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Key eventsnowGOAL! RB Leipzig 0-1 Manchester City (Lukeba OG, 37)2m agoGOAL! Slavia Prague 0-2 Arsenal (Gyökeres, 38)14m agoGOAL! PSV 0-1 Club Brugge (Tresoldi, 25)28m agoGOAL! Porto 1-0 Napoli (Bednarek, 11)31m agoGOAL! Slavia Prague 0-1 Arsenal (Madueke, 9)32m agoGOAL! Lens 0-1 Como (Douvikas, 7)40m agoKICK OFF1h agoFull-time scores in earlier games2h agoTeam news from selected games2h agoPreambleDominic BoothWed 4 Nov 2026 15.43 ESTFirst published on Wed 4 Nov 2026 13.30 ESTShareKey eventsnowGOAL! RB Leipzig 0-1 Manchester City (Lukeba OG, 37)2m agoGOAL! Slavia Prague 0-2 Arsenal (Gyökeres, 38)14m agoGOAL! PSV 0-1 Club Brugge (Tresoldi, 25)28m agoGOAL! Porto 1-0 Napoli (Bednarek, 11)31m agoGOAL! Slavia Prague 0-1 Arsenal (Madueke, 9)32m agoGOAL! Lens 0-1 Como (Douvikas, 7)40m agoKICK OFF1h agoFull-time scores in earlier games2h agoTeam news from selected games2h agoPreamblenow15.43 EST3-0 to Como in Lens. Nico Paz. Cesc Fabregas is clearly the greatest football coach to have ever graced our good game.

now15.43 ESTGOAL! RB Leipzig 0-1 Manchester City (Lukeba OG, 37)City haven’t been at their scintillating best against Leipzig so far, but they’ve been handed the lead by an awful own goal by Castello Lukeba. There were a million things he could have done with Nico O’Reilly’s cutback … other than to bundle it into his own net.

2m ago15.41 ESTGOAL! Slavia Prague 0-2 Arsenal (Gyökeres, 38)Just when I thought I may be wrong about Arsenal in my earlier post, with the Slavia defence seemingly holding up well, Viktor Gyökeres slides one into the far corner after nice interplay with Mikel Merino. Two-nil and it will probably be more before long.

5m ago15.37 ESTDouvikas is now out on his own as the top-scorer in this season’s Champions League so far, with five goals.

Tresoldi of Club Brugge is there on four alongside a tranche of star names, including Ballon D’Or’s Harry Kane, Erling Haaland, Dortmund hitman Guirassy and Roma’s Donyell Malen.

We’ll keep tabs on that.

8m ago15.35 ESTComo have doubled their lead at Lens! Douvikas nets his second of the evening for Cesc Fabregas’s side, who are seriously enjoying life in the Champions League, aren’t they? (0-2)

11m ago15.32 ESTThis isn’t Champions League-related, but a quick check of how West Ham are faring in their first game after sacking Nuno Espírito Santo and appointing Scott Parker … and they are 3-0 down at Cardiff City.

Jack Moylan has bagged a hat-trick for the Bluebirds. Perhaps there will be no quick fix for the Hammers.

Updated at 15.35 EST13m ago15.30 ESTViking have levelled at home to Sabah, with Erik Botheim scoring an improvised volley. It’s 1-1 in Norway.

14m ago15.29 ESTGOAL! PSV 0-1 Club Brugge (Tresoldi, 25)Club Brugge have broken the deadlock in Eindhoven, and it’s their star striker Nicolò Tresoldi with a timely header. The young forward has been scoring by the boatload this season so it’s no surprise to see his name on the scoresheet.

Updated at 15.34 EST17m ago15.26 ESTIt’s still goalless between Borussia Dortmund and Real Betis but that appears to be the most open and even contest of this batch of fixtures, based on the opening exchanges. Both teams have squandered big chances, and there’s been that disallowed Antony strike. (0-0)

19m ago15.23 ESTRB Leipzig have been able to put together some very fast counterattacks to trouble Manchester City in the opening 20 minutes in Germany. That City midfield looks a little light tonight, with Elliot Anderson being asked to cover a lot of ground.

City have failed to win their past three games in 90 minutes, remember. (0-0)

23m ago15.19 ESTArsenal are peppering the Slavia Prague goal in these early stages. After getting that goal, the Gunners should find plenty of joy, with the hosts forced to push out and play a bit. I should be utterly stunned if Arsenal don’t score at least three or four.

