Champions League Takeaway: Liverpool's Kuyt Crash, More Real Escapology, Como Hit NINE & Everthing Else

Hello Rank Squad!

Champions League Takeaway returns for Matchweek Four of this season's League Stage, and we finish up ahead of the international break with another wildly chaotic night with goals galore. We open up by talking about Liverpool, who twice led in Istanbul against Fenerbahçe, but who ended up on the wrong side of a 3-2 loss to former Kop cult hero Dirk Kuyt. Real Madrid played out a 3-2 as well, but they were ultimately victorious - this is the Champions League, after all.

In Part Two we discuss Como's absolute destruction of Lens - a 9-1 victory away from home which smashed the record for the competition's biggest away win and announced the Lariani as a genuine immediate force in the European game that nobody should be taking lightly; before looking at Manchester City's win at Leipzig, which was an excellent result but didn't actively dispel any of the growing concerns we have about this Cityzens team under Enzo Maresca.

As ever in Part Three we round things up with everything else: Arsenal's win over Slavia Prague which was much nervier that it perhaps was expected to be; Borussia Dortmund seeing off Real Betis in a raucous affair at the Westfalenstadion; Porto finally getting their first win of the UCL season against an ailing Napoli; Club Brugge stunning PSV on their own patch in Eindhoven; and Viking's maiden Champions League victory ever against fellow newcomers Sabah.

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