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English Premier League Cardiff City 0 0 Newcastle United Everton 2 1 Southampton Rono makes winning Leicester City 2 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers Tottenham Hotspur 3 1 Fulham West Ham United 1 2 AFC Bournemouth Chelsea 3 2 Arsenal

debut at Juventus French Ligue 1 Guingamp 1 3 Paris Saint Germain AFP | Verona, Italy Amiens 19:00 Montpellier ortuguese superstar Cris- Caen 19:00 Nice tiano Ronaldo missed Dijon 19:00 Nantes Pchances to score on his Monaco 19:00 Lille debut as defending champions Juventus snatched Rennes 19:00 Angers a late 3-2 win against Chievo in a thrilling opening match of Spanish the 2018-2019 league season on Celta Vigo 17:15 Espanyol Saturday. Villarreal 19:15 Real Sociedad Ronaldo, 33, joined from Real Madrid last month in a deal Barcelona 21:15 Alavés worth 100 million euros ($114.5 million). Italian Serie A Substitute Federico Ber- Chievo 2 3 Juventus nardeschi scored the winner two minutes into injury time Lazio 19:30 Napoli with Germany international Sami Khedira opening the scor- Scottish League Cup ing after just three minutes at Partick Thistle 1 3 Celtic the Bentegodi Stadium. Aberdeen 4 0 St. Mirren Chievo’s Mattia Bani turned into his own net after 75 min- Dundee 0 3 Ayr United utes following pressure from Cristiano Ronaldo collides with Chievo’s goalkeeper, Stefano Sorrentino, in an incident that led to an apparent winner Dunfermline Athletic 0 1 Heart of Midlothian Leonardo Bonucci to pull the being disallowed Livingston 0 1 Motherwell champions level after the home side had taken a shock 2-1 lead. floored Chievo goalkeeper Ste- ed by a minute’s silence for the Sampdoria had been due to Queen of the South 2 4 St. Johnstone Polish striker Mariusz Stepin- fano Sorrentino who required victims of the Genoa bridge dis- host Fiorentina and Genoa to ski had headed in and an Ema- medical assistance. aster with players taking to the travel to AC Milan. English Championship nuele Giaccherini penalty gave But Bernardeschi finished off pitch wearing black armbands. Meanwhile, another big name Bristol City 0 2 Middlesbrough the Flying Donkeys hope of a an Alex Sandro assist to seal the The opening round of match- arrival in Serie A, Carlo Ance- Hull City 0 1 Blackburn Rovers rare win over the giants. first three points for the cham- es involving both Genoa teams lotti makes his debut as Napoli Mario Mandzukic had a goal pions as they target an eighth were postponed because of coach as last year’s runners-up Ipswich Town 1 1 Aston Villa disallowed late in the game straight league title. the bridge collapse in the port take on Lazio in Rome later Sat- Leeds United 2 0 Rotherham United following an incident which The game had been preced- city. urday. Millwall 2 1 Derby County Reading 0 1 Bolton Wanderers Sheffield United 2 1 Norwich City West Bromwich Albion 7 1 Queens Park Rangers Chelsea edge Arsenal in thriller Wigan Athletic 2 2 Nottingham Forest Preston North End 2 2 Stoke City AFP | London promised to be a much truer test of where both sides stand den Hazard came off the in their bid to get back into the Ebench to provide the winner top four after missing out on the for Marcos Alonso as Chelsea Champions League this season. Lewandowski saves edged a thrilling London derby And it didn’t disappoint as a 3-2 over Arsenal on Saturday thrilling 90 minutes gave both Bayern from humiliation to condemn new Arsenal boss coaches plenty of cause for op- Unai Emery to a second consec- timism, but also demonstrated utive defeat. defensive frailties that are likely Contrastingly, Chelsea sit to prevent a serious title chal- top of the embryonic Premier lenge from either side. League table thanks to a per- fect start under Maurizio Sarri, Jorginho key but made life difficult for them- Chelsea beat City to the