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• Raphinha on target again as Barcelona put five past Feyenoord

  09-09-2026 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Raphinha continued his remarkable goalscoring start to the season with another double as Barcelona turn on the style against Feyenoord in the Champions League.
  
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• Guimarães and Saka fire Arsenal to win at Sunderland after Raya spot-kick save

  12-09-2026 23:14 via theguardian.com
  As the final whistle blew Bruno Guimãraes wore a mischievous smile, Enzo Le Fée was a study in dejection and Arsenal’s immaculate start to the season remained unblemished.Two minutes after David Raya had, rather majestically, saved Le Fée’s second half penalty, Guimãraes delighted both his new north London, public and plenty of old friends in Newcastle by sending a shot curving past Robin Roefs. Continue reading...
  
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• Sunderland 0-2 Arsenal: Guimarães and Saka sink Black Cats in Premier League – live

  12-09-2026 23:01 via theguardian.com
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  ⚽️ Live scores | Tables | Top scorers | And email BillySunderland parade new striker Juan Angulo, signed from Independiente del Valle last week, before kick-off at the Stadium of Light. That one had passed me by – and I’ve spent all summer writing down hundreds of transfers for this …JD emails in …Here is my early prediction for very competitive EPL season. Teams will struggle to reach 70 poin
  
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• Sunderland v Arsenal: Premier League – live

  12-09-2026 22:49 via theguardian.com
  ⚽️ Premier League updates from the 8pm BST kick-off
  ⚽️ Live scores | Tables | Top scorers | And email BillySunderland parade new striker Juan Angulo, signed from Independiente del Valle last week, before kick-off at the Stadium of Light. That one had passed me by – and I’ve spent all summer writing down hundreds of transfers for this …JD emails in …Here is my early prediction for very competitive EPL season. Teams will struggle to reach 70 poin
  
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• Farke’s blueprint for revitalised Leeds continues upward trajectory

  12-09-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Leeds manager embraces bravery and is encouraging ambition after leading a remarkable turnaround in fortunesEleven years have passed since Daniel Farke mounted a magnificent palomino horse and rode round the perimeter of the pitch at Lippstadt, waving farewell to a capacity crowd. It seemed a fun way for the lower-tier German club’s centre-forward turned manager and sporting director to say goodbye. Yet few in the stands knew Farke was scared of horses and hauled himself into the saddle on
  
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• Tottenham waiting for first league goal of season after draw against Everton

  12-09-2026 20:47 via theguardian.com
  Is it too early for a Tottenham crisis? To which the answer is surely that it is never too early for a Tottenham crisis. After four Premier League games, they have yet to score. This kind of run has never happened in their history at the beginning of a league season.At least they mustered a couple of shots on target this time, having failed to do so last weekend in the 0-0 draw at Nottingham Forest. The first – from Mateus Fernandes – at the start of the second half was greeted by ir
  
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• European football: Dortmund win again but Freiburg top after Gladbach rout

  12-09-2026 19:15 via theguardian.com
  In-form Borussia Dortmund beat Paderborn 3-0Milan come from behind in 2-2 draw with LazioFelix Nmecha scored twice and Fábio Silva grabbed another as Borussia Dortmund won 3-0 at home to promoted Paderborn to continue their perfect start in the Bundesliga. Dortmund’s win made it three from three in the league this campaign, their best start in 11 seasons, dating back to Thomas Tuchel’s time.Starting up front alongside Serhou Guirassy for the first time this season, Silva conve
  
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• Championship roundup: Boro win seven-goal thriller; Burnley lose again

  12-09-2026 18:47 via theguardian.com
  Added-time winner from Phillips sinks NorwichSaints hit four; Burnley beaten 3-1 at SwanseaAshley Phillips was the unlikely late matchwinner as Middlesbrough edged a seven-goal thriller, beating Norwich 4-3 at Riverside Stadium.Norwich looking for a third win on the bounce, made the perfect start with 50 seconds on the clock when striker Mohamed Touré hammered in, but within seven minutes Boro had gone ahead. Sebastian Berhalter powered in his first Middlesbrough goal to level, before win
  
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• Schade double denies Bournemouth first league win as Brentford rescue draw

  12-09-2026 18:26 via theguardian.com
  No need for distress flares just yet at Bournemouth. Trust the process, though with new frontiers of European football beckoning, 2,000 fans travelling to San Sebastián next week, there are grounds for concern on the home front. Winning positions have been surrendered in Marco Rose’s four Premier League matches. An unwanted carry-over from Andoni Iraola’s tenure cannot be allowed to worsen.“They scored two goals with two shots on target and we scored two goals with 10 sh
  
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• Flemming and Ipswich floor 10-man Crystal Palace with 90th-minute winner

  12-09-2026 18:16 via theguardian.com
  This victory has been a long time coming for Gary O’Neil. The Millwall supporter from Beckenham, whose son plays for Crystal Palace’s academy, had picked up a solitary point on his previous five trips to this part of south London as a manager. So it was no wonder that he celebrated Zian Flemming’s winning goal in the 90th minute with the same gusto as the travelling Ipswich supporters.On a topsy-turvy afternoon Palace took the lead before Emersonn and Leif Davis cancelled out A
  
