Keyword – Football
Trefwoorden – Football, Champions League, Sport, Carabao Cup
Title – Liverpool v Atlético Madrid, PSG v Slovan Bratislava, Chelsea v Leeds United – live | Football | The Guardian
Author – https://www.theguardian.com/profile/danielharris
Link – Liverpool v Atlético Madrid, PSG v Slovan Bratislava, Chelsea v Leeds United – live | Football | The Guardian
Publish date – 2026-09-09T18:07:15.000Z
Category – Sport
URL – https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/sep/09/liverpool-atletico-madrid-psg-slovan-bratislava-chelsea-leeds-united-live
Nope, the Feyenoord goal has been chalked off for offside, early in the move.
Right, let’s get the teams in our 8pm games – though Feyenoord have just pulled a goal back.
Ah, Raphinha has scored his second and Barca’s third – Pedri with the classy assist, a ball rolled through the middle exactly where he wants it, enabling him to move it away form the defender. That’s eight goals he’s got so far this season, in five games, and he’s looking like quite the centre-forward.
In our early games, Barcelona are 2-0 up at home to Feyenoord and and Stuttgart lead Viking 3-1.
Preamble
Sometimes, what a game shows is more important than what a game’s worth, and that might be so for Liverpool tonight. After a dreadful season under Arne Slot, they’ve gone into this with the same holes in the team unaddressed, an entirely new system to learn, and a manager inexperienced at elite level. It is not, therefore, surprising that they’ve made a spotty start to the season.
They do, though, boast a serious array of attacking talent that looked like it was starting to click at the weekend. Problem being, there’s a difference between looking good against Ipswich Town and looking good against even this version of Atlético Madrid, a team specifically constructed to ruin anything pleasant an opponent might attempt.
Nor is that the extent of them. In Julian Álvarez, they’ve an all-purpose forward of wit and technique, while Lee Kang-in is a very smart acquisition; both might fancy a go at Liverpool’s defence. And as such, though Andoni Iraola’s men could wear a defeat tonight, were they to win, it’d tell Europe – and even more importantly, themselves – that they’re not to be messed with.
If that was all we had going on, it’d be plenty, but it’s far from the case. PSG begin their quest for a third consecutive Big Ears against Slovan Bratislava, and we will of course, be updating from Napoli v Arsenal and Sporting v Galatasaray.
And, in the Rumbelows, we’ll be following a grudge match with violent roots, as Leeds visit Chelsea, which is to say we’ve another blinding night of our beloved football in prospect.
Kick-offs: 8pm BST