Liverpool breezed past West Ham United 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday. A penalty goal&nbsp;by Mohamed Salah&nbsp;in the 35th minute opened the score for the reds, after which&nbsp;Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's 2nd half goal extended Liverpool's lead to 15th consecutive wins. Interestingly, Liverpool has gone 41 Premier League games without defeat as they march towards their first top-flight title since 1990. Liverpool now sits 19-points clear on top of the Premier League table with 70 points in hand.&nbsp;

Liverpool breezed past West Ham United 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday. A penalty goal by Mohamed Salah in the 35th minute opened the score for the reds, after which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's 2nd half goal extended Liverpool's lead to 15th consecutive wins. Interestingly, Liverpool has gone 41 Premier League games without defeat as they march towards their first top-flight title since 1990. Liverpool now sits 19-points clear on top of the Premier League table with 70 points in hand.

A late flurry helped&nbsp;Manchester United beat Luton&nbsp;Town 3-0 on Monday night as they&nbsp;reached 4th round of the&nbsp;Carabao Cup.&nbsp;Juan Mata successfully converted from&nbsp;the spot to open the scoring for his side just before half-time.&nbsp;Substitutes Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood then wrapped up a clinical win with a goal each in the dying minutes. With that, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has won 50 of his 92 games in charge of Manchester United across all competitions, 3rd quickest to reach the milestone&nbsp;for the Red Devils.

Uruguayan striker&nbsp;Luis Suarez who is about to make a move-out of Barcelona&nbsp;is caught up in a new storm. According to reports in the Italian Press, Suarez who gave an Italian language test recently in a bid to get a European&nbsp;passport cheated in his examination. The reports suggest that Suarez&nbsp;who has Italian ancestry scored better than normal results and the University where the footballer appeared for his test helped him in the exam. Suarez is looking to get a European Union passport which will help him in his potential transfer to&nbsp;Italian champions&nbsp;Juventus.&nbsp;

Brazil's women national team practice at their training ground in Teresopolis, 120 km outside Rio de Janeiro&nbsp;saw an unusual pitch invader when a macaw parrot landed on the head of defender Bruna Benites. She stayed calm&nbsp;during the incident as with the help of an assistant coach, the bird left Benites' head, flying to one of the goal posts and then away from the pitch.&nbsp;
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Manchester City have confirmed that&nbsp;midfielder Ilkay Gundogan has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently in a ten-day period of self-isolation.&nbsp;The Germany international missed Monday night's English Premier League game against the Wolves and will also sit out of the&nbsp;Carabao Cup game against Bournemouth on Thursday. The 29-year-old is also expected to miss Sunday's league match against Leicester City.&nbsp;Gundogan is the third City player to test positive for the virus, with&nbsp;&nbsp;Aymeric Laporte and Riyad Mahrez, who returned to training last week after their own periods of self-isolation.

Brazil club&nbsp;Flamengo&nbsp;confirmed on Sunday that 6 of their players have tested positive for Covid-19&nbsp;prior to Tuesday's Copa Libertadores clash against Ecuador's Barcelona for the fourth round of the competition's group stage. The defending champions did not identify the athletes that contracted the virus&nbsp;but wrote on Twitter that all 6 players are asymptomatic and isolated in their hotel rooms.&nbsp;According to local media, former Atletico de Madrid players Filipe Luis and Diego Ribas, Chile's International Mauricio Isla and striker Bruno Henrique are among the infected players. According to reports in the local media,&nbsp;the club is working to bring 6 players from their youth team to Ecuador, to replace the infected players.

Manchester City's quest to regain the Premier League title started off with an away win as they beat&nbsp;Wolverhampton 3-1 on Monday night.&nbsp;Kevin de Bruyne&nbsp;put City ahead in the 20th minute by successfully converting from the spot. He&nbsp;has now been directly involved in more Premier League goals than any other player since the start of last season.&nbsp;Phil Foden,&nbsp;playing for the first time since being&nbsp;sent home&nbsp;from England duty before the 2nd game of the&nbsp;Nations League, doubled the lead for the Citizens. The hosts fought back in the second-half and pulled one back in the 78th minute. But&nbsp;Gabriel Jesus' injury-time goal sealed victory for Pep Guardiola's side.&nbsp;City have now become the first team to win 10 opening Premier League games in a row.

Juventus marked Andrea Pirlo's first match as head coach with a comfortable 3-0 win over Sampdoria in Serie A on Sunday night. Assisted by&nbsp;Cristiano Ronaldo,&nbsp;Dejan Kulusevski&nbsp;put Juventus&nbsp;ahead in just the 13th minute.&nbsp;Leonardo Bonucci then doubled the lead in the second-half. CR7 too found the net in the dying minutes of the game to seal the win for his side. Interestingly, the new season also saw fans return to the stadiums as the Italian government allowed up to 1,000 spectators to attend matches for the first time since March.&nbsp;

Defending champions Liverpool showed Chelsea that they still have a lot to work on in order to challenge top clubs in the Premier League as they beat&nbsp;Frank Lampard's men 2-0 at the&nbsp;Stamford Bridge on Sunday night. Sadio Mane scored a brace as after a goal in the 50th minute, he doubled the&nbsp;advantage for The Reds just 4 minutes later. Liverpool's second consecutive win took them level on points with Everton, Arsenal and Crystal Palace at the top of the table. Chelsea on the other hand have lost one and won one game.

