Jose Mourinho suffered a disappointing return to Stamford Bridge on Tuesday, a first half of its own goal Gifting Chelsea a 1-0 win over his new Benfica side in the Champions League.
Chelsea’s Pedro Neto ran the ball to Alejandro Garnacho on the distant pole in the 18th minute, and the Argentinian stretched to turn it over the face of the goal, where the unfortunate Richard Rios could only poke him in his own net.
Chelsea ended the game with 10 men after replacement Joao Pedro was sent deep in the extra time for two yellow cards, but it was a first victory in the competition of this season, albeit a scrappy, for the team of Enzo Maresca, that his first Champions League outing lost in more than two years earlier this month.
Mourinho, who won three league titles in two spells with Chelsea, took the lead over Benfica less than two weeks ago after the side lost its first Champions League match to the Qarabag of Azerbaijan, and the Lisbon side dismissed Bruno Lage.
Tottenham Hotspur Scrapes 2-2 Draw thanks to Bodo/Glims Own goal
Tottenham Hotspur needed its own goal of 89 minutes to save a point on Bodo/Glimt while the return of two goals to draw 2-2 in the first Champions League match that once played in the polar circle.
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The Norwegians, who lost from Spurs in the Europa League semifinals last season, had a penalty from the first half of the bar by Kasper Hogh, but Jens Petter Hauge made no mistake after the break when he curled a fantastic shot in the 53rd minute.
Tottenham immediately hit back by Rodrigo Bentancur, but the goal was excluded for an error in the structure, and it soon became two down when Hauge struck again, this time with a left-wing attempt in the 66th minute to make it 2-0.
Captain Micky van de Ven withdrew a goal with a header two minutes later, but Spurs continued to struggle and the host seemed to go to a famous victory until goalkeeper Nikita Haikin blocked a shot that bounced Joster Gundersen and the net in the net for a late equalizer.
Published on October 1, 2025
