Paris Saint-Germain's Spanish forward #09 Ferran Torres celebrates
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Ferran Torres celebrates
Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick after Ousmane Dembele's early brace as Paris St Germain started the defence of their Champions League crown with a 6-1 rout of Slovan Bratislava.
After spurning an early chance, Dembele struck in the 17th and 23rd minutes to give the holders a comfortable early advantage, and the France forward then set up the first and third of Torres’s strikes as the summer signing from Barcelona scored his first Champions League hat-trick.
Suleiman Camara provided a brief highlight for the visitors on a bruising night, cutting in from the left to lash home a powerful strike from a tight angle, but Fabian Ruiz had the final word for PSG.
Gabriel Jesus scored his first goal in Barcelona colours to cap a 5-1 win over Feyenoord after Raphinha continued his superb start to the season with a brace.
Raphinha made it eight goals in five games to start the campaign as he scored a brace, coming either side of Karim Adeyemi’s curled strike.
Lamine Yamal’s 77th minute free-kick stretched the lead but Sem Steijn pulled one back for Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side before Jesus headed in five minutes from time.
Liverpool came from behind to beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 at Anfield, trailing to Marcos Llorente’s early strike before Dominik Szoboszlai levelled and Alexis Mac Allister struck a fine winner five minutes into the second half.
Martin Odegaard’s second-half goal was enough for Arsenal to edge out Napoli 1-0 in Italy, with the Norwegian scoring 15 minutes from time after last season’s beaten finalists had spurned a number of opportunities.
Ermedin Demirovic struck a hat-trick in the space of just 12 minutes as Stuttgart beat Champions League debutants Viking 3-1, while Sporting recovered from conceding just five minutes in to beat Galatasaray 3-1.