise Mohammed Kudus.
Liverpool had been heading for a 3rd recreation with no win in all competitions till Matip rose in entrance of the Kop to move in from a nook within the 89th minute, the ball crossing the road earlier than it might be cleared out.
“I think everybody could see that we understood and that we had to put a completely different shift into the game. The boys did that,” Klopp informed BT Sport.
“We played a lot of good stuff against a hard fighting opposition.”
That match was preceded by a minute’s silence to mark the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II.
The different recreation in Group A, between Rangers and Napoli, was postponed till Wednesday on account of extreme limitations on police sources in Scotland because of the Queen’s loss of life.
SPURS SHOCKED
Meanwhile Antonio Conte’s Spurs slumped to a 2-0 defeat in opposition to Sporting in Portugal in Group D, with the house facet scoring each targets late on on the Jose Alvalade stadium.
It seemed just like the English facet would escape with some extent after Hugo Lloris produced a shocking late save to disclaim Pedro Porro.
But Paulinho headed in from the ensuing Ninetieth-minute nook, and Brazilian Arthur Gomes got here off the bench to make it 2-0 with an excellent solo strike in damage time.
“It was a difficult result. When you lose the game you are not happy,” admitted Conte.
Sporting prime the group with six factors, whereas Eintracht Frankfurt joined Spurs on three factors due to a 1-0 win in Marseille, with Jesper Lindstrom scoring within the first half.
Leverkusen claimed their first factors in Group B as they beat Atletico 2-0 with two late targets, Robert Andrich and Moussa Diaby each discovering the online.
Belgian champions Club Brugge prime the part with six factors after a shocking 4-0 win at FC Porto.
Former Barcelona striker Ferran Jutgla opened the scoring with a penalty earlier than Kamal Sowah, Andreas Skov Olsen and Norwegian teenager Antonio Nusa all netted within the second half.
