Official UEFA Champions League Podcast

Aston Villa, Real Madrid and Real Betis all secured home wins to maintain their perfect starts in the UEFA Champions League, while Declan Rice’s late leveller meant Bayern München and Arsenal shared the points in Munich. There were wins as well on Wednesday for Club Brugge and a Nico Paz-inspired Como, who beat Manchester United 4-1. 
It was a night to remember for LASK as the debutants beat Sporting CP 3-2 in Lisbon while Galatasaray and Inter also recorded their first wins of the campaign.

Matchday 3 picked up where Matchday 2 left off, with goals galore! 
In our featured match, Paris and Barcelona played out an end-to-end classic in the French capital with the defending champions running out eventual 4-2 winners. Désiré Doué and Lamine Yamal were inevitably amongst the goalscorers.
Liverpool, Napoli and Roma all scored four to see off Villarreal, Bodø/Glimt and Slovan Bratislava respectively, while Manchester City hit five at home to AEK Athens, midfielder Phil Foden with a hat-trick. Elsewhere Stuttgart drew with 10-man Atleti 1-1 in Germany whilst PSV secured a superb 1-0 win in Porto. And in our early matches Sabah went down 2-1 at home to Borussia Dortmund while Slavia Praha hit a last-minute equaliser against Fenerbahçe to draw 2-2 in Türkiye and register their first-ever away point in the competition. 
We hear from Manchester City hat-trick hero Foden, Liverpool’s UEFA Player of the Match Rio Ngumoha, Atleti goalkeeper Jan Oblak, Napoli midfielder Scott McTominay plus Barça boss Hansi Flick and Dortmund manager Niko Kovac. We also take a look ahead to Wednesday’s matches, hearing from Bayern’s Serge Gnabry and Real Madrid’s Ibrahima Konate.

A record-breaking night of UEFA Champions League action saw 46 goals scored as Matchday 2 came to a close! 
  
Real Madrid completed an astonishing comeback to beat Roma 4-3, whilst Liverpool and Aston Villa both scored six times to defeat LASK and Fenerbahçe respectively. 
  
Meanwhile, Paris Saint-Germain kept the defence of their title on track with a 4-2 win at Manchester City, whilst Feyenoord, Real Betis, Bodø/Glimt, Shakhtar and Stuttgart also collected three points. 
  
We hear from Madrid’s match-winner Antonio Rüdiger, as well as Paris’ Désiré Doué, Aston Villa’s Nicolas Jackson and Stuttgart’s Deniz Undav.

Matchday 2 got under way in the UEFA Champions League with goals galore across Europe.
Barcelona and Club Brugge both hit four as they beat Galatasaray and Inter respectively, whilst Arsenal and Villarreal netted three times to secure wins against Lille and Napoli. 
Viking left it late to snatch a shock 3-3 draw against Bayern in Norway, while in Baku there were wild celebrations as Sabah picked up their first-ever UEFA Champions League victory, overcoming Slavia Praha 2-0.
Elsewhere, Atleti, Leipzig and Sporting CP also secured crucial wins. We hear from Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta as well as goalscorer Jurriën Timber, plus Sabah’s Player of the Match Joy-Lance Mickels reflects on a historic night in Azerbaijan.

Matchday 1 came to a close on Thursday, with a night of extraordinary goals across Europe. 
Manchester United marked their return to the Champions League with a 4-0 victory over Sabah, while Bayern were also big winners, beating Bodø/Glimt 5-0 in Bavaria.
Como shone on their Champions League debut, with an impressive 4-1 victory over Leipzig, and Lens left it late in Prague to come from behind, scoring twice after 90 minutes to beat Slavia Praha.
The early kick-offs saw ties in both matches, with Fenerbahçe, Roma, PSV and Shakhtar all earning a point on their opening night.
We hear from Benjamin Šeško, Patrick Dorgu, Valdas Dambrauskas and Ivan Perišić