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English Premier League – Week 1 Results, Table, Goals & Highlights
A boring but successful start for Manchester United with a 1-0 win over Tottenham to open the season, while Chelsea stuttered with 10 men at home to get a 2-2 draw against Swansea. Newly promoted sides got a total of one point out of a possible nine with Bournemouth losing to Aston Villa, Norwich to Crystal Palace and Watford drawing with Everton.
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River Plate Beat Tigers – Copa Libertadores Champions, Finally After all These Years
Almost 20 years since River Plate last won the Copa Libertadores, and their cycle of coming back to the top of Argentine and South American football is complete, beating Tigres of Mexico 3-0 in the second leg of the final (0-0 in the first match) to win the title for a third time.
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Barcelona beat Roma – Lionel Messi Butting Heads, Ivan Rakitic Scoring Screamers
Beating Roma 3-0 in a friendly match wasn’t the most interesting thing that happened to Barcelona during the eventful evening. Lionel Messi headbutting Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa grabbed most of the attention, but Ivan Rakitic for his wonderful goal deserves some credit as well.
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Jose Mourinho Ignores Arsene Wenger to Avoid Shaking his Hand
The class of Jose Mourinho knows no bounds. After Chelsea lost to Arsenal in the Community Shield, he shook hands with all the Arsenal players to congratulate them. But when Arsene Wenger was in the vicinity? Mourinho packed it up and walked away.
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Match Highlights – Arsenal vs Chelsea
The first title of the 2015-2016 season goes to Arsenal, winning the Community Shield for a second consecutive season, beating Chelsea 1-0 with a wonderful goal from Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain.
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Match Highlights – PSG vs Lyon (Trophée des Champions)
Despite the winds of change of last season coming from Lyon, nothing changed in the French Super Cup, the Trophée des Champions held in Montreal, as PSG beat the second-place team last season in Ligue 1 2-0 with early first half goals by Serge Aurier and Edinson Cavani.
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Match Highlights – Wolfsburg vs Bayern Munich (German Super Cup)
Beating Bayern Munich in the German Super Cup gives Wolfsburg, last season’s runner-ups, that something can be done about the dominance of the champions, although winning in a penalty shootout while playing at home isn’t actually anything that indicates a change at the top of German football.
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Community Shield – Arsenal vs Chelsea Predictions
There’s nothing better than starting the preview match for the 2015-2016 English Premier League season than having a London derby at Wembley, with Arsenal and Chelsea facing each other in the 2015 Community Shield.
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Can a Premier League Club Win the Champions League in 2015-2016?
It’s been three years since the last English triumph in the UEFA Champions League. Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City will try to end the drought which goes beyond just the failure to lift the trophy, but also reach the latter stages of the tournament.
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FC Barcelona, Where Managers Get Older Faster Than Anyone Else
Growing older is a depressing things. When it happens in a blink of an eye it sucks even more. Turns out that working on the sidelines at the Camp Nou, managing FC Barcelona, makes you look older faster than anything else, as Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique can clearly prove.