The UEFA Champions League entered Matchday 3 with Group A to D teams involved in action as Liverpool and Bayern Munich maintaining their impressive performance.

Africatopsports.com monitored the game as Tuesday’s game was festival of goals with a total of 35 goals netted.

Champions Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Monchengladbach and Ajax all won away from home.

Real Madrid dug deep to pick their first win after three games at the Estadio Di Stepano.

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Only the the match between Atletico Madrid and Kyiev was the stalemate recorded.

Group A

Lokomotiv Moscow Vs Atletico Madrid uefa Champions League Matchday 3

Lokomotiv 1-1 Atlético

Atletico Madrid picked a vital point away from home following a 1-1 draw against Lokomotiv Moscow.

They La Liga side once again conceded for the third time which is their longest Champions League games without a clean sheet.

Locomotiv have their goalkeeper Guilherme to thank as he produced a string of fine saves to frustrate Atlético.

José María Giménez’s first-half header put the visitors in front for just seven minutes, Anton Miranchuk’s spot kick levelling the scores.

Salzburg 2-6 Bayern

Lewandowski Celebrates scoring against Salzburg

In the second Group A game, champions Bayern Munich remain unstoppable as they ran a 6-2 away riot against Red Bull Salzburg.

The Bavarians have now won 14 Champions League in a row.

A game that was thought to be heading to a stalemate saw Bayern turned tide on it’s tail as they scored four goals.

Mergim Berisha gave Salzburg the lead just four minutes into the game before Robert Lewandowski levelled from the spot.

Rasmus Nissen own goal at the brink of the first half break put Bayern in front.

Masaya Okugawa coolly slotted in for 2-2 minutes after coming off the bench in the second half.

Jerome Boateng restored the lead in the 79th minute before late goals from Leroy Sané, Robert Lewandowski – his second – and Lucas Hernández completed Bayern’s cruise against Salzburg.

Group B

Shakhtar 0-6 Mönchengladbach

Borrusis Monchengladbach celebrates their 6-0 win against Shakthar Donetsk

It was a free scoring game for Monchengladbach who outrightly blown Shakhtar Donetsk away.

The Bundesliga side equalled their biggest biggest European Cup away win – a 6-0 success at EPA Larnaca of Cyprus in their first game in the competition, in September 1970.

An Alassane Pléa hat-trick – his first goals in the competition – helped Gladbach to their biggest ever Champions League win. Pléa’s early finish and long-range stunner, Valeriy Bondar’s own goal and Ramy Bensebaini’s header made it 4-0 before Lars Stindl notched the fifth and Pléa completed his treble.

Real Madrid 3-2 Inter

After failing to win in their last two games, Real Madrid finally got their first win in the competition this season.

Thanks to Rodrygo who came off the bench to rubber-stamp Madrid’s first victory of the campaign.

The hosts appeared comfortable courtesy of Karim Benzema’s opener and a Sergio Ramos header, only for Inter to hit back via Lautaro Martínez’s neat finish.

Ivan Perišić then levelled midway through the second period, but the home side were not to be denied.

Worthy to note was Ramis who scored 100th for the Merengues.

Group C

Manchester City 3-0 Olympiacos

Manchester City Vs Marseille

Manchester City forward Gabriel Jesus returned to the squad as he helped the Cityens to a comfortable 3-0 win against Olympiacos.

Both teams were meeting in the UEFA Champions League for the first time and City claimed the victory to continue their perfect start .

Goals by Ferrán Torres, Gabriel Jesus and João Cancelo helped City to victory.

Jesus has netted six times in his last five Champions League appearances.

Porto 3-0 Marseille

FC Porto Vs Marseille

Porto boosted their hopes of progress, moving three points clear of third with a comfortable triumph over Marseille.

Moussa Marega and captain Sérgio Oliveira scored either side of a first-half Dimitri Payet penalty miss for Marseille.

Luis Díaz finished a well-worked team move to seal victory.

For Marseille it was their 12th defeat.

They found themselves on the bad side of the record as they have now equalled the record for most consecutive Champions League defeats (12 with Anderlecht).

Group D

Midtjylland 1-2 Ajax

Midtjylland Vs Ajax

All the goals came in the first 18 minutes in Denmark, Antony putting the visitors in front inside the first 60 seconds before Dušan Tadić smashed in a second 12 minutes later. Anders Dreyer quickly brought the home team back into contention with their first group goal, but Midtjylland were unable to find a second and slipped to their third defeat.

Atalanta 0-5 Liverpool

Atalanta Vs Liverpool

Diogo Jota stole the show at the Bergamo as he scored a hat trick to help Liverpool to a comfortable 5-0 win against Atalanta.

The former Wolves forward has now scored three hat-tricks in his last eight European games.

The in-form Portugal forward put the visitors two up in the first half, then added the last of three goals in eight second-half minutes – Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané with the others – to wrap up matters.