Champions League: Arsenal beat Bayern to go top, holders PSG hit five
The Gunners' winning league phase run continued as they inflicted a first defeat of the season on Bayern in all competitions.
Jurrien Timber (R) leaps to head the ball to a teammate during the match
PARIS: On a wild Champions League night with stellar teenage scorers, Kylian Mbappe also struck four including the second-fastest Champions League hat trick ever to show the old guys have still got it.
Arsenal took Bayern Munich's top spot in the standings with a 3-1 win, title holder Paris Saint-Germain romped to a 5-3 win over Tottenham with Vitinha scoring a hat trick, and Liverpool slumped to another loss at Anfield, 4-1 to PSV Eindhoven.
The 26-year-old Mbapp scored three times for Real Madrid between the 22nd and 29th minutes, and again in the 60th, of a 4-3 win at Olympiakos.
At age 17, the same as when Mbappe was launching his Champions League career at Monaco, Lennart Karl and Viktor Dadason both scored Wednesday, and so did 18-year-old Geovany Quenda.
Karl's exquisite first-timer for Bayern leveled the game in the first half but barely bothered Arsenal in a clash of the Premier League and Bundesliga leaders. It was Bayern's first loss this season.
Only Arsenal now has five straight wins in the Champions League after Inter Milan lost 2-1 at Atletico Madrid, whose captain Jose Maria Gimenez won it with a stoppage-time header — the 42nd and last goal on the nine-game slate.
Mbappe's fast hat-trick
Three goals in a span of six minutes, 42 seconds was fast by Kylian Mbappe, but not quite the fastest ever in the Champions League.
That was Mohamed Salah's in six minutes, 12 seconds for Liverpool against Rangers in October 2022.
Mbappe is now second fastest, with his second hat trick in the competition this season, and fifth of his Champions League career. He's also now top scorer this season with nine, ahead of the now-injured Victor Osimhen who has six for Galatasaray.
(Sub-header) Liverpool suffers third-straight loss
Liverpool's torrid run continued as they suffered a miserable 4-1 home defeat by PSV.
The ragged Reds, on their worst run since 1953, have now lost nine of their last 12 matches across all competitions as they were destroyed by the Dutch side at Anfield.
Arne Slot's domestic troubles are well-documented, coming into this match off back-to-back defeats by a three-goal margin, but the Champions League has provided some respite for the Dutch manager and his struggling side.
Three wins in four matches, including a brilliant victory over Real Madrid last time out, had put Liverpool in a strong position in the league phase.
But defeat here left Slot facing serious questions about the current state of this team and just how he is going to fix it.