Dortmund v Celtic, Slovan Bratislava v Manchester City: Champions League – live

Key events

GOAL! Arsenal 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain (Partey 35)

A rare goal from Thomas Partey has doubled Arsenal’s lead against PSG, and yes it did come from a set-piece. Scott Murray has more.

GOAL! Barcelona 2-0 Young Boys (Raphinha 34) Raphinha made the first; now he’s scored the second from close range.

Milk Cup A Fabian Schar penalty on the stroke of half time has put Newcastle ahead against AFC Wimbledon.

30 min: Slovan Bratislava 0-2 Man City Phil Foden had a shot fumbled onto the post a couple of minutes ago. City are winning without an ounce of bother.

The latest scores

Arsenal 1-0 Paris Saint-Germain
Barcelona 1-0 Young Boys
Dortmund 3-1 Celtic
Inter 1-0 Red Star
Leverkusen 0-0 Milan
PSV Eindhoven 1-0 Sporting CP
Slovan Bratislava 0-2 Manchester City
Salzburg 0-4 Brest (FT)
Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague (FT)

GOAL! Dortmund 3-1 Celtic (Adeyemi 29)

Celtic’s perfect start to the season has gone south inside half an hour. Karim Adeyemi has scored his second goal, and this time it needed no deflection. It was a ferocious finish, thrashed past Schmeichel at the near post from a very tight angle. Schmeichel was probably expecting a cross.

As things stand, the three Bs are top of the Champions League

24 min: Slovan Bratislava 0-2 Man City Jeremy Doku is in unplayable mode tonight. He played a part in the first goal, made the second and has just hit the bar with an extravagant left-foot curler.

26 min: Dortmund 2-1 Celtic This game looks really open, particularly when Dortmund are attacking. Pascal Gross was clean through on goal but tried to give the goal to somebody else and failed.

Carabao Cup department

“Still 0-0 between Newcastle and AFC Wimbledon in the Worthington Cup,” writes Chris Paraskevas. “Waking up for this at 4am is pretty much my impersonation of Paul Bettany torturing himself repeatedly in The Da Vinci Code, but there is a local magpie I’ve recently befriended and I’m expecting it over for breakfast. “Is the Champions League really more entertaining than my morning?”

It? Are you respecting its privacy?

NO GOAL! Leverkusen 0-0 Milan Frimpong was slightly offside, so he can keep his superb cross.

GOAL! Leverkusen 1-0 Milan (Boniface 21) Milan’s false start to the Champions Leaue continues: Victor Boniface has volleyed Leverkusen into a deserved lead from Jeremie Frimpong’s superb cross.

GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Paris Saint-Germain (Havertz 20)

Kai Havertz has opened the scoring at the Emirates. Scott Murray will give you chapter and vertz.

17 min: Slovan Bratislava 0-2 Man City Rico Lewis pokes a nice pass through to Erling Haaland, whose close-range shot is very well saved.

GOAL! PSV 1-0 Sporting CP (Schouten 15)

Jerdy Schouten intercepts a dodgy pass 25 yards from goal, takes a couple of touches and crashes the ball into the far corner. What a sweet finish.

Excellent Schouten. Photograph: Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuters

The latest scores

Arsenal 0-0 Paris Saint-Germain
Barcelona 1-0 Young Boys
Dortmund 2-1 Celtic
Inter 1-0 Red Star
Leverkusen 0-0 Milan
PSV Eindhoven 0-0 Sporting CP
Slovan Bratislava 0-2 Manchester City
Salzburg 0-4 Brest (FT)
Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague (FT)

GOAL! Slovan Bratislava 0-2 Man City (Foden 15)

Phil Foden, starting his first League game of the season, has doubled City’s lead with a fine finish. Doku played the ball back to him on the edge of the box, and Foden guided it beautifully into the far corner.

Phil Foden doubles the Manchester City lead. Photograph: Christian Bruna/Getty Images

GOAL! Inter 1-0 Red Star (Calhanoglu 11) A spectacular, if also deflected, free-kick from Hakan Calhanoglu has put Inter ahead.

12 min: Dortmund 2-1 Celtic Adeyemi’s goal came seconds after the Dortmund keeper Gregor Kobel had the ball at his feet. His long kick was laid off superbly by Guirassy to Brandt, who put Adeyemi through on goal. His shot took a big deflection off Trusty and beat Schmeichel at the near post.

