Champions League Matchweek 1 saw Real Madrid, Liverpool, PSG and Bayern Munich top the league phase standings.
Champions League Matchweek 1 delivered 18 matches across three days that contained everything from ambitious goals to penalty saves to red cards.and Nicolás González. The biggest upset of Matchweek 1 came in Thursday's final fixture when Monaco toppled Barcelona at the Stade Louis II.Erling Haaland was once again kept quiet by Inter Milan. / IMAGO/David Rawcliffe, but the game failed to live up to the hype.
Inter's disciplined, experienced backline deserves credit for stifling City's attack. Yet the result felt much more disappointing for City than the Italian giants. Real Madrid's liabilities at the back as well as its inability to get off to fast starts will cost Ancelotti's squad against the tougher teams in its league phase schedule, like Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund.PSG left the Parc des Princes with all three points on Wednesday night, but its performance was anything but impressive. The French giants defeated Girona 1–0 thanks to an own goal from Paulo Gazzaniga in the 90th minute.
PSG fired 26 shots at Gazzaniga, but the only one to trickle through came from the keeper's own error. For a team that notched 16 goals in its four opening Ligue 1 fixtures, PSG could not translate its domestic success to Europe. Even with Kylian Mbappé, PSG scored zero goals against an inferior Borussia Dortmund side across two legs in the UCL semifinals last year.
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