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Raphinha has 12 goals in seven games, and no Barcelona player including Messi has started a season like it

Youssouf Fofana put Sevilla ahead after 19 minutes at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan. Raphinha answered three minutes later and kept going until he had the...

Sep 19, 2026

Tottenham’s first league goals of the season came in the 86th and 98th minutes, and Aston Villa still won

Unai Emery’s side took their first league win of the season at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and a late Spurs reply left Roberto De Zerbi in the rele...

Sep 19, 2026

Brighton’s three scorers were 35, 19 and 21, and Arsenal lost for the first time this season

Pascal Gross, Charalampos Kostoulas and Chema Andres ended the champions’ seven-match winning start at the Amex, and Arsenal conceded three in an afte...

Sep 19, 2026

Lens changed coach after 28 days, and their own defender decided the first match under the new one

Dino Toppmoller lasted 28 days at Lens. Yannick Cahuzac’s first game in charge ended with an 84th-minute own goal and Monaco back on top of Ligue 1.

Sep 19, 2026

Elche lost their captain in the sixth minute, and won at Espanyol with ten men

Fer Nino scored twice in three minutes and Elche held on for their first win of the season. Espanyol have now lost four times.

Sep 19, 2026

Michael Olise scored his first Bayern hat-trick, and Harry Kane reached 100 Bundesliga goals in 98 games

Bayern Munich beat Union Berlin 7-0 at the Allianz Arena on Friday, with Olise taking three and Kane’s 39th-minute penalty making him the quickest pla...

Sep 19, 2026

Sunderland have never won a league game at Manchester City, and they arrive with a European night in their legs

Enzo Maresca’s City have won six in a row and kept four clean sheets, while Sunderland landed their first European win in 53 years on Wednesday.

Sep 19, 2026

Brentford beat Chelsea at home for the first time since 1938, and they still have not lost this season

Jaidon Anthony, Igor Thiago and Fábio Carvalho scored in the last half hour at the Gtech. Brentford are third and unbeaten, Chelsea seventh and winles...

Sep 19, 2026

Tottenham have not scored in the league, Aston Villa have scored once, and they meet at 5pm

Spurs are 17th with no league goal in four games, Villa 19th with one. Kick-off at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is 5pm IST on Saturday.

Sep 18, 2026

Four of Betis’s five wins have finished 1-0, and this one took 22 shots

Abde Ezzalzouli’s goal on the stroke of half-time beat Getafe at the Benito Villamarín and left Real Betis third in La Liga, level on points with Real...

Sep 18, 2026

Roma have conceded one goal all season, and Inter have scored 13

Serie A’s only two perfect records meet at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday night, with Gian Piero Gasperini’s defence on 12 points and Cristian Chivu’...

Sep 18, 2026

Barcelona have won all six, and Sevilla’s only win in 12 meetings came at this ground

Barcelona go to the Sanchez-Pizjuan with a perfect record and 28 goals. The last time they lost their first-choice goalkeeper to a meniscus injury, th...

Sep 18, 2026

Mourinho’s last Madrid derby was in 2013, and Atletico’s stadium did not exist yet

Real Madrid sit second and Atletico fourth going into Sunday’s derby at the Metropolitano, a ground Jose Mourinho has never coached a game in, with th...

Sep 18, 2026

Villarreal were 1-0 down at La Rosaleda, and their first win of the season came at the sixth attempt

Carlos Dotor put Malaga ahead in the 12th minute. Alberto Moleiro and a Pape Gueye double turned it round, and Villarreal climbed out of the relegatio...

Sep 18, 2026

Brentford have not lost this season, and Chelsea arrive at the Gtech with nine goals conceded and new owners

Brentford are unbeaten after four games but have drawn the last three. Chelsea have conceded more than anyone else in the top seven, and Friday is the...

Sep 17, 2026

Arsenal have conceded one goal in four games, and Brighton’s matches have produced 18

Arsenal go to the Amex on Saturday evening having conceded once in four league games, against a Brighton side whose four matches have produced 18 goal...

Sep 17, 2026

India’s under-15s got Senegal and Cameroon in Baku, and 12,000 players were watched to pick the 14

India are in Group K of the inaugural FIFA U15 World Cup and Festival alongside Bahrain, Cameroon, Grenada, Laos and Senegal. The matches are 8v8, and...

Sep 17, 2026

Miguel Sierra scored, won a red card, and ended Deportivo’s unbeaten return to La Liga

Sevilla won 1-0 at Riazor on Wednesday night. Sierra put away a rebound in the 52nd minute, and Angelino was sent off for a challenge on him seven min...

Sep 17, 2026

Todd Boehly has left Chelsea, and the deal that removed him values the club at 5 billion pounds

Four years after fronting the takeover, Todd Boehly has sold his stake and given up the chairmanship. Clearlake Capital paid him and Mark Walter 950 m...

Sep 17, 2026

Julian Alvarez has missed two games, and Atletico have scored seven without him

Atletico beat Osasuna 4-0 on Wednesday without their first-choice striker, and the loan signing filling in has now scored in both of his league games...

Sep 17, 2026

Racing pulled a goal back twice at Camp Nou, and Barcelona replied within six minutes each time

Seven straight wins to open a season is a club record Barcelona had never held until Wednesday night. Racing Santander twice got within a goal of them...

Sep 16, 2026

Sunderland are back in Europe after 53 years, and the Stadium of Light has never hosted a European tie

The Europa League league phase opens tonight with Sunderland hosting AZ Alkmaar at 12:30am IST. The last time Sunderland played in Europe they were a...

Sep 16, 2026

Bissouma cost Tottenham 25 million pounds, and Ajax have signed him for nothing until June

Yves Bissouma has joined Ajax on a free transfer until 30 June 2027, with an option for another year. He had been without a club since his Tottenham c...

Sep 16, 2026

Messi is in Argentina’s squad two weeks after retiring, and he will play one of the three friendlies

Lionel Scaloni’s list for the international window includes a player who announced his retirement from Argentina at the end of August. The AFA has set...