GOAL! Dortmund 2-1 Celtic (Adeyemi 11)

Dortmund are back in front through Karim Adeyemi! Maeda had only just equalised, although he didn’t know much about it. Can made a mess of Arne Engels’ cross and the ball hit Maede, six yards out, before flying in.

What a start to the match in Dortmund! Karim Adeyemi celebrates scoring the second goal for the home side. Photograph: Leon Kuegeler/Reuters

GOAL! Barcelona 1-0 Young Boys (Lewandowski 8) An open goal from Raphinha’s cross on the turn.

Bob Lewandowski pokes home the opener for Barca Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters

GOAL! Dortmund 1-1 Celtic (Maeda 9)

Daizen Maeda has equalised straight away!

Celtic are level! Photograph: Leon Kuegeler/Reuters

GOAL! Slovan Bratislava 0-1 Man City (Gundogan 8)

Ilkay Gundogan gets the first goal of his second spell at Manchester City. Savinho’s volley was blocked and rebounded to Gundogan on the edge of the area. He belted a first-time shot that took a big deflection and flew into the top corner.

Ilkay Gundogan puts City a goal up in Slovakia. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images

GOAL! Dortmund 1-0 Celtic (Can 8 pen)

Emre Can pings the penalty nonchalantly down the middle.

Emre Can opens the scoring from the spot for Dortmund. Photograph: Leon Kuegeler/Reuters

Penalty to Dortmund Jamie Bynoe-Gittens takes advantage of a fortuitous ricochet, goes round Kasper Schmeichel and is brought down. A clear penalty.

5 min: Dortmund 0-0 Celtic All Dortmund, it says here.

2 min: Slovan Bratislava 0-0 Man City A City corner almost leads to a goal – for Bratislava. They broke with pace and precision, covering almost the length of the field before Tigran Barseghyan rifled just wide from the edge of the area.

It’s almost time for kick-off in the seven late games. Don’t forget that Arsenal v Paris Saint-Germain has a liveblog all to itself. The things we do for ~~page impressions~~ our readers, eh.

Friends/former colleagues reunited

Brest are top of the Champions League

I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again. So gawp at it. Drink it in.

Full time: Salzburg 0-4 Brest

Brest have run riot in Austria to continue their perfect start to Champions League life. Next up: Bayer Leverkusen at home.

Brest players celebrate at full-time and go top of the league! Photograph: Leonhard Föger/Reuters

Full time: Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague

In their last home game, Stuttgart plugged Dortmund 5-1. Tonight they’ve been held by Sparta Prague, who earned a point through Kaan Kairinen’s mighty free-kick.

There are nine more games tomorrow, including Aston Villa v Bayern Munich…

… and Liverpool v Bologna.

Read Jamie Jackson’s preview of Slovan Bratislava v Manchester City

“According to your preamble no team has ever qualified from the league stage after losing its first two games,” says Richard Hirst. “But can this apply to new Bigger Cup, with a very different league stage? Are we in a Schrodinger’s-league situation, with the league existing and not existing at the same time?”

We’re not in a Schrodinger’s-league situation so much as a weary-hack-cracking-facile-gags situation.

Dortmund v Celtic preview

We’re playing against a team that are challenging the very top end of elite football. But for us, I’ve always said, whether it’s domestically or whether it’s away in this competition, it’s making us a really difficult team to play against, with and without the ball. That’s what we want to be able to do.

GOAL! Salzburg 0-4 Brest (Pereira Lage 75)

GOAl! Salzburg 0-3 Brest (Sima 71) The greatest story in football history continues. Abdallah Sima has scored his second and Brest’s third, strengthening their hold on this season’s Champions League.

“Hi Rob, from a finally sunny Indianapolis, after four days of Helene-inspired gloom and rain!” writes Joe Pearson. “Thanks to the vast buffet that is Paramount+, I have my choice of matches. Which one is the gem of the bunch? I’m tempted by Leverkusen-Milan, but I might just go for the whiparound show. Or there’s baseball playoffs. The dilemmas of a retired American.”

If I wasn’t working I’d probably be watching ~~Pine Barrens for the 497th time~~ Arsenal v PSG, though the Leverkusen and Dortmund games are also appealing.

It’s David Squires, it’s great

GOAL! Salzburg 0-2 Brest (Camara 66) Mahdi Camara has doubled Brest’s lead in Austria, and you know what that means.

