England. The achievements of Aguero and the embarrassment of "Manchester City"

The central match of the second round of the Premier League was the London derby Chelsea - Arsenal. The teams showed a bright uncompromising game and scored five goals for two.

In this case, the beginning of the match was left for the wards Maurizio Sarri. Already by the 20th minute his team led with a score of 2: 0. First Pedro Rodriguez opened the scoring with a shot from the near distance, and then Alvaro Morata on the border of someone else's penalty with one touch beat Shkodran Mustafi and sent the ball into the net. For the Spaniard, this goal was the first in the championship of England since April and only the second since December last year.

It seemed that after such an unfortunate start back to the game, "Arsenal" will not be easy, but the "Gunners" were able to even the score before the break. Team Unai Emery fired a doublet: in five minutes the guests distinguished themselves twice. Henrik Mkhitaryan first struck foreign gate with a strong blow to the near corner from the semi-circle of the free-kick, and after helped to distinguish Alex Ayouobi. In addition, Arsenal missed several hundred percent.

The second half turned out to be much less rich in events, and the fate of the derby eventually decided the exact blow of Marcos Alonso. At the same time, the resultant transfer was given to him by Eden Azar. Thus, the "Chelsea" under the leadership of Sarri began the season with two wins in a row. "Arsenal" has suffered two defeats.

The main sensation of the tour was the guest defeat of "Manchester United" from the modest "Brighton". Mancunians twice missed by the middle of the first half. However, on the 34th minute, the lag in the account was reduced to Romel Lukaku. But shortly before the break, the hosts earned a penalty, which realized Pascal Gross.

MJ had a whole time, but all that the team showed Jose Mourinho - a goal from the penalty spot at the fifth added minute. In this case, the penalty was played by Paul Pogba, who, according to the media, intends to leave the team.

Meanwhile, the neighbor of Manchester United, Manchester City, did not experience any problems in the match against the Huddersfield Town team. The current champions sent six goals to the opponent's goal, but only one missed.

The main hero of the meeting was Sergio Aguero. The Argentine made a hat-trick and set a couple of interesting statistical achievements. First, the striker with 146 goals came in second place in the Premier League in terms of the number of goals scored among the legionaries. Now the 30-year-old football player in this indicator is second only to Thierry Henry (175).

In the overall list of the scorers of the tournament Aguero shares tenth place with Teddy Sheringham.

But according to the number of hat-tricks in the Premier League, Sergio is second only to Alan Shearer, who in parallel is the best scorer in the history of the Premier League (260). On the count of the legendary English striker - 11 hat-tricks, while the Argentinean and Robbie Fowler - nine.

Pleased fans in the reporting round and Harry Kane. Captain of the England national team for the first time in his career became the author of the goal in the Premier League in August. The striker helped Tottenham to beat Fulham 3-1. In this case, Kane because of participation in the World Cup began training only five days before the start of the season in England.

  • Harry Kane celebrates his goal
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Spain. Synchronous wins of "Barcelona" and "Real"

The main event of the first round of the new season Examples for Russian fans should be Denis Cheryshev's debut match for Valencia after returning to the team. On Monday the team of the midfielder of the national team will receive the owner of the UEFA Super Cup "Atletico".

And the two strongest teams of the country have already started in the national championship. "Barcelona", the current champion, not without difficulty coped with "Alaves". The team from Vitoria held back attacks of blue garnet for over an hour, but in the 64th minute Lionel Messi reminded himself. The hosts earned a standard near the penalty opponent, and the Argentinean accurate blow sent the ball into the goal.

Thus, Lionel became the author of the 6000th goal of "Barcelona" in the Example. Previously, this bar was overcome only by "Real".

Interestingly, the team's 5000th ball in the championship of Spain also scored Messi. This happened in February 2009.

"Barcelona" eventually brought the case to the defeat of "Alaves". In the end, scored a substitute for Philippe Coutinho and once again Messi.

"Real" in the first match in the example without Ronaldo for nine years without problems defeated "Getafe". In contrast to the "Barca" Madrid limited to two goals scored, but all questions regarding the winner of the meeting were removed at the beginning of the second half, after which they switched to the energy saving mode.

In both effective attacks the team participated Gareth Bale. At the 20th minute after the canoe of the Welsh goalkeeper David Soria knocked the ball with his fists directly on the head of Daniel Karwahal. And immediately after the break, Bale quietly closed the chamber of Marco Asensio from the facial.

And Villarreal, which still owns the rights to Cheryshev, started with an unexpected defeat. Wards Javier Revilli Kalehi lost at home to Real Sociedad. At the same time the account was opened by the forward of the hosts Herr Moreno. But shortly before the break, the guests recouped, and 20 minutes before the final whistle they snatched the victory.

