GALLERY: Champions League round-up

Sport360 staff 01:28 14/09/2016
All the action from Tuesday's UCL games.

The Champions League is back and the opening night has served up plenty of goals.

Here, we round-up all of the action from Tuesday night.

BARCELONA 7-0 CELTIC

Lionel Messi notched a hat-trick as Barcelona bounced back from their shock weekend defeat to Alaves by hammering Celtic 7-0 in their Champions League opener on Tuesday night.

Luis Enrique’s men were stunned 2-1 by newly-promoted Alaves at the Nou Camp in LaLiga on Saturday, but made amends by recording their biggest Champions League victory.

Aside from Messi’s sixth career treble in the competition, Neymar and Andres Iniesta were also on the scoresheet with fine second-half strikes before Luis Suarez wrapped things with two more goals late on.

PSG 1-1 ARSENAL

Alexis Sanchez struck with 12 minutes left as Arsenal came from behind to earn an unlikely 1-1 draw with Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League opener on Tuesday.

PSG had led virtually from kick-off, an Edinson Cavani header opening the scoring as the clock ticked onto 42 seconds at the Parc des Princes.

The goal was PSG’s quickest ever in the Champions League, but the French champions, and Cavani in particular, were guilty of failing to convert a succession of golden opportunities.

Chilean forward Sanchez made them pay as he netted the equaliser before both sides ended the game with 10 men after Olivier Giroud and Marco Verratti were each sent off at the death.

BAYERN MUNICH 5-0 ROSTOV

Joshua Kimmich grabbed a second-half double and birthday boy Thomas Mueller was on target as Bayern Munich hammered the Russian side Rostov 5-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday.

It was an ominous warning of intent from the Germans in their Group D opener, after prolific Robert Lewandowski scored midway through the first-half from the penalty spot before Mueller doubled the lead in the second minute of first-half injury time.

Kimmich grabbed a simple third soon after the break following fine work from Douglas Costa and then the impressive midfielder headed home to make it 4-0 just minutes later.

Spanish defender Juan Bernat popped up in the box in the closing moments for number five.

PSV EINDHOVEN 0-1 ATLETICO DE MADRID

Saul Niguez’s acrobatic effort in the 43rd minute settled the contest in favour of Diego Simeone’s men, with PSV missing a controversially-awarded penalty moments later as Jan Oblak superbly kept out Andres Guardado’s spot-kick.

FC BASEL 1-1 LUDOGRETS

It also finished 1-1 in Basle, where the hosts salvaged a point with a late leveller against Ludogorets.

Cafu’s goal on the counter-attack gave the Bulgarian side the lead on the stroke of half-time, but Renato Steffen levelled for Basle 10 minutes from the end.

BENFICA 1-1 BESIKTAS

The match between Benfica and Besiktas in Portugal finished 1-1 as Anderson Talisca’s brilliant stoppage-time free-kick for the Turkish side cancelled out Franco Cervi’s early opener.

DYNAMO KIEV 1-2 NAPOLI

Napoli are the early front-runners in Group B after Arkadiusz Milik’s brace fired them to a 2-1 a comeback victory at 10-man Dynamo Kiev.

Denys Garmash gave Dynamo a 26th-minute lead, but their hopes of earning a point after Milik’s first-half brace were all but ended when midfielder Serhiy Sydorchuk was sent off in the 68th minute.

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