Did you miss any of the UEFA competitions action last week? Don’t worry if you did. We are here to give you a brief recap of what happened at football pitches all around Europe across the three UEFA leagues.
Champions League Recap: How Did the Favourites Fare?
Last week’s Champions League round brought a few surprises for football fans, but were they exactly surprises? Tuesday saw the La Liga and Premier League champions lose their respective matches, with AC Milan beating Real Madrid 3-1 at Santiago Bernabeu, and Sporting needed only six shots on target to beat Man City 4-1.
With AC Milan currently sitting below the top 6 in Serie A, this definitely came as a surprise, but Ruben Amorim was definitely motivated to beat his future arch-rivals before leaving Sporting for Manchester United.
Liverpool dominantly beat Bayer Leverkusen 4-0, and Celtic won 3-1 against RB Leipzig, so Borussia Dortmund was the only German club to get all three points on Tuesday, beating SK Sturm Graz 1-0.
We saw a last-minute victory on Wednesday, with Angel Correa scoring a late goal for Atletico Madrid to beat PSG 2-1. Brest continues its quest for the playoffs with another victory, and so do Inter and Monaco, while Aston Villa dropped points for the first time this season after losing to Club Brugge 1-0.
The only team making it this far without dropping any points is Liverpool, with 12 points at the top of the table, closely followed by Sporting, Monaco, Brest, and Inter, each with 10 points.
Here are the complete results of the Round 4 of the Champions League:
Tuesday, 5 November:
- PSV Eindhoven 4-0 Girona
- Slovan Bratislava 1-4 GNK Dinamo
- Bologna 0-1 Monaco
- Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Sturm Graz
- Celtic 3-1 Leipzig
- Liverpool 4-0 Bayer Leverkusen
- LOSC Lille 1-1 Juventus
- Real Madrid 1-3 Milan
- Sporting CP 4-1 Manchester City
Wednesday, 6 November:
- Club Brugge 1-0 Aston Villa
- Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 Young Boys
- Sparta Praha 1-2 Brest
- Bayern München 1-0 Benfica
- Inter 1-0 Arsenal
- Feyenoord 1-3 Salzburg
- Crvena Zvezda 2-5 Barcelona
- Paris Saint-Germain 1-2 Atlético de Madrid
- Stuttgart 0-2 Atalanta
UEFA Europa League: Lazio Still Tops the Table
The Italian side beat FC Porto 2-1 to maintain the perfect score for this campaign, with the closest rivals also winning their Round 4 matches, so Ajax, Galatasaray, Eintracht Frankfurt, Anderlecht and Athletic Club staying close behind with 10 points each.
Manchester United side scored their first victory in the Europa League this season, beating PAOK 2-0. The 10-men Tottenham dropped points for the first time this season after losing 3-2 to Galatasaray, and Lyon played 2-2 with Hoffenheim, dropping two more points after losing to Besiktas in the previous round.
FCSB (formerly FC Steaua București) has a big chance of making it directly to the playoffs after beating the Danish side Midtjylland 2-0 and currently sitting in the 8th position with 9 points.
Here are the complete results of the Round 4 of the Europa League:
- Besiktas 2-1 Malmo
- Ludogorets 1-2 Athletic Bilbao
- Ajax 5-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv
- AZ Alkmaar 3 -1 Fenerbahce
- Bodo/Glimt 1-2 Qarabag
- Dynamo Kyiv 0-4 Ferencvaros
- Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 Slavia Prague
- Elfsborg 1-1 Braga
- Olympiacos 1-1 Rangers
- FCSB 2-0 Midtjylland
- Galatasaray 3-2 Tottenham
- Royale Union SG 1-1 AS Roma
- Hoffenheim 2-2 Lyon
- Lazio 2-1 FC Porto
- Manchester Utd 2-0 PAOK
- Nice 2-2 Twente
- Plzen 2-1 Real Sociedad
- RFS 1-1 Anderlecht
UEFA Conference League: An Equally Good Start for Six Clubs
Chelsea, Legia Warszawa, Jagiellonia Białystok, Rapid Wien, Vitória Guimaraes and Heidenheim are all off to a perfect 3/3 start of the 2024/25 campaign. Chelsea won 8-0 against Noah last Thursday, setting the record for the biggest tournament win.
Shamrock Rovers are also sitting strong with two consecutive victories, giving them seven points, followed by Fiorentina, Pafos and Olimpija Ljubljana with six.
Fiorentina, Hearts and Lugano suffered their first defeats of the season, while Panathinaikos F.C. and Copenhagen continue to disappoint their fans with some pretty bad results and not a single win in the season so far.
Here are all the scores from the Matchday 3 of the UEFA Conference League:
- Vikingur Reykjavik 2 - 0 Borac Banja Luka
- Legia Warszawa 4-0 Dinamo Minsk
- Gent 1-0 Omonia Nicosia
- CS Petrocub 0-3 Rapid Wien
- Shamrock Rovers 2-1 TNS
- TSC Backa Topola 4-1 FC Lugano
- Pafos FC 1-0 FC Astana
- HJK 0-2 Olimpija Ljubljana
- Hearts 0-2 FC Heidenheim
- Vitoria de Guimaraes 2-1 Mlada Boleslav
- Djurgaarden 2-1 Panathinaikos
- Real Betis 2-1 NK Celje
- Jagiellonia Bialystok 3-0 Molde
- Chelsea 8-0 FC Noah
- FC Copenhagen 2-2 Istanbul Basaksehir
- APOEL Nicosia 2-1 Fiorentina
- LASK 0-0 Cercle Bruges
- Larne 1-2 FC St. Gallen
The next round of all three major UEFA club competitions is November 26-28.
