UEFA Champions League: Bayern, Arsenal settle for entertaining point, Real roll after Man Utd bashed by Como

Matchday 3 results

Tuesday 20 October 2026
Fenerbahçe 2-2 Slavia Prague
Sabah 1-2 Borussia Dortmund
Roma 4-0 Slovan Bratislava
Porto 0-1 PSV Eindhoven
Liverpool 4-3 Villarreal
Manchester City 5-1 AEK Athens
Paris Saint-Germain 4-2 Barcelona — Recap, video highlights
Napoli 4-3 Bodo/Glimt
Stuttgart 1-1 Atletico Madrid

Wednesday 21 October 2026
Como 4-1 Man United — Recap, video highlights
Lille 2-4 Galatasaray
Aston Villa 3-1 Viking
Club Brugge 3-0 Lens
Bayern Munich 2-2 Arsenal — Recap, video highlights
Inter Milan 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk
Real Madrid 4-1 RB Leipzig
Real Betis 1-0 Feyenoord
Sporting Lisbon 2-3 LASK Linz

The dam’s broken at the Bernabeu, where a 2-0 Real Madrid lead heading into the final 10 minutes is now 4-1 to the hosts.

Kylian Mbappe’s 73rd Champions League goal moves him within 17 goals of fourth-place on the all-time list (Karim Benzema).

Then Yan Diomande, who set up Mbappe’s goal, got Real’s fourth.

Eze has been so bright for Arsenal after being yanked at halftime over the weekend in the Premier League.

He wins a free kick on the chalk of the 18, though the ref pulls it back a yard or two.

The chance comes from the front left edge, and Arsenal are crying for a handball penalty of their own as Martin Odegaard’s service hits something in a sea of bodes.

No luck.

Declan Rice, however, gets some luck a few minutes later.

The comeback is complete as Harry Kane’s stuttering run-up ends with a shot into the roof of the goal.

The ball more or less crosses as the match clock his 60:00, and Arsenal have a half-hour to wrestle a positive result back from the Bavarians.

Konrad Laimer bursts around the right flank and cuts the ball back toward the spot.

Harry Kane is there and his shot is headed for the empty goal when it hits the arm of a sliding Timber.

Kane is at it again, driving play through the heart of Arsenal.

He finds Serge Gnabry on the right, who crosses to the back post.

Dayot Upamecano is way up field and rises to head home but David Raya’s hands stay strong with a leaping save to keep things 1-1.

It’s a Bayern Munich change to start the second half, with Jonathan Tah replacing Min-jae Kim next to Dayot Upamecano in the Bavarians back line.

Arsenal kept 56% possession in the first half and a 6-5 edge in shot attempts but xG favors Bayern 0.82-0.58.

Ross Barkley continues his renaissance with a goal and Emiliano Buendia is also on the score sheet as Villa are within 45 minutes of a 3-0 record to start the league phase.

This is a Viking side that took a point off Bayern Munich last time out in a 3-3 draw, so Unai Emery will not be calling this fait accompli.

Aston Villa 2-0 Viking

Bayern Munich 1-1 Arsenal

Club Brugge 1-0 Lens

Inter Milan 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk

Real Betis 0-0 Feyenoord

Real Madrid 1-0 RB Leipzig

Sporting Lisbon 1-1 LASK Linz

Como 4-1 Man United — FT

Lille 2-4 Galatasaray — FT

Harry Kane gets the ball at midfield and sends a perfect ball behind Jurrien Timber for Alphonso Davies to take into the box.

The Canadian belts his shot past David Raya, and the feed typifies one of the reasons Kane may win the Ballon d’Or. He’s a complete playmaker.

1-1 after 35 minutes.

Bruno Fernandes has been speaking afetr Manchester United’s 4-1 loss to Como in Italy, and he’s questioned the decisions of Michael Carrick.

“It’s a decision from the staff to not press man-to-man and sometimes leave a little bit of space in-behind and trying to get the ball in the first moment, to wait for them, to give them the ballbut sometimes when you give too much of the ball to these teams they get confidence. They have so many bodies behind the ball they make you run a lot, make people get frustrated and when you recover the ball, the legs and the brain are much more difficult to make it work.”

Read more of Fernandes’ comments and watch the whole interview here.

Eberechi Eze thought he beat the last man with a perfectly-timed run, then carried down the left flank before beating Manuel Neuer.

The offside flag was raised, but the reviee shows that Eze was onside and Arsenal lead 1-0 in the 26th minute.

Arsenal will have massive concerns after one of their stars of this early season, Bukayo Saka, limps off very early.

Saka was holding his upper leg after making a pass, and he’s left the game in the 10th minute for Eberechi Eze.

Subs combine as Amad Diallo’s cross finds the outstretched leg of a just onside Joshua Zirkzee.

The Dutchman does well to collect the ball and snap it home to ruin Como’s clean sheet just before stoppage time.

There’s a VAR review for a potential offside in the build-up to the goal. The answer does not come quickly but the goals stands in Italy.

The Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia is electric and Man United are already on the plane home, at least it seems.

Substitute back Kaiki flies down the left and cuts a cross into traffic with Mazraoui well off the pace.

