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Tuesday 13 October brought nine Champions League matches and 32 goals between them, and the result of the night belonged to Club Brugge, who won 4-3 away at Inter in a seven-goal game, the highest-scoring of the evening.
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Next for goals came Viking against Bayern München. Viking, at home, held Bayern München to a 3-3 draw, the only match of the night that finished level. Galatasaray against Barcelona made it three games with five goals or more.
Club Brugge were one of three away winners. Barcelona were the most emphatic of them, beating Galatasaray 4-1, and Sporting CP won 2-0 at Lens.
The other five matches were home wins. Arsenal beat Lille 3-0, Villarreal beat Napoli 3-1 and Atlético Madrid beat Manchester United 2-0. Arsenal and Barcelona shared the night’s widest winning margin, three goals each. Sabah beat Slavia Praha 2-0 in one of the evening’s two early kick-offs, the other being Lens against Sporting CP.
RB Leipzig completed the home wins by beating PSV Eindhoven 1-0. Brajan Gruda scored the only goal in the 75th minute after Ivan Perišić had missed a first-half penalty for PSV Eindhoven, and Armando Obispo’s late header for the visitors was ruled out for offside after a VAR review. Leipzig had 19 shots to PSV Eindhoven’s 11, although PSV Eindhoven had 57 per cent of the ball. Read our full analysis of RB Leipzig 1-0 PSV Eindhoven.
Five of the eight winners kept a clean sheet: Sporting CP, Sabah, Arsenal, Atlético Madrid and RB Leipzig. Barcelona and Villarreal each conceded once on their way to victory, while Club Brugge won despite conceding three at Inter. Across the nine games the goals came at an average of more than three and a half a match.
The Champions League continues on Wednesday 14 October, when Bodø/Glimt host Borussia Dortmund. Read our preview of Bodø/Glimt vs Borussia Dortmund.