Enjoy all the action from Wednesday's UEFA Champions League games, such as Manchester City vs. Borussia Dortmund and Club Brugge vs. Barcelona.

With all six Premier league clubs sitting either in or close to the top eight at the halfway stage of the league phase, could every English side qualify for the knockout rounds automatically?

Five teams from one country had never all won in a single round of the Champions League matches prior to this season. But Premier League sides did exactly that this week, as they did in the previous round of games. English sides have won 17 of 24 fixtures so far, a win percentage of 71%.

Everything to know as the defending champions of the Champions League host one of the hottest teams across Europe in a Champions League showdown

The 2025–26 Champions League league phase is at the midpoint, with the 36 clubs chasing European glory all playing their fourth matches this week. Less than four months after Paris Saint-Germain lifted their first-ever Champions League title, a fresh campaign of European’s elite competition kicked off across the continent.

Ibrahim Maza, the performance that complicates Petkovic’s plansChampions League: Maza puts Petkovic in a tough spotDeployed from the start in a deeper role than usual, Ibrahim Maza once again

Kickoff from Anfield in Liverpool is set for 3 p.m. ET. The latest Liverpool vs. Real Madrid odds list the hosts as slight +150 favorites (risk $100 to win $150) on the 90-minute money line, with Real Madrid listed as the +155 underdogs.

Garnacho struck in the 53rd for Chelsea, which was coming off Champions League victories over Ajax and Benfica after opening the league phase with a loss at leader Bayern Munich. In the other early game, Pafos earned its first-ever league-phase win by beating Spanish club Villarreal 1-0 at home in Cyprus.

Following his man of the match performance for Newcastle in the Champions League on Wednesday night, Italy international Sandro Tonali has said that he is ‘happy’ in the North East of England,