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    This week’s action saw Vincent Kompany’s men roll on, surprise results and a brilliant performance from a Liverpool defender• Vincent Kompany’s Bayern Munich. They rule supreme in Germany and are on a 16-match winning streak. Beating the defending champions, Paris Saint-Germain, on Tuesday was further proof of Bayern’s credentials. Luís Diaz, whose combativeness is sorely missed by Liverpool, scored two, but he took the aggression too far when his challenge on
  • Meet the new, fun Erling Haaland: he’s laughing but he’ll still destroy you | Barney Ronay

    The Norwegian’s goalscoring feats have become so vast they hardly need chronicling, but at least he’s now doing it with a smileWith 27 minutes gone, and Manchester City 1-0 up, Erling Haaland did an extraordinary and also very funny thing. Strolling with feigned disinterest away from a free‑kick in the centre circle, Haaland turned, took the ball, and decided to run straight at the Borussia Dortmund defence, dragging with him a pair of desperate yellow shirts, grabbing and stum
  • Pep Guardiola urges Manchester City’s Phil Foden to push for England recall

    Foden scores twice in 4-1 win over Borussia Dortmund‘No one in the world doesn’t know about his quality’Pep Guardiola said that “no one in the world” could deny Phil Foden’s quality and urged Manchester City’s playmaker to push himself to be recalled by Thomas Tuchel for England after he scored twice in the 4-1 home Champions League win over Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.Foden’s sumptuous strikes, on 22 and 57 minutes, were complemented by a raspi
  • Champions League roundup: Club Brugge hold Barcelona in six-goal thriller

    Inter maintain perfect start with win over Kairat AlmatyPafos beat Villarreal to earn first Champions League winBarcelona had to settle for a share of the spoils at Club Brugge after a thrilling 3-3 draw but were fortunate the English referee Anthony Taylor ruled out Romeo Vermant’s stoppage-time effort for a foul on the Barça goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny.In a thriller at Brugge’s Jan Breydel Stadium, the home side opened the scoring through Nicolò Tresoldi in the sixth
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