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UEFA Champions League Matchday 3 Roundup As Aston Villa And Liverpool Maintain Winning Starts

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The UCL matchday 3 results generated a number of intriguing and fascinating scorelines across the continent on Tuesday and Wednesday night.

For the second successive time in this season’s new look format, all four Premier League sides tasted victory. Even more impressively, Aston Villa and Liverpool are the only sides who boast a 100% win record.

With nine points on the board already, Villa and the Reds are on the right track for automatic qualification to the round of 16 in the new year.

This season, the UEFA Champions League underwent a restructure meaning the top eight teams automatically progress to the knockout stages.

Those finishing from 9th-24th will go head-to-head in a two-legged play-off to determine the remaining entries for the last-16 stage. The losing teams are completely eliminated from European competition.

The same will apply to those who finish between 25th-36th. It is no longer possible for teams to drop into the UEFA Europa League owing to the new league format.

UCL Matchday 3 Results On Tuesday

Arsenal and Aston Villa win as Vini Jr. hits a Dortmund treble

Tuesday’s UCL matchday 3 results saw Arsenal and Aston Villa pick up vital home wins. The Gunners got the better of Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 thanks to a first-half Dmytro Riznyk own goal.

Mikel Arteta’s side are currently on seven points ahead of their trip to Inter on matchday 4. A victory in Italy will keep their automatic qualification hopes very much on track.

Villa are yet to concede in this season’s competition as they top the league after three games. John McGinn and Jhon Duran scored in the second-half to secure a comfortable 2-0 win over Bologna.

Up next, Unai Emery’s side travel to Belgium to take on Club Brugge. The Spaniard will be quietly confident of maintaining his and Villa’s excellent start.

Elsewhere, Vini Jr. hit Real Madrid‘s 15th UCL hat-trick as the reigning champions thought back from 2-0 down to thrash Dortmund 5-2 at the Bernabeu.

Monaco, Milan, Stuttgart, Sporting and Girona all picked up vital wins. The only stalemate on Tuesday night came in Paris as PSG and PSV played out a 1-1 draw.

UCL Matchday 3 Results On Wednesday

Liverpool and Manchester City win again, Celtic earn draw as Barcelona thrash Bayern Munich

After their 1-0 win over RB Leipzig, Arne Slot’s Liverpool are second in the league phase with nine points from nine. Darwin Nunez scored the winner in Germany.

Up next for the Reds sees an Anfield return for club legend Xabi Alonso. The Spaniard takes his Leverkusen side to Merseyside in hope of causing an upset.

Manchester City make it a Premier League top three after their resounding 5-0 win over Sparta Prague. Erling Haaland scored the pick of the goals with a fantastic acrobatic effort.

A trip to Portugal is up next for the Cityzens as they face Sporting Lisbon on matchday 4. Another victory will act as the perfect springboard for automatic qualification.

Scottish Premiership champions Celtic picked up a very credible draw away to Atalanta. Brendan Rodgers’ side has registered four points across their opening three games.

Elsewhere, Raphina hit a hat-trick as Barcelona thrashed Bayern 4-1 and there were also victories for Lille, Dinamo Zagreb, Feyenoord and Inter. Brest and Leverkusen played out a 1-1 draw.