Internazionale v Red Star Belgrade team news

This is how our team lines up at Meazza tonight:

XI | Glazer, Drkušić, Spajić, Djiga, Seol, Elšnik, Krunić, Silas, Maksimović, Olayinka, Ndiaye

Subs | Marko Ilić, Guteša, Kanga, Katai, Bruno, Dálcio, Rodić, Leković, Milson, Luka Ilić, Prutsev, Radonjić #FKCZ 🇮🇩 #UCL pic.twitter.com/95ViS3pHJl

— FK Crvena zvezda in English (@crvenazvezda_en) October 1, 2024

Barcelona v Young Boys team news

A piece of advice: if you ever need team news for Young Boys, don’t type ‘Young Boys Twitter’ into Google.

PSV v Sporting CP team news

Breaking news that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Champions League or any European competition because the ban would only have applied to domestic games.

Leverkusen v Milan team news

56 min: Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague

“I recommend you look up Kairinen’s goal for Sparta Prague,” writes Kári Tulinius. “It’s the type of free kick that isn’t in fashion these days, the ball flew like it was on a VHS tape called 101 Great Free Kicks, hitting the top of the post before flying in, with the goalkeeper an inch from getting a hand to it.”

Dortmund v Celtic team news

Celtic have been walloping allcomers so it’s no surprise they’re unchanged. So are Dortmund, who beat VfL Bochum on Friday night.

Arsenal v Paris Saint-Germain team news

Mikel Arteta has named an unchanged team. You can read all about that and the PSG XI with Scott Murray.

Slovan Bratislava v Manchester City team news

Plenty of rotation from Pep, as you’d expect. Stefan Ortega Moreno, John Stones, Phil Foden, Savinho, Matheus Nunes and Jeremy Doku all come into the side. Foden starts for the first time this season in either the Premier League or Champions League.

Slovan Bratislava Takac, Blackman, Kashia, Bajric, Wimmer, Savvidis, Ignatenko, Barseghyan, Tolic, Weiss, Strelec.
Substitutes: Trnovsky, Hrdina, Voet, Medvedev, Marcelli, Mustafic, Mak, Zuberu, Pauschek, Gajdos, Szoke, Metsoko.

Your City line-up 🩵

XI | Ortega Moreno, Lewis, Stones, Akanji, Gvardiol, Gundogan (C), Nunes, Savinho, Foden, Doku, Haaland

SUBS | Ederson, Carson, Walker, Dias, Kovacic, Grealish, Bernardo, McAtee#ManCity | #UCL pic.twitter.com/n0f9IDl7th

— Manchester City (@ManCity) October 1, 2024

Big Cup is dead, long live Bigger Cup

It’s half-time in the two early games. Abdallah Sima has put Brest ahead at Salzburg – and top of the as-it-stands Champions League table and yes we are milking this – while Stuttgart are level at home to Sparta Prague. Enzo Millot scored for Stuttgart; Kaan Kairinen equalised for Sparta.

Preamble

Good evening one and all. Life moves pretty fast, and by tomorrow night we’ll be a quarter of the way through the new league stage of the Champions League. A quarter! Two-eighths! Before you know it it’ll be 31 May 2025 and Carlo Ancelotti will be eating another celebratory cigar.

Carlo’s men aren’t in action tonight, but there are nine games involving eight former winners of the competition. The most eyecatching contest is between two teams who have never been champions of Europe: Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain, who meet at the Emirates Stadium. That match has its own liveblog right here.

There are two meetings of former champions: Borussia Dortmund (1997) v Celtic (1967) and Internazionale (1964, 1965, 2010) at home to Red Star Belgrade (1991).

Manchester City and Barcelona have winnable matches, while AC Milan have a tricky trip to Leverkusen. They were well beaten by Liverpool a fortnight ago and their manager Paulo Fonseca will be conscious that no team has ever qualified from the league stage after losing their first two games.

These are the fixtures, all 8pm BST kick-offs unless otherwise stated.

Salzburg 0-1 Brest (5.45pm)
Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague (5.45pm)
Arsenal v Paris Saint-Germain
Barcelona v Young Boys
Dortmund v Celtic
Inter v Red Star
Leverkusen v Milan
PSV Eindhoven v Sporting CP
Slovan Bratislava v Manchester City

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