The matches of the third round of the UEFA Champions League witnessed an exciting night full of goals and excitement, and the remarkable brilliance of the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah with Liverpool, and the Argentine Lionel Messi with Paris Saint-Germain continued.
In the most exciting match tonight, Salah led his Liverpool team to a 3-2 victory over Atletico Madrid in the second group, which also witnessed Porto's victory over AC Milan 1-0.
Liverpool advanced with a goal scored by Mohamed Salah in the eighth minute after an individual effort and great ingenuity, which ended with a shot that knew its way into the net.
🥅⚽️ A legendary effort from Salah ends Milner with an early goal
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Naby Keita added the second goal in the 13th minute, then Atletico reduced the difference after Antoine Griezmann scored the first goal in the 20th minute, before the same player scored the second goal in the 34th minute, but Mohamed Salah returned again and scored a third goal for Liverpool in the 78th minute from a penalty kick.
The match witnessed the expulsion of Antoine Griezmann, Atletico Madrid player, in the 52nd minute
Liverpool raised its score to nine points at the top of the standings, and Atletico Madrid's balance stopped at four points in second place.
In the second match, Porto defeated its guest AC Milan with a clean goal, scored by Luis Diaz in the 65th minute.
Porto raised its score to four points in third place, with a goal difference behind Atletico Madrid, and Milan remained without a score at the bottom of the standings.
Messi saves Saint-Germain
In another exciting match, Messi led his French team, Saint-Germain, to regain the top of Group A in the Champions League, with a difficult victory over Leipzig 3-2.
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Saint-Germain's goals were scored by Kylian Mbappe in the ninth minute, and Lionel Messi (two goals) in the 67th and 74th minutes from a penalty kick, while Leipzig's goals were scored by Andre Silva in the 28th minute, and Nordi Mukele in the 57th minute.
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Saint-Germain raised its score to seven points at the top of the standings, and Leipzig remained without a score at the bottom of the standings.
Real Madrid takes revenge on Shakhtar
Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior scored two goals and assisted a goal, and his French colleague Karim Benzema continued his brilliance
this season to lead Real Madrid to a crushing 5-1 victory over Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine.
In the other match of the group, Inter Milan tasted victories in the European Championship and achieved a deserved 3-1 victory over Sherif Tiraspol, to hinder the adventure of the Moldovan champions, who were defeated today after winning their previous two matches in the group against Shakhtar and Real.
At the Donbass Arena in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, Real Madrid taught its host Shakhtar a hard lesson and inflicted a heavy defeat at home to raise his score to six points and advance to the top of the group with a goal difference only against Sherif Tiraspol.
Real faced a clear match and a solid defense from Shakhtar in the first half, which ended in his favour, with a goal of friendly fire, as Shakhtar's Sergey Krivtsov scored by mistake in his team's goal.
But the defensive dam of Shakhtar collapsed in the second half, conceding three goals in the first 20 minutes of this half, amid a clear brilliance from Benzema and Vinicius Junior.
The three goals were signed by Vinicius in the 51st and 56th minutes and Rodrygo in the 65th minute, while the French Karim Benzema scored the fifth goal for Real in the first minute of overtime for the match.
Shakhtar's balance froze at one point from three matches, to be at the bottom of the group.
Today's match was the best preparation for Real before the important and difficult El Clasico match against Barcelona next Sunday in the Spanish League.
At the "San Siro" stadium in Milan, Italy, Inter Milan stopped Sheriff Tiraspol's start and beat him 3/1 to be Inter's first win in the group.
Inter raised its score to four points in third place, two points behind Real and Sheriff Tiraspol.
Inter ended the first half in their favor with a clean goal scored by Edin Dzeko in the 34th minute.
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In the second half, Sebastian Tell scored the equalizer for the visitors in the 52nd minute, but Inter responded with two consecutive goals scored by Arturo Vidal and Stefan de Vriy in the 58th and 67th minutes.
This victory gave Inter a great and important confidence before the team's difficult match against Juventus in the Italian league next Sunday.
Ajax crush Dortmund
Ajax Amsterdam taught its guest, Borussia Dortmund, a tough lesson, and beat them 4-0 in the third group.
And at the Johan Cruyff Arena, Ajax scored two goals in each half to achieve their third win in a row in the continental championship.
Ajax went ahead with an own goal by Dortmund's Marco Reus in the 11th minute, then Dali Blind added the second goal in the 25th minute.
In the second half, Anthony scored Ajax's third goal in the 57th minute, and Sebastian Heller secured the fourth goal in the 72nd minute.
Ajax maintained the full mark, raising its lead to nine points, while Dortmund suffered the first defeat after two consecutive victories, to stop its score at six points in second place.