Holders Paris St Germain scored 3 times in seven minutes as they crushed Bayer Leverkusen 7-2 on a rampant night time of Champions League targets.
There have been 43 targets on the night time in whole as PSG hit seven, Barcelona six, PSV six and Inter Milan, Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund 4 every.
Holders PSG had a person sent-off within the firrst half, as did Leverkusen, and noticed Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembele rating on his comeback from damage. They took a seventh-minute lead by means of Willian Pacho’s far-post header.
Leverkusen had the prospect to stage with Alejandro Grimaldo’s Twenty fifth-minute penalty however the Spaniard hit the publish.
It obtained worse for the hosts when captain Robert Andrich was despatched off for elbowing Need Doue within the thirty second minute. PSG went right down to 10 males when Illia Zabarnyi felled Christian Kofane to present the hosts one other spot-kick.
Aleix Garcia equalised however Leverkusen’s pleasure solely lasted three minutes with Doue placing the guests again in entrance earlier than Khvicha Kvaratskhelia made it 3-1 with a shot off the publish and Doue struck once more to nearly guarantee a 3rd straight win within the competitors for PSG this season.
Nuno Mendes slotted residence to make it 5-1 within the fiftieth minute earlier than Garcia pulled a aim again 4 minutes later, however Dembele scored within the 66th minute with a simple tap-in and Vitinha accomplished the rout.
Dennis Man scored twice as PSV handed Napoli a 6-2 thrashing.
Scott McTominay put the Italians forward within the thirty first minute however the Dutch champions swept right into a 2-1 lead inside seven minutes as Alessandro Buongiorno put the ball into his personal internet after which Ismael Saibari scored on the counter-attack.
After halftime Man netted twice as PSV took benefit of a frenzied ambiance on the Philips Stadion to advance to 4 factors from three video games, yet another than the Serie A champions.
Lorenzo Lucca was despatched off 14 minutes from time for dissent so as to add to the guests’ woes, though McTominay scored their second 5 minutes from time from a nook.
However straight from the restart Couhaib Driouech arrange substitute Ricardo Pepi to attain along with his first kick of the sport and inside a minute Driouech obtained one himself with a thumping strike on the finish of a sequence of swift one-touch passes
Tuesday’s scores
Barcelona 6-1 Olympiakos
Kairat 0-0 Pafos
Arsenal 4-0 Atletico Madrid
Bayer Leverkusen 2-7 PSG
Copenhagen 2-4 Borussia Dortmund
Newcastle 3-0 Benfica
PSV 6-2 Napoli
Union Saint-Gilloise 0-4 Inter Milan
Villarreal 0-2 Man Metropolis
