Goals galore in Champions League
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THE UEFA Champions League returned on Tuesday with a 40-goal bonanza as Bayern Munich thrashed AS Roma 7-1 for its biggest victory on the road and Brazil striker Luiz Adriano scored five as Shakhtar put seven goals past BATE Borisov.
On a record-busting night, Chelsea wasn’t far behind in a 6-0 win over Maribor, but Manchester City remained without a victory in three matches after wasting a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at CSKA Moscow.
Schalke also squandered a two-goal lead before scoring a controversial penalty in stoppage time to edge 10-man Sporting Lisbon 4-3.
Neymar and Lionel Messi scored in Barcelona’s 3-1 win over Ajax Amsterdam. Messi’s 69th career goal in Europe’s top-tier competition moved him to within two goals of the all-time record set by Raul Gonzalez. He is tied with Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of Real Madrid’s visit Liverpool yesterday.
Away from the big-scoring games, Paris Saint-Germain edged APOEL 1-0 in Cyprus.
Adriano’s five-goal performance in Belarus —with two goals from the penalty spot — equaled Messi’s five against Bayer Leverkusen in 2012.
Adriano is the first to manage four goals in the first half, doing so in a record span of 17 minutes. With a late penalty, he also matched Messi’s record.
Shakhtar, which has been forced to move from its home in Donetsk because of fighting between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian rebels, matched the biggest away victory in the history of the Champions League. Olympique Marseille also won 7-0 at MSK Zilina in 2010. The biggest Champions League victory came in 2007, when Liverpool thrashed Besiktas 8-0.
With eight more matches to be played yesterday, the record of 63 goals for a matchday, set on the opening day of the 2000-01 season, could be broken.
Five-time champion Bayern, which won the title in 2013, made itself one of the favorites this season with an overwhelming performance in Rome, with Arjen Robben scoring twice.
It matched Roma’s heaviest defeat in the competition, a 1-7 loss at Manchester United in the 2007 quarterfinals.
“This is a fluke,” Bayern coach Josep Guardiola said. “It’s not normal to win 7-1.”
But Bayern is starting to look like the Barcelona squad that Guardiola coached to two Champions League titles. He took over Bayern last season and saw his club lose 0-5 on aggregate to Real in the semifinals.
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