Barcelona 4-1 Bayern Munich, Manchester City 5-0 Sparta Prague: Champions League – live reaction

Andy Hunter was in Leipzig.

Jamie Jackson was at the Etihad.

Ed Aarons is in Istanbul with Erik ten Hag because I was too committed to this live blog.

Full time: Atletico Madrid 1-3 Lille

Full time: Benfica 1-3 Feyenoord

Full time: Barcelona 4-1 Bayern Munich

GOAL! Benfica 1-3 Feyenoord (Milambo, 90+2)

Full time! Young Boys 0-1 Internazionale

Full time! RB Leipzig 0-1 Liverpool

Full time! RB Salzburg 0-2 Dinamo Zagreb

GOAL! Atletico Madrid 1-3 Lille (David, 89)

GOAL! Young Boys 0-1 Internazionale (Thuram, 90+3)

Full time: Manchester City 5-0 Sparta Prague

Atletico Madrid 1-2 Lille: An incredible block on the line keeps Lille ahead.

Championship full-time scores

GOAL! Manchester City 5-0 Sparta Prague (Nunes, pen, 88)

GOAL! RB Salzburg 0-2 Dinamo Zagreb (Petkovic, 84)

NO GOAL! RB Leipzig 0-1 Liverpool: Openda taps home at the back post but he is offside.

Haaland = competent.

Manchester City 4-0 Sparta Prague: Haaland is withdrawn with 10 minutes to go. O’Reilly is sent on in his place for a Champions League debut.

GOAL! Atletico Madrid 1-2 Lille (David, pen, 74)

RB Salzburg 0-1 Dinamo Zagreb: RED CARD! Goalkeeper Schlager comes out of his area, colliding with a centre-back and striker. He manages to get up briefly and decides to make a save when a few yards out of his box, leading to him being sent off.

GOAL! Benfica 0-2 Feyenoord (Aktürkoğlu, 66)

Manchester City 4-0 Sparta Prague: Guardiola brings on Kovacic and McAtee. Gundogan and Silva off.

GOAL! Manchester City 4-0 Sparta Prague (Haaland, 68)

GOAL! Atletico Madrid 1-1 Lille (Zhegrova, 61)

OOOOOOOF!

GOAL! Manchester City 3-0 Sparta Prague (Stones, 64)

Benfica 0-2 Feyenoord: NO GOAL! Trauner taps in a rebound but he is offside.

Barcelona 4-1 Bayern Munich: Kompany makes a quadruple change. I am not sure that will sort anything.

GOAL! Barcelona 4-1 Bayern Munich (Raphinha, hat-trick, 56)

GOAL! Manchester City 2-0 Sparta Prague: I need to take a second to work out how to describe it. Savinho does well to get to the byline before chipping a cross to the near post where Haaland leaps into the air and backheels it in. Absolutely incredible.

GOAL! Manchester City 2-0 Sparta Prague (Haaland, 58)

Manchester City 1-0 Sparta Prague: Savinho picks out Haaland in the box, everyone seems to think the striker will head home but the goalkeeper makes a fine save.

Benfica 0-2 Feyenoord: John Doxey is emotional: “Sitting here in my Manchester student accoms nearly in tears at how well Feyenoord are playing. Brian Priske’s been criticised a lot since taking over from Slot but tonight his plan is working brilliantly. Simply glorious!”

Barcelona 3-1 Bayern Munich: Kári Tulinius emails: “The defensive organisation of Kompany’s Bayern is so weird. I get they’re trying to set up a W shape as a way to stop counterattacks, but putting Upamecano at the middle top of that W makes no sense. He’s a great defender, but you want him stopping the attack from the back, not running frantically towards his own goal. That said, the whole of the Bayern defence has been in poor form for at least the past two seasons, so maybe Kompany is trying to patch things together, but hasn’t found a solution yet.”

Manchester City 1-0 Sparta Prague: The hosts are still working on securing a vital second goal, which might help Guardiola to start making changes.

Young Boys 0-0 Internazionale: PENALTY SAVE! Arnautovic sends the ball to the goalkeeper’s left but it is a smart stop from Von Ballmoos.

GOAL! RB Salzburg 0-1 Dinamo Zagreb (Kulenović, 49)

NO GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Sparta Prague: An inswinging corner is flicked to the back post where Haaland is waiting, he knocks it back across goal and Ake finishes from a yard out but VAR rules it out after spotting a handball from the Dutchman.

You can join Rob Smyth for some pure Liverpool reporting.

Not bad …

Half-time reading …

Half-time scores

Barcelona 3-1 Bayern Munich: The Bayern defence does remind me of Burnley’s last season. Kompany really has not learned anything.

GOAL! Barcelona 3-1 Bayern Munich (Raphinha, 45)

Barcelona 2-1 Bayern Munich: It is end-to-end stuff at Catalonia. I am not sure either side know exactly how to defend.

Manchester City 1-0 Sparta Prague: Nunes crosses the ball and it is blocked by Vitik. The City midfielder seems to think it is worth of a penalty but it is the worst claim for handball I have ever seen.

Foden takes a shot from 20 yards but it flashes wide.

GOAL! Barcelona 2-1 Bayern Munich (Lewandowski, 36)

Manchester City 1-0 Sparta Prague: Savinho cuts in from the right and beats a couple of defends. He eventually finds enough space to shoot but drags his shot wide.

Half-time Championship scores:

Blackburn 0-0 West Brom
Hull 1-0 Burnley
Luton 0-0 Sunderland
Millwall 1-0 Plymouth

GOAL! Benfica 0-2 Feyenoord (Milambo, 33)

Barcelona 1-1 Bayern Munich: CLOSE! The Germans pass it around in their own box but it almost ends in disaster when Neuer kicks it straight at Lamine Yamal. The goalkeeper looks mightily relieved as the ball bounces wide.

Manchester City 1-0 Sparta Prague: Ortega is forced into a decent save as Sparta enjoy a good few moments and put City under pressure.

GOAL! RB Leipzig 0-1 Liverpool (Nunez, 27)

NO GOAL! Benfica 0-1 Feyenoord: The goalkeeper makes two saves in quick succession but Ayase pounces to score from close range. VAR checks and spots a foul in the buildup, causing the ref to ruling it out.

“Speaking of professors, I have to point out that Julian is wrong: the anagram would come out the slightly scatological Nun will wi. Frankly, I always assumed that they did,” says Adrian Goldman, PhD, FRSB.

GOAL! Barcelona 1-1 Bayern Munich (Kane, 18)

RB Leipzig 0-0 Liverpool: Kelleher comes 30 yards out of his goal and fails to deal with the situation. Sesko picks up the ball and takes aim for the empty net but misses the target.