Champions League: Real Madrid fight back to win five-goal thriller at Napoli
Real Madrid fought back to secure a barnstorming 3-2 win at Napoli in their Champions League Group C clash on Tuesday, with the Italian side's keeper Alex Meret scoring an unfortunate own goal to hand the Spaniards victory.
Leo Ostigard's header opened the scoring for Napoli in the 19th minute, but the visitors recovered with strikes from Vinicius Jr and Jude Bellingham within seven first-half minutes.
Napoli levelled in the 54th minute with a Piotr Zielinski penalty following a handball inside the box by defender Nacho.
But Real scored the winner in the 78th minute as a stunning long-range shot from Federico Valverde cannoned off the crossbar straight onto the back of the flailing Meret's head before deflecting into his own goal.
Real are top of Group C on six points from two games, three ahead Napoli and Braga. Union Berlin are bottom with no points.
Bayern Munich needed a late goal from Mathys Tel to continue its winning streak in Champions League group-stage games with a 2-1 win at Copenhagen on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Marcus Thuram made his mark in the Champions League to help Inter Milan get its campaign up-and-running with a 1-0 win over Benfica on Tuesday.
Thuram scored in the 62nd minute for his first goal in the competition for the Nerazzurri.
Elsewhere, There was late drama in Eindhoven as PSV and Sevilla played out a two-all draw, with a Jordan Teze goal grabbing a point for the home side after PSV's Luuk De Jong and Sevilla's Youssef En-Nesyri had swapped strikes in the 86th and 87th minutes, respectively.
Earlier, Mikel Oyarzabal and Brais Mendez scored first-half goals to give Real Sociedad a comfortable 2-0 win at Salzburg in their Champions League Group D clash on Tuesday.
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