Juventus left it late to choose up their first victory of this yr’s Champions league as Jonathan David scored a stoppage time winner to down Bodo/Glimt 3-2 in Norway.
At Bodo’s Aspmyra Stadion, situated simply above the Arctic Circle, the Outdated Woman appeared to nonetheless be thawing when Ole Blomberg stole in to gave the hosts a first-half lead on 27 minutes.
Lois Openda fired the Serie A facet degree shortly after the restart earlier than that they had a purpose dominated out for offside by VAR.
Weston McKennie then headed Luciano Spalletti’s males in entrance on the hour mark, just for Sondre Fet to transform an 87th-minute penalty to seemingly rescue some extent.
David, nonetheless, was to have the final snigger, netting within the 91st minute after Kenan Yildiz’s shot had been parried.
Regardless of their sluggish begin on this season’s competitors, the end result strikes Juventus to inside three factors of the highest eight – the locations that qualify robotically for the knockouts.
Winless Bodo/Glimt, in the meantime, sit thirty first within the 36-team league on two factors.
One other European big to choose up their first win of the Champions League marketing campaign was Jose Mourinho’s Benfica, who inflicted additional distress on backside membership Ajax with a 2-0 victory on the Johan Cruyff Enviornment.
Samuel Dahl opened the scoring after six minutes with a thunderous left-footed strike from simply contained in the field.
The hosts squandered a number of good possibilities earlier than the factors have been sealed within the ninetieth minute when Leandro Barreiro latched onto a by way of ball to arrow an effort into the roof of the online.
For Mourinho and co. it’s going to have felt like an enormous aid after 4 successive defeats within the competitors.
For Ajax, it was one other depressing night in Europe’s elite event. The Dutch membership have now misplaced each one among their opening 5 matches and are the one facet but to choose up some extent.
It was a combined night for the English groups, with Chelsea cruising to an impressive win over Barcelona. Nevertheless, there have been defeats for each Manchester Metropolis, who were much-changed against Bayer Leverkusen, and Newcastle, who took an early lead away at Marseille but fell to defeat courtesy of former Premier League striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Elsewhere, Borussia Dortmund ran out convincing 4-0 winners over 10-man Villarreal. All 4 targets got here within the second half at Sign Iduna Park, with Serhou Guirassy bagging a brace earlier than Karim Adeyemi and Daniel Svensson including additional sheen to the scoreline.
At 1-0 down, the guests’ process was made all of the more difficult when Juan Foyth was despatched off because the LaLiga high-flyers dropped to 3rd from backside within the desk.
There was additionally a pink card within the conflict between Galatasaray and Union Saint-Gilloise, which noticed the latter emerge 1-0 winners.
Promise Akinpelu gave the guests the lead on the notoriously hostile Rams Park, and it proved to the distinction as Arda Unyay was dismissed late on for the hosts.
Within the different recreation, Napoli overcame Azerbaijan Premier League leaders Qarabag, with a Scott McTominay strike and a Marko Jankovic personal purpose giving the Italian champions a 2-0 victory.
See HERE how the Champions League desk now after this night’s outcomes.
