OLD MASTERS
Real Madrid was playing its 477th game in the European Cup or Champions League. Union Berlin was playing its first.
Madrid's European adventure started on Sept. 8, 1955 - a 2-0 win against Servette in Geneva - in the third game ever played in the European Cup. Then, Union was playing behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, outside the top tier, and known as SC Motor Berlin.
The experience told.
Union resisted Madrid's first 29 goal attempts but the 30th proved too much when Jude Bellingham pirouetted to finish a game of pinball in the goalmouth and shoot into an empty net. It was the second time this month he scored a decisive stoppage-time goal.
"I hope I keep on scoring goals in minute 94 or 95," Bellingham said. "Although it might do my heart, and the club, good to scorer earlier."
Madrid next goes to the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium on Oct. 3 to face Napoli.
UNITED'S STRUGGLES
Manchester United and manager Erik ten Hag have now lost three straight games and four of their last five.
The cause was not helped by goalkeeper Andre Onana spilling Leroy Sane's shot into the net to gift Bayern a 28th-minute lead. After Serge Gnabry double the lead, United players came out early for the second half and huddled for a pep talk from captain Bruno Fernandes.
It appeared to have worked with a goal in the 49th from Rasmus Hojlund, the 20-year-old Denmark striker bought for $82 million from Atalanta in the role Kane might have filled.
Kane's penalty seemed to have sealed the win, but Casemiro scored two late goals either side of a fourth for Bayern by French 18-year-old Mathys Tel.
BIZARRE RED CARD
Benfica impressed in the group stage one year ago but an unusual, almost farcical, red card cost the Portuguese champion dearly against Salzburg.
Antonio Silva was sent off in the 13th for a handball on the goal line. After a shot was blocked, the ball looped in the air, bounced high in the goalmouth, grazed the crossbar on the way down and was swatted away by the defender. Silva held his head in his hands before walking off the field.
Salzburg had already missed one penalty kick taken by Karim Konate but Roko Simic took the next and scored. The Croatian who turned 20 this month set up 19-year Israel forward Oscar Gloukh for an easy score early in the second half.
EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE
The third-tier Europa Conference League kicked off with Lille beating Slovenian champion Olimpija Ljubljana 2-0. Canada forward Jonathan David scored the first from a 43rd-minute penalty. European newcomer KI Klaksvik, the first group-stage team in any competition to come from the Faeroe Islands, and Slovan Bratislava also are in the group. The rest of the Conference League starts Thursday.