For Thomas Tuchel, Kai Havertz's late winning goal is possibly the turning point for Chelsea FC, which started out so poorly, in the new season.

"We wanted to restart the season today and we did it," said the coach of the Premier League club after the happy 2-1 win over West Ham United on Saturday.

Due to the narrow success, the Blues are at least close to the top teams in the league and will play with tailwind at the start of the Champions League on Tuesday (6.45 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Champions League and on DAZN) at Dinamo Zagreb.

With Ben Chilwell and national player Havertz, Tuchel swapped the win on Saturday, so to speak.

Both professionals turned the 0:1 deficit with their goals.

"Hopefully the way we've done it and the impact of the bench players gives us faith and confidence back.

We need this to play at our highest level," explained Tuchel and expected: "We want to use this momentum to give the season a new boost."

Record for Erling Haaland

Goal scorer Havertz came into play in the 72nd minute and became the match winner.

"The late winning goals are usually the best," said the 23-year-old.

"It's good for us as a group to get more energy and positive feelings from it." National player Thilo Kehrer played 90 minutes at West Ham.

Defending champions Manchester City missed the interim return to the top of the table.

At Aston Villa, coach Pep Guardiola's players did not go beyond a 1-1 (0-0) draw.

Former Dortmund player Erling Haaland (50th), who had recently scored two hat-tricks in a row, scored 1-0 for the guests.

For the Norwegian it was the tenth goal of the season in sixth game in the Premier League.

He equaled Micky Quinn's record set in 1992 for Coventry City.

Former Leverkusen player Leon Bailey (74') equalized for Villa.

Liverpool also dropped two more points at Everton in the Merseyside derby.

Despite 20 shots (eight on goal), the Reds of team manager Jürgen Klopp did not get more than 0-0 at the Toffees.

Real Madrid, meanwhile, continued their winning streak in the Primera División.

The royals, who are also opponents of RB Leipzig in the group stage of the Champions League, won 2-1 (1-1) against Betis Sevilla at their home Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday.

Before the game, the Madrilenians, led by Karim Benzema, European Footballer of the Year, presented the two major trophies for the triumphs in the Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup.

Paris is first again

After Vinicius Junior had opened the scoring in the ninth minute, Sergio Canales equalized for Sevilla in the 17th minute.

After a good hour, Rodrygo scored the winning goal.

It was the fourth success in the fourth game for the two late substitute German professionals Toni Kroos and Antonio Rüdiger.

After three wins, it was the first defeat in the Spanish football championship for the guests from Andalusia.

FC Barcelona took advantage of this in the evening – also thanks to former Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski.

The Pole contributed the second goal to the 3-0 (2-0) of the Catalans.

It was his fifth goal in the league.

After three wins in a row and a draw at the start of the season, FC Barcelona are now second in the table, two points behind Real.

France's champions Paris St. Germain have regained the lead in Ligue 1.

The star ensemble around world champions Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Lionel Messi easily won 3-0 (1-0) at cup winners FC Nantes on Saturday evening.

With their fifth win of the season and 16 points, PSG overtook Olympique Marseille on goal difference.

Mbappe (17th/55th) after Messi template and defender Nuno Mendes (68th) scored the goals for Paris, which was replaced by Germans Julian Draxler (Lending/Benfica Lisbon) and Kehrer (West Ham United) had separated.

Fabio saw the hosts red card early on for gross foul play (24').