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Champions League Tuesday wrap-up: Bayern, Liverpool and Tottenham among winners
Another round of Champions League action kicked off Tuesday, with nine matches across the continent.
Olympiacos, Bayern Munich, Atalanta, Monaco, Marseille, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Liverpool and Tottenham were all winners on a day when there were no draws.
Here are some of the bigger talking points from Tuesday's Champions League action.
Bayern bounce back
Things looked pretty dicey for Bayern Munich in one of the early games, as Joshua Kimmich inadvertantly put the ball in the wrong net in the 54th minute to open the scoring against Sporting CP.
The Germans had been frustrated up to that point after nearly one-way traffic resulted in nothing, and the own goal gave the visitors confidence that their commitment to defending would pay off in a big way.
However, Bayern did not stop attacking and in the 65th minute they were rewarded as Serge Gnabry scored the equalizer. The hosts didn't stop there, and teenage sensation Lennart Karl struck for Bayern in the 69th followed by a Jonathan Tah in the 77th to seal the victory.
Speaking of bouncing back, Tuesday's match marked the official return of Alphonso Davies, who played his first game since tearing his right ACL while on international duty with Canada in March.
Davies only played for a few minutes, but getting a World XI-calibre player back up and running should only boost Bayern's hopes of winning this competition.
Liverpool late show returns
it seems like a lifetime ago now, but at the start of the season Liverpool were unbeatable.
The Reds pulled off win after win thanks to late-game heroics from their players, leading to the club winning their first six matches of the campaign (five in the Premier League and one in the Champions League).
Their late-game luck caught up to them pretty quickly though, and Liverpool have dropped well off the pace in both of their main competitions since that dream start.
However, on Tuesday we got a flashback to a few months ago amid a back-and-forth battle with Inter Milan at the San Siro. With time winding down and neither side having broken through, the match seemed destined to end scoreless.
Then Alessandro Bastoni commited a foul inside the Inter box that prompted a lengthy VAR check and, eventually, an 88th-minute penalty goal by Dominik Szoboszlai as Liverpool escaped the Italian metropolis with a 1-0 victory.
Call it luck, fate or whatever you will. Liverpool will gladly take it after the dreadful last two months they've had.
Tottenham win big
It's two clean sheets in a row for Tottenham Hotspur after their comfortable 3-0 victory over visiting Slavia Praha, with goals from Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons, as well as a Slavia own goal.
Spurs ended November with three straight losses, two of which they allowed four or more goals, amid a four-game winless run to close the month. It was a dire time for the London club, who headed into the final month of the year well down the table in both the Premier League and Champions League.
However, Thomas Frank's team have bounced back to kick off a busy December, drawing Newcastle 2-2 and blanking Brentford 2-0 before Tuesday's three-goal victory.
Tottenham still have a ton of work to do to get to where they want to be, but a blowout win is always welcome, especially on the back of two straight games where they also picked up points.
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