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Dortmund Scores 7 while Barcelona, Man City and Arsenal All Win in Champions League

Fans display flares during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Celtic Glasgow at the BVB Stadion in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP)
Fans display flares during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Celtic Glasgow at the BVB Stadion in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP)
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Dortmund Scores 7 while Barcelona, Man City and Arsenal All Win in Champions League

Fans display flares during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Celtic Glasgow at the BVB Stadion in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP)
Fans display flares during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Celtic Glasgow at the BVB Stadion in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP)

Karim Adeyemi starred as Borussia Dortmund ran riot against Celtic while Barcelona and Manchester City claimed their first wins in the restructured Champions League on Tuesday.
Adeyemi scored a first-half hat trick as Dortmund routed Celtic 7-1 at home. It was the second big win from a German team in the competition after Bayern Munich's 9-2 bashing of Dinamo Zagreb in the first matchday.
Robert Lewandowski got Barcelona off the mark as the Spanish giant eased to a 5-0 home win over Swiss team Young Boys, while his former teammate İlkay Gündoğan got City off to a 4-0 win at Slovan Bratislava. Erling Haaland scored his 42nd goal in his 41st Champions League game.
City was held 0-0 by Inter Milan in their opening game, while Barca responded to its 2-1 loss at Monaco, the team’s first defeat under new coach Hansi Flick.
Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal outclassed his former team Paris Saint-Germain in a 2-0 win with Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka scoring in the first half for the Gunners. PSG coach Luis Enrique's gamble on leaving Ousmane Dembélé out did not pay off.
Arteta enjoyed a successful 18-month loan spell at PSG while still he was still a teenager at Barcelona.
Dortmund fans cry foul Though the Dortmund team appears to have adapted to the new competition format very well — last season's beaten finalist has 10 goals from two games after starting with a 3-0 win over Club Brugge — its fans made their opposition to the reforms clear with a huge tifo slamming UEFA.
This season UEFA changed the structure of Europe’s premier competition to add four more teams. The group stage was scrapped for a league system with each of the now 36 participating teams playing eight opponents once in a first phase of the competition.
UEFA claimed the changes would ensure more evenly matched games, but Tuesday's results — the big wins for Barca, City and Dortmund — appear to belie that claim.
There were more big wins Tuesday with Inter Milan defeating Red Star Belgrade 4-0, and tournament debutant Brest routing Salzburg 4-0 away for its second win in as many games in Europe’s premier competition, The Associated Press reported.
Iran forward Mehdi Taremi struck a penalty past Israel and Red Star goalkeeper Omri Glazer and set up two more goals for Inter hours after his country launched a barrage of missiles at Israel.
Senegalese forward Abdallah Sima netted twice for Brest to take his tally to three goals in two games after he scored in the French team’s tournament-opening 2-1 win over Austrian champion Sturm Graz.
Also Tuesday, Bayer Leverkusen defeated AC Milan 1-0 in Germany thanks a well-worked move finished by Victor Boniface.
Daniel Bragança scored late to earn Sporting Lisbon a 1-1 draw at PSV Eindhoven.
Kaan Kairinen’s brilliant free kick was enough for Prague to draw 1-1 at Stuttgart.
Stuttgart fans displayed a huge choreography saying “Back in Europe” behind one of the goals. It was the German team’s first Champions League match at home since a 1-1 draw with Barcelona in February 2010.

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Wolff Blasts Rivals over F1 Engine Loophole Claims

Formula One F1 - Austrian Grand Prix - Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria - June 27, 2025 Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff during the press conference REUTERS/Gintare Karpaviciute
Formula One F1 - Austrian Grand Prix - Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria - June 27, 2025 Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff during the press conference REUTERS/Gintare Karpaviciute
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Wolff Blasts Rivals over F1 Engine Loophole Claims

Formula One F1 - Austrian Grand Prix - Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria - June 27, 2025 Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff during the press conference REUTERS/Gintare Karpaviciute
Formula One F1 - Austrian Grand Prix - Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria - June 27, 2025 Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff during the press conference REUTERS/Gintare Karpaviciute

Mercedes Formula One boss Toto Wolff blasted rivals on Monday for casting doubt on the legality of his team's new engine through secret meetings and letters.

The sport is entering a new era with one of the most sweeping technical overhauls in decades and there has been talk of Mercedes and rivals Red Bull, now making their own engine, exploiting a loophole in the rules through the thermal expansion of components.

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That could put the three Ferrari-powered teams (Ferrari, Cadillac and Haas), Audi and Aston Martin (Honda) at a competitive disadvantage if true, Reuters reported.

Mercedes provide engines to four teams, while Red Bull also supply Racing Bulls.

"I just don't understand that some teams concentrate more on the others and keep arguing a case that is very clear and transparent," Wolff told reporters ahead of the team's online season launch.

"Communication with the FIA was very positive all along. And it's not only on compression ratio, but on other things too," added the Austrian.

"It's very clear what the regulations say. It's very clear what the standard procedures are on any motors, even outside of F1."

