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Champions League table after Liverpool continues 100 percent start with RB Leipzig win

liam prenderville
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Liverpool continued its excellent start to life under Arne Slot with victory over RB Leipzig. Darwin Nunez scored the only goal of the game with Slot's side now having won all three Champions League matches so far.

The Reds had started their campaign with a 3-1 victory over AC Milan and followed that up by putting Bologna to the sword at Anfield last time out. Slot's men have their two toughest games to come next month but are in a great position to go through in the top eight.

The revamped Champions League sees all 36 teams in one league table, with each playing eight games to determine who reaches the knockout stages. The top eight sides will automatically qualify for the last 16, with those finishing between 8th-24th fighting out in a play-off match to join them.

It has been an excellent start for the four Premier League sides with Aston Villa having won all three of their matches. Unai Emery's men secured a memorable win over Bayern Munich earlier in the campaign and then saw off Bologna on Tuesday night.

Manchester City has seven points from its first three games after thrashing Sparta Prague while Arsenal is also unbeaten after three matches after its win over Shakhtar Donetsk at the Emirates, having drawn against Atalanta in the first round of fixtures.

Next up for Liverpool is a reunion with former midfielder Xabi Alonso and Bayer Leverkusen on November 5. The Spaniard was heavily linked with a return to Anfield in the summer as Jurgen Klopp's replacement, but opted to remain in Germany.

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery.
Aston Villa manager Unai Emery. -Credit:Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images

That is followed by a home clash with Real Madrid, who twice beat Liverpool in Champions League finals under Jurgen Klopp's tenure. The holders of the competition looked to be heading for a defeat on Tuesday night against Borussia Dortmund, who it beat at Wembley in May.

Dortmund led 2-0 at the Bernabeu at the interval but Real delivered an incredible second-half performance to win 5-2, with Vinicius Jr leading the way.

Champions League table

1. Aston Villa - 9 pts

2. Liverpool - 9

3. Manchester City - 7

4. Monaco - 7

5. Brest - 7

6. Bayer Leverkusen - 7

7. Inter Milan - 7

8 Sporting CP - 7

9. Arsenal - 7

10 Barcelona - 6

11. Borussia Dortmund - 6

12. Real Madrid - 6

Rodrygo of Real Madrid celebrates with teammate Vinicius Junior after scoring his team's second goal during the LaLiga match between Real Madrid CF and RCD Espanyol de Barcelona at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on September 21, 2024 in Madrid, Spain.
Real Madrid has already lost once -Credit:Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Images

13. Benfica - 6

14. Juventus - 6

15. Lille - 6

16 Feyenoord - 6

17. Atalanta - 5

18. Stuttgart - 4

19. Paris Saint-Germain - 4

20. Celtic - 4

21. Sparta Prague - 4

22. Dinamo Zagreb - 4

23. Bayern Munich - 3

Matthijs de Ligt, Thomas Muller and Harry Kane jogging during a Bayern Munich training session.
Bayern Munich is struggling so far -Credit:Photo by ALEXANDRA BEIER/AFP via Getty Images

24. Girona - 3

25. AC Milan - 3

26. Club Brugge - 3

27. Atletico Madrid - 3

28. PSV - 2

29. Bologna - 1

30. Shakhtar Donetsk - 1

31 RB Leipzig - 0

32. Sturm Graz - 0

33. Red Star Belgrade - 0

34. Red Bull Salzburg - 0

35. Young Boys - 0

36 - Slovan Bratislava - 0