Real Madrid failed to score for the third straight game as it slumped to a 1-0 loss at CSKA Moscow in the Champions League group stage on Tuesday.
With Sergio Ramos rested, the reigning European champion's defense seemed disjointed and it conceded as early as the second minute when CSKA's Nikola Vlasic intercepted a pass from Toni Kroos and struck the ball low past Keylor Navas.
Madrid slowly found its way into the game but had to contend with a tightly packed CSKA defense. Casemiro hit the post in the 28th minute with a speculative shot, Karim Benzema headed onto the bar in the 40th, and Mariano Diaz headed onto the post late on.
Even with nearly 70 percent possession and Luka Modric introduced off the bench, Real couldn't break down CSKA and offered the Russian team chances on the counterattack.
When Dani Carvajal limped off just before halftime, Madrid seemed set to add to an injury list which already contains Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Isco.
Roma beat Viktoria Plzen 5-0 on an Edin Dzeko hat trick in Tuesday's other game in Group G. That leaves CSKA top of the group with four points, ahead of Madrid and Roma with three each and Plzen on one point.
Dybala's hat trick helps Juventus beat Young Boys 3-0
No Cristiano Ronaldo, no problem for Juventus.
Paulo Dybala filled in for the star by scoring his first Champions League hat trick to give the Italian team a 3-0 victory over Young Boys on Tuesday.
With Ronaldo watching from the stands after getting his first red card in the competition in the previous round, Dybala rediscovered the scoring form that saw the Argentina international score 22 Serie A goals last season.
"I wanted a match like this," Dybala said, with a huge smile on his face and clutching the match ball. "But I think the whole team approached the match with the right attitude."
It was Juventus' ninth win in nine matches this season as the Italian club remained perfect in all competitions.
It also saw Juventus take control of Group H with a two-point lead over Manchester United, which drew 0-0 against Valencia.
That still wasn't enough to satisfy coach Massimiliano Allegri.
"We should have scored more tonight," he said. "On one hand for our goal difference, on the other because matches are coming up in which we will only have one or two chances, and we will have to be more clinical than we have been."
Juventus visits Manchester United in the next round when Ronaldo will be available for his return to Old Trafford.
It took Dybala less than five minutes to give Juventus the lead with a delightful chipped volley after a long ball over the top from Leonardo Bonucci.
Juventus almost doubled its lead 10 minutes later as Young Boys goalkeeper David von Ballmoos could only parry Federico Bernardeschi's effort but it was cleared for a corner.
However, Von Ballmoos was punished for a similar mistake in the 33rd when he pushed away Blaise Matuidi's fierce shot and Dybala was on hand to tuck the rebound into the bottom left corner.
Dybala came close to completing his hat trick three minutes into the second half when he dispatched an angled effort past the reach of Von Ballmoos but it bounced off the inside of the left post.
Moments later he could have had a penalty after he was tripped by Young Boys defender Steve von Bergen but the referee waved play on.
Dybala did get his hat trick in the 69th, finishing off a long passing move by Juventus after being unselfishly teed up by Juan Cuadrado.
Only four Juventus players have scored a hat trick in the Champions League, including Filippo Inzaghi (twice), Alessandro Del Piero and Arturo Vidal.
It was also Dybala's first hat trick in Turin. He scored trebles in three league matches last season but all were away from home.
Dybala had struggled to find the net since Ronaldo joined the club this summer, having scored just once while playing in a deeper-lying role behind the Portuguese star and Mario Mandzukic in a three-pronged attack.
"Last year I scored many goals at the start and then slowed down, it was almost the opposite," he said. "Obviously it's easier at times with Cristiano but we have to always be focused, when he's playing and when he's not playing."
Young Boys' evening was made even worse in the 78th when defender Mohamed Ali Camara was sent off following two bookings in quick succession.
It was a second successive 3-0 defeat for Young Boys, which lost by the same score to Manchester United. The Swiss side only had one shot on target the whole match.
Lyon rallies from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with Shakhtar
Lyon rallied from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk and stay top of its Champions League group on Tuesday.
Brazilian striker Junior Moraes scored twice for the Ukrainian side, but Lyon salvaged a point with second-half goals in quick succession from striker Moussa Dembele and defender Leo Dubois.
Lyon could have won as Dembele and substitute Memphis Depay missed good chances. But so could Shakhtar, with Nigerian forward Olarenwaju Kayode hitting the crossbar in the last minute.
