Gladbach beaten, Podolski makes instant impact
Saturday, August 15, 2015
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UEFA.com rounds up the results of the group stage and play-off sides in action on Saturday, with Mönchengladbach losing 4-0 and Lukas Podolski scoring on his Galatasaray debut.
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Group stage teams
Porto 3-0 Guimarães (Aboubakar 8 61, Varela 84)
• Vincent Aboubakar is already halfway to matching his tally of Liga goals from last season after scoring in each half of Porto's opener.
• Five players made their debuts for the Dragons: Iker Casillas, Maxi Pereira, Giannelli Imbula and Danilo Pereira started, while André André came off the bench in the second half.
Zenit 0-2 Krasnodar (Sigurdsson 26, Laborde 50)
• André Villas-Boas' team lost ground on early leaders CSKA Moskva after their first home defeat since 8 November.
• Zenit had won their first four Premier-Liga matches – last term they took maximum points from their opening eight games.
Sivasspor 2-2 Galatasaray (Chahechouhe 10 55pen; Burak Yılmaz 60, Podolski 81)
• Lukas Podolski equalised on his debut as Galatasaray recovered from 2-0 down in their Turkish Süper Lig curtain-raiser.
• Podolski's fellow summer recruits Bilal Kisa and Lionel Carole also started; José Rodríguez was an unused substitute.
Dynamo Kyiv 3-0 Karpaty (Miguel Veloso 22, Yarmolenko 53, Júnior Moraes 72)
• As they did in 2012/13, Dynamo have won their first five Ukrainian Premier League fixtures and hold a five-point lead over second-placed Shakhtar Donetsk.
• Andriy Yarmolenko and Júnior Moraes lifted their tallies for the season to three goals as the White-Blues stretched their unbeaten league record to 33 games.
Dortmund 4-0 Monchengladbach (Reus 15, Aubameyang 21, Mkhitaryan 33 50)
• Dortmund condemned Mönchengladbach to their heaviest loss since October 2012 – also 4-0, at Werder Bremen – in Thomas Tuchel's first Bundesliga match in charge of the hosts.
• It was an unhappy 50th Mönchengladbach appearance for Switzerland keeper Yann Sommer, who had not previously conceded more than three goals in a game for the Foals.
Guingamp 0-1 Lyon (Beauvue 79)
• Claudio Beauvue, who scored 27 goals in all competitions for Guingamp last term, opened his Lyon account against his erstwhile employers.
• Mathieu Valbuena made his debut for the visitors following his transfer from Dinamo Moskva on Tuesday.
Play-off teams:
Leverkusen 2-1 Hoffenheim (Kiessling 45, Brandt 71; Zuber 5)
• Leverkusen prepared for their trip to Rome to face Lazio on Tuesday by opening their Bundesliga campaign with a win for the third consecutive year.
• Steven Zuber's goal was the first Leverkusen have conceded at home in ten matches, a sequence that includes clean sheets against Atlético Madrid and Bayern München.
Meyrin 0-4 Basel (Ajeti 35 60, Elneny 58, Delgado 61)
• Basel, Swiss Cup runners-up in May, eased into the second round of the competition.
• Urs Fischer's men have won all eight of their competitive assignments since that 3-0 final defeat by Sion on 7 June.
Celtic 4-2 Inverness (Lustig 8, Griffiths 12, Armstrong 55 69; Christie 71, Dani López 78)
• Held 2-2 by Kilmarnock in midweek, Ronny Deila's Celtic side returned to winning ways ahead of the visit of Malmö on Wednesday.
• Celtic – who signed midfielder Scott Allan from Hibernian on Friday – are 14 unbeaten in all competitions, a run stretching back to mid-April.
Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 RNK Split (Soudani 28, Machado 46, Henríquez 89)
• Dinamo prevailed in what was a repeat of last season's Croatian Cup final, which the Blues claimed on penalties.
• The capital club, who face Albania's Skënderbeu in the play-offs, have not lost since 27 November – a 1-0 reverse at Astra Giurgiu in the UEFA Europa League group stage.
Malmö 2-0 Gefle (Rodić 31, Rosenberg 90+1)
• Malmö travel to Glasgow to face Celtic on the back of their third successive victory, all of them at home.
• Markus Rosenberg rounded off the scoring with his fifth goal in his last seven outings.