It was a mixed round for Europe’s biggest clubs. We hand out honours and dishonours from the latest round of action
Are the serial champions finally stirring? The holders have been sleepy and tetchy amid the new format as the problems of assimilating Kylian Mbappé play out in public. But in a vital 3-2 away win over Atalanta, Mbappé played his part, scoring a fine goal before leaving with an injury. That left the stage open for Real’s other modern Galácticos, with Vinícius Júnior and Jude Bellingham scoring the goals that took the game away from last season’s Europa League winners.
The team whose name continues to set Micah Richards off into giggles on CBS’s broadcast have more than punched above their weight.. Beating PSV 1-0 placed the Ligue 1 side, an amateur club as recently as 2004, on 13 points, leaving them as a leading contender to be one of the top eight to automatically qualify.
Juventus’s second, clinching goal against Man City was made in America, Timothy Weah’s cross looping into the path of McKennie to volley in. The two USMNT members became the first Americans to connect for a goal and assist in Champions League history. “Being an American, being over here, it’s something you deal with, but I like it,” McKennie said. “I like when people doubt me, and sometimes I play my best football when people doubt me.
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