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PSG Are Living up to Luis Enrique's Words and Their Depth Might Just Mean They're Champions League Favorites

Ilya Zabarnyi received a second yellow card leading to a red without video assistant referee review due to rules barring VAR on second yellow offenses in Champions League play.

  • On Tuesday, Barcelona defeated Olympiacos 6-1 in the Champions League, driven by a Fermin hat-trick and two Marcus Rashford goals.
  • After the 57th-minute incident, Santiago Hezze was sent off for a second yellow card, and VAR review was not permitted despite replays showing minimal contact.
  • Multiple VAR checks revealed Eric Garcia's handball that led to Ayoub El Kaabi's 54th-minute penalty and disallowed El Kaabi's 50th-minute header for offside.
  • The 68th-minute penalty shifted momentum after Rashford was fouled, with Olympiacos players left fuming over the red card that sent off Santiago Hezze in the 57th minute.
  • Olympiacos players and coach were left fuming at Urs Schnyder as replay evidence showed minimal contact, yet the early second-half red card could not be reviewed by VAR.
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On Tuesday, Paris Saint-Germain gave a play and goal recital in Germany in front of a limited Bayer Leverkusen, his third victory in the Champions League. It was crazy: 7 to 2. And they could be more... Ecuadorian central Willian Pacho, Desiré Doué (2), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Nuno Mendes, Ousmane Dembelé -returning from an injury and just entering the field of play-, and Vitinha as a gold brooch, set the goals of the team of Luis Enrique, who ha…

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Leverkusen has a fantastic wild game in the 2:7 against the defending champion PSG, after which the chances of the K. o. phase of the royal class have fallen a lot – especially in the first half of the year almost everything goes wrong.

·Munich, Germany
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Leverkusen got under the wheels of the Champions League on the 3rd match day. Defender of the title PSG celebrated a shooting party at Bayer. The Rheinländer also shot a penalty meter. The double pack of Aleix Garcia was only enough for results cosmetics.

·Dortmund, Germany
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Carton full for the champions of Paris Europe, easy winners of Bayer Leverkusen this Tuesday, in Germany.

·Paris, France
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