Champions League round-up: Como hit Lens for nine as Cunha rescues Carrick's United

The talking points

Como hit nine in Lens and match the record margin

Como went to the Stade Bollaert-Delelis for their fourth game in the competition and left with a 9-1 win, equalling the biggest winning margin the Champions League has seen. Lens were 3-0 down at half-time and 7-0 down soon after the hour.

Nico Paz ran the night. His long ball started the move for the second, he scored the third with a shot into the roof of the net, and his passes sent Lucas Da Cunha and Tasos Douvikas through for the fourth and sixth. Marc-Oliver Kempf, Mattia Liberali and Martin Baturina also scored before a stoppage-time ninth. Ruben Aguilar's volley was all Lens had to show.

The striking thing was Cesc Fabregas's mood. He admitted he was "angry" about the goal his side conceded after three substitutions changed the defending, and told Sky Sport Italia that "four is the key number here", a reminder that this is only Como's fourth Champions League match. They are fourth in the table on nine points.

Cunha rescues Carrick and United end their winless run

For an hour at Old Trafford it looked like the night Michael Carrick's job would be decided. Matías Soulé scored for Roma after 11 minutes and Donyell Malen added a penalty soon after, and United went in 2-0 down with a run of nine games without a win behind them.

The game turned on a penalty that was taken twice. Matheus Cunha won it, Devis Vasquez saved Bruno Fernandes's first effort, and the kick was retaken because a Roma player had encroached. Fernandes scored at the second attempt just before the hour. Then, with seven minutes left, Leonardo Balerdi's poor clearance let Cunha equalise, and three minutes later Cunha finished at the near post from Shea Lacey's pass. He was sent off near the end for a needless foul.

The numbers show how complete the change was: 2.5 of United's 2.7 expected goals came after the break. Carrick refused to call it a turning point. "It's one game so it depends on what happens next," he said, though he admitted he was "feeling a lot better about things". United lost Carlos Baleba to a hamstring injury early in the second half and host Aston Villa on Sunday.

Liverpool lead twice and still lose in Istanbul

Liverpool's perfect European start ended against a Fenerbahçe side who had not won in the competition this season and are being run by an interim manager, the former Liverpool forward Dirk Kuyt. Trey Nyoni gave Andoni Iraola's side the lead with a deflected volley, his first professional goal, and Alexander Isak restored the lead with a header from Cody Gakpo's cross, his first touch off the bench.

Both leads lasted four minutes. Mason Greenwood's free-kick went in off Jeremy Jacquet, Archie Brown tapped in after a mix-up between Gakpo and Alisson, and Vedat Muriqi won the game with a header with 11 minutes left.

Iraola was blunt about why. "Cheap goals. Messy goals," he said, listing a free-kick, a corner and a long throw. It is Liverpool's first run of two straight defeats since he took over, after Sunday's 1-0 loss at home to Arsenal, and Iraola had made five changes. They stay in the top eight, but only just.

PSG keep rolling and Bayern win in Madrid without their manager

PSG had the game at Villarreal won almost before it started. João Neves headed in a rebound after nine minutes, Désiré Doué scored after a misplaced pass by Gulacsi three minutes later, and Senny Mayulu volleyed a third a minute after that. Fabián Ruiz scored either side of half-time and David Boly, a 17-year-old making his Champions League debut, hit the sixth. It is ten straight wins in all competitions for Luis Enrique's side, who top the table with a perfect record and a goal difference of 15.

Bayern's win at the Metropolitano was more of a grind and more revealing. Vincent Kompany was absent ill and Luis Díaz was injured, yet Bayern dominated the first half and broke through when Lennart Karl stole the ball from Robin Le Normand and lifted it over Jan Oblak. Konrad Laimer drove in the second from Harry Kane's pass. Kane did not score, ending his run of scoring in ten straight Champions League games one short of Cristiano Ronaldo's record.

"It was a very deserved win against a good team," Laimer said. Atlético's Marcos Llorente said the first goal "hit us like a bucket of cold water". Diego Simeone's side have four points from four games.

City end their slide, Arsenal hold on

Manchester City arrived in Leipzig after two Premier League defeats in a row and needed a late goal to leave with the points. Castello Lukeba turned Nico O'Reilly's cross into his own net, Ridle Baku equalised, Enzo Fernández headed City back in front and Antonio Nusa levelled again within three minutes. Erling Haaland, captain for the night, slid in Anderson's ball across the box with 12 minutes left. Leipzig had more shots, 14 to 13, and have now lost three of their four games.

Arsenal won 2-1 in Prague with Noni Madueke and Viktor Gyökeres scoring before the break, but Mikel Arteta was unhappy with what followed. Wiktor Nowak's goal set up a nervous finish, David Raya saved from Oskar Kubiak and Gabriel cleared off the line. "A lot to learn," Arteta said of a game he felt his side should have killed in the first half. Arsenal are third, unbeaten, on ten points.

Barcelona beat Aston Villa 3-0. Lamine Yamal scored after seven minutes when João Gomes passed straight to him from a goal kick, and Raphinha struck twice early in the second half. Unai Emery said Villa have work to do to reach that level, and Hansi Flick was delighted with a clean sheet after his pre-match worries about a stretched defence.

Player of the week

Tasos Douvikas, Como. Two goals in the first half and a third after the break made it a hat-trick in the record-equalling win at Lens. The first was a tap-in after Maximo Perrone headed a corner on, the second went in off the post from Alex Valle's header back across goal, and the third came from yet another Paz pass. He has now scored in all four of Como's Champions League games, six goals in total.

Under pressure

Massimiliano Allegri's Napoli lost 4-1 in Porto, three days after a 2-0 defeat at Juventus. Porto, who had not won in the competition this season, led through Bednarek after 11 minutes. Scott McTominay equalised before half-time, but Gabri Veiga and Kiwior scored after the break and Samu converted a penalty after a foul by Rafa Marín, who was sent off.

Allegri spoke afterwards about the team's "limitations". The numbers back him up: Napoli have three defeats from four games and three points, and are now below Porto in the table at the halfway mark.

All the results

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Wednesday 4 November

Inter answered their derby defeat with goals from Yann Bisseck, Francesco Pio Esposito and Piotr Zieliński in Rotterdam, Cristian Chivu calling it "the best version of ourselves". Real Madrid came from behind twice in Athens: Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappé equalised, and Federico Valverde won it off the bench in stoppage time.

Where the tables stand

The top eight after four games: PSG 12 points, Real Madrid 12, Arsenal 10, Como 9, Barcelona 9, Aston Villa 9, Man City 9, Liverpool 9.

PSG and Real Madrid are the only perfect sides left. Liverpool hold eighth on goal difference and goals scored: Club Brugge, Sporting, Real Betis and Dortmund are all on nine points as well. Bayern are next on eight, unbeaten but with two draws. United are on six with Inter.

The AI's corner

A tough week for the AI: no bullseyes from 18 games, 9 right results and 9 wrong.

Its best calls came close. It had Arsenal winning 2-0 in Prague (it finished 2-1), LASK beating Slovan Bratislava 3-0 (4-0) and Viking beating Sabah 3-1 (4-1). It also had Barcelona and PSG winning, though neither scoreline was close to the real margin.

Its worst miss was in Istanbul, where it had Liverpool winning 3-0 and Fenerbahçe won 3-2. It also had Roma winning 3-1 at Old Trafford and Atlético beating Bayern 2-1, and it did not see Lens 1-9 Como coming, having gone for a 2-0 away win.