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• Hull stun Chelsea with Mohamed Belloumi double before João Pedro rescues a point

  12-09-2026 18:10 via theguardian.com
  The chants from the away end about winning the league were sung in jest, but Hull continue to show they are here to stay. Sergej Jakirovic’s dogged, intelligent side are third in the Premier League after extending their unbeaten start to four games and can even count themselves unfortunate not to have beaten another of the Big Six after pushing Chelsea to the limit in an absorbing battle at a frustrated Stamford Bridge.Hull were 2-1 up at half-time and they had the chances to snatch the po
  
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• Emery takes responsibility as Forest strike late at winless Aston Villa

  12-09-2026 18:09 via theguardian.com
  This summer there were a couple of significant pieces of the puzzle for Oliver Glasner to put into place at Nottingham Forest. The first was a mobile striker to lead the line and the other was a right wing-back to fit his favoured 3-4-3 system. Enter Liam Delap and Daniel Muñoz, both of whom had a big say in Forest’s first win under Glasner, though the match-winner was one of the old brigade in Igor Jesus.Delap registered his first Forest goal in style, a powerful shot from 25 yards
  
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• Frustrated Liverpool lack any spark as Fulham claim deserved first point

  12-09-2026 18:06 via theguardian.com
  Álvaro Arbeloa was often the obstacle to Andoni Iraola’s international ambitions back in the days when both were vying for a right-back role with Spain. On his return to Anfield, and under the watchful eye of former manager Rafael Benítez, Arbeloa thwarted Iraola once again to claim his first Premier League point as Fulham head coach against an ineffective Liverpool.Fulham belied their lowly position and run of three league defeats to take a merited point from a Liverpool tea
  
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• London City’s superstars brought down to earth in WSL defeat at West Ham

  12-09-2026 16:11 via theguardian.com
  West Ham claimed their first Women’s Super League win of the season with a 2-1 home victory over London City Lionesses. Kelly Gago put the Hammers ahead after 21 minutes, racing between the centre-backs Mapi León and Isa Kardinaal to latch on to Seraina Piubel’s pass from nearly halfway and rounding Elene Lete in the London City goal.Daniëlle van de Donk was denied an equaliser when Constance Picaud-Inconnu saved low, with Alexia Putellas, another of London City’s b
  
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• Febrile Manchester derby awaits amid growing rift between United fans and club

  12-09-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  City heading to a fortress but home supporters will protest before kick-off over club’s drive against ticket toutsManchester United’s nine victories from 10 Premier League games at Old Trafford in 2026 cast their stadium as a fortress Manchester City aim to ransack on Sunday, to join Leeds in departing with three points during this calendar year.Michael Carrick has overseen the division’s highest home points-per-game return in that span: 2.7, ahead of Arsenal’s 2.27 (from
  
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• What can halt Fifa’s authoritarian turn under Infantino? Change from the outside | Jules Boykoff

  12-09-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The World Cup and its aftermath made clear that Fifa needs independent oversight by governments and NGOs dedicated to preserving the people’s gameThe 2026 World Cup was a whirling swirl of scintillating soccer that prompted much-needed conversations about the vitality of diaspora, the fortitude of the underdog, the power of sport. In a world fractured along myriad cultural axes floating in an entertainment system dominated by on-demand content, the tournament provided a moment, perhaps unl
  
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• Football lends voice to message worth relaying: men should talk about their pain | Barney Ronay

  12-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Premier League’s link-up with the Together Against Suicide campaign is dispersing simple, blunt and essential messagingIf you watched US television adverts during the World Cup for any length of time one thing just kept leaping out. I’ve mentioned this before here, but it still seems both jarring and significant. Every third or fourth rotation in that endless daytime scroll, in between the Chicken Megadeth Hyper-Box Family Meal Deal, either side of 
  
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• All change for Maresca: the data behind Manchester City’s rapid player turnover

  12-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Squad was a model of stability under Guardiola but many of the group the new coach oversees are recent recruitsManchester City have experienced a level of player turnover unthinkable in the Pep Guardiola era. Where Arne Slot benefited in his first Liverpool season by retaining the squad Jürgen Klopp bequeathed, Enzo Maresca must oversee the evolution of City while winning every week. Relying on relatively new players has not cost them Premier League points yet, but there could be reasons fo
  
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• West Ham cut loose to hit Wrexham for six and go top of Championship

  11-09-2026 23:24 via theguardian.com
  West Ham secured their fourth league win in a row as they returned to the top of the Championship with a thumping 6-0 win over Wrexham at the London Stadium. It was a marvellous display of attacking football from Nuno Espírito Santo’s side, who swept to victory with room to spare and six different scorers.Jarrod Bowen got the ball rolling after 28 minutes, Joël Piroe made it two before the break, then Konstantinos Mavropanos, Taty Castellanos, Mohamadou Kanté and Manor S
  
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• Kobbie Mainoo moves from outsider to main man after summer of hurt

