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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 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 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 11, 2026

Como had never played a European match in 119 years, and they won the first one 4-1

Como’s first game in any European competition ended 4-1 against RB Leipzig, with two assists for Nico Paz and a lakeside stadium that had to be rebuil...

Sep 10, 2026

Mac Allister said Liverpool would not offer him a new contract, and a day later he beat Atletico from 20 yards

Liverpool came from behind to win their Champions League opener 2-1 at Anfield. Marcos Llorente scored against them for the fifth time, all five at th...

Sep 10, 2026

Arsenal took 26 shots in Naples, the most they have had in a Champions League match, and won by one goal

Martin Odegaard settled it in the 75th minute at the end of a 29-pass move. Everything before that was Arsenal missing, and everything after it was Na...

Sep 9, 2026

Guirassy scored at both ends on his 100th Dortmund appearance, and Villarreal still lost

Serhou Guirassy marked his 100th Borussia Dortmund appearance with two goals and an own goal, and Dortmund opened their Champions League campaign with...

Sep 9, 2026

Villa’s first three goals of the season all came before half-time in Bruges

Aston Villa had not scored a goal in the Premier League this season. In Bruges they scored three inside 43 minutes, and John McGinn’s opener made him...

Sep 7, 2026

Königsdörffer left Hamburg on a free in June, and he scored their fifth against them

Mainz won 5-0 at the Volksparkstadion, and the last goal went to a forward whose Hamburg contract had expired ten weeks earlier.

Sep 7, 2026

Milan had not scored a league goal against Juventus since 2023, and a 19-year-old substitute ended it in eight minutes

Alphadjo Cisse came on in the 60th minute and scored in the 68th. Federico Gatti headed Juventus level two minutes into stoppage time.

Sep 7, 2026

Arsenal conceded after 77 seconds, and it is still the only goal they have let in

Morgan Rogers put Chelsea ahead inside two minutes at the Emirates. Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard turned it round, and Arsenal are three wins from t...

Sep 6, 2026

Maitland-Niles’ last Premier League goal was in 2018, and his next one rescued Everton in the 96th minute

Manchester United led twice at the Hill Dickinson Stadium and came away with a point. Ainsley Maitland-Niles, making his Everton debut, curled in the...

Sep 6, 2026

Bayern had scored in 59 straight games, and then Loris Karius kept them out for 90 minutes

Schalke, promoted in the summer and beaten 3-0 a week earlier, took a point off the champions in front of 62,094 at the Veltins-Arena. Two long Bayern...

Sep 6, 2026

Bruno Fernandes scored a hat-trick last time out, and Manchester United still sit two places below Everton

Everton have not lost a match yet and Manchester United have already been beaten by a promoted side. They meet at the Hill Dickinson Stadium at 6.30pm...

Sep 6, 2026

Napoli were two up after 53 minutes, and Inter had never come back from that against them before

Inter trailed 2-0 at San Siro with 40 minutes left and won 3-2, Lautaro Martinez scoring twice including a winner in stoppage time. Opta says the fixt...

Sep 5, 2026

Parrott had never scored for Betis, and his first goal beat Real Madrid

Jose Mourinho’s first defeat of the season came at the one ground Real Madrid have not won at since 2021, and it turned on a save from the penalty spo...

Sep 5, 2026

PSG are 12th after three games, and Monaco have now beaten them three times in a row

The reigning champions have two points from three matches. Monaco, who scored twice on the counter at the Parc des Princes, have won all three of thei...

Sep 3, 2026

Messi played 207 times for Argentina, and now every match there stops at ten minutes

The AFA has ordered every match it runs, men’s and women’s, to pause at the ten-minute mark for a minute of applause. Messi announced his internationa...

Sep 2, 2026

Balogun walked away after midnight, and Chelsea lost their Enzo replacement because of it

Everton had the fee agreed, the deal sheet in and the striker in the building. He left as a Monaco player, and Chelsea’s £47m move for Lamine Camara d...

Sep 2, 2026

Mukasa scored twice at the club that made him, and West Ham have their first Championship win

West Ham beat Wolves 4-2 at the London Stadium on Tuesday for their first win since relegation, with two goals from a teenager on loan from Manchester...

Aug 31, 2026

Leao has gone to Galatasaray for 45 million euros, and Aston Villa would not raise their offer

AC Milan confirmed Rafael Leao’s permanent transfer on Sunday, ending seven seasons. Aston Villa had him talked round to the Premier League and then s...

Aug 27, 2026

Mbappe scored three in 40 minutes, and Mourinho’s first Bernabeu night back finished 4-1

Kylian Mbappe scored his first goals of the season in a 4-1 win over Real Sociedad, the first home league match of Jose Mourinho’s second spell as Rea...