November 6, 2024

Manchester City 2-1 Dortmund, Rangers 0-3 Napoli: Champions League – as it happened

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Erling Haaland: “In the end we showed what we are,” the Manchester City striker on the back of his team’s middling performance. “This is what we are. This is how we have to play. I’m proud of the last 25 minutes.

On his goal: “It was a nice cross [from Joao Cancelo],” he says. “It’s a really important win.”

On facing his former club: “It’s good to see everyone. They didn’t stop me; I scored. They played well. They were good. I was quite sure I was going to be followed the whole game because Edin [Dortmund boss Terzic] knows me very well. Dortmund were really good today. Three points is what matters.”

Graham Potter speaks: “We’re disappointed with the result,” says Chelsea’s manager in an interview with BT Sport. “I thought the boys gave everything. We scored a good goal, but lost a bit in the second half but their goalkeeper has made some good saves.

“It is what it is, we have to dust ourselves down. Personality and application was good, we will get better. We got Raheem in one-on-one situations quite often and the goal was a good result of that. It’s always irritating when you concede a goal. Overall the defensive performance was quite good, it’s just the little details we will have to improve.

“It has not been easy for the boys, they have responded to us really well over the last few days and it’s a point we will have to take and get better. The attitude has been fantastic, no complaints apart from the fact we have not taken three points.”

Updated at 17.19 EDT

Match report: Manchester City 2-1 Borussia Dortmund

Group G: Erling Haaland scored an acrobatic winner against his former side as Manchester City came from behind to take all threed points. Andy Hunter reports from the Etihad Stadium …

Match report: Chelsea 1-1 RB Salzburg

Group E: Graham Potter rang the changes in Chelsea’s backline but it was a rare rick from Thiago Silva that cost his side all three points in his first game in charge. David Hytner reports from Stamford Bridge …

Match report: Shakhtar Donetsk 1-1 Celtic

Group F: On the pitch, Celtic failed to capitalise on their dominance, while off it some anti-monarchy banners and chants from their fans led to an on-air apology from BT Sport.

Match report: Rangers 0-3 Napoli

Group A: “Against vastly superior opponents, Rangers were at least properly competitive for most of the game,” writes Ewan Murray from Ibrox.

Champions League results

Group A

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Full time: Rangers 0-3 Napoli

Group A: Rangers suffered their third consecutive heavy defeat, conceding three goals to Napoli after losing James Sands to two yellow cards in as many minutes.

Full time: Chelsea 1-1 RB Salzburg

Group E: Graham Potter didn’t quite get the winning started he wanted as Chelsea manager, after a defensive error from Thiago Silva enabled Noah Okafort to cancel out Raheem Sterling’s opener.

Full time: Manchester City 2-1 Borussia Dortmund

Group G: John Stones and Erling Haaland got the goals as City came from behind to beat Borussia Dortmund.

Erling Haaland of Manchester City (right) embraces former team-mate Jude Bellingham of Borussia Dortmund after winning their Champions League group game. Photograph: Peter Powell/EPA

Updated at 17.10 EDT

GOAL! Rangers 0-3 Napoli (Ndombele 90+1)

Group A: Andre Anguissa wins the ball high up the pitch and squares it for Tanguy Ndombele, who fires home from eight or nine yards. Could this be the kick-start the career of the midfielder who is on loan from Spurs needs?

Napoli’s Tanguy Ndombele wheels away in celebration after firing home their third goal. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Updated at 17.04 EDT

GOAL! Real Madrid 2-0 RB Leipzig (Asensio 90+1)

Group F: Teed up by Toni Kroos, Marco Asensio spanks a half-volley past Peter Gulacsi to put the game beyond Leipzig.

GOAL! Maccabi Haifa 1-3 Paris Saint-Germain (Neymar 88)

Group H: Awful defending from the Israeli side, who fall asleep and let Neymar gallop into acres of space behind their back four. He shoots low and hard under Cohen to extend PSG’s lead.

Paris Saint-Germain’s Neymar shoots to score his team’s third goal. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 16.57 EDT

GOAL! Rangers 0-2 Napoli (Raspadori 85)

Group A: On from the bench, Giacomo Raspadori plays a neat one-two with Mathias Olivera, picking up the return pass near the penalty spot and smashing the ball into the bottom corner.

