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Lens 1-9 Como. A Douvikas hat-trick, eight different Como scorers, and Papaccioli adding the ninth on 90+1 just for completeness. Before kick-off the market had this as a near coin-flip at Como -105. Bookmakers will be studying this one for a while.

Champions League Wednesday in numbers: 44 goals in 9 games, 4.89 per game. Over 2.5 landed in all 9. Both teams scored in all 9. Five away wins. On Tuesday, both teams scored in just 1 of 9. Same competition, completely different sport.

Half-time, 21:00 games: Lens 0-3 Como, Slavia 0-2 Arsenal, Leipzig 0-1 Man City, Porto 1-1 Napoli, PSV 0-1 Brugge, Viking 1-1 Sabah, Dortmund 0-0 Betis. 11 goals in seven first halves. So much for Lens v Como being the coin-flip of the night.

Eleven minutes into the 21:00 Champions League games: Como lead at Lens (Douvikas 7'), Arsenal lead in Prague (Madueke 9'), Porto lead Napoli (Bednarek 11') and Sabah lead in Stavanger (M'Bina 11'). Porto had zero points from three games before tonight.

Full-time in the 18:45 games: AEK 2-3 Real Madrid (Valverde 90+2') and Fenerbahce 3-2 Liverpool (Muriqi 79'). 10 goals in two games. Madrid scraped to 4 from 4, Liverpool lost their first, and both teams scored in both. Not a night for clean sheet bets.

Half-time in the 18:45 games: AEK 1-1 Real Madrid (Koita 12', Bellingham 32') and Fenerbahce 1-1 Liverpool (Nyoni 25', Greenwood 29'). Both sides that arrived 3 from 3 are being held, and both teams to score has already landed in both games.

Upset alert in Athens: AEK 1-0 Real Madrid, Koita on 12 minutes. Madrid were -425 before kick-off, the shortest favourite on tonight's whole Champions League card. AEK had won one of their first three games.

NFL Week 9 QB watch: Deshaun Watson is in the concussion protocol and Shedeur Sanders could start (Rapoport). Ravens have Lamar on IR and Huntley's toe to monitor before Thursday v Jacksonville. Micah Parsons is set to practice for the first time since December (Schefter).

The 21:00 Champions League games the market can't split: Porto (0 points from 3) -115 v Napoli, PSV -105 v Club Brugge, Como -105 at Lens. And Real Betis arrive in Dortmund 3 from 3 but still as underdogs, BVB -140. Four coin-flips on one night.

Champions League Wednesday, per ESPN's lines: Real Madrid -425 at AEK, Arsenal -380 at Slavia, Liverpool -230 at Fenerbahce, Man City -190 at Leipzig. Seven of the nine totals are set at 3.5. Last night only 5 of 9 games went over 2.5.

PSG were 4-0 up at Villarreal after 17 minutes: Joao Neves 9', Doue 12', Mayulu 13', Fabian Ruiz 17'. It finished 6-0. Four wins from four, 12 points and a +15 goal difference. Next best goal difference in the league phase: +8.

Champions League Tuesday in numbers: 26 goals in 9 games, 2.89 per game. Over 2.5 landed in 5 of 9. Both teams scored in just 1 of 9, Man Utd 3-2 Roma. Four away wins: Sporting, Bayern, Inter and PSG. Clean sheets were the real story of the night.

Ravens after today: Lamar Jackson needs thumb surgery and goes on IR (Schefter, Rapoport). Tyler Huntley has a toe injury (Pelissero). Joe Fagnano is the only healthy QB. 4-4, two games behind Pittsburgh, Jaguars on Thursday night.

Week 8 comebacks: Cardinals down 17-3, won 33-30 in OT. Bengals down 13-0, won 43-36 in OT. Raiders down 9 at halftime, won 38-33. Three teams buried at some point this afternoon, three wins. Cash-out buttons got a lot of use today.

Week 8 so far: Tampa won 16-0 with zero completions. Trevor Lawrence threw 3 TDs on 14 attempts. Jahmyr Gibbs ran for 153 yards against the No. 1 defense. Volume stats are loud, efficiency stats win games 📊

Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal. Arsenal's first Premier League win at Anfield since 2012, when Mikel Arteta was still in their starting XI. Liverpool had zero shots on target, a first for them in a league game at Anfield since records began in 2003-04 📊

Buccaneers 16-0 Falcons. Baker Mayfield: 0/3, 0 passing yards. Michael Penix Jr.: 4 INTs. Tampa's defense caught more of Atlanta's passes than Tampa's offense even threw. First team to win without a completion since the 1974 Bills 📊

Sunday in the Premier League: Brighton scored three in the first ten minutes against Palace, and Leeds pulled level with Manchester United at Elland Road. Nobody leave early.