Atletico Madrid of Spain, Arsenal of England, Bayer Leverkusen of Germany and Atalanta of Italy were the biggest winners in tonight’s match day 5 of the league phase of the UEFA Champions League.
The Spanish side went to the Epet Arena and thrashed Sparta Prague 6-0. Alvarez and Marcos Llorente put the visitors 2-0 up before the break. After the break, the home side could not lay a glove on their opponents as the 2014 and 2016 finalists ran riot with four second half goals. Antoine Griezman, who was making his 100th Champions League appearance netted the fifth goal.
Antoine Griezman joins the elites with 100 Champions League appearance.
Arsenal visited the Estadio Jose to confront Sporting, who crushed English champions, Manchester City 4-1 in their last match. But, Arsenal had no respect for the home mside defeating them 5-1 with Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Magalhaes, Martin Odegaard, and Leandro Trossard finding the back of the net.
Goncalo Inacio scored the homesides only goal shortly after the break.
Bayer Leverkusen took full advantage of playing at the BayArena before their fans to white wash RB Salzburg 5-0. Wirtz’ brace and Alex Grimaldo goals gave the last season’s Europa League runners-up a 3-0 confortable lead into the break.
Schick and Alex Carcia scored a goal each in the second half to complete the routing.
Another high scoring match was the encounter between Young Boys and Atalanta. The last season’s Europa Cup champions made mincemeat of their host by six goals to one.
2022 champions, Manchester City fail to win again as Feyenoord held them to a 3-3 draw at the Etihad Stadium.
Erling Haaland gave the Citizens a lone goal victory into the break via a 44th minute penalty and doubled City’s lead eight minutes after the break. Former Barcelona mid-fielder, Ikay Gundogan made it 3-0 seven minutes later.
But, Feyenoord put up a brave fight within the last 15 minutes to get a draw. Anis Hadj Moussa started the come-back with a 75th minute goal before substitute Santiago Gimenez scored the second goal for the Dutch side.
As City press to regain their two goals advantage, David Hancko scored in the 89th minute to restore parity and leave Manchester City winless in their last six matches in all competitions.
In other matches, Slovan lost 2-3 at home to AC Milan as Barcelona brushed Brest aside 3-0. Kim Min Jae scored the only goal as Bayern Munich took all three points at the expense of PSG while Inter Milan had a lone goal victory over Leipzig.
