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Liecester city cruise past Club brugge with a 3 nil victory. Real Madrid,Monaco,Manchester city and Borussia Dortmund won


Leicester City celebrated the first Champions League match in their history by cruising to victory against Club Brugge in Belgium.

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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