Liecester city cruise past Club brugge with a 3 nil victory. Real Madrid,Monaco,Manchester city and Borussia Dortmund won
Marc Albrighton scored with the Foxes' first shot after a defensive error from right-back Luis Hernandez's long throw
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Riyad Mahrez curled in a masterful free-kick for 2-0 before half-time.
Mahrez smashed in a penalty after Jamie Vardy was brought down by the keeper, before Brugge's Jose Izquierdo hit the post, adding to his bad miss at 0-0.
There will be more difficult games than this, but the Premier League champions displayed a maturity and composure that suggests potential to achieve more success at the elite level of European club football.
This was only Leicester's ninth European match, and their first win since a victory over Glenavon of Northern Ireland in the preliminary round of the 1961-62 Cup Winners' Cup, when Gordon Banks - who won the World Cup with England in 1966 - was in goal.
Leicester could have won by more on Wednesday.
Danny Drinkwater went close with a dipping volley struck on the turn with the ball almost at ground level from outside the box, while Robert Huth might have added a fourth from another of Hernandez's several long throws.
Debutant and club record signing Islam Slimani should have made more of a terrible Benoit Poulain back pass, and was booked for shoving Bjorn Engels in the back, with the Belgium defender forced off with what looked like a dislocated shoulder.
In the other match in Group G, Portuguese club FC Porto drew 1-1 at home to FC Copenhagen of Denmark.
Tottenham's disappointing Champions League opener with a massive picture of Harry Kane's face. They slumped to a 2-1 defeat against AS Monaco at Wembley right in front of a massive fans.
Sergio Aguero scored his seventh, eighth and ninth goals of the season asManchester City beat Borussia Monchengladbach 4-0 at the Etihad.
The game had been postponed from Tuesday after a storm of biblical proportions hit Manchester.
Aguero got his second hat-trick of the season in just his fifth game to continue City's impressive start.
The Argentinean is clearly relishing life under Pep Guardiola.
Holders Real Madrid scored twice stoppage-time to come from behind and beat Sporting Lisbon 2-1 in their Champions League opener.
Sporting took the lead through a low shot from Bruno Cesar but Cristiano Ronaldo equalised in the 89th minute with a superb long-range free-kick.
And Alvaro Morata - back at Real after two years with Juventus - won it with a stoppage-time header.
Elsewhere Borussia Dortmund won 6-0 and Juventus were held to a 0-0 draw.
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