Real Madrid overturn Roma, PSG beat City and Liverpool win 6-3

Real Madrid overturned Roma, Paris Saint-Germain defeated Manchester City and Liverpool beat LASK Linz 6-3 on the second matchday of the Champions League league phase. The evening brought plenty of goals, including a Madrid comeback and four away goals for the Paris side.

Roma led 3-1 before losing 4-3 to Real Madrid. At the Olympic Stadium, the Spanish club erased a two-goal deficit to leave with the victory. The final score reflected the scale of the turnaround, with the match also listed as a 3-4 result in Madrid’s favour.

Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain earned a 4-2 win away to Manchester City. Désiré Doué opened the scoring in the 13th minute, and Ousmane Dembélé followed two minutes later. Vitinha scored Paris’s third in the 32nd minute, while Maghnes Akliouche completed the scoring in the 63rd. At the end of the match, PSG had 6 points in the competition, compared with Manchester City’s 3, leaving the sides further apart on points.

In Liverpool, Bradley Barcola scored a hat-trick in the 6-3 win over LASK Linz. They were his first goals for Liverpool, in his seventh match since transferring from Paris Saint-Germain. His contribution came in a commanding but not one-sided victory, as LASK scored three times.

Aston Villa also won 6-0 against Fenerbahçe, extending the English club’s excellent start in the competition with another emphatic result. Other scores from the second matchday included Real Betis’s 3-2 win over Porto, Feyenoord’s victory by the same score against Como, and Arsenal’s 3-0 defeat of Lille. Together, the results made for a matchday featuring both wide margins and tighter contests.