Napoli’s Giacomo Raspadori doubles the visitors’ lead. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters

Updated at 16.49 EDT

GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Borussia Dortmund (Haaland 84)

Group G: Joao Cancelo sends a sumptuous cross into the Borussia Dortmund penalty area with the outside of his right boot. It’s quite high but Erling Haaland leaps acrobatically to steer the ball home with a preposterously outstretched foot. It’s like a stunt from The Matrix.

A flying Erling Haaland acrobatically puts Manchester City ahead. Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images Here’s a view of Haaland’s fine finish from the other side of the pitch. Photograph: Alex Livesey/UEFA/Getty Images

Updated at 17.01 EDT

GOAL! Real Madrid 1-0 RB Leipzig (Valverde 80) Real Madrid’s Federico Valverde (left) shoots the ball to score the opening goal. Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP

Group F: Federico Valverde fires Real Madrid into the lead with a long range effort that fizzes into the bottom left-hand corner.

Valverde celebrates his goal. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

Updated at 17.30 EDT

GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Borussia Dortmund (Stones 80)

Group G: John Stones scores with a rocket from outside the penalty area that seemed to go straight through Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Alexander Meyer. Did the shot take a deflection? I don’t think so. The keeper didn’t react at all and if anything seemed to take his hand out of the way.

Manchester City’s John Stones (second right) scores his side’s equaliser. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA Stones celebrates scoring their equaliser as (left to right) Manuel Akanji, Rodri and Kevin de Bruyne look on. Photograph: Craig Brough/Reuters

Updated at 17.07 EDT

GOAL! Chelsea 1-1 RB Salzburg (Okafor 75)

Group E: Noah Okafor scuffs home for the Austrian champions, his effort from the edge of the six-yard box taking a deflection off Cesar Azpilicueta. Adamu provided ther assist, cutting in from the right and skipping through a weak challenge from Thiago Silva, who looks suitably bashful.

GOAL! Maccabi Haifa 1-2 Paris Saint-Germain (Mbappe 68)

Group H: WIth Leo Messi providing the assist courtesy of a weighted through ball, Kylian Mbappe turns on the afterburners before sidefooting home into the far corner past Haifa goalkkeeper Joshua Cohen.

GOAL! Rangers 0-1 Napoli (Politano 68pen)

Group A: Napoli take their third penalty of the night, this time for a Borna Barisic hand-ball. Politano steps up and again McGregor dives the right way, but the ball creeps in … but only just.

Napoli’s Matteo Politano scores their first goal from the penalty spot. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/Reuters

Updated at 16.39 EDT

GOAL! Juventus 1-2 Benfica (Neres 55)

Group H: While those penalty shenanigans were ongoing at Ibrox, David Neres was piling the pressure on Juventus manager Max Allegri by firing Benfica into a 2-1 lead at the Allianz Stadium in Turin. The Portuguese side have come from behind to lead.

Rangers 0-0 Napoli

Group A: After an extremely odd VAR intervention (more on that as we get it), it’s as you were at Ibrox, although Rangers are down to 10 men.

VAR! Napoli have to retake their penalty!

Group A: Weird stuff. Even though the eventually scored, Napoli have been ordered to retake their penalty, for what appeared to be encroachment by Allan McGregor, who saved Piotr Zielinski’s first effort before conceding on the follow-up from Politano. For the second time in quick succession, McGregor saves from the Pole again!!!

Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor saves a second penalty from Napoli’s Piotr Zielinksi. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Updated at 16.34 EDT

GOAL! Rangers 0-1 Napoli (Politano 57)

Group A: James Sands is sent off for a second bookable offence after bringing down Giovanni Simeone in the Rangers penalty area. Piotr Zielinski misses from the spot but Politano scores from a tight angle on the follow-up.

GOAL! Manchester City 0-1 Borussia Dortmund (Bellingham 56)

Group G: Manchester City concede from a second phase ball at a corner. Marco Reus played the ball to edge of the six-yard box, where Bellingham got between defenders and nodded past Ederson.

