Bayern Munich made it 16 wins from 16 video games this season to underline their credentials as early Champions League favourites, beating the holders, Paris Saint-Germain, 2-1 away as Luis Díaz scored two objectives and was proven a pink card.
The Colombia winger struck twice earlier than being despatched off for a violent deal with on Achraf Hakimi on the stroke of half-time.
PSG, who lowered the arrears by João Neves, dominated possession after the break however did not make it totally depend and slipped to their first defeat within the competitors since final season's quarter-final second leg in opposition to Aston Villa.
The outcome saved Bayern high of the 36-team league on a most 12 factors, with PSG third, three factors adrift and with extra damage considerations after Hakimi and Ousmane Dembélé have been changed early.
“It's at all times exhausting to lose at residence. We have to assert ourselves and play higher. We confronted a nicely organised workforce, particularly bodily. We couldn't get our sport going,” the PSG captain, Marquinhos, mentioned.
PSG, who had overwhelmed Bayern 2-0 within the Membership World Cup quarter-finals in July, got here out flying with their trademark excessive urgent however have been caught chilly within the fourth minute when Díaz smashed residence after Lucas Chevalier had parried Michael Olise's effort.
Dembélé thought he had levelled halfway by the half just for his purpose to be dominated out for offside, as PSG pressed however appeared unusually fragile on the again.
Bayern stayed a step forward and, after Serge Gnabry struck the put up, Díaz pounced on a sleepy Marquinhos to steal the ball and slot residence a second within the thirty second minute.
Díaz's night ended abruptly simply earlier than half-time when he was proven a straight pink for a brutal lunge on Hakimi, who limped off in tears with a suspected ankle damage.
Neves lowered the arrears with a scissor kick and got here near levelling a couple of minutes later with a header.
Juventus are nonetheless and not using a win within the competitors after they have been held to a 1-1 attract Turin by Sporting, when Maximiliano Araújo put the guests forward and Dusan Vlahovic equalised for the hosts.
An eight-game winless run in all competitions led to the latest sacking of the Juventus coach Igor Tudor and, after two victories on the bounce since then, one other attract Europe, this time beneath Luciano Spalletti, put the Italian facet on three factors from 4 matches.
Sporting, who transfer on to seven factors, went in entrance within the twelfth minute when Francisco Trincão performed the ball vast to Araújo who drilled a low shot off the far upright and into the underside nook.
Vlahovic's glancing header from the sting of the six-yard field was saved by Rui Silva. The Serbian had one other effort parried away for a nook, and was rewarded within the thirty fourth minute when he toe-poked Khephren Thuram's pin-point go to the online.
In Athens, Ricardo Pepi scored in stoppage time for PSV Eindhoven to safe a 1-1 draw with Olympiakos and deny the Greek membership a primary win within the Champions League this season. Pepi caught away a rebound from a free-kick three minutes into stoppage time after Olympiakos had led from the seventeenth minute by Gelson Martins.
Atlético Madrid earned a 3-1 residence victory in opposition to Union Saint-Gilloise, with objectives from Julián Alvarez, Conor Gallagher and Marcos Llorente holding Diego Simeone's facet within the hunt for qualification.
The outcome leaves Atlético 14th within the league-phase standings on six factors from 4 matches, stage with 5 different groups, whereas the Belgium champions, Union Saint-Gilloise, sit twenty sixth with three factors and out of doors the qualification spots.
Atlético struck first within the fortieth minute when Giuliano Simeone burst up the precise channel and put it on a plate for his Argentina teammate Alvarez to unleash an unstoppable half-volley from contained in the field.
Atlético got here off the break livelier and eventually discovered their second purpose within the 72nd minute when Gallagher fired a bullet strike from contained in the field
Union Saint-Gilloise refused to go quietly, slicing the deficit within the 81st minute whenRoss Sykes leaped excessive to unleash a towering header into the underside left nook. The purpose arrange a nervy end for the hosts who lastly managed to attain once more when Llorente made it 3-1.
The Monaco striker Folarin Balogun acquired the one purpose of the sport because the French facet grabbed a 1-0 win at Bodø/Glimt, with Jostein Gundersen despatched off for the house facet for a badly mistimed deal with late on.
The Norwegian facet gained the first-half possession battle however went behind within the forty third minute when Balogun ghosted in behind the defence and slammed a shot into the highest nook from a good angle.
With the rain pouring down, Bodo's night went from unhealthy to worse when the defender Gundersen was proven a pink card for a careless stamp on the ankle of Mika Biereth within the 81st minute that left the Monaco substitute writhing on the bottom in ache.
That successfully ended any likelihood of a comeback and Monaco held on comfortably for a win that strikes them to 18th within the desk on 5 factors, whereas their hosts slip to twenty seventh spot with two factors from a pair of attracts of their first two video games.
Napoli and Eintracht Frankfurt performed out a goalless draw on the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, with Antonio Conte's workforce at the least stopping the rot defensively after delivery six objectives to PSV within the earlier spherical of fixtures.
