Holders Paris St Germain scored three times in seven minutes as they crushed Bayer Leverkusen 7-2 in a frenzied evening of Champions League goals.
There were 43 goals in total on the night: PSG scored seven, Barcelona six, PSV six and Inter Milan, Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund four each.
Holders PSG had a man sent off in the first half, as did Leverkusen, and saw Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembélé score on his return from injury. They took the lead in the seventh minute thanks to Willian Pacho’s header at the far post.
Leverkusen had the chance to equalize from Alejandro Grimaldo’s penalty in the 25th minute, but the Spaniard hit the post.
Things got worse for the hosts when captain Robert Andrich was sent off for elbowing Désiré Doué in the 32nd minute. PSG fell to 10 men when Illia Zabarnyi beat Christian Kofane to give the hosts another spot-kick.
Aleix Garcia equalized but Leverkusen’s joy lasted just three minutes, Doue putting the visitors back in front before Khvicha Kvaratskhelia made it 3-1 with a shot off the post and Doue striking again to all but secure a third successive victory in the competition for PSG this season.
Nuno Mendes headed home to make it 5-1 in the 50th minute before Garcia scored four minutes later, but Dembele scored in the 66th minute with an easy strike and Vitinha completed the rout.
Dennis Man scored twice PSV handed over Naples a 6-2 drubbing.
Scott McTominay put the Italians ahead in the 31st minute, but the Dutch champions took a 2-1 lead within seven minutes as Alessandro Buongiorno put the ball into his own net and then Ismael Saibari scored on the counter-attack.
After half-time, Man scored twice as PSV took advantage of a frenetic atmosphere at the Philips Stadion to move to four points from three games, one more than the Serie A champions.
Lorenzo Lucca was sent off 14 minutes from time for dissent to add to the visitors’ woes, although McTominay scored his second five minutes from time from a corner.
But from the restart, Couhaib Driouech allowed substitute Ricardo Pepi to score with his first kick of the match and within a minute Driouech got one himself with a thumping strike at the end of a series of quick one-touch passes.
Tuesday’s scores
Barcelona 6-1 Olympiakos
Kairat 0-0 Paphos
Arsenal 4-0 Atlético Madrid
Bayer Leverkusen 2-7 PSG
Copenhagen 2-4 Borussia Dortmund
Newcastle 3-0 Benfica
PSV 6-2 Napoli
Union Saint-Gilloise 0-4 Inter Milan
Villarreal 0-2 Man City