Lyon is one point ahead of English champion Manchester City, which lost its opening game to the French team and bounced back to win 2-1 at German side Hoffenheim in Group F's other match on Tuesday. Shakhtar has two points and Hoffenheim is last with one.
Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes made two good saves in the first half but was beaten just before the interval. Brazilian left back Ismaily got to the byline and pulled the ball back for countryman Moraes to finish confidently at the near post.
Lyon started the second half well, but after midfielder Houssem Aouar had a goal disallowed for offside the visitors made it 2-0 shortly with an all-Brazilian move after Aouar had lost the ball. Midfielder Taison fed countryman Alan Patrick and he quickly found Moraes - who expertly side-footed inside the near post after 55 minutes.
Lyon coach Bruno Genesio brought on Depay and the lively Netherlands forward sparked the attack.
Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov saving Dembele's shot in the 68th and then kept out defender Ferland Mendy's effort.
Lyon's pressure paid off when Dembele headed in France forward Nabil Fekir's cross.
Two minutes later, the right back Dubois found space near the penalty spot and converted Aouar's cross from the left.
Champions League: Semedo rescues Benfica to beat AEK 3-2
Substitute Alfa Semedo rescued 10-man Benfica with a late goal to beat AEK Athens 3-2 Tuesday as the Greek champion was punished for chaotic defending with a second Champions League defeat.
Left unchallenged, the 21-year-old Semedo fired past goalkeeper Vasilis Barkas in the 74th minute at Athens' Olympic Stadium.
Benfica looked set to secure the Group E match early, scoring twice in the opening 15 minutes through Haris Seferovic and Alex Grimaldo.
But Benfica lost control after dropping to 10 men when Ruben Dias received a second booking before the break for a foul on Roma-loaned Ezequiel Ponce.
Viktor Klonaridis scored twice in the second half but missed a clear chance for the winner moments before Semedo's goal.
Bayern and Ajax drew 1-1 in the group's other game on Tuesday.
United stutters to 0-0 draw vs Valencia after arriving late
Manchester United turned up late for the match and produced another lackluster performance in a 0-0 home draw with Valencia in the Champions League on Tuesday, increasing the scrutiny on under-fire manager Jose Mourinho.
Kickoff was delayed by five minutes at Old Trafford because United's team bus got stuck in traffic on the way to the ground, arriving just 45 minutes before the scheduled start time of the Group H game.
United's players never really got going on the field, either, with a late rally failing to yield a goal that would have secured a second straight win in group play. The English club is in second place on four points, two behind Juventus which heads to Old Trafford for the teams' third match in three weeks.
United has a history of turning up late for matches - they have done so a number of times in the Premier League, including for back-to-back matches in London against Tottenham and then West Ham in 2016. This time, though, it was for a home game.
UEFA said the delay was because of "heavy traffic en route to the stadium" but the incident will be viewed by critics as symptomatic of the commotion engulfing England's biggest team amid its struggles under Mourinho.
After a week when United lost to both second-tier Derby County in the English League Cup and then West Ham in the Premier League, Mourinho was looking for a reaction from his players and said before the match that "it's time for the people on the pitch to show them that they love the club as much as the fans."
Even if the desire was there, the quality was lacking. One moment late in the first half summed up the paucity of attacking quality: Eric Bailly, United's center back, chested down a loose ball, took a quick look around then tried a highly ambitious effort from 45 meters that unsurprisingly looped well wide of goal.
Valencia looked more dangerous and sprightly going forward, especially down the left and in behind United right back Antonio Valencia, but didn't have the cutting edge to match its build-up play.
Familiar cries of "attack, attack, attack" came from United supporters at the start of the second half, and the home team did pile on the pressure in the final half-hour with Romelu Lukaku having a curling effort turned aside and Valencia's defenders producing last-gasp challenges to block close-range shots.
In the 85th minute, Marcus Rashford - United's best attacker on the night - sent in a fiercely struck free kick that crashed against the crossbar and bounced away from danger.
Lukaku wasted United's final chance, heading over at a corner.
Valencia earned its first point of group play and is in third place.
Plzen pleasure: Dzeko scores 3 more against favorite target
Edin Dzeko can't stop scoring against Viktoria Plzen.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina striker netted a hat trick to raise his tally to nine goals in eight matches against the Czech side as Roma revived its Champions League campaign with a 5-0 rout on Tuesday.
"I know them well," a grinning Dzeko said. "I have played against them in the Czech Republic before."
Turkey winger Cengiz Under added another for Roma - having previously hit the crossbar - and 19-year-old forward Justin Kluivert also knocked in a rebound.
