The former River and Banfield entered the 40th minute of the first half for the injured Victor Osimhen and four minutes later, in his first intervention, he made it 3-0, after a great collective play by Napoli.
Pole Piotr Zielinski (PT 5m and ST 2m) and Cameroonian André Zambo Anguissa (PT 31m) were the remaining scorers, while Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker saved a penalty from Osimhen (PT 17m).
The Colombian midfielder Luis Díaz (ST 4m), with an accurate definition, discounted for the English team, last runner-up in the Champions League.
Simeon, 27, He celebrated his goal with emotion, in his first Champions League gameand at halftime he was congratulated by his teammates.
The conquest of the son of “Cholo” could not have been better: in the contest he dreamed of playing, at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium and against Liverpool, one of the most powerful teams in the soccer world.
Simeone’s celebration included a kiss to the tattoo with the Champions League logo on his left forearm.
Napoli displayed high-flying football during the first leg against an unknown Liverpool. The Neapolitan team recorded superlative performances from Zielinski, Anguissa and the Georgian Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who took advantage of the weak performance of the English defender Joseph Gomez, substituted at the start of the second stage.
For the same group, Ajax thrashed Rangers 4-0 at home. The Argentine midfielder entered the Dutch team Lucas Ocampos (ST 36m).
The day for the Simeone continued with the agonizing triumph of the Atletico Madrid against Porto, 2-1, for group B. The Spaniard Mario Hermoso (ST 45+1m) scored for the local team, the Colombian Mateus Uribe, from a penalty (ST 45+6m), sealed equality in Madrid for the visit which ended with 10 players due to the expulsion of the Iranian Mehdi Taremi (ST 36m) and in the eleventh minute of stoppage the French Antoine Griezmann scored the winning goal.
In the “Cholo” team, the defender Nahuel Molinawho was replaced at the start of the second stage by his teammate on the Argentine national team, midfielder Rodrigo DePaul.
For its part, Bayer Leverkusen, with the entry of midfielder Exequiel Palacios (ST 1m), lost to Bruges, 1-0, in Belgium.
Inter, with the striker Lautaro Martinez as a starter, he lost in Milan against Bayern Munich by 2-0, with goals from the German Leroy Sané and the Italian Danilo DAmbrosio (against), for group C.
In that area, Barcelona crushed Viktoria Pilsen 5-1 with a hat-trick by Pole Robert Lewandowski, a figure in his country’s national team that will be Argentina’s rival in the first phase of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Lewandowski set another record in the top European competition: he became the first footballer to score three goals in the same game with three different teams (Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona).
The 34-year-old Pole is the third all-time top scorer in the Champions League with 89 goals. He is second only to Cristiano Ronaldo (141) and Lionel Messi (125).
Frankfurt, the last winner of the Europa League, fell 3-0 to Sporting Lisboa in group D. The Argentine striker entered the German team Lucas Alario (ST 28m).
Tottenham, with the defender Cristian “Cuti” Romero as a starter, they beat Olympique Marseille, 2-0, with a brace from the Brazilian Richarlison.
The central Leonardo Baleri entered 4 minutes into the second half in the French team.
The second date of the Champions League group stage will be played between September 13 and 14.
positions
Group A: Ajax and Napoli 3 points; Liverpool and Rangers 0.
Group B: Bruges 3 points; Atletico Madrid and Porto 1; B. Leverkusen 0.
Group C: Bayern Munich and Barcelona 3 points; Inter and Viktoria Pilsen 0.
Group D: Sporting Lisbon and Tottenham 3; Marseille and Frankfurt 0.
Group E: Dinamo Zagreb 3 points; Milan and Salzburg 1; Chelsea 0.
Group F: Real Madrid and Shakhtar 3 points; Leipzig and Celtic 0.
Group G: M. City and B. Dortmund 3 points; Copenhagen and Seville 0.
Group H: Benfica and PSG 3 points; Juventus and Maccabi Haifa 0.
Source: Ambito
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