UEFA Champions League REVIEW 8 Sep 2026: A bizarre handball gifts Aston Villa a Bruges win, Haaland doubles up despite no pre-season, and Ethan Mbappe sees the youngest-ever French red card

The strangest goal of the opening night belonged to Aston Villa, and it came from an incident nobody at Jan Breydel Stadium seemed happy about. Club Brugge levelled at 1-1 through Hugo Vetlesen before Emiliano Buendia restored Villa's lead — via, per Sky Sports's broadcast partner TNT Sports, a moment their own commentator called "quite frankly, a farcical situation": "On his Champions League debut as well for Tyrone Mings.