In the Europa League two years ago, Dzeko scored a hat trick for Roma against Plzen. He also got two against Plzen in the Champions League while with Manchester City in the 2013-14 group phase. His other goals against Plzen came when Dzeko played in the Czech Republic for Teplice from 2005-07.
A surprise semifinalist last season, Roma is building confidence after its emotional 3-1 win over Lazio in the Rome derby on Saturday.
Having been thoroughly outclassed by three-time defending champion Real Madrid in the Group G opener, Roma is back in the battle for the knockout rounds.
CSKA Moscow, which beat Madrid 1-0 in Tuesday's other group match, leads with four points. Roma and Madrid have three points each and Plzen is last with one.
"We're still nowhere close to our maximum potential," Dzeko said.
Dzeko can speak Czech fluently and he was quick to seize upon holes in Plzen's defense.
The first goal came when Dzeko was set up by Aleksandar Kolarov to beat the offside trap three minutes in, enabling the Roma No. 9 to place a shot in the far bottom corner.
Under, Roma's 21-year-old winger, rocked the goalframe with a long shot near the half-hour mark and Kluivert then protested to no avail for a penalty when the ball appeared to go off a defender's arm.
Before the break, Dzeko scored his second with an expert chest control and half volley from close range following a cross from Under. He nearly had another later on but goalkeeper Matus Kozacik denied him with his boot.
Under scored with an angled shot after being set up by Lorenzo Pellegrini, who maintained his exceptional form from the derby.
Pellegrini also helped set up Roma's fourth goal with a cross-field pass to Under, whose shot was palmed away by Kozacik into the path of the waiting Kluivert.
Kluivert - the son of former Netherlands standout Patrick Kluivert - became the youngest Roma player to score in the Champions League.
After Kluivert scored, he held up a shirt featuring the name of former Ajax teammate Abdelhak Nouri, who recently emerged from a year-long coma.
Dzeko completed his hat trick in stoppage time by rising above the defense for a header from a corner.
Dzeko has now scored eight goals in his last seven Champions League appearances; ending a six-match scoreless streak in all competitions.
Bayern draws 1-1 against Ajax in Champions League
Bayern Munich held on to a 1-1 draw against Ajax in the Champions League on Tuesday as the German team's recent wobbles continued.
Noussair Mazraoui scored for the visitors after Mats Hummels headed Bayern into an early lead, and the home side was fortunate to secure a point after Lasse Schone rattled the crossbar in injury time. Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer got his fingertips to the shot.
Bayern won its first seven games of the season across all competitions but has now failed to win in three games.
Hummels got the home side off to a perfect start with a header from Arjen Robben's cross in the fourth minute.
Ajax seemed shaken by the setback as Bayern dominated the first 15 minutes. But the visitors grew in confidence after Dusan Tadic fired their first chance over the bar.
Mazraoui equalized in the 22nd after playing a one-two with Tadic.
Hakim Ziyech almost put the visitors in front before the break but Neuer saved his powerful shot.
Tadic set up Nicolas Tagliafico after the break but the Argentine shot straight at Neuer, who was kept surprisingly busy.
Bayern substitute Serge Gnabry went close at the other end before Schone nearly netted the winner in injury time.
David Silva rescues City with late strike to beat Hoffenheim
David Silva scored late for Manchester City to end its four-game losing streak in the Champions League with a 2-1 win at Hoffenheim on Tuesday.
The Spanish forward struck from a narrow angle with three minutes remaining after pouncing on a loose ball ahead of 21-year-old defender Stefan Posch.
City bounced back from its opening 2-1 home loss to Lyon in the competition despite falling behind inside the first minute, when Ishak Belfodil shot past Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson after Kerem Demirbay played the ball through the visitors' defense.
Sergio Aguero equalized minutes later with a simple finish after Germany winger Leroy Sane capped a good team move to set the Argentine up.
City had Pep Guardiola back on the sidelines after the Spanish coach served his one-match ban for improper conduct, and his side dominated much of the match after recovering from the early deficit.
Sane, Aguero and Raheem Sterling tormented the Hoffenheim defense for much of the first half, when Oliver Baumann rescued his side with some impressive saves.
City defender Kyle Walker was fortunate to escape with just a yellow card for a bad challenge on Pavel Kaderabek in the second half, while the visitors thought they should have had a penalty when Baumann appeared to bring down Sane after missing the ball. Referee Damir Skomina did not award the spot kick.
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