27m ago15.15 ESTI’m afraid I don’t have the bandwidth to stay across Viking v Sabah with detailed updates, but the visitors have opened the scoring via Gabonese forward Orphé Mbina. (0-1)

28m ago15.14 ESTGOAL! Porto 1-0 Napoli (Bednarek, 11)Porto are winless so far in this season’s Champions League but they are ahead inside 11 minutes at home to Napoli. A simple header from Jan Bednarek from a corner gets the home fans going at the Estádio do Dragão.

Updated at 15.18 EST30m ago15.13 ESTMadueke looks like a player reborn this season, doesn’t he? Surely he will feature in Thomas Tuchel’s England squad later this month? The winger has found a clinical touch in front of goal, which was so often a criticism levelled at him.

31m ago15.12 ESTGOAL! Slavia Prague 0-1 Arsenal (Madueke, 9)Arsenal follow suit after some less-than-impressive Slavia Prague defending. A long ball downfield is not defended, before Noni Madueke is slipped in by Viktor Gyökeres… and slips it past the goalkeeper.

Updated at 15.16 EST32m ago15.10 ESTGOAL! Lens 0-1 Como (Douvikas, 7)And there is the first goal! Como are making a mockery of their ‘Champions League debutants’ tag this season. Anastasios Douvikas has turned in after a well-worked short corner was eventually nodded down in the box.

Updated at 15.13 EST34m ago15.09 ESTSerhou Guirassy has a sensational scoring record in the Champions League for Borussia Dortmund and he might have done better with an early chance, failing to latch on to Julian Ryerson’s cross from the right.

We’re still goalless across the board after around 6 minutes.

36m ago15.07 ESTIt’s a night for Premier League teams to be taking on teams managed by their former players. After Dirk Kuyt downed Liverpool earlier on, can Martin Demichelis do something similar to his old side Manchester City? The former Argentina centre-back is in charge of RB Leipzig these days.

40m ago15.03 ESTKICK OFFWhistles are sounded around Europe to signal the start of tonight’s late action! We’ll bring you all the goals as they go in …

40m ago15.02 ESTAll the grounds have held a minute’s silence in memory of Jesús de Miguel, the Tenerife striker who tragically died at the age of 30 after he suffered a cardiac arrest following an on-field collision.

Updated at 15.05 EST48m ago14.54 ESTMikel Arteta has been speaking to TNT Sports before kick-off in Prague.

“We need everybody, everybody has a big impact on the team,” he says on his decision to rotate his lineup. “We know the patterns we’re going to have tonight against this opponent.”

On whether William Saliba could feature off the bench, he says: “Let’s see how the game pans out. He’s only had a couple of sessions with us, let’s be patient.”

51m ago14.51 ESTI know I just posted the table, but honestly making sense of the maelstrom that is the middle of that table is impossible after four games. The key figures are 16 points, which was enough to qualify for the top eight last season; and 9 points, which may just about get you into the top 24, and thus the playoff round.

It was 11 points for the top 24 in 2024/25, mind you. Manchester United – beware.

1h ago14.45 ESTHere’s how we now stand:

1h ago14.41 ESTFull-time scores in earlier games AEK Athens 2-3 Real Madrid

Fenerbahce 3-2 Liverpool

Two really entertaining affairs in which the less-fancied host looked set to clinch a result against the odds – until Fede Valverde scored in stoppage time to seal three points for Real Madrid, preserving their perfect start to this Champions League group stage, and breaking Athenian hearts. Only the Spanish giants and PSG have won four from four now.

Liverpool had three consecutive wins before tonight, but despite leading twice against Fenerbahce, they were pegged back and then stunned by Vedat Muriqi’s winner. It’s a famous night for former Liverpool favourite Dirk Kuyt, now in charge of Fenerbahce.

If the later games can be anything like these two in terms of entertainment value we’re all in for a cracking couple of hours. Strangely, Real Betis have the chance to join Real Madrid and PSG on top of the pile, if they win in Dortmund.

1h ago14.28 ESTIn more logical news, Kylian Mbappé has found the net for Real Madrid, so Mourinho’s men could still dig themselves out of an almighty Champions League hole.

Not many would have put money on neither Liverpool nor Madrid winning their games this evening, mind. Less than 10 minutes remaining in both.

1h ago14.25 EST3-2 Fener. Goodness me. It’s bedlam in Istanbul. What’s happened to Liverpool in the past few minutes?

