The first night of the Champions League did not bring much in the ranks except for the loss of Manchester United to the Young Boys and the lightness with which Bayern Munich defeated Barcelona, and then came the second evening.
28 goals, stories, shelling, the unsuccessful opening of the PSG stars and more.
So here's what happened during the holiday.
Liverpool - Milan 2: 3.
The first half managed to meet the standards set by that final from Istanbul in 2005 - irrational, bizarre, uninterpretable.
Jürgen Klopp's team dominated unchallenged and threatened the goal 14 times compared to four attempts by the Italians, the result after 45 minutes: 1: 2 to Rossoneri.
"We got a little carried away after our football," Klopp analyzed at the end of the reason why his defense succumbed to two outbursts, which is legitimate given the fact that it was the first Champions League game at Anfield in a year and a half.
So in the second half Liverpool were swept after their crowd.
Muhammad Salah equalized within four minutes, and Jordan Henderson in goal a la Steven Gerrard completed the turnaround.
This time there was no dramatic 3: 3 and penalties, but maybe it will happen the next time the two meet.
Manchester City - Leipzig 3: 6.
Manchester City have been looking for the player who will not know how to differentiate between the Premier League and the Champions League, and it seems that they have found the one.
At the age of 26, Jack Grillish made his debut at the senior European factory and from the first moment looked like a fish in water.
Grillish.
An evening not to be forgotten, IPI
Against Leipzig and the stubborn Christopher Anconco who scored a hat-trick and kept the Germans in the picture, the dear purchase from Aston Villa cooked up the first, was involved in the second (own goal) and third (Pendel) and scored the fourth.
Relaxed as if it were a rainy day in Stoke, he became the first Englishman since Wayne Rooney in 2004 to score and cook in his Champions League debut.
For a player who has never played in a European factory and spent three years at the Championship, such a European premiere is what is commonly called "dreamy".
Club Brugge - PSG 1: 1.
Take everything ever said about constellations hastily assembled, mixed, shaken, and you will receive PSG against the Belgian champions.
With Messi, Neymar and Killian Ambape (injured and replaced) for the first time together in the squad the expectations from the French runner-up were fireworks, and the result was hardly jumps.
Lack of coordination, imbalance, zero defensive contribution from the attacking players, very little fighting spirit, loss of the ball, tactical problems - Pochettino's team suffered from everything imaginable.
In fact, 1: 1 does not reflect what was there.
Bruges - who threatened the goal 14 times compared to her opponent's 8 - came to win.
Messi.
Did not help PSG on a mediocre French evening,
"No one can be happy with our performance nor the result," the Argentine coach concluded, "I take my hat off to Bruges, they wanted it more."
And this is probably Pochettino's biggest task: to make a bunch of players who can do anything, want to do more.
Sporting Lisbon - Ajax 5: 1.
It is said that the true value of a thing is revealed only after it is no more, so Ajax took this saying and turned it on its face.
Last year the Dutch forgot to register Sebastian Haller for the Europa League due to a hallucinatory administrative error, and they only discovered its true value when he made his Champions League debut on Tuesday.
Much thanks to the active Anthony in the Haller wing he scored a quartet and became the second player in history to score four goals in his first Champions League game after Marco van Basten in 1992.
"All my life I've been waiting for a game like this," concluded tonight's hero, leaving Ajax to think what would have happened if she had recorded it last year.
Haller.
29 years have been waiting for a show like his, Reuters
Everything Else.
There was also a Real win over Inter at San Siro from Rodrigo's goal in the 89th minute, another Blingham and Netherlands play in Dortmund's 1-2 win over Besiktas, a Premier League victory over Sheriff Tiraspol, a 0-2 draw with Shakhtar Donetsk and also a 0-0 draw between Atletico Madrid To Porto.
