Manchester: Paris Saint-Germain scored seven, Barcelona hit six and Erling Haaland struck his 24th goal of the season on an action-packed night in the Champions League.
In all, there were 43 goals in nine games, with six teams scoring four or more on Tuesday.
PSV Eindhoven routed Italian champions Napoli 6-2, while Arsenal and Inter Milan also had big wins to maintain their perfect starts in Europe.
But it was defending champion PSG that lead the way at the top of the standings after a wild 7-2 win against Bayer Leverkusen in a match that saw both teams reduced to 10 men in the first half.
By halftime at the BayArena PSG was 4-1 up - but that didn’t come close to telling the full story of a chaotic first period, which included a red card for each team and two penalties for Leverkusen.
Two goals for Desire Doue put the French champion well in control and the action continued after the break with Nuno Mendes extending the lead within five minutes of the restart. Ousmane Dembele also came off the bench to make a scoring return after injury.
Barcelona’s 6-1 win against Olympiakos saw it bounce back from a loss to PSG at the start of the month. Fermin Lopez scored a hat trick and Marcus Rashford hit two goals as Barcelona blew away 10-man Olympiakos.
Premier League leaders Arsenal beat Atletico Madrid 4-0, with Viktor Gyokeres scoring twice, and last season’s Champions League runners-up Inter beat Union Saint-Gilloise by the same score.
A powerful second half at the Emirates saw Mikel Arteta’s team brush aside Atletico with summer signing Gyokeres sealing the victory with two goals in three minutes. Those goals ended the striker’s seven-game scoring drought for Arsenal.
“The workrate he brings to the team is outstanding,” Arteta said.