Calamitous own goal gives Tottenham 1-0 win against Villarreal
Real Madrid win 2-1 at home to Marseille as Alexander-Arnold off injured
Juventus snatch 4-4 draw with Dortmund in remarkable game, Qarabag come back to stun Benfica
Arsenal beat Athletic Club 2-0 as subs Martinelli & Trossard both score
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Benfica 2-3 Qarabag
History for Qarabag and what a way to do it!
They come from 2-0 to win 3-2 and become the first side from Azerbaijan to win a match in the main draw of the Champions League.
Football, eh?!
Juventus 4-4 Dortmund
It's being checked...
Goal given! Former Bristol City man Lloyd Kelly equals things up for Juventus.
Lloyd Kelly (90+6 mins)
They've turned it around!
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
That's that!
Tottenham hold on for a first win in the Champions League this season and a first win ever in the Champions League for manager Thomas Frank.
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Joao Palhinha wins the challenge to give Villarreal a late, late free kick in their own half.
Guglielmo Vicario gathers and that will surely be that.
Dusan Vlahovic (90+4 mins)
They couldn't, could they?
Dusan Vlahovic beats the Dortmund goalkeeper at his near post, sending his effort in off the woodwork, to pull one back.
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
Villarreal desperately trying to find an opening and putting Spurs under a lot of pressure in these final few minutes.
A final substitution for Spurs - Lucas Bergvall makes way for Kevin Danso.
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
Three minutes added on at the end of this one.
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Sami Mokbel
BBC Sport Senior football correspondent at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham are hanging on here. Having taken the lead so early, it should have been far more comfortable than this.
Credit to Villarreal for staying in the game, but Spurs have failed to build any sort of momentum from their early goal.
A nervy final few minutes in store.
Oleksii Kashchuk (86 mins)
You have to be joking!
From 2-0 down to winning 3-2, substitute Oleksii Kashchuk twists in the box and fires into the bottom corner.
The Azerbaijanis are on course for a first Champions League win.
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
Two minutes to go plus stoppages.
This will go down as a scrappy win if Tottenham can hold onto the lead. But as things stand that is not certain.
Kylian Mbappe (81 mins)
Geronimo Rulli guesses right but can only palm it in the back of his own net as Kylian Mbappe bags his second penalty of the night and the 10 men of Real lead again.
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We need to get our heads in the game here. This is easily one of the more winnable games on our slate and we can’t just think it’s won because we want it to be
Jon, Spurs fan
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
Alan Shearer
Former Newcastle striker on Amazon Prime
Tottenham have gotten away with it, for now. That summed up their second half. Very sloppy.
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
Oooofffff that looked close.
Nicolas Pepe goes for goal but he doesn't get enough curl on it and it's a foot or so wide.
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
Chris Sutton
Former Premier League striker on BBC Radio 5 Live at Tottenham Hotspur stadium
The foul is outside the penalty area and if so, surely that is a red card for Van de Ven? That is very odd that it's been awarded as a yellow.
That's a staggering call. It's a denial of a goal scoring opportunity.
Ramy Bensebaini (pen, 86 mins)
Juventus aren't happy about the VAR decision as Lloyd Kelly handles the ball in his own box.
Dortmund make the most of their chance as Ramy Bensebaini rolls the ball into the far corner to double their lead.
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
The VAR agrees with the referee that the foul is just outside the penalty box and replays show that as a good decision.
Micky van de Ven gets a yellow card for it and Villarreal have a free-kick in a dangerous area.
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Marseille can't believe it as Facundo Medina slides in on Vinicius Jr and the ball strikes his hand.
It's so, so unlucky but the referee points to the spot again.
Tottenham 1-0 Villarreal
Oh hello!
Is this a penalty? It's definitely a foul from Micky van de Ven but is it inside or outside the box? The referee says it's outside.
VAR will have a look.
| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Union Saint-Gilloise | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| |
3 Qarabağ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
|
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| |
8 Ajax | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
14 Bodø / Glimt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
16 Club Brugge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
18 Copenhagen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
19 Galatasaray | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
21 Kairat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
27 Olympiakos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| |
29 Pafos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
30 Slavia Prague | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
31 Sporting CP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
32 Benfica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| |
35 PSV | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
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Manager: Thomas Frank
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
Manager: Marcelino García
Formation: 4 - 4 - 2
Manager: Thomas Frank
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
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Formation: 4 - 4 - 2
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This will be the first meeting between Tottenham and Villarreal in European competition, with Spurs winning just one of their last 13 matches against Spanish opposition in major European competition (D5 L7).
Villarreal have played 14 matches against English opponents in the UEFA Champions League and are still looking for their first victory (D6 L8), while losing each of the last seven in a row. Over half of their defeats in the competition have been against English opposition (57% - 8/14).
This will be third time that Villarreal have played their opening game of a UEFA Champions League campaign against an English side (out of five seasons). The previous two were both against Manchester United and both finished 0-0, in 2005-06 and 2008-09.
Tottenham have only won their opening game of a European Cup/UEFA Champions League campaign in two of their seven attempts (D2 L3). However, those two have arrived on the last two occasions where they have played their opener at home: 2-0 v Marseille in 2022-23 and 3-1 v Borussia Dortmund in 2017-18.
Villarreal’s last match in the UEFA Champions League came in the semi-finals of the 2021-22 edition, losing 2-5 on aggregate to Liverpool. The Spaniards won three of their six away games in that campaign (D1 L2), more than they managed in 14 away matches across their three previous appearances in this competition (W2 D5 L7).
Tottenham manager Thomas Frank will take charge of a team in the UEFA Champions League for the first time – in fact, his only previous experience of managing in European competition came in qualifying for the UEFA Europa League, winning just three of 10 matches with Brøndby IF (D4 L3).
42 percent of Tottenham’s goals in the UEFA Champions League (since 1992-93) have been scored by Harry Kane or Son Heung-min (37/89). Following the departures of both, the only current Tottenham player with more than one goal for the club in the competition is Richarlison (2).
Villarreal forward Georges Mikautadze has been directly involved in seven goals in eight starts in major European competition to date (four goals, three assists), with all of those coming for Lyon in the UEFA Europa League last season.
Randal Kolo Muani could feature for a fourth different team (Tottenham) in the UEFA Champions League since the start of 2022-23, having previously appeared for Eintracht Frankfurt, Paris SG and Juventus. No active Champions League player has played for as many as four different teams in this period.
Villarreal defender Juan Foyth made his UEFA Champions League debut for Tottenham back in December 2017 (v APOEL Nicosia). Indeed, the Argentinean remains the youngest player to start a home game for the club in the competition (19y 328d in that match).
