Yeah! I think that’s bound to happen!
Yeah! I think that’s bound to happen!
Most touches in the opposition box per game - Europe’s top five leagues
1 K. Mbappe - 11.75
2 Z. Ibrahimovic - 10.5
3 M. Salah - 9.6
4 C. Ronaldo - 9.2
5 J. Grealish - 8.9
6 R. Sterling - 7.6
7 S. Gnabry - 7.4
8 S. Mane - 7.3
9 Richarlison - 7.3
10 K. Benzema - 7.3
No goalkeeper in Europe’s top five leagues has kept more clean sheets than Jan Oblak so far this season:
⬡ 9 games
⬢ 7 clean sheets
⬡ 2 goals conceded (!!!)
The 93.6% save percentage is pretty good, too.
Zlatan Ibrahimović is the only player in Champions League history to score for 6 different clubs in the competition:
Ajax (6 goals)
Juventus (3 goals)
Inter (6 goals)
Barcelona (4 goals)
Milan (9 goals)
PSG (20 goals)
But he’s never won it.
BREAKING: Quincy Promes has been arrested by the police due to a stabbing incident! He would have stabbed a family member which injured the victim heavily. This morning they brought Promes to jail where he will remain for 3 days. [via MikeVerweij]
F*cking hell…
Real Sociedad
Bayer Leverkusen
AC Milan
Lille
Tottenham
CristianoRonaldo become the first player to reach 400 wins in the top-5 European League in 2000s. Lionel Messi is second in this ranking with 366 wins (Buffon third, 350).
A born Winner.
None of the Defending Champions on the top! Good to see this shot!
Will be interesting to see how far these clubs can safeguard their top position!
I genuinely don’t see Bayern Leverkusen topping the bundesliga for long though, we all know Bayern Munich literally owns that league
Patrice Evra to Sky Sports: “Thierry Henry, one day he invited me to his house to watch Arsenal. He turned on the TV, the first image he saw on the screen was Xhaka leading Arsenal. Thierry Henry turned off the TV. He said ‘I can’t watch my team & Xhaka being the captain.’”
Wolfsberger vs. Spurs
Dynamo Kyiv vs. Club Brugge
Real Sociedad vs. Man Utd
Benfica vs. Arsenal
Crvena zvezda vs. AC Milan
Royal Antwerp vs. Rangers
Slavia Praha vs. Leicester
Salzburg vs. Villarreal
Braga vs. Roma
Krasnodar vs. Dinamo Zagreb
Molde FK vs. Hoffenheim
Granada vs. Napoli
Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. Shakhtar Donetsk
Lille vs. Ajax
Olympiacos vs. PSV
La Liga leader : Real Sociedad
Premier league leader : Tottenham
Bundesliga leader : Leverkusen
Serie A leader: Milan
Ligue 1 leader : Lille
The leaders of Europe’s top 5 leagues are all in the Europa league
Real Sociedad are currently top of La Liga and have scored more goals (23) than any other side in the division.
Could be tricky opponents for Manchester United
Granada
Real Sociedad
Villarreal
Atletico Madrid
Real Madrid
Sevilla
Barcelona
Spain is the only nation with every club who entered this season’s UEL and UCL still standing in the knockout stage
Best Defences in Europe’s Top 10 Leagues (Goals Per Game)
1⃣ Atlético Madrid - 0.2
2⃣ Real Sociedad - 0.42
3⃣ Sturm Graz - 0.55
4⃣ LASK - 0.6
5⃣ Ajax - 0.64
6⃣ Belenenses - 0.66
=7⃣ PSG - 0.69
=7⃣ Lille - 0.69
=9⃣ PSV - 0.72
= 9 Vitesse - 0.72
France Football asked 140 journalists from around the world to vote for their all-time best XI…
The results are in.
BREAKING: Former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier has died aged 73.
Houllier spent six years at Anfield, initially coming in as joint manager with Roy Evans. The former Les Bleus manager won six major honours with the Merseyside. club, including the treble of the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup during the 2000-01 season.
Robert Lewandowski received the “Golden Player Award” by Tuttosport at the Golden Boy Awards ceremony.
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Lewandowski: “I"m very happy to have received the ‘Golden Player Award’. We had a fantastic and successful year with FC Bayern, and this award is now the reward for all the work we have put in”