Champions League fixtures today: Tuesday results, tonight games and our calls
Matchday one runs across three days. Six games yesterday, six today including Napoli against Arsenal at 21:00, six tomorrow with Fenerbahce against Roma and Como against Leipzig. Every result with the scorers, and our call on every game.
Champions League matchday one runs across three days: Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 September. Six games a day, eighteen in all.
Below are yesterday's results with the scorers, today's and tomorrow's schedule in Italian time, and our call on every game.
Tuesday's results
Real Madrid 2-1 Inter Milan: Mbappe 14, Valverde 23; Carlos Augusto 77. Our call was over 1.5 goals: correct.
Porto 0-2 Manchester City: Haaland twice, on 47 and 90+1. Our call was under 4.5 goals: correct.
Borussia Dortmund 3-2 Villarreal: Veiga own goal 53, Mourino 66, Guirassy 80 and 85 from the spot, then an own goal by Guirassy himself on 90+3. Our call was over 1.5 goals: correct.
Club Brugge 2-3 Aston Villa: McGinn 11, Vetlesen 19, Buendia 22, Jackson 43, Tresoldi 61 from the spot. Our call was over 1.5 goals: correct.
Lille 2-3 Betis: Ueda 12, Bartra 33 and 49, Ribeiro 36, Parrott 53; Ethan Mbappe sent off on 56. Our call was under 4.5 goals: wrong.
AEK Athens 1-0 LASK: Marin 21. Our call was over 1.5 goals: wrong.
Across yesterday's six games, four of our calls came in.
Today's games, Wednesday 9 September
18:45 Barcellona-Feyenoord — our call: over 2.5 goals, confidence 4 out of 10
18:45 Stoccarda-Viking — our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 5 out of 10
21:00 Napoli-Arsenal — our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10
21:00 Liverpool-Atletico Madrid — our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10
21:00 PSG-Slovan Bratislava — our call: over 2.5 goals, confidence 5 out of 10
21:00 Sporting-Galatasaray — our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10
The Italian tie is Napoli against Arsenal at 21:00 at the Maradona. Confirmed line-ups land about an hour before kick-off: until then anything circulating is a prediction, and the versions rarely agree.
Thursday 10 September
18:45 Fenerbahce-Roma — our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10
18:45 PSV-Shakhtar Donetsk — our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10
21:00 Como-Lipsia — our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10
21:00 Bayern Monaco-Bodo/Glimt — our call: over 2.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10
21:00 Manchester United-Sabah — our call: over 2.5 goals, confidence 5 out of 10
21:00 Slavia Praga-Lens — our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10
Thursday brings the other two Italian sides: Fenerbahce against Roma at 18:45 in Istanbul and Como against Lipsia at 21:00, which for Como is the first Champions League game in the club's history.
How to read these calls
Every call carries a confidence from 1 to 10, our measure of how solid the picture is. The ones that miss do not disappear: in the results block they sit next to the ones that came in, and that is how it works every week.
Upcoming games, with predicted lineups and our calls, are on the Champions League page. The record of our settled calls is in the results history, and the individual calls are in player predictions.
