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Barcelona 3-0 Aston Villa: Champions League – as it happened

Manchester United come from two goals down to beat Roma 3-2 - but what are the other best fightbacks in Champions League history?

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 2 sources•1 min read•Updated November 3, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC
Key points
  • The sight and sound of Gerrard has reminded me to recap CarragherGate: “ Jamie Carragher has apologised to Aston Villa for using “clumsy and wrong” language when discussing the club, after club had threatened legal action.
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  • My language this week was clumsy and wrong,” Carragher wrote on X on Saturday.

Manchester United performed a stunning comeback to beat Roma on a fine night at Old Trafford Gorton-born Butt on TV and another one on the blog.

Lamine Yamal opened the scoring and pulled the strings while Raphina scored twice as Barcelona outclassed Villa Steven Gerrard and Ally McCoist are on co-commentary duty for TNT Sports alongside Darren Fletcher in Barcelona.

Additional details
  • “I’d like to apologise to Aston Villa, the owners and their fans.

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