Dinamo Zagreb vs Chelsea LIVE: Champions League result and score as Blues suffer opening defeat

The Champions League anthem is Erling Haaland’s alarm and it would be tempting to describe his first appearance in this competition for Manchester City as a wake up call for the rest of Europe, if indeed they really needed one. Haaland will wake up tomorrow morning a happy man after his first goals in the continent’s elite club competition for his new club extended his remarkable start to life as a City player. It is now 12 goals in seven games for the Norwegian.

If Pep Guardiola is right to believe that Haaland will not win City their first European Cup on his own, he will certainly help. The scariest thing is, on this evidence, they may not even need him. Sevilla, the fourth-placed side in La Liga last season, were swatted aside by four unanswered goals despite the best efforts of a noisy Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, which had no sympathy for the efforts of their players after the final whistle, jeering Julen Lopetegui’s players as they sought forgiveness for the defeat.

You imagine Sevilla are not the only side that City will do this to in this group stage, let alone this competition. Haaland’s two goals were further evidence of his pure goalscoring instinct, his ability to be in the right place at the right time, as well as bludgeon his way there through raw strength and power if he has to. His brace sandwiched a Phil Foden strike, while Ruben Dias rounded off the scoring late on.

Erling Haaland is the fourth player in Champions League history to score in his first appearance for three different teams (Salzburg, Borussia Dortmund and Man City), after Fernando Morientes, Javier Saviola and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

A convincing performance and victory for Manchester City.

That is Sevilla’s joint-biggest home defeat in European competition with both coming against English teams in recent times.

They were beaten 4-0 by Chelsea - also in the Champions League group stages - in December 2020.

90+4 mins: There’s the final whistle! Manchester City close out an impressive victory in their opening Champions League match. Erling Haaland scored twice with Phil Foden and Ruben Dias chipping in with a goal apiece.

It was a resounding and confident performance from Pep Guardiola’s men. They will all be pleased with that result.

90+2 mins: Dominant and destructive. Ruben Dias has his first Champions League goal as City put the icing on the cake.

Dias stays up the pitch after City’s corner and watches as Joao Cancelo is played down the right on the overlap. He squares the ball into the box where Dias sprints through the defence to tap it home.

90 mins: Three minutes of added time to play. City in cruise control and have a free kick over near the corner flag.

Off the line! The free kick comes into the box and is spilled by Bounou. Akanji pulls it back to Alvarez whose effort is cleared off the line!

85 mins: Former Manchester United star Adnan Januzaj has come on for his Sevilla debut immediately sets up a chance for Suso who fizzes his effort straight at Ederson to record the home side’s first shot on target.

82 mins: Sevilla are having a torrid time of things at the minute. Not only are they being well beaten at home to Man City but they’ve only picked up one point from their first four La Liga games.

Manager Julen Lopetegui is under real pressure and may not make it to the return match at the Etihad later in the year.

79 mins: Kalvin Phillips is getting a run out for Man City too. He’s come on for Rodri and will have about 15 minutes to play.

City look very comfortable and are controlling the game easily.