Extravaganza "Napoli"
The main surprise of the game day was the rout inflicted on Liverpool in Naples.
Wards of Jurgen Klopp completely failed the match and could well have conceded more than four goals.
Illustrative statistics: already by the 18th minute, the hosts earned two penalties.
Piotr Zeliński converted the first one, but Alison Becker handled Victor Osimhen's shot.
However, this did not save the guests.
The team was forced to go forward and open up, which rivals used with pleasure.
First of all, this concerned the newcomer of the Neapolitans Khvichi Kvaratskhelia, who on the left flank over and over again beat Trent Alexander-Arnold and his insurer Joseph Gomez.
As a result, Kvaratskhelia managed to complete four successful strokes in less than an hour and turned out to be the best on the field in terms of this indicator.
The apotheosis of his game was the episode at the end of the first half, when the midfielder ran away from two defenders and from the front gave Giovanni Simeone a pass to an empty net.
Thus, in the first six matches in the "Napoli" Kvaratskhelia scored six points in the "goal + pass" system (4 + 2).
The goal was also extremely important for the son of the head coach of Atlético, because he managed to score in his debut match in the main European Cup.
An amazing story is connected with the name of Simeone Jr.
At the age of 13, he got a tattoo with the logo of the tournament on his wrist, promising to kiss her when he played in the Champions League.
Having realized the dream, the forward fulfilled his promise.
For the Merseysiders, the only reason for joy was the ball of prestige performed by Luis Diaz.
After another misfire, Naples can be called one of the most unfortunate cities for them.
Over the past 12 years, the British team has come here four times and scored only one point - in 2010 in the group stage of the Europa League.
But the last three confrontations in the Champions League ended in defeat.
Defeats "Eintracht" and "Bayer"
The first round of the main European Cup was extremely unsuccessful for the German teams.
All of them, with the exception of Bayern, suffered defeats in matches with rivals inferior in class.
On Tuesday, Shakhtar defeated Leipzig at home, after which the team's head coach Domenico Tedesco was fired.
Eintracht also lost.
The current owner of the Europa League made his debut in the Champions League match against Sporting.
The Deutsche Bank Park stadium was packed to capacity on this occasion, and the fans prepared a whole program with a colorful fire show and huge banners.
But 50,000 local football fans, instead of an equally bright game, witnessed embarrassment.
In the second half, the hosts conceded three unanswered goals.
Bayer continued the unsuccessful series for Germany, which sensationally lost on the road to the Belgian champion Brugge - 0:1.
Russian Leverkusen goalkeeper Andrei Lunev missed the meeting due to injury, and the former Zenit striker Serdar Azmun came on as a substitute only in the 86th minute and could not help his partners in any way.
Bayern dominance
But Bayern, on the contrary, started with a confident away victory over one of the main competitors in the fight for first place in Group C, Inter.
At the same time, we can safely say that the Nerazzurri were unable to compete with a formidable opponent on an equal footing.
Although the teams had almost equal possession of the ball, the guests brought almost all their attacks to the specifics, which resulted in more than a two-fold advantage in shots - 21:9 (on target - 11:2).
Only Andre Onan saved from the defeat of the Milanese.
The goalkeeper, who made a name for himself at Ajax, played the first match for the Italian team and deserved the highest marks for his actions.
The Cameroonian made as many as 11 saves.
He did not save only when Leroy Zane, having beaten him, rolled the ball into an empty net and when Danilo D'Ambrosio, after an opponent's cross, cut the ball into his own net.
But Onana's counterpart Manuel Neuer had almost no work, since Inter created a few chances.
The Munich team not only scored three points, but also scored a couple of statistical achievements.
Firstly, they increased their unbeaten run in the Champions League group to 29 meetings.
Secondly, for 19 years they have started in the tournament with a victory, and in 17 cases they keep their own gates intact.
Defeat from Barcelona
Meanwhile, the former leader of Bayern, Robert Lewandowski, is mastering with might and main in Barcelona.
In the first four matches in La Liga, the striker scored five times.
And the debut meeting as part of the Catalans in the Champions League turned into his benefit performance.
Viktoria Plzen conceded five goals at Camp Nou, three of which were chalked up by the Pole.
Even before the break, he upset Jindrich Stanek twice, and after that he scored a hat-trick with a neat blow from outside the penalty area.
The striker scored six shots (the best result of the meeting), half of which were productive.
Such a successful game allowed the player with 89 goals to reach a clear third place in the list of the tournament's top scorers in history, breaking away from Karim Benzema.
Now he is second only to Cristiano Ronaldo (140) and Lionel Messi (125).
The Portuguese and the Argentinian also overtake him in the number of pokers / hat-tricks (8).
Lewandowski has six, but he designed them in three teams at once: Borussia Dortmund, Bayern and Barcelona.
This is the first such case in the Champions League.
Character of Atlético
And the most incredible ending of the first round was recorded in Madrid.
The main time of the match between Atlético and Porto was not very exciting.
The teams cared more about defense and created few chances.
The most memorable event seemed to be the removal of the attacking guests Mehdi Taremi, who received the second “yellow card” for simulation.
But the time added by the judge came out really bright.
First, the defender of the hosts Mario Hermoso managed to almost instantly go from hero to anti-hero.
In the 91st minute, he opened the scoring thanks to a rebound and seemed to bring the partners victory.
But then, for some reason, he touched the ball with his hand in his own penalty area on the corner feed and forced Szymon Marciniak to appoint a penalty.
Jan Oblak was close to fending off Andres Uribe's shot from the point, but the projectile still rolled into the net.
The denouement came in the 101st minute, when the hosts already earned a corner.
After the serve, the ex-midfielder of Zenit Axel Witsel made a discount to the far post, from where Antoine Griezmann sent the ball into the net from a meter away.
Further, a uniform madness began behind the side.
Head coach Diego Simeone, who grabbed the Frenchman by the head and said something emotionally to him, did not hold back his emotions.
The fact that it was Griezmann who scored the winning goal deserves special attention.
The fact is that in Madrid he is specially released as a substitute after the 60th minute, so that the option of automatic redemption from Barcelona for €40 million does not work. This attitude did not prevent him from hitting the opponents' goal three times this season.
Moreover, despite all this, the striker admitted that he wants to stay at Atlético.