Jude Bellingham of Dortmund heads past Manchester City keeper Ederson to open the scoring. Photograph: Peter Powell/EPA City’s John Stones (second left) and Kevin De Bruyne look dejected after going behind. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images/Reuters

Updated at 16.29 EDT

Rangers 0-0 Napoli: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia brings a smartish save out of Allan McGregor in the Rangers goal, firing from inside the penalty area as the ball broke his way from a Napoli corner.

Manchester City 0-0 Borussia Dortmund: From a tight angle, Marco Reus fires across the face of Manchester City’s goal and sends the ball agonisingly wide of the far post as Borussia Dortmund attack at speed on the break.

GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 RB Salzburg (Sterling 48)

Group E: Raheem Sterling, who has been playing as a kind of advanced left wing-back, scores the first goal of the Graham Potter era, firing inside the far post from distance after a defensive blunder by Bernardo, who made a hash of trying to clear Mason Mount’s cross.

Chelsea’s Raheem Sterling curls in the opening goal of the game. Photograph: Rob Newell/CameraSport/Getty Images Sterling celebrates his goal. Photograph: John Walton/PA

Updated at 16.26 EDT

Champions League half-times

Group A

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Updated at 17.01 EDT

Chelsea 0-0 RB Salzburg: There are mass appeals for a penalty as a Mateo Kovacic header hits the hand of a Salzburg defender whose arm is hanging by his side. Nothing given.

Rangers 0-0 Napoli: Napoli winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia sends a fizzing shot from distance flashing across the face of the Rangers goal and narrowly wide.

GOAL! Juventus 1-1 Benfica (Mario 44pen)

Group H: Joao Mario makes no mistake from the spot and it’s all square in Turin.

Benfica’s Joao Mario scores their equaliser from the penalty spot. Photograph: Massimo Pinca/Reuters

Updated at 16.03 EDT

Juventus 1-0 Benfica: Benfica get a penalty after a pitchside VAR check. Fabio Miretti the culprit for a completely unnecessary foul on Goncalo Ramos.

Manchester City 0-0 Borussia Dortmund: I am assured this match is taking place but nothing of note seems to be happening.

Chelsea 0-0 RB Salzburg: There’s been a delay of several minutes at Stamford Bridge, where Slovenian match referee Ivan Kruzliak has been suffering from technical issues with his ear piece or headset battery pack.

GOAL! Maccabi Haifa 1-1 PSG (Messi 37)

Group H: Kylian Mbappe sprints to thre touchline and drills the ball across the edge of the six-yard box. It hits a defender and breaks into the path of Lionel Messi, who takes a touch and fires home past Joshua Cohen.

Lionel Messi (right) celebrates with team-mate Kylian Mbappe after scoring the PSG’s equaliser. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

Updated at 15.50 EDT

Real Madrid 0-0 RB Leipzig: With Leipzig on the counter-attack again, Nkunku is unable to get the crucial touch on a ball into the Real Madrid box that bounces in front of Thibaut Courtois. The Real Madrid goalkeeper puts it out for a corner.

GOAL! Maccabi Haifa 1-0 Paris Saint-Germain (Chery 24)

Group H: Former QPR player Tjaronn Chery pokes home from the edge of the six-yard box, getting on the end of a wonderfully curled cross from Dolev Hazizia.

Chelsea 0-0 RB Salzburg: Chelsea fans spend the 21st minute applauding their former manager Thomas Tuchel, that particular moment of the game chosen because he steered the club to Champions League victory in 2021.

Real Madrid 0-0 RB Leipzig: Emil Forsberg shoots over the bar at the end of an RB Leipzig counter-attack after being teed up by Timo Werner.

Rangers 0-0 Napoli: Giovanni Simeone goes close for Napoli but is foiled by a good save from Allan McGregor, who is making his Champions League debut for Rangers at the ripe old age of 40.

Napoli’s Giovanni Simeone is thwarted by Rangers’ veteran keeper Allan McGregor. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/Reuters

Updated at 15.37 EDT

Chelsea 0-0 RB Salzburg: Chelsea are dominating possession at Stamford Bridge, where Graham Potter has his new side moving from a back four out of possession to a back three when they have the ball. Kai Havertz is playing in the space behind Pierre-Emerick Aubamayang, who is operating in the role of lone frontman.

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