European soccer highlights: Finest targets, moments and storylines this weekend

Sports activities Mole rounds up the weekend’s greatest targets, highlights and storylines from throughout Europe’s high leagues.

After the grand unveiling of UEFA’s new-look Champions League took centre stage in midweek, with goal-crazy Bayern Munich instantly going high of the desk, home soccer was again below the highlight round Europe this weekend.

Bayern had been at it once more on Saturday, as they discovered the web for the twentieth time in only a week, shortly after Ligue 1 facet Good had helped themselves to a hatful on Friday night.

Elsewhere, Actual Madrid ruthlessly maintained their unbeaten run in La Liga, and Juventus saved their Serie A clean-sheet streak alive towards Napoli.

Right here, Sports activities Mole rounds up the weekend’s motion from throughout the continent.

Bundesliga highlights

Having thumped six previous Holstein Kiel final week, then thrashed Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 within the Champions League, a cruel Bayern Munich facet made it 20 targets in a single week after they visited Werder Bremen on the Weserstadion.

Amid a solid of attacking stars, Michael Olise shone brightest, as he first opened the scoring earlier than establishing Jamal Musiala for Bayern’s second.

The France ahead later arrange Harry Kane‘s forty first Bundesliga aim, which made the ex-Tottenham Hotspur striker the highest-scoring English participant in German league historical past, managing the feat in simply 36 appearances.

Olise then netted his fifth aim in three video games earlier than Serge Gnabry scored the fifth: Bayern’s summer season signing has now produced a aim involvement each 41 minutes since arriving from Crystal Palace.

The Bavarian giants additionally continued their excellent Bundesliga begin below new boss Vincent Kompany, as they purpose to regain the Meisterschale.

In the meantime, final week’s victims Holstein Kiel lastly picked up their first top-tier level ever, as a late equaliser earned them a 2-2 draw at VfL Bochum.

Ligue 1 highlights

Maybe taking their inspiration from Bayern’s exploits in Europe, Good turned the primary staff to attain no less than six targets within the first half of a Ligue 1 sport this century, as they crushed Saint-Etienne 8-0 on Friday night time.

Recording their biggest-ever top-flight win, the house facet had been impressed by Mohamed-Ali Cho, who scored the third aim and supplied assists for 3 others as Les Aiglons ran riot.

In the meantime, regular service was resumed as Paris Saint-Germain posted a fifth win from 5 to stay unbeaten in 26 Ligue 1 away matches.

Ousmane Dembele‘s second-half equaliser earned PSG a 1-1 draw at Reims, because the France winger made an virtually quick impression after arriving from the bench.

Elsewhere in France, former Liverpool and Newcastle United striker Andy Carroll sensationally scored twice as an alternative to a Bordeaux staff based within the ashes of the membership’s latest monetary implosion.

His targets helped salvage a 2-2 draw for the previous Ligue 1 giants, who had been champions of France simply 15 years in the past however should now play within the fourth tier.

Capped 9 occasions by England – together with at Euro 2012 – Carroll’s new membership sit fifteenth of 16 groups of their division, although they nonetheless have video games in hand.

La Liga highlights

Vinicius Junior got here off the bench to attain one aim and arrange one other as La Liga champions Actual Madrid in the end cruised to a 4-1 win over Espanyol on Saturday.

Thibaut Courtois erred by scoring an personal aim to place his facet 1-0 down, however the Belgian goalkeeper was spared by his teammates, as Rodrygo levelled issues and Vini Jr then took centre stage.

Actual later turned the primary staff to web 5 penalties after simply six video games of a La Liga season, when Kylian Mbappe joined Karim Benzema as the one Madrid gamers to attain from the spot in three consecutive league matches to this point this century.

Because of this, Los Blancos remained in second place on 14 factors – one behind leaders Barcelona, who meet Villarreal on Sunday.

Carlo Ancelotti‘s males have now gone 37 straight video games with out defeat in La Liga, which is the third-best unbeaten run all through the competitors’s historical past, after Barca in 2018 and Actual Sociedad in 1980.

Serie A highlights

In Italy, two stoppage-time strikes turned the sport on its head as promoted Parma fought again to salvage a outstanding 2-2 draw at Lecce, with each groups right down to 10 males.

Having let leads slip a number of occasions since returning to Calcio’s elite stage as Serie B champions, Parma this time pulled off a last-gasp escape, with targets from ex-Lecce winger Pontus Almqvist and Antoine Hainaut dragging them stage at By way of del Mare.

It was solely the second time that the Crociati have ever scored twice after the ninetieth minute in a Serie A fixture.

Saturday’s blockbuster showdown between Juventus and Napoli was a far much less dramatic affair, although, as ex-Juve boss Antonio Conte left Turin with a hard-earned level in his pocket.

The groups performed out a disappointing goalless draw, with Conte’s Napoli having come into the competition on the again of a three-match profitable streak and the hosts recent from beating PSV Eindhoven within the Champions League.

Remarkably, Juventus have now drawn three consecutive league video games 0-0 for the primary time since 1992, when legendary coach Giovanni Trapattoni was in command of the Bianconeri.

Elsewhere, Torino‘s Duvan Zapata scored an eighth straight headed aim within the Granata’s 3-2 win at Hellas Verona: that’s no less than two greater than anybody else throughout Europe’s high 5 leagues in 2024 – Alexander Sorloth is his closest challenger, with six.

And, in Cagliari, an extremely lengthy drought lastly got here to its finish: Empoli ahead Sebastiano Esposito scored his second aim within the Italian high flight some 1735 days after his first – a penalty towards for Inter Milan, on 21 December 2019.

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