PARIS: Bayern Munich returned the better of Barcelona as Robert Lewandowski to confront his previous club on Tuesday, while a late Joel Matip objective permitted Liverpool to beat Ajax and make their Champions League crusade ready.
There was likewise an unexpected loss for Tottenham Hotspur at Sporting Lisbon, and Atletico Madrid were beaten on their outing to play Bayer Leverkusen.
Both Spanish guests to Germany left away on the terrible side, with Barcelona going down 2-0 at the Allianz Arena in Group C as Lewandowski returned to the club he left in the late spring after eight productive seasons in Bavaria.
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The Pole scored a full go-around on his Champions League debut for Barca as the Catalans beat Viktoria Plzen 5-1 last week.
He was frantically near opening the scoring in the main half in Munich, however it was Bayern who went in front five minutes into the final part when Lucas Hernandez headed in from a corner.
Leroy Sane burst through four minutes after the fact to make it 2-0 as Julian Nagelsmann's Bayern made it two successes out of two in the gathering.
They have now won their last five gatherings with Barcelona, remembering two for last season's gathering stage and their 8-2 triumph in the 2020 quarter-finals.
"I think for 'Lewy' it was actually a profound game to return - - somewhat like getting back home, since he was so effective here," Bayern chief Manuel Neuer told Amazon Prime of his old partner. "The karma in the conclusive minutes wasn't his ally - - and that turned into our karma."
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Barcelona next face Inter Milan, who got their primary focuses with a 2-0 win away to Plzen in the Czech Republic.
Edin Dzeko and Denzel Dumfries got the objectives for Inter while the home side had Pavel Bucha shipped off in the last part.
Liverpool got off to a lamentable beginning in Group A when they lost 4-1 to Napoli in Italy, however they returned from that to beat Ajax 2-1 at Anfield.
Mohamed Salah shook off an unfortunate run of structure to put Jurgen Klopp's side ahead in the seventeenth moment, just for the Dutch heroes to level under the steady gaze of the half-hour politeness of an unequivocal completion from their exhilarating Ghanaian ability Mohammed Kudus.
Liverpool were setting out toward a third game without a success in all contests until Matip rose before the Kop to head in from a corner in the 89th moment, the ball going too far before it very well may be gotten out.
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"I figure everyone could see that we comprehended and that we needed to place something else entirely into the game. That's what the young men did," Klopp told BT Sport.
"We played a great deal of good stuff against a hard battling resistance."
That match was gone before by brief's quietness to check the demise of Queen Elizabeth II.
The other game in Group A, among Rangers and Napoli, was delayed until Wednesday because of extreme impediments on police assets in Scotland because of the Queen's passing.
In the mean time, Antonio Conte's Spurs drooped to a 2-0 loss against Sporting in Portugal in Group D, with the home side scoring the two objectives late on at the Jose Alvalade arena.
It seemed as though the English side would escape with a point after Hugo Lloris created a staggering late save to deny Pedro Porro.
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In any case, Paulinho headed in from the subsequent 90th-minute corner, and Brazilian Arthur Gomes fell off the seat to make it 2-0 with a heavenly performance strike in injury time.
"It was a troublesome outcome. At the point when you lose the game you are unsettled," conceded Conte.
Brandishing top the gathering with six places, while Eintracht Frankfurt joined Spurs on three focuses thanks to a 1-0 win in Marseille, with Jesper Lindstrom scoring in the principal half.
Leverkusen guaranteed their primary focuses in Group B as they beat Atletico 2-0 with two late objectives, Robert Andrich and Moussa Diaby both viewing as the net.
Belgian heroes Club Brugge top the segment with six focuses after a shocking 4-0 win at FC Porto.
Previous Barcelona striker Ferran Jutgla opened the scoring with a punishment before Kamal Sowah, Andreas Skov Olsen and Norwegian youngster Antonio Nusa all got in the final part.