Three days, 18 games, a boatload of high-grade performers: there really hasn't been a shortfall of options for our first Champions League team of the week. We'll be playing 4-4-2 this time, partly because it's the formation that lets you get the broadest sweep of options into your XI but mostly because I watched "Mike Bassett: England Manager" last week.

The latest updates and analysis from matchday one of the 2024-25 Champions League season, with Arsenal visiting Atalanta and Barcelona facing Monaco.

Dinamo Zagreb, who host Celtic in the Champions League on 10 December, are seeking a new head coach after Sergej Jakirovic left the Croatian club by mutual agreement two days after their 9-2 thrashing by Bayern Munich. It set the record for the most goals scored by a team in a Champions League match.

Bayer Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz had been eagerly anticipating playing Champions League football and wasted no time seizing his opportunity on Thursday with two goals as his side handed hosts Feyenoord a 4-0 hammering at De Kuip.

After match day one of the newly formatted Champions League, our writers answer the burning questions, provide analysis and break down performances.

The first round of Champions League matches continued on Wednesday as PSG bemoaned a laborious performance, Man City and Inter played out a 0-0 draw and Shakhtar Donetsk showed national pride.

The 0-0 draws between Manchester City and Inter Milan in their rematch of the 2023 final, after Bologna and Shakhtar Donetsk also could not find a goal, capped an untypically goal-shy evening for the Champions League on Wednesday.

Manchester City opened their Champions League campaign with a goalless draw against Inter Milan on Wednesday. Eilidh Barbour, Chris Sutton, John Murray and James Horncastle review the match on the Champions League Debrief,