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LONDON. — Holders Bayern Munich made a sparkling start to their Champions League title defence last night, with Pep Guardiola’s side easing past CSKA Moscow 3-0 in their Group D opener at the Allianz Arena. It’s definitely the greatest football show on earth, 29 goals last night are proof of that.

Match Day One served a feast of goals, some stunners which will definitely contend for the goal of the year.
Bayern, attempting to become the first team to win the trophy in back-to-back seasons, got off to a dream start when David Alaba floated a vicious free kick over the wall and past keeper Igor Akinfeev in the third minute.

Croat Mario Mandzukic added a second goal in the 41st minute, heading in an Arjen Robben free kick, before the Dutchman made it 3-0 midway through the second half.

Wayne Rooney scored twice to chalk up 200 goals for Manchester United as his side beat Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 in their Champions League Group A opener at Old Trafford last night.

Rooney put the English champions ahead in the 22nd minute with a close-range volley and had chances to stretch the lead before Leverkusen captain Simon Rolfes levelled after 54 minutes.

Robin van Persie re-established the three-time European champions’ lead five minutes later with an acrobatic volley and Rooney made amends for an earlier miss by squeezing home a right-footed shot after a defensive mix-up.

Antonio Valencia made it 4-1 after 79 minutes before Omer Toprak’s late consolation for Leverkusen as United’s David Moyes enjoyed his first taste of managing in the Champions League group stage with a victory.

Gareth Bale came off the bench and played a key role in two goals in Real Madrid’s hammering of Galatasaray in Istanbul as Cristiano Ronaldo struck his 21st hat-trick for the Bernabeu club in a 5-1 romp.

Bale watched Isco, Karim Benzema and Ronaldo put his new club 3-0 up over the Turkish champions, before coming on and having a hand in the action.

First, the Wales winger’s free-kick found its way to Ronaldo, who made no mistake and made it 4-0 for Carlo Ancelotti’s side.
He then slipped Ronaldo through, who rolled the ball to Benzema before the France striker doubled his tally.

Never one to be outdone, Ronaldo struck again to notch up his 21st hat-trick at the capital club. Manchester City demonstrated their Champions League intent this season by crushing Viktoria Plzen 3-0 in their opening Group D game on Tuesday.

Edin Dzeko, Yaya Toure and Sergio Aguero scored in a 10-minute period early in the second half against the Czech champions.
Results:

Manchester United 4-2 Bayer Leverkusen
Real Sociedad 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Galatasary 1-5 Real Madrid
Kobenhavn 1-1 Juventus
Benfica 2-0 Anderlecht
Olympiacos 1-4 PSG
Bayern Munich 3-0 CSKA Moskva
Viktoria Plzen 0-3 Manchester City. — SuperSport/Mailonline.