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🚨⚽️ | NEW: The 2024/25 UEFA Champions League league phase table after Matchday 1. ✅ 1st-8th: Teams qualify automatically for the round of 16 ⚔️ 9th-24th: Teams will compete in a two-legged knockout phase play-off to secure their path to the round of 16 ❌ 25th-36th: Teams will be eliminated, with no access to the UEFA Europa League

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Lamine Yamal scores his first UEFA Champions League goal and has now had a goal contribution in every game for Barcelona this season after scoring the equalizer against AS Monaco in the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League. 🅰️ vs. Valencia (La Liga) ⚽️ vs. Athletic Club (La Liga) 🅰️ vs. Rayo Vallecano (La Liga) 🅰️🅰️ vs. Real Valladolid (La Liga) ⚽️⚽️ vs. Girona (La Liga) ⚽️ vs. AS Monaco (UEFA Champions League)

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Florian Wirtz is the first-ever German player to score 2+ goals on his UEFA Champions League debut, having scored twice in the first half of Feyenoord vs. Bayer Leverkusen.

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Aged 14 years, eight months, and 19 days, Arsenal midfielder Max Dowman became the youngest-ever player to score in a UEFA Youth League game as Arsenal U-19’s lost 4-1 to Atalanta U-19’s.

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Dinamo Zagreb have sacked head coach Sergej Jakirović two days after the club lost 9-2 to Bayern in the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League. ➡️ The defeat in Germany was the club’s heaviest ever loss, and the first time that one side had conceded nine goals in the history of the competition

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Manchester City would be at risk of being expelled from both the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, and there is no certainty that they would be able to continue to play in the UEFA Champions League or at the FIFA Club World Cup either, if they are found guilty of serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Although they failed to win tonight, Manchester City extended their unbeaten UEFA Champions League run to 24 matches, just one behind the record set by Manchester United between 2007 and 2009. 🔴 Manchester United - 25 🔵 Manchester City - 24 ➡️ Manchester City’s next opponent in the UEFA Champions League is ŠK Slovan Bratislava

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Manchester City in action with their ‘Definitely City’ kit, which was co-designed by legendary musician and lifelong Manchester City fan Noel Gallagher, during their 2024/25 UEFA Champions League season opener against Inter Milan.

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Mikel Arteta has announced that Martin Ødegaard will be out for a while after scans showed that he suffered ankle ligament damage. “After recent scans the scans showed that he’s got some damage especially on one of the ligaments in the ankle. It’s something quite significant so we’re going to lose him for a while.”

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Chris Kavanagh, the referee who sent off Declan Rice during Arsenal’s 1-1 draw with Brighton last month, admitted that he did not like the controversial decision but told him he had no choice. Audio of Chris Kavanagh on the Match Officials Mic’d program: “Dec, you need to go. I don’t like it [the rule], I don’t like it. But [Rice has] knocked the ball. He’s kicked the ball. Dec, you need to go I’m afraid.”