Messi’s hat trick sparks rout

Lionel Messi’s first goal of the Champions League season took three minutes. Edinson Cavani needed just 44 seconds for Paris Saint-Germain. Manchester City didn’t get the chance to start.

Messi’s fast start was the first of a hat trick in Barcelona’s 7-0 rout of Celtic, and fellow forwards Neymar and Luis Suarez also scored.

The 7-0 victory was Barcelona’s biggest-ever win in the Champions League.

Cavani’s even faster strike was the end of PSG’s scoring in Paris against Arsenal, and Alexis Sanchez’s late equalizer earned a 1-1 draw.

Heavy rain in Manchester forced City’s game against Borussia Moenchengladbach to be called off 20 minutes before kickoff. Coach Pep Guardiola’s team will try again Wednesday.

Bayern Munich, Guardiola’s previous team — he also led Barcelona — managed just fine under new coach Carlo Ancelotti. Host Munich routed Champions League newcomer Rostov 5-0.

The German football federation (DFB) says former sweeper Franz Beckenbauer received payments totaling $6.2 million for leading the country’s successful bid to host the 2006 World Cup. Beckenbauer was said to have worked in an honorary unpaid capacity for the bid, according to Der Spiegel magazine, which first revealed details of the payments. The DFB, in responding to Der Spiegel’s story, says Beckenbauer conducted work for a betting agency that sponsored the bid.

UEFA and its top leagues have enraged the rest of the continent with an unacceptable, secret deal to guarantee more Champions League spots for the elite, according to UEFA presidential candidate Aleksander Ceferin, who expressed frustration that the governing body caved in to the demands of Spain, Germany, England, and Italy to allow them to seize 16 of the 32 Champions League group-stage places.