UCL: GW 5 REVIEW

Leipzig, Liverpool held to draws at home and the Barca trident on the score sheet.

We take a sneak peek into the happenings across Europe as we look at the performances this week from Europe's elite competition.

Barcelona was on song when Borussia Dortmund visited the Nou Camp. Messi was at his magnificent best as he assisted two goals and scored on his 700th appearance. Jadon Sancho came on to give the away side some hope when he pulled one back and had a shot deflected onto the crossbar. Lucien Favre approached the game to hold the Catalonians and hit on the counter, but  Niko Schulz failed to take his chance early on.  Messi took over and was at his mesmerising best.
Lautaro Martinez and Lukaku are forming the best strike partnership. The latter troubled opposition defenders with his brute strength and link-up play and he got his first UCL goal for Inter. Lautaro's brace showed his great positional play.  Antonio Conte was his animated self on the touchline.

Frank Lampard was unlucky to leave Spain with all 3 points as there was another VAR drama involved. Kepa made a great stop to Dani Parejo's penalty but just watched on as Daniel Wass' attempted cross hit the upright to turn in. Ajax was away in France and got the deserved win as Lille kept on fluffing their lines. Erik Ten Haag got away with a 2-0 victory. 
Mourinho got his first CL victory with Spurs as the comeback was spurred by Harry Kane and Dele Alli to make it 4-2 against Olympiakos. Robert Lewandowski also got four against Red Star Belgrade. The Czech Republican could not survive the onslaught from the Bavarians.

Paulo Dybala got the only goal of the encounter when Juventus squared off against Atletico Madrid. He hit a freekick across the face of goal as it curled in at Oblak's far post. Manchester City salvaged a point when Gundogan got the equalizer for Pep's side at home against Shakthtar. Atalanta did well to grab their first win of the campaign as they saw off Dinamo Zagreb at home.
Haaland put the game to bed as RB Salzburg got the better of Genk. Genk managed to pull one back, but could not match the strength of the Red Bull outfit.

Real Madrid and PSG set up a mouth-watering encounter at the Bernabeu. Karim Benzema got the two goals for the Los Blancos, but two late goals from the French side put them level as they grabbed a point to still lead the group. Mbappe and Sarabia got the goals for the PSG as Hazard walked off injured.
Dries Mertens got Van Dijk on the turf as he raised through the Red's defence to get Napoli's goal before the break. Carlo Ancelotti kept it tight till the Lovren got the better of Mertens in the box to score from a corner.

A good week of UCL football but other teams need to wait until the last game week to see it through.
Player of the week. Robert Lewandowski.