Wolff said rivals needed to get their act together instead of "doing secret meetings and sending secret letters and keep trying to invent ways of testing that just don't exist."

"Maybe you want to find excuses before you even start it (the season), why things are not good... it's not how we would do things," he added.

"Especially not after you've been told a few times that that is fine, it's legal and it's what the regulations say. But again, if somebody wants to entertain themselves by distraction then everybody's free to do this."

Formula One's governing body has played down talk of the controversy triggering a protest that overshadows the Australian season-opener on March 8.

Mercedes started the last engine era in 2014 with a dominant power unit and racked up a record eight constructors' titles in succession.

Wolff said the early evidence from an initial shakedown involving 10 of the 11 teams was that there was less of a gap than feared by some.

"In terms of pure performance on a lap, and even over several laps, it's looked like there is no-one that is really collapsing," he said.

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Arteta Seeks Arsenal Reinforcement for Injured Merino

Arsenal's Spanish manager Mikel Arteta applauds at the end of the UEFA Champions League, league phase day 7, football match between Inter Milan and Arsenal at San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on January 20, 2026. (AFP)
Arsenal's Spanish manager Mikel Arteta applauds at the end of the UEFA Champions League, league phase day 7, football match between Inter Milan and Arsenal at San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on January 20, 2026. (AFP)
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Arteta Seeks Arsenal Reinforcement for Injured Merino

Arsenal's Spanish manager Mikel Arteta applauds at the end of the UEFA Champions League, league phase day 7, football match between Inter Milan and Arsenal at San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on January 20, 2026. (AFP)
Arsenal's Spanish manager Mikel Arteta applauds at the end of the UEFA Champions League, league phase day 7, football match between Inter Milan and Arsenal at San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on January 20, 2026. (AFP)

Mikel Arteta said Arsenal are "actively looking" for a replacement for the injured Mikel Merino in the closing hours of the transfer window.

Merino, who has been a valuable contributor in midfield and attack for the Gunners, could miss the rest of the season with a fractured right foot that requires surgery, AFP reported.

Arteta stressed how significant the Spain international's absence as Arsenal compete to win four trophies.

The Arsenal boss hopes his club can come up with a new signing to fill the void before Monday's 1900GMT deadline.

"We are actively looking at options and we will continue to do that," Arteta told reporters on Monday.

"When you lose a big player like this with four months to go, and all the competitions to play for, you need to look and we need to do everything we possibly can to see if a player is available."

The loss of Merino has been tempered by the return to fitness of Germany forward Kai Havertz.

There was further good news for Arsenal as Arteta revealed an injury that kept England winger Bukayo Saka out of Saturday's 4-0 win over Leeds is only minor.

"Today, he (Saka) was better. Let's see how he responds. It doesn't look like something too serious," Arteta added ahead of Tuesday's League Cup semi-final second leg against Chelsea

"Whether he is available for tomorrow or the weekend, we will have to wait and see."

Arsenal remain on course for an unprecedented quadruple.

Arteta's side hold a six-point lead at the top of the Premier League, have progressed to the last 16 of the Champions League and face third-tier Wigan in the FA Cup fourth round.

But the Spaniard is focused on reaching the League Cup final as his side's first opportunity to end a six-year trophy drought.

Arsenal hold a 3-2 lead over Chelsea ahead of the second leg on home soil at the Emirates Stadium.

"The next one is always the most important one. And it is the closest, at least, to reach a final," said Arteta.

"We really need to create the atmosphere, the energy, the belief that we're going to do it."

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Barcelona’s Raphinha Out for a Week with Leg Injury

Football - UEFA Champions League - FC Barcelona v FC Copenhagen - Spotify Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - January 28, 2026 FC Barcelona's Raphinha celebrates scoring their third goal. (Reuters)
Football - UEFA Champions League - FC Barcelona v FC Copenhagen - Spotify Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - January 28, 2026 FC Barcelona's Raphinha celebrates scoring their third goal. (Reuters)
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Barcelona’s Raphinha Out for a Week with Leg Injury

Football - UEFA Champions League - FC Barcelona v FC Copenhagen - Spotify Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - January 28, 2026 FC Barcelona's Raphinha celebrates scoring their third goal. (Reuters)
Football - UEFA Champions League - FC Barcelona v FC Copenhagen - Spotify Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - January 28, 2026 FC Barcelona's Raphinha celebrates scoring their third goal. (Reuters)

Barcelona forward Raphinha has been sidelined for a week ​with a right leg injury, the LaLiga champions said on Monday, after the Brazilian was forced off at halftime during Saturday's ‌3-1 win ‌at ‌Elche.

The ⁠29-year-old, ​who ‌has scored eight goals and provided three assists this season, was ruled out for nearly two months after suffering ⁠a hamstring injury in September.

"Raphinha ‌is suffering from ‍an ‍overload in the adductor ‍muscle of his right leg... his recovery period is expected to be one ​week," Barcelona said in a statement, adding ⁠that he will miss Tuesday's Copa del Rey quarter-final at Albacete.

Leaders Barcelona, bidding for their third LaLiga title in four years, are a point above Real Madrid in the ‌standings.