Key occasions
Brest are high of the Champions League
I swear you’ll by no means see something like this ever once more. So gawp at it. Drink it in.
Full time: Salzburg 0-4 Brest
Brest have run riot in Austria to proceed their excellent begin to Champions League life. Subsequent up: Bayer Leverkusen at residence.
Full time: Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague
Of their final residence sport, Stuttgart plugged Dortmund 5-1. Tonight they’ve been held by Sparta Prague, who earned a degree via Kaan Kairinen’s mighty free-kick.
There are 9 extra video games tomorrow, together with Aston Villa v Bayern Munich…
… and Liverpool v Bologna.
Learn Jamie Jackson’s preview of Slovan Bratislava v Manchester Metropolis
“In accordance with your preamble no staff has ever certified from the league stage after dropping its first two video games,” says Richard Hirst. “However can this apply to new Greater Cup, with a really completely different league stage? Are we in a Schrodinger’s-league scenario, with the league current and never current on the similar time?”
We’re not in a Schrodinger’s-league scenario a lot as a weary-hack-cracking-facile-gags scenario.
Dortmund v Celtic preview
We’re enjoying in opposition to a staff which can be difficult the very high finish of elite soccer. However for us, I’ve at all times mentioned, whether or not it’s domestically or whether or not it’s away on this competitors, it’s making us a extremely tough staff to play in opposition to, with and with out the ball. That’s what we wish to have the ability to do.
GOAL! Salzburg 0-4 Brest (Pereira Lage 75)
GOAl! Salzburg 0-3 Brest (Sima 71) The best story in soccer historical past continues. Abdallah Sima has scored his second and Brest’s third, strengthening their maintain on this season’s Champions League.
“Hello Rob, from a lastly sunny Indianapolis, after 4 days of Helene-inspired gloom and rain!” writes Joe Pearson. “Due to the huge buffet that’s Paramount+, I’ve my alternative of matches. Which one is the gem of the bunch? I’m tempted by Leverkusen-Milan, however I would simply go for the whiparound present. Or there’s baseball playoffs. The dilemmas of a retired American.”
If I wasn’t working I’d most likely be watching Pine Barrens for the 497th time Arsenal v PSG, although the Leverkusen and Dortmund video games are additionally interesting.
It’s David Squires, it’s nice
GOAL! Salzburg 0-2 Brest (Camara 66) Mahdi Camara has doubled Brest’s lead in Austria, and you already know what meaning.
Internazionale v Pink Star Belgrade staff information
That is how our staff traces up at Meazza tonight:
XI | Glazer, Drkušić, Spajić, Djiga, Seol, Elšnik, Krunić, Silas, Maksimović, Olayinka, Ndiaye
Subs | Marko Ilić, Guteša, Kanga, Katai, Bruno, Dálcio, Rodić, Leković, Milson, Luka Ilić, Prutsev, Radonjić #FKCZ 🇮🇩 #UCL pic.twitter.com/95ViS3pHJl
— FK Crvena zvezda in English (@crvenazvezda_en) October 1, 2024
Barcelona v Younger Boys staff information
A chunk of recommendation: for those who ever want staff information for Younger Boys, don’t sort ‘Younger Boys Twitter’ into Google.
PSV v Sporting CP staff information
Breaking information that has nothing in any way to do with the Champions League or any European competitors as a result of the ban would solely have utilized to home video games.
Leverkusen v Milan staff information
56 min: Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague
“I like to recommend you lookup Kairinen’s objective for Sparta Prague,” writes Kári Tulinius. “It’s the kind of free kick that isn’t in style lately, the ball flew prefer it was on a VHS tape known as 101 Nice Free Kicks, hitting the highest of the submit earlier than flying in, with the goalkeeper an inch from getting a hand to it.”
Dortmund v Celtic staff information
Celtic have been walloping allcomers so it’s no shock they’re unchanged. So are Dortmund, who beat VfL Bochum on Friday evening.
Arsenal v Paris Saint-Germain staff information
Mikel Arteta has named an unchanged staff. You’ll be able to learn all about that and the PSG XI with Scott Murray.
Slovan Bratislava v Manchester Metropolis staff information
Loads of rotation from Pep, as you’d anticipate. Stefan Ortega Moreno, John Stones, Phil Foden, Savinho, Matheus Nunes and Jeremy Doku all come into the aspect. Foden begins for the primary time this season in both the Premier League or Champions League.
Slovan Bratislava Takac, Blackman, Kashia, Bajric, Wimmer, Savvidis, Ignatenko, Barseghyan, Tolic, Weiss, Strelec.
Substitutes: Trnovsky, Hrdina, Voet, Medvedev, Marcelli, Mustafic, Mak, Zuberu, Pauschek, Gajdos, Szoke, Metsoko.
Your Metropolis line-up 🩵
XI | Ortega Moreno, Lewis, Stones, Akanji, Gvardiol, Gundogan (C), Nunes, Savinho, Foden, Doku, Haaland
SUBS | Ederson, Carson, Walker, Dias, Kovacic, Grealish, Bernardo, McAtee#ManCity | #UCL pic.twitter.com/n0f9IDl7th
— Manchester Metropolis (@ManCity) October 1, 2024
Large Cup is lifeless, lengthy reside Greater Cup
It’s half-time within the two early video games. Abdallah Sima has put Brest forward at Salzburg – and high of the as-it-stands Champions League desk and sure we’re milking this – whereas Stuttgart are stage at residence to Sparta Prague. Enzo Millot scored for Stuttgart; Kaan Kairinen equalised for Sparta.
Preamble
Good night every person. Life strikes fairly quick, and by tomorrow evening we’ll be 1 / 4 of the best way via the brand new league stage of the Champions League. 1 / 4! Two-eighths! Earlier than you already know it it’ll be 31 Might 2025 and Carlo Ancelotti can be consuming one other celebratory cigar.
Carlo’s males aren’t in motion tonight, however there are 9 video games involving eight former winners of the competitors. Probably the most eyecatching contest is between two groups who’ve by no means been champions of Europe: Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain, who meet on the Emirates Stadium. That match has its personal liveblog proper right here.
There are two conferences of former champions: Borussia Dortmund (1997) v Celtic (1967) and Internazionale (1964, 1965, 2010) at residence to Pink Star Belgrade (1991).
Manchester Metropolis and Barcelona have winnable matches, whereas AC Milan have a tough journey to Leverkusen. They had been properly overwhelmed by Liverpool a fortnight in the past and their supervisor Paulo Fonseca can be acutely aware that no staff has ever certified from the league stage after dropping their first two video games.
These are the fixtures, all 8pm BST kick-offs until in any other case acknowledged.
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Salzburg 0-1 Brest (5.45pm)
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Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague (5.45pm)
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Arsenal v Paris Saint-Germain
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Barcelona v Younger Boys
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Dortmund v Celtic
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Inter v Pink Star
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Leverkusen v Milan
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PSV Eindhoven v Sporting CP
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Slovan Bratislava v Manchester Metropolis
