The UEFA Champions League 2022/23 season began with a bang after wonderful opening day games brought mixed reactions to the teeming supporters of the European top flight League....CONTINUE READING
Two time Winner Chelsea FC of England started their season’s Campaign on a shocking note on the road when Croatian Champions Dinamo Zagreb beat them by a lone goal.
Mislav Orsic’s 13th minute strike gave the Croatian side the edge over Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea as they won their 5th champions League game out of 43 games.
Although Pierre-Emeric Aubameyang was better than average in his debut Match for Chelsea but the English side couldn’t just do better than to bow to the Croatians.
Another English side, Manchester City were the Team to beat in Spain following their triumphant strides against Sevilla.
The English champions opened scoring through new signing Erling Haaland in the 20th minute to seal the first half for the visitors.
Just 13 minutes into the second half, Phil Foden made it 2 for City as Sevilla trailed the English champions in front of home fans.
Haaland scored his 2nd goal of the night from 10 yard to make it 0-3 for City and to become the 4th Player to score on his champions debut for 3 different Clubs sides as Ruben Diaz made it 0-4 in the 90th minute to seal their first victory of the season in Europe.
Defending Champions Real Madrid kicked off their Campaign in grand style with a convincing win over Celtic in Scotland.
After a terrible half time, Vinicious Junior broke the jinx in the 56th minute to open scoring for the Spanish Giant Club. Old war Horse, Luca Modric double Madrid’s lead 4 minutes after to make it 0-2.
Eden Hazard settled the night with the last goal of the day to make it 0-3 in the 77th minute as the defending Champions started the new season on a great note.
Man City have same Points as Borussia Dortmund following their Victories over their foes. City leads by goals difference while Sevilla are down in Group G.
Chelsea are down in Group E after losing to lowly rated Dinamo Zagreb that leads the pack with 3 points while Milan and Salzburg follow after playing Draw with 1 points each.
Real Madrid have started well but will have to be 2nd on the Group F table after Shakhtar Donetsy beat Leipzig by 1-4 to put them on the log top.