Vardy's double and Castan's effective debut
Leicester started off confidently in the new England championship.
The fifth team of the last season of the Premier League at a party beat West Bromwich - 3: 0.
Thus, the tendency that has developed in the confrontation of these teams over the past years continued: in the previous eight matches, the hosts did not win a single victory, drew twice and lost six times.
Jamie Vardy became one of the main characters of the meeting.
In the end of the match, the top scorer of the previous championship twice upset the opponent from the penalty spot and went down in league history, having distinguished himself in the last five away matches with West Brom.
Besides him, only Ruud van Nistelrooy managed to hit the gate of one opponent in five away games in a row.
The Dutchman's "victim" was Newcastle at one time.
At the same time, the start of the defeat of the Blackbirds was laid by Leicester's debutant Timothy Castagne.
The former Atalanta defender was well connected to the attack and irresistibly hit his head from within the penalty area.
He became the fifth Belgian in history to distinguished himself in his first game in the Premier League.
Mourinho's historic defeat and Dinh's 12th gear
In the central match of the day in the Premier League, Tottenham lost at home to Everton.
Unexpectedly for many, Carlo Ancelotti's charges significantly surpassed their opponents in the number of shots on goal (15-9) and, as a result, were able to convert quantity into quality.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin hit his head well, and Luca Dinh acted as an assistant.
Since the beginning of the 2018/19 season, the Frenchman has given 12 assists and has come out on this indicator in third place among all wing defenders of the league.
Only Andrew Robertson (24) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (25) have more.
The defeat at Everton drew a line under Jose Mourinho's unbeaten streak in the first rounds of the European Championships.
Prior to this match, the teams under the leadership of the Portuguese were not inferior in 18 meetings in a row, having won 11 victories and drew seven times.
The reporting match was also remembered for a number of debuts.
Irish defender Matt Doherty and Danish midfielder Pierre-Emile Høybjerg, known for appearances for Bayern and Southampton, first appeared on the field, while the guests included midfielders Abdoulaye Dukure, Allan and James Rodriguez.
The former Real Madrid player performed more than successfully and created five chances to score.
For the last time, the first match in Foggy Albion was played by ex-Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez in 2014.
Valencia's strong-willed victory and Cheryshev's assist
In Spain, Valencia took the lead in the championship.
In the offseason, the club started a solid restructuring of the roster and managed to part with a number of leaders.
Rodrigo, Ferran Torres, Dani Parejo, Francis Coquelin and Ezequiel Garay have already left the team, and a number of other players may soon join them.
But despite the difficulties, the "bats" in their field broke the resistance of "Levante".
Xavi Gracia's wards conceded already in the first minute, and by the 36th they were losing 1: 2.
The hosts responded to the double by Jose Luis Morales with an accurate shot from Gabriel Paulista.
But in the remaining time the orange hit Levante three more times, and the last goal was scored in the fourth compensated minute.
Manu Vallejo scored two goals, and in the episode with his first goal the Spaniard was assisted by Denis Cheryshev.
For a Russian who recovered from an injury, this effective action was the first since July.
One of the main creators of the owners' success was Lee Kang Ying.
The 19-year-old Korean has chalked up two assists and is the youngest assistant double for Valencia in the 21st century.
Juan Mate succeeded in 2008 at the age of 20.
Second consecutive defeat for PSG and five penalties
The richest in events was the confrontation between Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille.
The fight included two missed goals, a held ball by the guests and five penalties.
PSG suffered a second consecutive defeat at the start of the championship, never hitting the opponent's goal.
The last and before that the only time this happened to Parisians was in 1978.
The outcome of the meeting was decided by the goal of Floriana Toven.
Having played just 20 minutes last season, the footballer responded to Dimitri Payet's free-kick pass and brought Marcel the victory.
At the same time, the midfielder could well have been in a slight offside position, but the referee did not react to this.
Subsequently, Jerome Brizard became noticeably stricter and canceled the scoring of Angel Di Maria and Dario Benedetto, both because of the offside position.
But if the PSG player did not score exactly according to the rules, then everything is not so simple with the guests' forward.
However, the main events took place in compensated time.
There was a scuffle, as a result of which five players left the field at once.
Leandro Paredes and Benedetto got the second yellow card for being rude in midfield, Leivin Kurzawa and Jordan Amavi were sent off for a fight, and a few minutes later Neymar went to the under-stands.
Video assistants saw that the Brazilian hit Alvaro Gonzalez in the back of the head.
As it turned out later, this is how the striker allegedly reacted to the Spaniard's racist insults.
In total, 17 cards were shown in this match, which became the anti-record of League 1 in the 21st century.
Robben's failed comeback and 21-year-old Gakpo's take
Another significant event took place in the Dutch Eredivisie. Former Bayern and Chelsea midfielder Arjen Robben played his first home league game since 2004. The pupil of "Groningen" entered the main squad of his native team for the match with PSV, but after half an hour he left the field due to injury. Instead of him came the young Slovak Tomas Suslov, who became the author of the only goal of the hosts. At PSV, 21-year-old Cody Gakpo scored a double, and Doniell Malen delivered another accurate blow.