UCL Champions League 2022 Results Round-up: Night of wondergoals! John Stones scores a worldie, Haaland stuns Dortmund - Watch Video

UCL Champions League 2022 Results: Borussia Dortmund's prodigal son Erling Haaland returned to haunt them - and how! All eyes were on Haaland, as he locked horns with his former teammates at Dortmund who knew him all too well — a fact he did admit in the post-match chat, as he said, "I was quite sure I was gonna be followed the whole game." 

 

Manchester City went a goal down early in the second half, courtesy a Jude Bellingham goal in the 56th minute. Dortmund defended well, and City struggled to break the deadlock until the 80th minute when John Stones rekindled memories of "that Vincent Kompany wonder goal against Leicester City" with a scintillating strike from outside the box. 

After that City had more belief as they launched wave after wave of attack on Alexander Meyer's goal. 

 

But it was Erling Haaland who actually stole show as he netted his second goal in as many matches in the UEFA Champions League. even on a night when Paris Saint-Germain superstars Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar all scored in a comeback win.

 

Manchester City also trailed, deep into the game, at home Wednesday against Haaland's former club Borussia Dortmund in a fascinating quick reunion for the prolific Norway prodigy.

 

The stage was set for Haaland to seal a 2-1 win after teammate John Stones leveled the game scoring with a stunning shot in the 80th minute.

 

The Norwegian prodigy rose to the challenge and met Joao Cancelo's curling cross from "outside the boot" with a twisting leap and acrobatic volley to send goalward a ball that seemed to have passed him. It was Haaland's 26th goal in his 21st Champions League game. 

 

So far this season, Haaland has scored in six straight games for City and has a rate of better than a goal per game this season.

 

Wednesday 14th September 

AC Milan 3-1 Dinamo Zagreb

Shakhtar Donetsk 1-1 Celtic

Chelsea 1-1 Red Bull Salzburg

FC Copenhagen 0-0 Sevilla

Juventus 1-2 Benfica

Maccabi Haifa 1-3 Paris Saint-Germain

Manchester City 2-1 Borussia Dortmund

Rangers 0-3 Napoli

Real Madrid 2-0 RB Leipzig

 

UEFA Champions League 2022-23: Matchday 2 Result - Tuesday’s matches
Liverpool 2-1 Ajax
Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 Atletico Madrid
FC Porto 0-4 Club Brugge
Viktoria Plzen 0-2 Inter Milan
Bayern Munich 2-0 Barcelona
Sporting CP 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur
Marseille 0-1 Eintracht Frankfurt

 

 

Messi had tied the game for PSG before halftime at Maccabi Haifa but it took until the 69th for Mbappe to seize the lead and Neymar sealed a 3-1 victory in the 88th.

 

Madrid had to wait until the 80th to break through in a 2-0 win against Leipzig. Fede Valverde's opening goal was followed by Marco Asensio's sweeping shot in stoppage time.

 

Juventus, however, did not find the late goals it needed against Benfica and fell to a second straight 2-1 loss, after defeat in Paris last week.

 

Wasting a 4th-minute lead earned by Arkadiusz Milik, Juventus was beaten by a Joao Mario penalty for Benfica before halftime and a David Neres strike in the 55th.

 

Neres' former club Shakhtar Donetsk — who the Brazilian winger left without playing a game after signing just weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine — continued its unbeaten run this season drawing 1-1 with Celtic which dominated much of the play.

 

Shakhtar might have a star playmaker in Mykhaylo Mudryk, who scored with a powerful left-footed shot for the second straight game. Shakhtar hosted the game at Legia Warsaw's stadium in neighboring Poland for security reasons.

 

A tough night for Scottish clubs saw Rangers lose 3-0 at home to Napoli despite 40-year-old goalkeeper Allan McGregor saving two penalty kicks early in the second half.

 

Napoli was awarded three spot-kicks, through the second was a re-take after an encroachment offense when Matteo Politano followed up McGregor's first save to score from the rebound.

 

On his second attempt, Piotr Zielinski fired his penalty in the same place and McGregor saved again.

 

When Napoli got another penalty for handball 10 minutes later, Politano stepped up and scored though McGregor got a hand to the ball on its way into the net. Napoli added late goals from substitutes Giacomo Raspadori and Tanguy Ndombele.

 

Rangers were down to 10 men after James Sands, the United States international on loan from New York City FC, was sent off when the first penalty was awarded.

 

Chelsea manager Graham Potter's first game in charge of the 2021 European champion was a 1-1 draw at home to a Salzburg team that is exceeding expectations.

 

Chelsea led on Raheem Sterling's curling shot in the 48th and was pegged back by Noah Okafor's goal in the 75th. Swiss international Okafor also scored in a draw last week with AC Milan, which leads Group E.

 

Milan eased to a 3-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb as Rafael Le?o starred and French veteran Olivier Giroud opened the scoring with a penalty in the 45th.

 

Copenhagen and Sevilla drew 0-0 in Denmark and are both still without a goal in Group G led by Man City.