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Real Madrid were two up at half-time at the bottom club, and Carlos Espí won it in the 91st

Elche came back from 2-0 down to level with seven minutes left before a summer signing off the bench settled it in stoppage time. Real Madrid won 3-2...

Sep 15, 2026

Como’s first home league game came in round four, and both goals were scored by defenders

Como beat Parma 2-1 at the Sinigaglia on Monday night, four days after the club’s first Champions League match. Jacobo Ramon and Kaiki scored, and Ces...

Sep 15, 2026

Villarreal are 18th with two points, and their goalkeeper handed Betis both goals in four minutes

Gerard Moreno put Villarreal ahead at the Estadio de la Ceramica on Monday night. Cucho Hernandez and Natan scored either side of the 40th minute, and...

Sep 15, 2026

Andy Robertson goes back to Anfield tonight, and Tottenham have not won there since 2011

Liverpool host Tottenham in the Carabao Cup third round at 12.30am IST, with Robertson facing his old club for the first time and Roberto De Zerbi’s s...

Sep 15, 2026

Malen has six goals in four rounds, and Roma have conceded one all season

Torino 0-2 Roma on Monday night made it four wins from four for Gian Piero Gasperini’s side. Inter visit on Saturday on the same points and a worse go...

Sep 15, 2026

Leeds scored twice in two minutes, and Matthias Jaissle lost his first game as Newcastle manager

Leeds United went third in the Premier League with a 4-1 win over Newcastle at Elland Road, and the result was settled inside 14 first-half minutes.

Sep 15, 2026

Inter were 2-0 down after 16 minutes, and five different players scored for them

Udinese led the Serie A champions inside a quarter of an hour at San Siro and still lost 5-3. It was Inter’s second two-goal comeback in four league g...

Sep 14, 2026

PSG needed four attempts to win a Ligue 1 game, and Ferran Torres settled it in five minutes

The French and European champions had two points from three league matches before Sunday night in Brittany. A 25-yard finish inside five minutes final...

Sep 14, 2026

Hamburg have not scored a goal this season, and Leipzig put five past them

Christopher Nkunku marked his return to the Red Bull Arena with a goal, and Martín Demichelis got the win he badly needed. Hamburg are still waiting f...

Sep 14, 2026

Atlético Madrid were goalless for 83 minutes at Anoeta, and then scored three

Real Sociedad and Atlético produced a match with almost nothing in it for 83 minutes. A handball, a penalty and two late goals later, Atlético had a 3...

Sep 14, 2026

Lamine Yamal has scored a brace in three of Barcelona’s first five games, and the last man to do that was Messi

Barcelona were three up at Levante and hanging on at 3-2 with two minutes left before Karim Adeyemi settled it. Five wins from five, and three points...

Sep 14, 2026

Juventus had conceded one goal in three games, and a player they own scored the winner in the 94th minute

Sassuolo beat Juventus 3-2 with the last kick at the Mapei Stadium, and the winner came from Vasilije Adzic, who is at the club on loan from Juventus....

Sep 14, 2026

City played 67 minutes with ten men, and the refereeing body says the winner should have been reviewed

Erling Haaland’s goal on the hour won the Manchester derby for ten-man Manchester City, and by Sunday night Pro Ref had told Manchester United that VA...

Sep 13, 2026

Brighton put five past Coventry, and only Crystal Palace in 2017 have started a season like this

Four games into their return to the Premier League, Coventry have no points and no goals. Brighton’s five at the CBS Arena on Sunday was the heaviest...

Sep 13, 2026

Daniel Maldini is still an Atalanta player, and his penalty was the first one converted in Serie A this season

Cagliari won 2-1 in Bergamo through a spot-kick taken by a forward Atalanta still own. It was the first penalty anyone had scored in Serie A all seaso...

Sep 13, 2026

Villa’s first league goal of the season came in the 74th minute, and Forest won it in the 88th

Nottingham Forest had not won at Villa Park since 1994 and had not won at all this season. Igor Jesus settled both questions in the 88th minute, again...

Sep 13, 2026

Lazio were 2-0 up at half-time, and Amorim’s three substitutes had it level by the 67th minute

Lazio were two goals up and unbeaten at the top of Serie A. Then Ruben Amorim changed three players at the break and Diego Moreira scored twice inside...

Sep 13, 2026

Arbeloa took his first point as Fulham manager at Anfield, and Liverpool have now drawn four in a row there

A goalless Saturday at Anfield gave Fulham their first point of the season and left Liverpool unbeaten, sixth, and out of ideas for an hour. Andoni Ir...

Sep 13, 2026

Ipswich had not won a Premier League game after conceding first since 2001, and Flemming ended that in the 90th minute

Axel Disasi’s red card on 34 minutes left Crystal Palace a man short, Jorgen Strand Larsen still dragged them level, and then Zian Flemming pounced on...

Sep 13, 2026

Raya saved a penalty at the Stadium of Light, and 121 seconds later Bruno Guimarães scored his first Arsenal goal

Arsenal are four wins from four after a 2-0 win at Sunderland, settled by a David Raya penalty save and a strike from range by a midfielder the home c...

Sep 13, 2026

Mbappé spent the week explaining why he deserves the Ballon d’Or, and then scored twice against Rayo Vallecano

Real Madrid beat Rayo Vallecano 4-1 at the Bernabéu, with two goals and an assist from a striker who had just spent a press conference arguing his own...

Sep 12, 2026

Yassir Zabiri had 42 minutes of Rennes football behind him, and he scored both goals as Racing beat Alaves

Alaves went to El Sardinero second in La Liga and unbeaten. They left having lost to a promoted side and to a 21-year-old on loan who barely played in...

Sep 12, 2026

Chelsea’s 117 million pound signing scored in the seventh minute, and Hull still left Stamford Bridge with a point

Hull City had not conceded a Premier League goal all season before Saturday afternoon. They conceded two at Stamford Bridge, scored two through Mohame...

Sep 12, 2026

Bruno Genesio managed Rennes for two and a half years, and they beat his Marseille side to go top

Adrien Thomasson’s 52nd-minute goal gave Rennes a 1-0 win at Roazhon Park and sent Franck Haise’s side to the top of Ligue 1. It is Marseille’s third...