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Erling Haaland becomes Man City’s Top Scorer In the Champions League.
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Aston Villa, PSG make Champions League History
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PSG maintain Unbeaten run against English Teams.
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Diomandé, Endrick Impress in seven-goal thriller
October 14, (THEWILL) – Defending Champions, Paris St-Germain, produced a stunning performance to earn a 4-2 win over Manchester City at the Etihad in a Champions League group phase match on Wednesday.
On a day their former coach, Pep Guardiola, was in the stands to cheer the team up, Man City faltered against a rampant PSG side.
Desire Doue broke the deadlock for the visitors with a low effort in the 13th minute.
The French winger turned provider to assist Ousmane Dembele for the second goal two minutes later.
Vitinha added the third goal with a clinical finish following a superb link-up between Maghnes Akliouche and Warren Zaire-Emery.
Man City struggled to find their rhythm in the first half as the visitors went into the break with a deserved 3-0 lead.
Enzo Maresca responded by making three halftime changes, with Ruben Dias, Jerome Doku, and Rayan Cherki making way for the trio of Matheus Nunes, Ayoub Bouaddi, and Iliman Ndiaye.
The changes galvanised Man City, with Ndiaye assisting Haaland to reduce the deficit in the 53rd minute from a pinpoint cross, which Haaland headed into the net to give the Cityzens a flicker of hope.
Maghnes Akliouche scored a stunning goal from outside the box, which Donnarumma thought he had saved, only for the ball to drop behind him into the net to make it 4-1.
Haaland made it 4-2 in the 75th minute before Gianluigi Donnarumma saved Ferran Torres’ penalty in the 90th minute as PSG held on to grab the maximum points.
In the other Champions League matches, Real Madrid earned a last-minute 4-3 win over Roma thanks to a late goal from Antonio Rudiger.
Kylian Mbappe, Carlos Espi, Endrick, and Rudiger all scored for Real Madrid and Marten de Roon, and Donyell Malen were on target for Roma.
Aston Villa earned a comfortable 6-0 win over Fenerbahce to earn their second win of the season in the competition.
Nicolas Jackson and Ross Barkley scored a brace apiece, while Johan Manzambi and Tammy Abraham scored the other goals.
Real Madrid defeated Porto 3-2, Shaktar Donetsk recorded a 3-1 win over AEK Athens, and Stuttgart brushed aside Slovan Bratislava 3-0.
Bodo/Glimt stunned Borussia Dortmund 1-0 for their first win of the season in the competition.
Top Stats From Champions League Matches on Wednesday, According to OPTA Stats.
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PSG are now unbeaten in each of their last 10 UEFA Champions League matches against English opponents (W8 D2).
23 – Since Donyell Malen’s debut for Roma in January, only Harry Kane (37) and Raphinha (24) have scored more goals for a big-five European league side than the Dutchman (23).
Aston Villa have scored six goals in a single match in European competition for the very first time.
3 – Aston Villa and PSG are the first teams in UEFA Champions League history to score three first-half goals in both of their opening two matches of a campaign.
99 – There were just 99 seconds between Manchester City going 1-0 and 2-0 behind to PSG.
Yan Diomande won more duels (13), completed more take-ons (6) and made more interceptions (4) than any other Real Madrid player against Roma.
No PSG player made more final third passes (17), had more touches in the opp. box (5) or created more chances (3) vs. Man City than Ousmane Dembélé.
PSG are the first EVER side to score four goals against Manchester City in a UEFA Champions League game at the Etihad.
Erling Haaland is now Man City’s all-time leading goalscorer in the Champions League with 38 goals.