1h ago14.21 ESTScratch that, Fenerbahce get themselves quickly level – as they did in the first half. This time Gakpo is at fault, and Archie Brown profits for the Turkish side. (2-2)

And big big news in Athens … AEK have scored! Stavros Pilios smashes home after a quick counterattack. Good grief, could Real Madrid really lose to the lowly Greek outfit? (2-1)

1h ago14.16 ESTA potentially big goal for Liverpool: Alexander Isak jumps straight off the substitutes’ bench to nod Andoni Iraola’s men ahead in Istanbul. Good play from fellow sub Cody Gakpo to stand up a delicious cross that was waiting to be headed home. (1-2)

No such luck for Real Madrid in Athens, although José Mourinho has brought on Endrick and Federico Valverde in search of a winner. (1-1)

2h ago14.11 ESTA couple of Arsenal-related reads for you, as we count down to kick-off in the Czech capital. Can the Gunners reach 10 points from their first four games of the Champions League?

A win tonight would do just that.

(Saliba is on the bench tonight, by the way, after Arteta talked up a possible return.)

2h ago14.02 ESTSpeaking of AEK Athens … the Greek champions are holding Real Madrid 1-1 after roughly an hour. Jude Bellingham scored a STUNNING flick for Los Blancos – do check that out on the ol’ socials. And Liverpool are still locked at the same scoreline with Fenerbahce. The big boys not having everything their own way as it stands in those early games.

2h ago13.55 ESTCity have made five changes from the team Enzo Maresca picked at the weekend, which lost 1-0 at home to Brighton. Nico O’Reilly hasn’t been a regular this season so it will be interesting to see how he fares at left-back, especially from an England perspective with the youngster still favoured in that role by Thomas Tuchel, though under pressure from Newcastle’s Lewis Hall.

Phil Foden, who comes in for Jérémy Doku, will be another player keen to impress the England boss. Three of Foden’s four goals in all competitions this season came in a single Champions League game against AEK Athens last month.

Updated at 13.58 EST2h ago13.52 ESTTeam news from selected gamesRB Leipzig v Manchester City

RB Leipzig: Vandevoordt; Baku, Orban, Lukeba, Raum; Banzuzo, El Aynaoui, Baumgartner; Gruda, Nusa, Rômulo.

Man City: Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guéhi, O’Reilly; Anderson, Fernández; Ndiaye, Cherki, Foden; Haaland.

Slavia Prague v Arsenal

Slavia: Domchak; Holes, Zima, Vicek; Nowak, Moses, Sadilek, Kublak; Ayaosi, Suleiman, Sturm.

Arsenal: Raya; White, Konsa, Gabriel, Hincapié; Zubimendi, Rice, Merino; Madueke, Eze, Gyökeres.

Elsewhere, the Como team lining up at Lens looking for their third victory in the Champions League includes the superstar attacker Nico Paz, with ex-Newcastle man Florian Thauvin the man to watch for Lens. Meanwhile in-form Dortmund include Jobe Bellingham and Fabio Silva in their lineup to take on Antony’s Real Betis at the Westfalenstadion.

Updated at 13.57 EST2h ago13.38 ESTIt’s 1-1 at half-time in Istanbul after a deflected strike apiece for Fenerbahce and Liverpool.

2h ago13.30 ESTPreambleFor all the valid arguments against the Champions League group phase using a ‘Swiss model’ – and there are many – it has at least produced an entertaining spectacle, with the bigger teams facing each other more regularly and the games, especially this season, producing lots of goals. Last night Manchester United discovered a new brand of chaos-ball to take centre stage, and take some heat off Michael Carrick, while Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain reminded us all why they are considered two of the favourites for the trophy, scoring nine goals between them.

Tonight, it’s the turn of Manchester City and Arsenal, who are away at RB Leipzig and Slavia Prague respectively, with both expected to win and win well. Even away from the English teams, there are some interesting ties: Borussia Dortmund v Real Betis and Porto v Napoli stand out as having the potential to thrill, and there’s also Lens v Como, PSV v Club Brugge and the titans of Viking meeting the giants of Sabah.

In the mean-time, Fenerbahce v Liverpool is ongoing – follow updates of that right here, as is AEK Athens v Real Madrid. We’ll follow those two games til their conclusion before getting stuck into the 8pm (GMT) games.

So that’s tonight’s football. Watch it – well, some of it. Or follow along on tonight’s clockwatch to keep tabs on pretty much all of it. We’ll bring you some of the team news headlines next.