Five-time French champion began its 2006-07 UEFA Champions League campaign as it did last season with a big win over Real Madrid.
OL beat Real Madrid, 2-0, on Wednesday — a year to the day after inflicting a 3-0 defeat on the nine-time European champions in last season’s opener.
Brazilian Fred and Portuguese midfielder Tiago scored for Lyon.
The best match of the day took place in Manchester, where United beat Celtic, 3-2, in an Anglo-Scottish showdown decided on Norwegian substitute Ole Gunnar Solskjaer‘s goal early in the second half.
Recent Dutch signing Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and Japan midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura scored for Celtic, while redhot Frenchman Louis Saha scored both first-half goals for Manchester United.
Arsenal, last season’s runner-up, beat Hamburg, 2-1, on the road thanks to goals from midfielder Gilberto Silva and Czech Tomas Rosicky, the latter scoring his first goal for the Gunners with an outstanding drive.
Six-time champion AC Milan beat AEK Athens, 3-0, on goals by Filippo Inzaghi, young Frenchman Yoann Gourcuff and Kaka. The loss extended the Greek club’s Champions League winless streak to 19 games.
ROUND 1, WEDNESDAY
Lyon 2 Real Madrid 0
Dynamo Kiev 1 Steaua Bucharest 4
Manchester United 3 Celtic 2
FC Copenhagen 0 Benfica 0
Hamburg 1 Arsenal 2
Porto 0 CSKA Moscow 0
AC Milan 3 AEK Athens 0
Anderlecht 1 Lille 1
(Click here for complete Day 1 results and goalscorers.)