UCL: PSG win Barca thriller as Liverpool overcome Villarreal
French Ligue 1 clubside Paris Saint-Germain stunned Barcelona in a six-goal thriller played at the Parc Des Princes in a UEFA Champions League game played on Tuesday night.
The reigning champions scored the first goal of the game when Desire Doue found the back of the net in 38th minute following an assist provided by Joao Neves with game ending 1-0 in favour of the home side after 45 minutes of play.
Barcelona leveled the scores ten minutes into the second half of the game when Xavier Expert scored an equaliser with teammate Ferrmin Lopez supplying the assist in the 55th minute of the encounter.
Desire Doue later provided an assist for his teammate, Lucas Hernández to put PSG ahead of game again in the 72nd minute but Barcelona equalised in the 79th minute to level scores at 2-2.
Barcelona later scored two quick goals in the 81st minute through Vitinha and in the 86th minute when Fabian Ruiz received a pass from Achraf Hakimi to increase the scoreline to 4-2 putting game beyond reach for Barcelona.
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Liverpool also secured a narrow victory over Spanish club Villarreal at Anfield in another Champions League game. The visitors stunned the home crowd when Georges Mikautadze scored the first goal of the game in the 4th minute.
Things got worse for Liverpool later on in the first half when Villarreal scored the second goal of the match through Sergi Cardona in the 29th minute. Thereafter, Liverpool rallied back to reduce the score line in the 36th minute when Mac Allister scored via an assist provided by Konstantinos Tsimikas.
The Reds ensured that they scored an equaliser before half time when R. Araujo made it 2-2 following a sweet assist provided by Rio Ngumoha. Liverpool two then scored two quick goals through Mac Allister (65) and Florian Wirtz (69) to put scores at 4-2.
However, Villarreal scored in the dying minutes of the second half when Nigerian player Tani Oluwaseyi scored in the 87th minute to put scores at 4-3 with Liverpool holding their nerves to secure all three points at the end of the Champions League game.
In other games, Fenerbahce played a 2-2 draw with Slavia Prague at home, Sabah FK lost 1-2 away to Borussia Dortmund while Italian club Roma thrashed Slovan Bratislava 4-0 at home.
Also, FC Porto lost 0-1 at home to PSV Eindhoven, Manchester City beat AEK Athens 5-1 at the Etihad, Napoli beat Bodo Glimt 4-3 at home, while VFB Stuttgart secured a 1-1 at home with Atletico Madrid.
