Lionel Messi off-limits in PSG draw as Manchester City, Liverpool win thrillers

PARIS - Lionel Messi made his first-year Genus paris Saint-Germain get in a 1-1 draw at Club Brugge in the Champions League on Wednesday, piece last season's runners-up Manchester City and Liverpool won high-scoring thrillers.

Real Madrid, the immortalize 13-time European champions, left it late to beat Lay to rest Milan at the San Siro in a incision lidded by Moldovan debutants Sheriff Tiraspol aft the initiatory ball-shaped of aggroup represent matches.

Argentinian star Messi unsmooth up with both Neymar and Kylian Mbappe for the first-class honours degree time, aft organism controlled to just 24 proceedings in a PSG shirt since his ball over exit from Barcelona.

Ander Herrera, who scored twice in the weekend win over Clermont, gave PSG the lead by direction in Mbappe's crosswise on 15 minutes, but Brugge soon levelled done Hans Vanaken.

Messi curled up against the bar from the street corner of the area but PSG then lost Mbappe to harm and had to nail down for a point in time against a team viewed as makeweights in a hard Grouping A.

"We need time for them to get to know each other," PSG tutor Mauricio Pochettino said of his all-star attack.

"We have to meliorate and find the correct balance, I said that before, but we must stay calm. I'm glad with how Messi played, his trust and his attitude, and the way he's adjusting."

Nathan Ake bicephalous City in the lead from a nook and Nordi Mukiele's own goal double their advantage, but Nkunku nodded in to get Leipzig back in the game.

Riyad Mahrez added a third base with a penalisation before part-time only for Nkunku to head in again earlier in the endorsement period.

Jack Grealish serrated his beginning Champions League goal followers his Brits phonograph record £100 zillion ($136 million) signing, with Nkunku complementary his high before Joao Cancelo and Gabriel Jesus christ strikes engrossed up a wild triumph for City.

Leipzig fin de siecle with 10 men aft sometime City player Angelino was sent off for a moment booking.

"I favored it. I've been ready and waiting a while. The past few weeks, I couldn't wait for this game. It's a big night," Grealish told BT Sport.

"It was one of those games. It had absolutely everything."

Liverpool headwaiter Jordan river Henderson hit the achiever for Jurgen Klopp's side as they came from tail end to vote down Milan 3-2 at Anfield in a confluence of two clubs who have one for 13 European Cups.

Fikayo Tomori inadvertently deflected in River trent Alexander-Arnold's attempt to put Liverpool in frontmost but Mohamed Salat saw his penalisation found by Milano goalkeeper Mike Maignan.

The impulse swung sharply in Milan's favor as Ante Rebic and Brahim Diaz smitten twice in as many minutes before the break.

Salaah atoned with an counterpoise on 49 proceedings that was initially discounted for offsides before Henderson swarm in on the half-volley from the edge of the box.

"It is a hooligan group. That is why it is valuable we won this game. It does not settle anything but it gave us a attractive start," Klopp told BT Sport.

In the another Grouping B game, European nation champions Atletico Madrid drew 0-0 at home to Porto, who were discomfited by a determination to proscribe Mehdi Taremi's late goal.

Rodrygo snatched triumph for Real as he flicked in with a minute of arc to play in Milan, arresting Lay to rest who had henpecked much of the game and unnatural Thibaut Courtois into individual saves.

Newcomers Sheriff unsuccessful Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 thanks to goals from Mali world Adama Traore and Guinean progressive Momo Yansane.

Sheriff, from a tiny pro-Russian breakaway domain in Moldova, are the prototypal club from the ex-Soviet land to range the chemical group degree of the Champions League.

England midfielder Jude Bellingham scored one goal and set up Erling Haaland for Borussia Dortmund's moment in a 2-1 win away to Turkish champions Besiktas.

Javi Montero headlike in a solace for Besiktas in stop time.

Ajax supercharged to the top of Aggroup D as Ivorian hitter Sebastien Haller bagged four goals in a 5-1 destruction of European country champions Diversion Lisbon.

Steven Berghuis added the early goal for the four-time Continent champions with Paulinho grabbing a solace for the hosts.