Ferran Torres, Gabriel Jesus and Joao Cancelo were on target as Manchester City made it three wins out of three in UEFA Champions League Group C.
They secured a 3-0 win over Olympiakos at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday.
Torres put Manchester City ahead after 12 minutes, playing a smart one-two with Kevin De Bruyne before confidently slotting home for his third goal in as many games in the competition.
Raheem Sterling had the ball in the net in the 32nd minute, but his effort was ruled out for offside, as Manchester City dominated play.
But the Greek side grew into the game after the break.
The visitors should have drawn level in the 55th minute when a sloppy pass from Phil Foden fell to Mathieu Valbuena, but the 36-year-old French winger miscued his shot.
While the Greek side rarely threatened, Manchester City needed another goal to ease their nerves and it came from substitute Gabriel Jesus in the 81st minute.
The Brazilian hammered a shot in from close range at the near post after being slipped in by De Bruyne.
Defender Joao Cancelo made sure of the points in the 90th minute with a well-placed shot from outside of the area.
It all leaves Manchester City in a commanding position at the top of the group.
Bayern Munich came from behind to crush RB Salzburg 6-2 with two goals from Robert Lewandowski on Tuesday.
The win ensured the German Bundesliga champions stretched their record winning run in the UEFA Champions League to 14 consecutive games.
They are also leading their group by five points after three games.
The Bavarians, who have won five titles in 2020, including the UEFA Champions League, went behind after only four minutes.
This was after Mergim Berisha was left completely unmarked inside the penalty box to beat goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.
Bayern Munich instantly bounced back and Serge Gnabry had his shot cleared off the line before their top goalscorer Lewandowski levelled with a 21st minute penalty kick.
Salzburg defender Rasmus Kristensen then turned a Thomas Mueller cross into his own net a minute before the break.
The hosts came close to an equaliser right after the restart but Neuer got his fingertips to Enock Mwepu’s shot to turn it wide.
The Bayern Munich goalkeeper was beaten in the 66th minute, however, when Masaya Okugawa fired Salzburg level.
In spite of a string of chances for the home side, it was Bayern Munich who scored again.
In a strong finish with Jerome Boateng powering in a header from Joshua Kimmich’s corner kick in the 79th minute.
Leroy Sane scored with a perfectly curled shot four minutes later.
Lewandowski headed his second goal in the 88th minute.
Lucas Hernandez drilled in a sixth in stoppage time to lift Bayern Munich to nine points in Group A ahead of second-placed Atletico Madrid.
Lokomotiv Moscow, who drew 1-1 at home to Atletico Madrid, are third on two points, with Salzburg in last place on one point.
Real Madrid boosted their chances of reaching the UEFA Champions League knockout stages after a late winner by substitute Rodrygo.
The win gave them a 3-2 home victory over Inter Milan in an absorbing Group B clash on Tuesday.
The result left Real Madrid, winners of a record 13 titles in Europe’s premier club competition, level on four points with Shakhtar Donetsk.
They are one point behind leaders Borussia Moenchengladbach and two ahead of bottom placed Inter Milan.
Real Madrid had thrown away a two-goal lead and were flirting with a defeat which would have piled more pressure on manager Zinedine Zidane.
Then, their Brazilian duo of Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo combined to save the day.
Chances had gone begging at either end before Karim Benzema gave the home side a 25th minute lead.
He rounded goalkeeper Samir Handanovic and slotted home after intercepting a dreadful backpass by Real Madrid’s former wing-back Achraf Hakimi.
The hosts seemed to be cruising after 33 minutes when Sergio Ramos headed their second — his 100th goal for the club in all competitions.
But Lautaro Martinez pulled one back for Inter Milan two minutes later, thanks to a sublime assist by Nicolo Barella.
Real Madrid were rattled when Ivan Perisic equalised midway through the second half.
He threaded a shot into the far corner from close range after Martinez headed the ball into the Croatian’s stride.
Inter Milan then missed a pair of gilt-edged chances as Martinez shaved the outside of the post with a shot from the edge of the area and Perisic fired wide, with Real’s defence in tatters.
The Italians were punished for their misses, however.
Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo, brought into the fray together by Zidane shortly before Inter Milan equaliser, carved out the winner from a lightning fast break.
Vinicius Junior raced clear of his marker down the left flank and squared the ball back to Rodrygo, who beat Handanovic with an unstoppable shot into the top corner from 10 metres.
Inter Milan are now under pressure halfway through the group stage and will hope to have striker Romelu Lukaku back for the reverse fixture on Nov. 25.
That was after the Belgium striker missed the match with a thigh injury.
FC Porto defeated Olympique de Marseille 3-0 in Group C on Tuesday, inflicting a record 12th consecutive defeat in the UEFA Champions League on the French club.
The defeat left Andre Villas-Boas’s team on the brink of elimination.
Moussa Marega, Sergio Oliveira with a penalty kick and Luis Diaz found the back of the net, while Dimitri Payet missed an early penalty kick for Marseille.
The result meant FC Porto stay second on six points, three behind Manchester City who maintained their perfect record with a 3-0 win over Olympiakos.
