Champions League: Poor start for Manchester United ; Real Madrid win

Paris: Manchester United suffered a miserable return to the Champions League after a 12-month hiatus as full-back Luke Shaw suffered a double fracture to his leg during Tuesday’s 1-2 defeat at PSV Eindhoven.

 

Real Madrid had no such trouble as Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 thrashing of 10-man Shakhtar Donetsk. Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and Atletico Madrid also began with victories.

 

But the main talking point in the Netherlands was Shaw’s terrible injury that saw him taken to hospital, and will now require an operation. “It’s horrible. When he was going in the dressing room, he was with the oxygen mask, he was crying,” said United manager Louis van Gaal.

 

The England international was surging into the box when he was crunched by a dangerous tackle from Mexico international Hector Moreno. It was a dreadful night in Manchester as perennial European under-achievers City lost 1-2 at home to last season’s finalists Juventus.

 

City took the lead at the Etihad Stadium in controversial fashion as Vincent Kompany pressured Giorgio Chiellini into scoring an own goal on 57 minutes.