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Bayern Munich made it 16 wins from 16 games this season to underline their credentials as early Champions League favourites, beating the holders, Paris Saint-Germain, 2-1 away as Luis Díaz scored two goals and was shown a red card.
The Colombia winger struck twice before being sent off for a violent tackle on Achraf Hakimi on the stroke of half-time.
PSG, who reduced the arrears through João Neves, dominated possession after the break but failed to make it fully count and slipped to their first defeat in the competition since last season’s quarter-final second leg against Aston Villa.
The result kept Bayern top of the 36-team league on a maximum 12 points, with PSG third, three points adrift and with more injury concerns after Hakimi and Ousmane Dembélé were replaced early.
“It’s always hard to lose at home. We need to assert ourselves and play better. We faced a well organised team, especially physically. We couldn’t get our game going,” the PSG captain, Marquinhos, said.
PSG, who had beaten Bayern 2-0 in the Club World Cup quarter-finals in July, came out flying with their trademark high pressing but were caught cold in the fourth minute when Díaz smashed home after Lucas Chevalier had parried Michael Olise’s effort.
Dembélé thought he had levelled midway through the half only for his goal to be ruled out for offside, as PSG pressed but looked unusually fragile at the back.
Bayern stayed a step ahead and, after Serge Gnabry struck the post, Díaz pounced on a sleepy Marquinhos to steal the ball and slot home a second in the 32nd minute.
Díaz’s evening ended abruptly just before half-time when he was shown a straight red for a brutal lunge on Hakimi, who limped off in tears with a suspected ankle injury.
Neves reduced the arrears with a scissor kick and came close to levelling a few minutes later with a header.
Juventus are still without a win in the competition after they were held to a 1-1 draw in Turin by Sporting, when Maximiliano Araújo put the visitors ahead and Dusan Vlahovic equalised for the hosts.
An eight-game winless run in all competitions led to the recent sacking of the Juventus coach Igor Tudor and, after two victories on the bounce since then, another draw in Europe, this time under Luciano Spalletti, put the Italian side on three points from four matches.
Sporting, who move on to seven points, went in front in the 12th minute when Francisco Trincão played the ball wide to Araújo who drilled a low shot off the far upright and into the bottom corner.
Vlahovic’s glancing header from the edge of the six-yard box was saved by Rui Silva. The Serbian had another effort parried away for a corner, and was rewarded in the 34th minute when he toe-poked Khephren Thuram’s pin-point pass to the net.
In Athens, Ricardo Pepi scored in stoppage time for PSV Eindhoven to secure a 1-1 draw with Olympiakos and deny the Greek club a first win in the Champions League this season. Pepi stuck away a rebound from a free-kick three minutes into stoppage time after Olympiakos had led from the 17th minute through Gelson Martins.
Atlético Madrid earned a 3-1 home victory against Union Saint-Gilloise, with goals from Julián Alvarez, Conor Gallagher and Marcos Llorente keeping Diego Simeone’s side in the hunt for qualification.
The result leaves Atlético 14th in the league-phase standings on six points from four matches, level with five other teams, while the Belgium champions, Union Saint-Gilloise, sit 26th with three points and outside the qualification spots.
Atlético struck first in the 40th minute when Giuliano Simeone burst up the right channel and put it on a plate for his Argentina teammate Alvarez to unleash an unstoppable half-volley from inside the box.
Atlético came off the break livelier and finally found their second goal in the 72nd minute when Gallagher fired a bullet strike from inside the box
Union Saint-Gilloise refused to go quietly, cutting the deficit in the 81st minute whenRoss Sykes leaped high to unleash a towering header into the bottom left corner. The goal set up a nervy finish for the hosts who finally managed to score again when Llorente made it 3-1.
The Monaco striker Folarin Balogun got the only goal of the game as the French side grabbed a 1-0 win at Bodø/Glimt, with Jostein Gundersen sent off for the home side for a badly mistimed tackle late on.
The Norwegian side won the first-half possession battle but went behind in the 43rd minute when Balogun ghosted in behind the defence and slammed a shot into the top corner from a tight angle.
With the rain pouring down, Bodo’s evening went from bad to worse when the defender Gundersen was shown a red card for a clumsy stamp on the ankle of Mika Biereth in the 81st minute that left the Monaco substitute writhing on the ground in pain.
That effectively ended any chance of a comeback and Monaco held on comfortably for a win that moves them to 18th in the table on five points, while their hosts slip to 27th spot with two points from a pair of draws in their first two games.
Napoli and Eintracht Frankfurt played out a goalless draw at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, with Antonio Conte’s team at least stopping the rot defensively after shipping six goals to PSV in the previous round of fixtures.
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