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Paris Saint-Germain scored seven, Barcelona deed six and Erling Haaland struck his 24th extremity of the play connected an action-packed nighttime successful the Champions League.
In all, determination were 43 goals successful 9 games, with six teams scoring 4 oregon much connected Tuesday (October 21, 2025).
PSV Eindhoven routed Italian champion Napoli 6-2, portion Arsenal and Inter Milan besides had large wins to support their cleanable starts successful Europe.
But it is defending champion PSG that leads the mode astatine the apical of the standings aft a chaotic 7-2 triumph against Bayer Leverkusen successful a lucifer that saw some teams reduced to 10 men successful the archetypal half.
Barcelona's 6-1 triumph against Olympiakos saw it bounce backmost from a nonaccomplishment to PSG astatine the commencement of the month.
Premier League person Arsenal bushed Atletico Madrid 4-0, with Viktor Gyokeres scoring twice, and past season's Champions League runner-up Inter bushed Union Saint-Gilloise by the aforesaid score.
Haaland's extremity helped Manchester City to a 2-0 triumph astatine Villarreal.
PSG runs chaotic successful Leverkusen
By halftime astatine the BayArena, PSG was 4-1 up - but that didn't travel adjacent to telling the afloat communicative of a chaotic archetypal period, which included a reddish paper for each squad and 2 penalties for Leverkusen.
Two goals for Desire Doue enactment the French champion good successful control, and the enactment continued aft the interruption with Nuno Mendes extending the pb wrong 5 minutes of the restart. Ousmane Dembele besides came disconnected the seat to marque a scoring instrumentality aft injury.
"That's 3 games, 3 wins, and crucially we're astatine the apical of the UEFA Champions League table," Dembele said.
"We've started this run truly well, particularly considering however hard it was past season."
Spare a thought for Aleix Garcia, though. As good arsenic his first-half penalty, helium scored the extremity of the crippled successful the 2nd fractional with a swerving agelong scope effort that was thing much than a footnote.
Lopez treble
Fermin Lopez scored a chapeau instrumentality and Marcus Rashford deed 2 goals arsenic Barcelona blew distant 10-man Olympiakos.
Barca took afloat vantage erstwhile Santiago Hezze was shown a contentious reddish paper successful the 2nd fractional — scoring 4 goals to implicit the rout.
It was Lopez's archetypal chapeau instrumentality of his career, with Lamine Yamal besides connected the scoresheet from the punishment spot.
Olympiakos had nary reply erstwhile Hezze was shown a 2nd yellowish paper successful the 57th minute, contempt replays appearing to amusement helium did not marque interaction with Marc Casado, who was trying to propulsion him back.
Just 3 minutes earlier, the visitors had got backmost into the crippled astatine 2-1 aft Ayoub El Kaabi's penalty.
Then with the other antheral Barcelona overwhelmed Olympiakos with 4 goals successful 11 minutes.
Rashford, connected indebtedness from Manchester United, present has 4 goals successful 3 games successful the Champions League this season.
"Sometimes it's hard to interruption opponents down, but we person truthful galore goalscoring players successful antithetic areas that getting goals is the slightest of our worries," helium said.
Arsenal powers past Atletico
Top of the Premier League and cleanable successful Europe, Arsenal is flying high.
A almighty 2nd fractional astatine the Emirates saw Mikel Arteta's squad brushwood speech Atletico with summertime signing Gyokeres sealing the triumph with 2 goals successful 3 minutes. Those goals ended the striker's seven-game scoring drought for Arsenal.
"I americium delighted arsenic helium afloat deserves it. The workrate helium brings to the squad is outstanding. We worth a batch of things that helium does for the squad and it was the biggest grin connected his look today," Arteta said.
Goals from Gabriel Magalhaes and Gabriel Martinelli had fixed Arsenal a 2-0 pb earlier Gyokeres struck.
Arsenal is 3rd successful the standings — down PSG and Inter connected extremity difference.
Red blistery Haaland
Haaland conscionable can't halt scoring close now.
The Norway international's opener astatine Villarreal was his 24th successful 14 games this play and extended his existent scoring streak to 12 games successful a row. He present has 53 goals successful the Champions League successful conscionable 51 appearances.
The lone crippled helium didn't people successful this word was City's 2-0 decision to Tottenham successful August.
Bernardo Silva was besides connected people arsenic City moved up to fifth.
Napoli stunned successful Eindhoven
The biggest daze of the nighttime was Napoli's decision astatine PSV.
That's back-to-back losses for Antonio Conte's team, pursuing Saturday's 1-0 decision astatine Torino. And specified a dense nonaccomplishment successful Europe volition beryllium peculiarly humbling for the Italian champion, with 3 goals conceded successful the past 10 minutes aft going down to 10 men erstwhile Lorenzo Lucca was sent disconnected successful the 76th.
Napoli has conscionable 1 triumph from 3 games successful Europe truthful far.
It's going amended for Inter, which has a 100 per cent grounds aft 3 games and comfortably overcame Union Saint-Gilloise, with Lautaro Martinez scoring for the 3rd clip successful the Champions League this season.
Newcastle and Dortmund triumph
Harvey Barnes scored doubly successful Newcastle's 3-0 triumph against Benfica and Borussia Dortmund won 4-2 successful Copenhagen.
Kazakhstani squad Kairat picked up its archetypal constituent successful European soccer's elite nine contention with a 0-0 gully against Pafos.
