Official UEFA Champions League Podcast

We’re now halfway through this season’s league phase and we were treated to a record-breaking Wednesday on Matchday 4.  
Como scored nine in the biggest-ever away victory in the UEFA Champions League as they dominated Lens 9-1 in France. Elsewhere, Fenerbahçe twice came from behind to defeat Liverpool in Istanbul, with Real Madrid doing the same in Athens to maintain their perfect start. We hear from Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham as well as Fenerbahçe interim manager Dirk Kuyt and striker Vedat Muriqi.
In our featured commentary match, Dortmund squeezed past Real Betis 2-1 in a tightly-fought affair in Germany while there were also important victories for Arsenal, Manchester City and Club Brugge. Additionally, Porto and Viking picked up their first wins of the campaign. We get reaction from Dortmund’s teenage sensation Konstantinos Karetsas, Arsenal striker Viktor Gyökeres and Man City’s match-winner Erling Haaland. 
Natalie Sawyer, Andy Brassell and Joe Shennan look back on all of Wednesday’s action, which included 44 goals and a piece of Champions League history.

Some of the world’s best attacking talent was on full display in the UEFA Champions League as Matchday 4 got under way. 
Lamine Yamal and Raphinha inspired Barcelona to a 3-0 win over previously undefeated Aston Villa, with the defending champions Paris Saint-Germain, as well as LASK and Inter, also securing impressive victories. 
Manchester United completed a remarkable comeback from two goals down to defeat Roma, as Bayern München, Galatasaray and Sporting CP picked up three important league phase points. In Norway, Bodø/Glimt and Lille shared the spoils in a 0-0 draw.

Aston Villa, Real Madrid and Real Betis all secured home wins to maintain their perfect starts in the UEFA Champions League, while Declan Rice’s late leveller meant Bayern München and Arsenal shared the points in Munich. There were wins as well on Wednesday for Club Brugge and a Nico Paz-inspired Como, who beat Manchester United 4-1. 
It was a night to remember for LASK as the debutants beat Sporting CP 3-2 in Lisbon while Galatasaray and Inter also recorded their first wins of the campaign.

Matchday 3 picked up where Matchday 2 left off, with goals galore! 
In our featured match, Paris and Barcelona played out an end-to-end classic in the French capital with the defending champions running out eventual 4-2 winners. Désiré Doué and Lamine Yamal were inevitably amongst the goalscorers.
Liverpool, Napoli and Roma all scored four to see off Villarreal, Bodø/Glimt and Slovan Bratislava respectively, while Manchester City hit five at home to AEK Athens, midfielder Phil Foden with a hat-trick. Elsewhere Stuttgart drew with 10-man Atleti 1-1 in Germany whilst PSV secured a superb 1-0 win in Porto. And in our early matches Sabah went down 2-1 at home to Borussia Dortmund while Slavia Praha hit a last-minute equaliser against Fenerbahçe to draw 2-2 in Türkiye and register their first-ever away point in the competition. 
We hear from Manchester City hat-trick hero Foden, Liverpool’s UEFA Player of the Match Rio Ngumoha, Atleti goalkeeper Jan Oblak, Napoli midfielder Scott McTominay plus Barça boss Hansi Flick and Dortmund manager Niko Kovac. We also take a look ahead to Wednesday’s matches, hearing from Bayern’s Serge Gnabry and Real Madrid’s Ibrahima Konate.

A record-breaking night of UEFA Champions League action saw 46 goals scored as Matchday 2 came to a close! 
  
Real Madrid completed an astonishing comeback to beat Roma 4-3, whilst Liverpool and Aston Villa both scored six times to defeat LASK and Fenerbahçe respectively. 
  
Meanwhile, Paris Saint-Germain kept the defence of their title on track with a 4-2 win at Manchester City, whilst Feyenoord, Real Betis, Bodø/Glimt, Shakhtar and Stuttgart also collected three points. 
  
We hear from Madrid’s match-winner Antonio Rüdiger, as well as Paris’ Désiré Doué, Aston Villa’s Nicolas Jackson and Stuttgart’s Deniz Undav.