sign- selves after racing into a 2-0 ing of Jorginho to reunite the lead inside 20 minutes through Italian international with Sarri Pedro Rodriguez and Alvaro Chelsea’s Spanish defender Marcos Alonso (R) vies with Arsenal’s Spanish after three seasons together at Morata. defender Hector Bellerin Napoli and is already becoming Arsenal were level by half- key to Sarri’s change of system time as Henrikh Mkhitaryan at Stamford Bridge. and Alex Iwobi netted. cameo appearance to swing an were outclassed by champions He opened up the Arsenal de- Bayern Munich’s Polish forward Robert Lewandowski (L) vies with Yet the Gunners were left to enthralling encounter Chelsea’s Manchester City on the opening fence to open the scoring with Drochtersen’s goalkeeper Patrick Siefkes rue wasting a host of other glo- way. weekend of the season. one pass into Alonso, whose rious chances before Hazard Chelsea cruised to victory at But given the chasm in quality cross was turned into the bot- provided the inspiration in his Huddersfield, whilst Arsenal between their opponents this tom corner by Pedro. AFP | Berlin round clash. A banner at the local church ighty Bayern Munich read: “We believe in miracles, Mneeded a late Robert we trust in God, we are D/A Lewandowski goal on Satur- (Drochtersen/Assel).” Mbappe plays starring role on return to PSG day to secure a 1-0 German For the superstars of Bayern, Cup win over Drochtersen/ it must have felt like another AFP | Paris Assel, a fourth division village world as the Bundesliga cham- side who had described the pions toiled for 81 minutes un- ylian Mbappe marked his occasion as their “game of the til Lewandowski struck. Kfirst appearance for Paris century”. A roar went up from the Saint-Germain since winning In the shock of the day, hold- sell-out crowd of just 7,800 the World Cup by coming off 2 ers Eintracht Frankfurt, who each time a home player got the bench to score a late brace PSG now has two wins beat Bayern 3-1 in last season’s the better of a Bayern star -- that gave the French champions from two games in Ligue final, crashed out with a 2-1 and there were plenty of them a 3-1 victory at Guingamp on 1 this season under new defeat at fourth-division Ulm. on show as coach Niko Kovac Saturday. coach Thomas Tuchel Drochtersen/Assel, cap- started with 11 internationals Nolan Roux had given the tained by a car salesman and and an attack boasting Franck home side the lead in the Brit- featuring a tax advisor and a Ribery, Arjen Robben, Thomas tany sunshine, and only a com- stonemason, welcomed Bayern Mueller and Lewandowski. bination of Gianluigi Buffon and to their village of just 11,500 Yet Drochtersen created the VAR prevented Thomas Tuchel’s in the closing 10 minutes to se- people near Hamburg. best chance of the first-half side from being further behind cure the points. “We can hardly wait for it at their tiny Kehdinger Stadi- at half-time. It is now two wins from two in Paris Saint-Germain’s French forward Kylian Mbappe scores to start -- it’s the game of the um when playmaker Florian But Mbappe came on for the Ligue 1 this season for PSG under century for us,” Drochtersen’s Nagel tested Bayern’s Germa- second half and Neymar equal- new coach Thomas Tuchel, af- “I have very big objectives, so “I brought something to the centre-back Soeren Behrmann ny goalkeeper Manuel Neuer ised from the penalty spot soon ter they swept aside Monaco 4-0 there is no time to loaf around,” team but the whole side wanted told SID, an AFP subsidiary, on 33 minutes. A frustrated after, before the 19-year-old to win the campaign-opening Mbappe told Canal Plus at the to do better after a timid start to from his desk at a car show- Robben picked up a booking on France starlet added two goals Champions Trophy in China. end of the game. the match.” room on the eve of the first- 42 minutes for a clumsy foul.