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Sep 23, 2026

Manchester City were two down after 28 minutes in Munich, and a full-back they signed from Leverkusen got them level

Bayern led 2-0 inside half an hour at their new Unterhaching ground and then saved Khadija Shaw’s penalty on the hour. Carlotta Wamser equalised in th...

Sep 21, 2026

Lenglet’s first booking was a foul on Froholdt, and Froholdt scored the goal that beat ten-man Benfica

Benfica lost their first league game of the season and their 28-match unbeaten away run with it. Porto have now won seven out of seven.

Sep 20, 2026

Dortmund have won all four, and they are top of the Bundesliga for the first time since 2023

A single goal at the MHPArena on Saturday was enough to put Borussia Dortmund top of the Bundesliga, and to leave Stuttgart 14th after four rounds.

Sep 20, 2026

Koné scored twice in the first half, and Lautaro Martínez had both goals back by the 79th

Roma led Serie A’s other unbeaten side 2-0 at the break through a Manu Koné double. Lautaro Martínez scored inside a minute of the restart and again o...

Sep 20, 2026

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 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...