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GOAL! Benfica 2-0 Qarabag FK (Pavlidis 16)

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Benfica 1-0 Qarabag FK

Juventus 0-0 Borussia Dortmund

Real Madrid 0-0 Marseille

Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal

Athletic Bilbao 0-2 Arsenal (FT)

PSV 1-3 Union SG (FT)

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11 min: Real Madrid 0-0 Marseille Rulli spreads himself to make a terrific save from Mbappe, who turned his defender smoothly in the area. The opening came, not for the first time, from Marseille losing the ball while trying to play out.

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GOAL! Benfica 1-0 Qarabag FK (Barrenechea 6)

Enzo Barrenechea, on loan from Aston Villa, has given Benfica an early lead. It was a simple goal, a flicked header from a corner, although the defending on the line left a bit to be desired.

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Updated at 15.14 EDT

9 min: Real Madrid 0-0 Marseille Now Rodrygo has a shot from the angle that is saved by Rulli. Madrid are well on top.

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Match report: Athletic Bilbao 0-2 Arsenal

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6 min: Real Madrid 0-0 Marseille Real’s teenage forward Franco Mastantuono blocks an attempted clearance, resists Medina’s recovery challenge and forces an off-balance shot from a very tight angle. It beats the keeper Rulli and bounces off the near post!

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Updated at 15.10 EDT

Alexander-Arnold goes off injured

5 min: Real Madrid 0-0 Marseille Trent Alexander-Arnold has tweaked his left hamstring and needs to go off. The poor guy can’t catch a break. Dani Carvajal, who looked set for a quiet night, replaces him.

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Updated at 15.15 EDT

GOAL! Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal (Luiz Junior og 4)

A perfect start for Spurs thanks to a comedy own goal from the Villarreal keeper Luiz Junior. Scott Murray has all the details.

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Updated at 15.06 EDT

2 min: Real Madrid 0-0 Marseille

Kylian Mbappe almost scores inside 80 seconds, slapping an overhead kick just wide of the far post.

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1 min: Real Madrid 0-0 Marseille

Real Madrid’s triumphant 2025-26 Champions League campaign is under way!

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Tottenham v Villarreal A reminder that we have a dedicated liveblog for this game, written by the genius who invented football liveblogs as we know them.

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Barry Glendenning on the return of the Champions League

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Full time: Athletic Bilbao 0-2 Arsenal

A win, a clean sheet, an awkward job completed with the minimum of fuss. Lads, it’s Arsenal.

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Full time: PSV 1-3 Union SG

One of the greatest nights in Union Saint-Gilloise’s history. They’ve done an emphatic number on the Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven, with Anouar Ait El Hadj’s exhilarating solo goal the highlight.

UNION SG ARE TOP OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.

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GOAL! PSV 1-3 Union SG (Van Bommel 90)

Glory for Union SG but no clean sheet – Ruben van Bommel has poked in a consolation goal for PSV.

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GOAL! Athletic Bilbao 0-2 Arsenal (Trossard 87) Leandro Trossard set up his fellow substitute Gabriel Martinelli for the opening goal. Now Martinelli has returned the favour for Trossard, whose goal should secure a good victory for Arsenal.

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GOAL! PSV 0-3 Union SG (Mac Allister 81)

A famous night for Union SG, woh are routing the 1988 winner on their Champions League debut. A corner was flicked on at the near post and bundled in from close range by Kevin Mac Allister, brother of Alexis but unrelated to Macaulay Culkin most iconic character. Yikes.

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GOAL! Athletic Bilbao 0-1 Arsenal (Martinelli 72) Won’tcha look at that depth. Arsenal substitute Gabriel Martinelli, on the field for less than a minute, has given them the lead in Bilbao.

Barry Glendenning is watching that game.

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Updated at 14.22 EDT

60 min: PSV 0-2 Union SG The first goal of this year’s Champions League proper was a penalty from Union Saint-Gilloise’s Promise David. Anouar Ait El Hadj scored a fine second shortly before half-time, leaving PSV Eindhoven with it all to do.

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Benfica v Qarabag FK team news

Benfica Trubin, Dedic, Antonio Silva, Otamendi, Dahl, Rios, Barrenechea, Aursnes, Sudakov, Schjelderup, Pavlidis.

Subs: Soares, Obrador, Ivanovic, Barreiro, Prestianni, Henrique Araujo, Tomas Araujo, Oliveira, Veloso, Prioste, Rego, Santos.

Qarabag FK Kochalski, Matheus Silva, Mustafazade, Medina, Cafarquliyev, Pedro Bicalho, Jankovic, Andrade, Borges, Zoubir, Duran.

Subs: Badavi Huseynov, Abbas Huseynov, Bayramov, Qurbanly, Kashchuk, Daniel, Addai, Kouakou, Mmaee, Buntic, Mahammadaliyev.

Referee Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)

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Juventus v Borussia Dortmund team news

Juventus Di Gregorio, McKennie, Bremer, Kelly, Kalulu Kyatengwa, Koopmeiners, Thuram, Cambiaso, Yildiz, David, Openda.

Subs: Cabal, Joao Mario, Rugani, Kostic, Adzic, Zhegrova, Vlahovic, Francisco Conceicao, Locatelli, Gatti, Pinsoglio, Perin.

Borussia Dortmund Kobel, Ryerson, Anton, Bensebaini, Yan Couto, Sabitzer, Nmecha, Svensson, Adeyemi, Beier, Guirassy.

Subs: Ostrzinski, Meyer, Bellingham, Brandt, Gross, Chukwuemeka, Campbell, Mane, Kabar.

Referee Francois Letexier (France)

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Real Madrid v Marseille team news

Trent Alexander-Arnold, who has been left out for two of Real Madrid’s last three games, returns to the starting XI. Franco Mastantuono, the teenager signed from River Plate, makes his Champions League debut.

Real Madrid Courtois, Alexander-Arnold, Eder Militao, Huijsen, Carreras, Valverde, Tchouameni, Mastantuono, Guler, Rodrygo, Mbappe.

Subs: Lunin, Gonzalez, Carvajal, Alaba, Bellingham, Camavinga, Vinicius Junior, Gonzalo Garcia, Asencio, Ceballos, Francisco Garcia, Diaz.

Marseille Rulli, Medina, Balerdi, Pavard, Emerson Palmieri, Kondogbia, Hojbjerg, Greenwood, O’Riley, Weah, Aubameyang.

Subs: de Lange, Van Neck, Egan-Riley, Gomes, Gouiri, Igor Paixao, Vermeeren, Nadir, Vaz, Bakola, Murillo.

Referee Irfan Peljto (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

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Updated at 14.07 EDT

Preamble

The Champions League is back, baby! The road to glory is arduous, taking almost nine months, but the journey will be worth it for whoever gets to lift the trophy in Budapest on 30 May 2026.

The club who part-own that trophy, Real Madrid, are one of 12 teams in action of opening night. We have separate liveblogs for Athletic Bilbao v Arsenal (5.45pm) and Lads, We Really Need to Put This To Bed and Just Call Them Tottenham v Villarreal (8pm), so it’s the job of clockwatch to flirt with nystagmus and follow the other games:

PSV 0-2 Union SG (5.45pm)

Benfica v Qarabag FK

Juventus v Borussia Dortmund

Real Madrid v Marseille

Madrid take the headlines, they just do, but Juventus v Dortmund looks the best game of the night. It’s also a repeat of the memorable 1997 final, in which Zinedine Zidane was kept quiet by Mike Yarwood.

The team news will arrive shortly. In the meantime, erm, pour yourself something nice?

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Updated at 14.03 EDT

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