OM, the 1993 champions, have now matched Belgian side Anderlecht’s infamous record in the Champions League from 2003 to 2005.
They have also not scored a goal since Souleymane Diawara did in 2013 in a 2-1 defeat against Borussia Dortmund.
Marseille’s last win in Europe’s premium club competition came in 2012, when they beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the first leg of their last 16 tie.
Striker Diogo Jota netted his first hat-trick for Liverpool as they thrashed Atalanta 5-0 on Tuesday in a blistering performance.
The victory ensured that Liverpool went five points clear at the top of their UEFA Champions League Group D after three straight wins.
Jota’s treble continued his scintillating start to his Liverpool career.
Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane also got on the scoresheet in a superb display from Juergen Klopp’s English Premier League (EPL) champions.
Jota wasted an early chance before giving his side the lead in the 16th minute.
He latched on to a pass from Trent Alexander-Arnold, holding off Jose Luis Palomino before delicately flicking the ball past Marco Sportiello.
The Portugal forward, who arrived from Wolverhampton Wanderers for a reported fee of 41 million pounds (54 million dollars) in September, made it 2-0 in the 33rd minute.
This was after he controlled a raking pass from Joe Gomez with his left foot before firing home with his right.
With the home side reeling, Salah scored a super solo goal two minutes into the second half.
He collected a clearance from Andy Robertson and running from the halfway line before curling the ball in at the far post.
Minutes later, it was Mane’s turn to make it 4-0 with a sublime chipped finish.
Jota then completed his hat-trick with another coolly-taken effort in the 55th minute for his seventh goal in his first 10 appearances for Liverpool.
Atalanta’s best chances on the night fell to Duvan Zapata, who clipped the underside of the crossbar with a superb curling strike.
He twice tested Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson with stinging shots and also had a stoppage-time effort ruled out for offside.
Salah almost scored a sixth for Liverpool in the 83rd minute.
Once again he ran half the length of the pitch after an Atalanta corner was cleared, but this time his shot was steered out for a corner by Sportiello.
The victory puts Liverpool top of the group with nine points after three games, having conceded no goals.
Ajax Amsterdam are second on four points and ahead of Atalanta on goal difference after a 2-1 win away to Danish side FC Midtjylland.
Striker Alassane Plea scored a hat-trick as Borussia Moenchengladbach crushed hosts Shakhtar Donetsk 6-0 on Tuesday to take over at the top of their group in the UEFA Champions League.
Glabdach, who conceded late equalisers in their previous group matches against Inter Milan and Real Madrid, scored four in the first half.
Two of the goals came from the 27-year-old Plea, to kill off the game and eventually earn them one of the largest away wins of the competition.
They are now top of Group B on five points from three games, one point ahead of Shakhtar.
Inter Milan and Real Madrid moved from two and one point respectively from two games, to two and four points respectively after Real Madrid won 4-3.
Gladbach, now on an eight-game unbeaten run in all competitions, caught Shakhtar by surprise with a two-pass counter-attack.
Stefan Lainer, finding space down the right, cut back for Frenchman Plea who scored with a crisp finish in the eighth minute.
They doubled their lead nine minutes later when Christoph Kramer’s shot from outside the box took a deflection from Valeriy Bondar to send Shakhtar goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin the wrong way.
A Plea missile from 25 metres put the game beyond the hosts before Ramy Bensebaini added a fourth a minute before the break.
Lars Stindl made the most of a Trubin error to put his team 5-0 ahead in the 65th, before Plea beat the offside trap to complete his hat-trick with a fine finish.
Ajax Amsterdam scored after 47 seconds as they shrugged off disrupted preparations to beat Denmark’s Midtjylland 2-1 away on Tuesday for their first win in UEFA Champions League Group D.
Brazilian striker Antony opened the scoring inside the first minute with skipper Dusan Tadic netting the other as Ajax moved into second in the standings with four points after three games.
Anders Dreyer netted the first goal for the Danish rookies in the group phase, but they remain bottom without any points.
Ajax’s preparations had been severely disrupted as they were forced to leave behind key players, suspected of being infected with COVID-19, when they travelled to Denmark on Monday.
Yet the likes of first-choice goalkeeper Andre Onana and captain Tadic, were later allowed to join up with their team mates.
Ajax, citing privacy laws, had refused to provide individual medical details and it was not clear until hours before kick-off whether they would be able to field a full-strength side.
Yet the pre-match confusion was quickly forgotten as Antony was set up by Tadic.
He was allowed time to steady the ball and turn onto his left foot to rifle home inside the opening minute.
The Dutch club were 2-0 up in the 13th minute when goalkeeper Mikkel Andersen picked up a back-pass, conceding an indirect free-kick inside the six-yard box.
Midtjylland lined up every player on their goal-line but were still unable to block Tadic’s blast from point-blank range.
After their horror start, Midtjylland were quick to pull a goal back.
This was after Dreyer was allowed plenty of room to drive the ball home from just inside the Ajax penalty area in the 18th minute.
They continued to look dangerous throughout the game.
Yet Ajax went closest to scoring again when Antony had the ball in the home net in the 65th minute but his effort was ruled out for offside after a VAR check.
