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Champions League roundup: Tresoldi hat-trick stuns Inter for Club Brugge win

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Inter 4-3 Club Brugge; Galatasaray 1-4 Barcelona Olise sent off as Bayern held 3-3 at Viking Stavanger Club Brugge and their young forward Nicolò Tresoldi shocked Inter 4-3 at San Siro in the Champions League’s result of the night. Tresoldi, a 22-year-old Italian-born Germany Under-21s forward, scored the first three goals for the Belgian side. A Hakan Calhanoglu foul on Carlos Forbs resulted in a penalty which Tresoldi slotted in just before the half hour.

Tresoldi picked up his second after capitalising on a blunder by the Inter keeper Josep Martínez just after the hour and reacting faster than the Inter defence for the third with a quarter of an hour to go.

Background: how the league phase works

The Champions League format introduced in 2024/25 puts 36 clubs in a single league table. Each club plays eight different opponents, with four matches at home and four away. A win earns three points and a draw earns one. Because teams face different opponents, a single result does not tell the whole story of a club's position.

The top eight advance directly to the round of 16. Teams finishing ninth to 24th enter a two-legged knockout play-off; those finishing 25th or lower are eliminated. When following a match report, distinguish the result from its effect on qualification: that depends on the wider table and the fixtures still to come.

Format reference: UEFA's explanation of the competition.

Read the original report at The Guardian.

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