Paris Saint-Germain defeated Manchester City 4-2 at the Etihad Stadium in Wednesday's UEFA Champions League fixture. Three matches across the evening produced a combined 26 goals, with Liverpool posting a 6-3 result against LASK and Real Madrid overturning a two-goal deficit to defeat Roma by the same 4-3 scoreline. Aston Villa put six goals past Fenerbahce at Villa Park, with the visitors failing to score throughout the match.
Manchester City's home fixture arrived with the club having recently been found to have violated the league's financial regulations. A hearing process covering roughly ten years of alleged violations leaves the club facing the possibility of formal sanctions.
Three goals scored inside the opening minutes gave PSG a firm grip on proceedings at the Etihad Stadium. Doue, Dembélé, and Vitinha were among the scorers as the visiting side led by the half-hour mark. City found themselves unable to contain PSG during the opening 45 minutes, though Haaland's contribution after the break gave them a foothold in the tie.
Two goals from Haaland lifted his Champions League total for the campaign to four, giving the home side renewed momentum in their pursuit of a result. PSG regained the lead when a strike from Maghnes Akliouche beat Gianluigi Donnarumma, with the City goalkeeper unable to stop the shot. A penalty attempt by Ferran Torres was turned away by Donnarumma, leaving the margin on the scoreboard intact. The 4-2 scoreline gave PSG the three points, matching the identical winning margin they had posted against City when the two clubs met in the Champions League in January 2025.
Speaking to reporters after the match, PSG manager Luis Enrique expressed the view that his side had outplayed a strong Manchester City outfit throughout the opening 45 minutes. Luis Enrique also noted that complacency at this level carries a real cost, with PSG having now posted ten goals across two unbeaten Champions League outings this term. A fixture against Barcelona stands as the side's next test.
Enzo Maresca, City's coach, told reporters that despite the 3-0 half-time deficit, the volume of chances his side produced after the break meant the team warranted a greater return.
Across the city at Anfield, Liverpool ran out 6-3 winners over LASK. Bradley Barcola netted three times — his first goals for the club following a summer transfer from PSG. Araujo put his side ahead before Barcola went on to net three times in the match. Goals from Jeremie Frimpong and Lewis Koumas pushed the tally to four, with LASK netting three times across a 15-minute stretch of the second half to bring themselves back into contention. Ljubicic opened the scoring for LASK before Flecker added two more in quick succession to narrow the deficit, yet those efforts proved insufficient as Liverpool closed out a 6-3 win.
Speaking after the match, Iraola noted that Barcola ought to take genuine pleasure in the achievement, pointing out that landing three goals in a single Champions League appearance remains a feat very few attackers manage to pull off.
At the Bernabéu, a goal from de Roon and two more from Malen put Roma in a position of apparent dominance. With seven minutes remaining and Madrid down by two, Espí put the ball past the goalkeeper in the 82nd minute before Endrick — the Brazilian forward on Madrid's books — added a second to bring the sides level. Rüdiger then found the net deep into added time to turn the scoreline around for his side. Two substitute appearances yielded goals from Endrick and Carlos Espí, with Arda Güler setting up a pair of strikes as Madrid turned the match in their favour.
Mourinho noted that he would not claim to have mapped out every detail of a comeback from 3-1 down to a 4-3 victory, calling any such assertion untrue.
Reaching 100 Champions League appearances at the age of 26, Mbappé became the competition's youngest player to reach that milestone, moving past the mark previously held by Lionel Messi. When Barcelona met Roma in September 2015, Messi was stepping onto the pitch for his 100th appearance in the competition — a number he had reached at the age of 28. A goal to put Madrid ahead arrived through Mbappé, who converted the opener. That goal brought his tally in the competition to 72, moving him past former Real Madrid striker Raul Gonzalez into fifth position on the all-time list of Champions League scorers.
Arriving at Monaco as a 17-year-old in September 2016, Mbappé went on to lead all scorers in the Champions League the following campaign, netting 15 times. Three goals in the space of six minutes and 42 seconds against Olympiacos stood among the notable moments of his run in the tournament, a burst of scoring that placed the feat one step from the all-time speed record for hat-tricks in that competition.
A brace against PSG lifted Haaland's Champions League scoring record to 61 goals from 60 outings in the competition. UEFA's records show that Haaland, at 26 years and 85 days old, reached 60 Champions League goals faster than any other player in the competition's history, edging past the previous holder Messi by a single day.
Mourinho's displeasure centred on the timing of the announcement regarding Vinicius Junior's four-match suspension, which came to public attention while Madrid's match was still under way. The suspension followed after the player received a red card in a 1-0 La Liga win against Villarreal, with match officials having cited a hair-pulling incident involving an opponent. Vinicius faces an absence from a run of league matches — among them the Clásico meeting with Barcelona — as a result of the ban. Six points now separate Barcelona from Madrid in the standings, with the Catalan club occupying first place.
Mourinho raised the question of whether notifying a player from a Spanish club of a four-match suspension just two hours before kick-off — in a fixture carrying weight for Spanish football — represented a reasonable approach to such matters. He also raised the matter of supporters travelling to the stadium only to discover on arrival that Vinicius had been handed a four-match ban, arguing that those making such rulings showed little consideration for the people their decisions directly affected. Under the applicable rules, notification of a four-match ban reaches the player no later than two hours before kick-off. The result also feeds into federation rankings and the broader standing of the domestic game.
Mourinho also pointed to the fixture congestion facing his squad, noting they were scheduled to play in Athens on the Wednesday evening of 4 November before a league assignment in Valencia on 7 November — a run he described as arriving back in Madrid around 5am and then heading out again for a weekend match falling just before an international break. Mourinho described the situation as illogical, adding that conventional justifications carried no weight given how recently the events had taken place. He added that the report about Vinicius — published just two hours before kick-off, with a four-match ban already in place — was not something he felt warranted a response.
Aston Villa posted a 6-0 result against Fenerbahce at Villa Park, a margin that stands as the club's largest winning scoreline in European competition. On his 21st birthday, Manzambi opened the scoring for his side, with Jackson then netting twice before the break. Two further goals from Barkley in the second half — one of them converted from the spot — set the stage for Abraham to wrap up the victory.
A solitary goal from Fredrik Sjovold handed Bodo/Glimt a 1-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League. One goal down at half-time, Betis pulled level through Abde Ezzalzouli in the second half, yet strikes from Gabri Veiga and Samuel Aghehowa put Porto 3-2 up — a lead the visitors then overturned to claim the tie on aggregate. A leveller from Juan Hernandez set the stage for Isco to net the match-winner deep into the contest, with Feyenoord ultimately claiming a 3-2 victory over Como on home turf in Rotterdam.
Diao put Como in front, only for Zechiel and Hadj Moussa to combine in overturning the result. A deflection into his own net by goalkeeper Robert Sanchez extended Feyenoord's lead, with Anastasios Douvikas then converting to narrow the deficit. Stamford Bridge served as the neutral venue when Shakhtar Donetsk found themselves a goal down — Lovro Majer the scorer for AEK Athens — before the Ukrainian side drew level to share the points. A penalty conversion by Pedrinho brought the sides level, after which goals from Vinicius Tobias and Gleiker Mendoza carried Shakhtar to a 3-1 victory — a result that puts them on four points through their first two outings.
