Mbappé scores four, PSG hit five, Arsenal topple Bayern - Teenage scorers shine in Champions League

On a wild Champions League night with stellar teenage scorers, Kylian Mbappe also struck four including the second-fastest Champions League hat-trick ever to show the old guys have still got it.

Arsenal took Bayern Munich's top spot in the standings with a 3-1 win, title holders Paris Saint-Germain romped to a 5-3 win over Tottenham with Vitinha scoring a hat-trick, and Liverpool slumped to another loss at Anfield, 4-1 to PSV Eindhoven.

The 26-year-old Mbappe scored three times for Real Madrid between the 22nd and 29th minutes, and again in the 60th, of a 4-3 win at Olympiakos.

At age 17 -- the same as when Mbappe was launching his Champions League career at Monaco -- Lennart Karl and Viktor Dadason both scored yesterday, and so did 18-year-old Geovany Quenda.

EXQUISITE FIRST-TIMER

Karl's exquisite first-timer for Bayern levelled the game in the first half but barely bothered Arsenal in a clash of the English Premier League and German Bundesliga leaders. It was Bayern's first loss this season.

Only Arsenal now have five straight wins in the Champions League, after Inter Milan lost 2-1 at Atletico Madrid, whose captain Jose Maria Gimenez won it with a stoppage-time header -- the 42nd and last goal on the nine-game slate.

In Copenhagen, Dadason set the Danish champions on their way to a three-goal lead in a 3-2 win over Kairat Almaty.

In Lisbon, Quenda opened the scoring in Sporting's 3-0 win over Club Brugge, spinning almost a full circle to hook a left-footed shot into the corner of the net. The exciting wing-back will join Chelsea after the season.

SECOND-OLDEST SCORER

At the other end of the age scale, 38-year-old David Luiz scored with a soaring header to help Pafos to a 2-2 draw with Monaco. He became the second-oldest scorer in the Champions League, behind only another veteran defender Pepe, who was approaching his 41st birthday when he scored for Porto two seasons ago.

Atalanta won 3-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt with three goals in five minutes starting with Ademola Lookman in the 60th.

Three goals in a span of six minutes, 42 seconds was fast by Kylian Mbappe, but not quite the fastest ever in the Champions League.

That was Mohamed Salah's in six minutes, 12 seconds for Liverpool against Rangers in October 2022.

Mbappe is now second fastest, with his second hat-trick in the competition this season, and fifth of his Champions League career. He's also now top scorer this season with nine, ahead of the now-injured Victor Osimhen who has six for Galatasaray.

- AP