Inter, Aston Villa, Club Brugge, Betis and LASK Win on Champions League Matchday 3
Five more results from Champions League matchday 3 were confirmed on Wednesday, October 21. Inter beat Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0. Aston Villa beat Viking 3-1. Club Brugge beat Lens 3-0. Real Betis beat Feyenoord 1-0. LASK won 3-2 at Sporting.
Inter 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk. Inter won their first Champions League points of the season, even with ten men. They had lost to Real Madrid and Club Brugge before, and had gone four European games without a win. Alessandro Bastoni was sent off in the 68th minute. He received two yellow cards in just over two minutes, the first for dissent and the second for hitting out at Oleh Ocheretko. Inter responded with a counter-attack. Henrikh Mkhitaryan passed to Carlos Augusto, who scored in the 77th minute. Bastoni will miss the trip to Feyenoord next.
Aston Villa 3-1 Viking. Ross Barkley headed in a corner in the 23rd minute. He became the first Villa player to score in four consecutive European games. Emiliano Buendía scored a penalty in the 37th minute. Alysson's cross then deflected in off Henrik Heggheim for an own goal in the 62nd minute. Peter Christiansen scored a late volley for Viking, after a VAR check. Villa have three wins from three and are second behind PSG.
Club Brugge 3-0 Lens. Hans Vanaken scored in first-half stoppage time, and Joaquin Seys doubled the lead in the 50th minute. Carlos Forbs finished a counter-attack in the 72nd minute, after a pass from Hugo Vetlesen. Brugge have six points from three games. Lens have three.
Real Betis 1-0 Feyenoord. Isco scored a penalty in the 59th minute after Jeremiah St. Juste handled the ball. Feyenoord goalkeeper Tjark Ernst made several saves to keep the score down. It was Betis's third win in three matches. They have nine points. They join Villa, PSG, Liverpool and Real Madrid as teams with a perfect record.
Sporting 2-3 LASK. Luis Suárez gave Sporting the lead with a penalty in the 5th minute. Christoph Lang equalised in the 15th. Sasa Kalajdzic scored in the 63rd minute, and Krystof Danek added a third in the 68th. Suárez scored again in the 89th, but it was not enough. It was LASK's first win in the competition and Sporting's first defeat of the season.