Complete Champions League Results
Barcelona managed to end a nine-year victory drought over Bayern Munich. Meanwhile, Manchester City feasted on 5 goals without reply against Sparta Prague.
Matchday 3 of the 2024-2025 Champions League league phase was held again on Wednesday (23/10/2024) evening WIB to Thursday (24/10/2024) early morning WIB, presenting 9 matches.
Of the nine matches, two of them were duels between Barcelona vs Bayern Munich and Manchester City vs Sparta Prague.
Starting from Barcelona who hosted Bayern Munich at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium.
The match was held on Thursday (24/10/2024) early morning WIB.
As a result, El Barca won a landslide victory 4-1 over Die Roten.
This is Barcelona’s first win over Bayern Munich since May 6, 2015 or nine years ago.
At that time, Barcelona, which was still strengthened by the trio Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, and Neymar, crushed Bayern Munich 3-0 in the first leg of the 2014-2015 Champions League semifinals.
After that, Barcelona always lost to Bayern Munich in six meetings until finally the bad trend ended today.
Complete Champions League Results – Barcelona Ends 9-Year Victory Drought Over Bayern Munich, Man City Enjoys 5-Goal Feast
Barcelona’s four goals were scored through Raphinha’s hat trick (1st minute, 45′, 56′) and a goal from Robert Lewandowski (36′).
Meanwhile, Munich could only reply once through Harry Kane’s kick (18′).
With this result, Barcelona’s position in the standings temporarily rose to 10th with 6 points.
On the other hand, Munich plunged to 23rd position because they only pocketed 3 points.
At the same time, Manchester City enjoyed a goal party when hosting Sparta Prague at the Etihad Stadium.
Man City actually only led 1-0 in the first half through Phil Foden’s quick goal in the 3rd minute.
However, Pep Guardiola’s squad then went on a rampage in the second half.
They managed to score four additional goals through Erling Haaland’s brace (58′, 68′), and one goal each through John Stones’ action (64′) and Matheus Cunha’s penalty (88′).
The victory increased Man City’s points in the standings to 7 points.
With these points, City is entitled to sit in 3rd position.
Meanwhile, Sparta Paraha is in 21st place with 4 points.
Atalanta 0-0 Celtic
Brest 1-1 Bayer Leverkusen (Pierre Lees-Melou 39′; Florian Wirtz 24′)
Man City 5-0 Sparta Prague (Phil Foden 3′, Erling Haaland 58′, 68′, John Stones 64′, Matheus Nunes 88′-pen)
Atletico Madrid 1-3 Lille (Julian Alvarez 8′; Edon Zhegrova 61′, Jonathan David 74′-pen, 89′)
Liverpool 1-0 RB Leipzig (Darwin Nunez 27′)
RB Salzburg 0-2 Dinamo Zagreb (Sandro Kulenovic 49′, Bruno Petkovic 84′)
Young Boys 0-1 Inter Milan (Marcus Thuram 90+3′)
Barcelona 4-1 Bayern Munich (Raphinha 1′, 45′, 56′, Robert Lewandowski 36′; Harry Kane 18′)
