Angel Di Maria scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain
recorded a 3-0 win over Real Madrid in Wednesday
night’s Champions League clash in the French
capital.
Los Blancos would have been looking to start their
Group A campaign with a positive result at the Parc
des Princes, but PSG had other ideas as they
collected all three points with an impressive victory
on home soil.
Di Maria scored twice in the first period for the
Ligue 1 champions before Thomas Meunier added a
third in second-half stoppage time on a tough night
for Zinedine Zidane’s side, who had two goals
disallowed.
However, Manchester City bounced back from their
shock Premier League defeat at Norwich by
launching their Champions League campaign in
style with a deserved victory at Shakhtar Donetsk.
Humbled at Carrow Road on Saturday evening, the
English champions were imperious in Ukraine
against an initially tenacious, but ultimately inferior,
opponent.
Riyad Mahrez opened the scoring midway through
the first half, firing into a largely empty net after
Ilkay Gundogan’s curling shot came back off the
post.
Mahrez then turned provider for the onrushing
German to toe-poke the ball past the helpless
Andriy Pyatov and give the visitors a firm grip on
the game – a grip they did not relinquish.
After spurning a number of good opportunities,
including an untypically forgiving close-range effort
from Raheem Sterling that struck the post, Gabriel
Jesus gave the one-sided game a more fitting
scoreline with a neat finish after Kevin de Bruyne’s
pass.
Only Dinamo Zagreb’s 4-0 hammering of Italian side
Atalanta in Croatia prevents Pep Guardiola’s side
topping the group.
Other results:
FC Bayern München 3 – 0 FK Crvena Zvezda
Dinamo Zagreb 4 – 0 Atalanta
Shakhtar Donetsk 0 – 3 Manchester City
Atletico Madrid 2 – 2 Juventus
Bayer Leverkusen 1 – 2 Lokomotiv Moscow
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