Maguire and Baleba are even further off the play and Ramon is alone outside the six to power a header past Lammens.

Awful. 4-0 to Como.

Manchester United look so, so poor, and it’s difficult not to point to the midfield.

Baleba gives the ball to Nico Paz and Youri Tielemans cannot reach the striding Paz, who beat Lammens for 3-0.

Mostly one-touch passing dissects Man United, as the Red Devils now trail by two.

Nico Paz is given room to operate by Maguire, who cannot adjust his feet quickly enough to stop a through ball from reaching Anastasios Douvikas.

The in-form Greek forward had drawn De Ligt one way and cut another, giving himself just enough room to beat Lammes and double Como’s advantage.

Starting XI

Neuer

Davies
Upamecano
Kim
Pavlovic
Laimer
Stanisic
Bischof
Gnabry
Saibari
Kane

Mikel Arteta makes two changes from the weekend, as Jurrien Timber comes in for Ben White and Noni Madueke for Eberechi Eze.

Starting XI
Raya
Timber
Konsa
G. Magalhaes
Calafiori
Guimaraes
Rice
Odegaard
Madueke
Saka
Havertz

Subs: Arrizabalaga, Meslier, Mosquera, Lewis-Skelly, White, Zubimendi, Merino, Dowman, Eze, Gyokeres.

Carlos Baleba takes the place of Santos, as we expected, who was on yellow.

Matheus Cunha exits in favor of Amad Diallo.

Let’s see how much of a difference it makes for Man United.

Como’s 1-0 lead came in the second minute and it’s held up — if anything, Cesc Fabregas’ visitors could have a multi-goal advantage.

Big halftime for Michael Carrick.

Over in France, a second-minute goal led to three more.

Soriba Diaoune has brace for Lille, as the Guinean leveled the match at 1-1 and put the Ligue 1 side up a goal before Russia’s Aleksey Batrakov restored level terms into halftime.

Como lead and remain on more than 65% possession into the 33rd minute.

Shots remain 2-2 with a combined 0.15 expected goals total.

Andrey Santos is on a yellow card and Mason Mount is not a midfield commander. Carlos Baleba could be required to bring some steel sooner rather than later.

Bryan Mbeumo sweeps a hard cross into traffic and Maguire deals with Jacobo Ramon enough to pop a header toward the far corner, missing wide.

To the other end, where Como look to double their lead but see a bounding shot unable to defy Lammens.

Still 1-0 Como, now into the 20th minute.

Yunus Akgun gave Turkish powers Galatasaray a second-minute lead in France but Lille hit right back,

The eighth minute saw Alexsandro Ribeiro find Soriba Diaoune to level the score at 1-1.

Lunchtime viewing in the United States proving plenty worth it.

Moments after Diogo Dalot caps an intensive start from Man United by just missing what would’ve been a very nice goal, Como star Nico Paz does the opposite at the other end.

Harry Maguire is caught flat-footed by a cut move and Nico Paz swirls a gorgeous shot past Senne Lammens for 1-0 in the second minute.

No Trevoh Chalobah nor Moise KEane for Como, as both are a couple of weeks away from returning to Cesc Fabregas’ team.

Starting XI
Butez
Couto
Ramon
Kempf
Valle
Milla
Perrone
Da Cunha
Paz
Baturina
Douvikas

Matthijs de Ligt makes his long-awaited return to the team and will play with Harry Maguire, Diego Dalot, and Noussair Mazraoui in an experienced back three.

Bruno Fernandes, Andrey Santos, Youri Tielemans, and Mason Mount also start along with Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo.

Veteran options amongst the subs are quite limited.

Bench: Darlow, Heaton, Amass, Armer, Kamason, Baleba, J. Fletcher, T. Fletcher, A. Diallo, Lacey, Thompson, Zirkzee.

Here’s who won’t be in Man United’s starting lineup today (actual lineup moments away):

Kobbie Mainoo
Luke Shaw
Marcus Rashford
Lisandro Martinez
Ayden Heaven
Benjamin Sesko
Ayden Heaven
Manuel Ugarte
Leny Yoro

All are injuries aside from Yoro, who was shown a red card in United’s last match.

Five teams including Arsenal and Aston Villa are bidding to join PSG and Liverpool as 3-0-0 teams after three matchdays.

Villa could go top with a three-goal win and second with any win, as their +7 goal differential trails only PSG’s +9.

Sporting Lisbon (+4), Arsenal (+4), Real Madrid (+2), and Real Betis (+2) are also 2-0-0.

TV Channel/Streaming: Paramount+
Kickoff times: 12:45pm and 3pm ET

Wednesday 21 October 2026
Como vs Manchester United — 12:45pm ET
Lille vs Galatasaray — 12:45pm ET
Aston Villa vs Viking — 3pm ET
Club Brugge vs Lens — 3pm ET
Bayern Munich vs Arsenal — 3pm ET
Inter Milan vs Shakhtar Donetsk — 3pm ET
Real Madrid vs RB Leipzig — 3pm ET
Real Betis vs Feyenoord — 3pm ET
Sporting Lisbon vs LASK Linz — 3pm ET