Sevilla, on the other hand, defeated "Rayo Vallecano" 4: 1 without problems. Such an impressive result helped the team to achieve the talented Portuguese striker André Silva, who designed a hat trick. Last season, the 22-year-old striker did not have too much playing time in Milan and went to Spain for rent in the summer. As a result, the debut in "Seville" for the player turned out to be really bright.

  • Lionel Messi, who became the author of the 6000th goal of "Barcelona" in the Example
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Italy. Grief for the dead in Genoa and successful debut Ancelotti

Also in the weekend started the championship of Italy. Local fans, of course, most awaited the debut of Cristiano Ronaldo in the "Juventus". The current champions in the first round on the road played with "Chievo" and eventually faced huge difficulties.

The match for the Turinians started very well. Already in the third minute Sami Khedira after filing with the standard sent the ball into the goal. But the hosts did not think to give up and played shortly before the break. Mariusz Stempinski no one prevented him from knocking peacefully on the target after filing from the flank.

And after the break, "Chievo" did go ahead. João Canselu on the line of his own penalty played poorly with Emanuele Giaccherini and clearly knocked the opponent off his feet. The judge immediately pointed to the point, and the victim himself brought the penalty in execution.

They compared the account of famous guests only 15 minutes before the final whistle, when Matthie Bani after the filing from the corner sent the ball into his own net.

Of course, after "Juventus" went ahead with the whole team, and soon in the penalty "Chievo" was an extremely unpleasant episode. Ronaldo, full of desire to excel in the debut match for the new team, struck the goalkeeper rivals Stefano Sorrentino's knee in the face, trying to close the chamber of the partner.

Mario Mandzhukich immediately finished off the projectile in the net, but the referee canceled the goal after watching the repeat. The goalkeeper of the hosts remained lying on the lawn, where he was carried on a stretcher.

As a result, the winning goal Juventus scored already the substitute Sorrentino. Federico Bernardeski after lumbago Alex Sandro sent the ball into the net.

In the hospital at Sorrentino, a nasal fracture and a head injury were diagnosed. In the near future the athlete will be forced to wear a special bandage for the neck. In this case, Stefano himself reacted to his injury with humor.

"Many thanks to all for your kind messages, unlimited support and wishes for recovery. We have a fantastic team that fought to the very end, while Cristiano Ronaldo took me on! "- wrote Sorrentino on his Twitter page.

Uneasy victory in the first match under the leadership of Carlo Ancelotti and won, "Napoli", in the previous season until the end, fought with Juventus for the gold national championship. In the game with "Lazio" Neapolitans were in the position recouping in the middle of the first half, when Ciro Immobilet with an accurate blow opened the scoring.

The guests played on the third added minute. Arakadiusz Milik struck the opponent's goal from close range. Shortly before the other goal of the Pole was canceled due to violation of the rules.

The winning ball was Lorenzo Insigne after the break. The striker from the left corner of the penalty area struck a beautiful, percussive blow to the far nine.

If "Lazio" in the first round was defeated, then another Roman team - "Roma" - won a difficult victory over "Torino". Three points wards Walter Mazzarri brought an accurate blow Edina Dzeko in the 89th minute.

For another Italian grandee, Inter, the starting round turned out to be unsuccessful. Nerazzurri on the road managed to give Sassuolo with a minimum score. Domenico Berardi scored the only goal in the middle of the first half with a penalty.

But the match of "Milan" with "Genoa" was postponed because of the collapse of the bridge in Genoa, which killed 43 people. Later will play in the first round and another team representing the city in Serie A - Sampdoria. Of course, the games of the championship of Italy began with a minute of silence, and at most stadiums the fans posted special banners in memory of the victims.

France. Misfires and doubles

The second round of League 1 was unexpectedly difficult for all French grandees. Problems even experienced the terrible PSG. After the first half of the away match against the "Gengam", the Parisians conceded with a minimum score. At the same time mentor of champions Thomas Tukhel later admitted that his team could miss and two or three goals.

As a result, in the second half of the meeting, the guests came to their senses and hit the gates of a modest opponent thrice. A lot of this was facilitated by the appearance on the field of Kilian Mbappa. It was he who in the end of the match formalized the double and brought his team victory.

Other favorites were less fortunate. "Monaco" in the absence of Alexander Golovin and was unable to print the gates of "Lille". To defeat the opponent's goal to the Monegasques did not help even a penalty kick, appointed to the visitors' gate 20 minutes before the final whistle.

Lille's goalkeeper Mik Menyan confidently took the ball after Radamel Falcao's rather ingenious blow from the point.

"Lyon" with a minimum score lost to "Reims", which unexpectedly began the season with two consecutive victories (in the first round, the team of David Guyon also defeated "Nice" with a minimum score).

"Marseille" did give way to the newcomer to League 1 "Nim" - 1: 3. The hosts, like Reims, started the season with two consecutive wins.