  11-09-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  England reached World Cup semis yet midfielder did not play a minute. But he is key to Manchester United in derbyIt was a sight the England press pack became increasingly used to seeing after the team’s World Cup matches over the summer. Kobbie Mainoo was invariably the first to leave the dressing room, walk through the mixed zone – eyes dead ahead, features impassive – and board the bus.It was as if he could not get out of the stadiums quick enough and the further En
  
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• Ballon d’Or shortlist shows up Premier League’s attacking failings – but tide could be turning

  11-09-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  English top flight’s forwards are not well represented on the list, reflecting a season of set-piece grapple, but 2026-27 already looks brighterPremier League representation is low when it comes to the 16 attacking players on this year’s Ballon d’Or shortlist. Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes and Manchester City’s Erling Haaland are there but Cole Palmer, one of the nominees in 2025, is out after an injury-hit year and English football’s shift towards physi
  
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• US Open tennis finals, the Manchester derby and Solheim Cup – follow with us

  11-09-2026 17:59 via theguardian.com
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• Football Daily | Mikel Arteta hits upon a new psychological wheeze for his champions

  11-09-2026 16:13 via theguardian.com
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!The use of psychological stratagems and pitchside or locker-room sabotage has long been employed by football managers trying to give their teams an edge over visiting rivals. Whether it’s placing the pegs too high or the seats too low, painting the walls an aggression-lowering shade of pink or deliberately moving the advertising hoardings to prevent long throws, there are apparently no stones conniving coaching staff will leave unturned if
  
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• Champions League opening data shows English dominance and too few shocks

  11-09-2026 15:29 via theguardian.com
  The numbers from the first round of the league phase point to Italian teams struggling even if Inter impressed in defeat at Real MadridThe 2026-27 Champions League is under way. There are still 126 matches to play until we know which 24 teams will feature in the knockout phase but that doesn’t mean we haven’t learned anything yet. Here are the key data talking points from week one. Continue reading...
  
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• Perfect start for the Premier League in Europe and is it crunch time for Spurs already? Football Weekly Extra – podcast

  11-09-2026 14:39 via theguardian.com
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen and Nedum Onuoha to round up the week’s Champions League action, and look ahead to the weekend’s Premier League fixturesRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on email.On the podcast today: Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen, and Nedum Onuoha to round up the week’s Champions League action.Liverpool defeat Atlético Madrid and Manchester United see off Sabah to compl
  
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• Champions League review: Irish heroics, rejected resignations and Mourinho’s return

  11-09-2026 14:30 via theguardian.com
  The league phase has begun. From Olise’s brilliance to Sabah’s pub cleaner turned quiz contestant turned manager, there was plenty to talk aboutThe league phase has been previewed as Barcelona’s first step toward reclaiming a crown last lifted in 2015, with disappointments aplenty since. Lionel Messi claiming just one Champions League title in the last decade of his time at Camp Nou is the starkest statistic. The player anointed as Messi’s successor, Lamine Yamal, is alre
  
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• Olid’s United on back foot due to late business and unforgiving WSL start

  11-09-2026 13:18 via theguardian.com
  Head coach has harsh spotlight on her as she prepares for Chelsea on Sunday, but she deserves time and investmentIt was tough watching Manchester United’s players labour ineffectively against the hungry and aggressive press of London City Lionesses in the Women’s Super League’s opening match. Simi Awujo’s late consolation goal did little to ease the mounting concern for a side that have several teams nipping at their heels.Don’t panic; that has to be United’s
  
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• ‘Delay the meals’: Mikel Arteta reveals latest maverick Arsenal methods

  11-09-2026 12:04 via theguardian.com
  Manager wants players to cope with things going wrongOther tactics include making dressing room even hotterMikel Arteta has revealed that he likes to set players challenges, such as delaying their meals before matches and making the dressing room hotter, to ensure they are fully prepared for any eventuality.Arsenal’s flight to Italy on Tuesday for their Champions League opener against Napoli was delayed for more than five hours, with Arteta forced to cancel his pre-match press conference a
  
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• Pochettino’s ‘different’ vow to the US invites unwelcome speculation

  11-09-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The US manager’s relationship with the international job has changed with a full World Cup cycle beginningI hope, in this lifetime, you find someone who loves you the way Mauricio Pochettino loves Tottenham Hotspur. The grip Spurs have on his heart seems the stuff of a literary classic: his imperfect partner who called things off at the first sign of trouble must merely check in on him occasionally to rekindle hopes of a reunion.Perhaps a bit extreme, but this week’s revelation &ndas
  
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• Why David Beckham will have my vote for the US Soccer Hall of Fame | Pablo Iglesias Maurer

  10-09-2026 16:54 via theguardian.com
  The Englishman has gotten no shortage of recognition, but his contributions to the American game deserve an official titleSign up for our free newsletter hereNext spring, when the US Soccer Hall of Fame welcomes its newest class, there will be pomp and circumstance. The hall, which sits in a corner of Toyota Stadium, home of Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas, will feature the enshrineds’ signature red jackets. There will be glad-handing and speeches from players and coaches, misty-eyed
  
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