Last season, Roberto De Zerbi walked away after his Olympique de Marseille were humiliated in a 5-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain. The talk before the game was that Bruno Génésio could do the same if faced with a similar blowout. However, despite chance after chance falling for Les Parisiens, Marseille would walk away with only […]

Bayer Leverkusen continued their strong start to the Bundesliga campaign with a composed, highly efficient 2-0 victory over RB Leipzig at a packed BayArena. Carles Martínez’s side weathered early pressure from the visitors before striking at crucial junctures on either side of the interval. Patrik Schick opened the scoring by converting a delicate volley from […]

In a clash between two Ligue 1 teams who were unbeaten up to that point, Olympique Lyonnais comfortably got the better of Stade Rennais with a 4-0 win, with goals from Corentin Tolisso, Zachary Athekame and a brace from Ernest Nuamah. Rennes had their chances but were fooled and destabilised by Lyon’s highly coordinated counter-movements. […]

The Metropolitano stadium remained a tough nut to crack for Real Madrid. José Mourinho approached the game as an underdog and reaped the underdog result. Real Madrid looked toothless in every phase of the game, extending their stretch of underperformance against big teams. Tactical analysis and match report by Achraf Lamdarhri. In the last eleven visits […]