Son Heung-min and captain Harry Kane worked magic on Sunday night as Tottenham came from behind to beat Southampton 5-2 and claimed their first win of the new Premier League season. Danny Ings&nbsp;put Southampton ahead in the 32nd minute but it was the Son Heung-min show post that. The&nbsp;South Korean winger scored 4 times and grabbed&nbsp;his first EPL hat-trick in the process. He&nbsp;was assisted by Harry Kane on all 4 occasions as the Englishman became the&nbsp;first player to set up a Premier League teammate for as many goals. Kane then too found the net in the 82nd minute. Spurs now shift focus to the EFL cup and then the Europa&nbsp;League before returning to the Premier League with a game against Newcastle on September 27.

7 years after leaving for a world-record fee to Real Madrid, Gareth Bale is back at Tottenham in a bid to reignite his career.&nbsp;The Spurs confirmed that they have signed the 31-year-old on loan for a season&nbsp;in one of the most high-profile moves of the transfer window. Bale was struggling with his game in recent seasons under Madrid manager Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane.&nbsp;While Bale's contract with Madrid runs until 2022, he is set to earn&nbsp;&pound;13m in wages for his year-long loan. In a statement, Bale said that Tottenham&nbsp;is&nbsp;a very special club for him as it's where he made his name.

Welsh footballer Gareth Bale arrived on Friday afternoon to complete his move back in Tottenham&nbsp;from Real Madrid. The 31-year-old who&nbsp;left the club in 2013 for a then-record fee of &pound;85 million was struggling with his game in recent seasons under Madrid manager Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane.&nbsp;While Bale's contract with Madrid runs until 2022, he is set to earn&nbsp;&pound;13m in wages for his year-long loan. Apart from Gareth Bale, Sergio Reguilon&nbsp;is also expected to join the English club for a fee of around&nbsp;&pound;27m

Borussia&nbsp;Dortmund started their Bundesliga&nbsp;campaign with&nbsp;an unassailable 3-0 win at home over Borussia&nbsp;Monchengladbach&nbsp;on Saturday. Jude Bellingham&nbsp;who made his Bundesliga&nbsp;debut helped the 17-year-old&nbsp;Giovanni&nbsp;Reyna score&nbsp;in the first half of the match.&nbsp;Jadon&nbsp;Sancho&nbsp;shined through the match with an incredible assist to Erling Haaland, who also scored a penalty to make it a comfortable victory for Lucian Favre's men. Earlier this week, English footballer Bellingham&nbsp;scored on his Dortmund debut in the German Cup against Duisberg.&nbsp;

Wilfred Zaha&nbsp;inspired Crystal Palace easily took over Manchester United in their first Premier League game of the season&nbsp;as Ole Gunnar&nbsp;Solskjaer's men slumped to an embarrassing 3-1 defeat at home.
United's&nbsp;lone goal came from their new signing Donny van de Beek.&nbsp;The former Manchester United player,&nbsp;Zaha&nbsp;in return scored 2 goals in the second half of&nbsp;the match, which also made&nbsp;him the only player to do so.
Interestingly, with this victory, the Eagles made history at Old Trafford&nbsp;as this was for the first time that the team&nbsp;won their opening 2 games of a top-flight season.&nbsp;

Eddie Nketiah's&nbsp;late goal in the 85th minute saved the day for Arsenal, as they registered a second straight victory with a&nbsp;2-1 win against West Ham at Emirates Stadium on Saturday. With Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's&nbsp;help,&nbsp;Alexandre&nbsp;Lacazette&nbsp;scored the opening goal for his side in the&nbsp;25th-minute. While David Moyes' men presented a strong counter-attack with midfielder&nbsp;Michail&nbsp;Antonio scoring the only goal for his side, the Irons eventually succumbed&nbsp;to&nbsp;Mikel&nbsp;Arteta's&nbsp;men.&nbsp;&nbsp;

A hat-trick by&nbsp;Dominic Calvert-Lewin&nbsp;helped Everton&nbsp;come back from a goal down to thrash West Brom&nbsp;5-2, taking their&nbsp;impressive start to the Premier League season to 2 wins in as many outings.&nbsp;Colombian forward James Rodriguez made his debut for Everton&nbsp;memorable with a goal just moments before half-time. Though West Brom&nbsp;equalised in the 47th minute but Calvert-Lewin&nbsp;made sure that The Toffees reigned supreme.&nbsp;Everton have won their opening two league fixtures for the first time in eight years

After roping in Bayern&nbsp;Munich's&nbsp;Thiago&nbsp;Alcantara,&nbsp;Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool sprang a surprise on Saturday after agreeing a deal to sign 23-year-old Portuguese striker Diogo Jota from fellow English Premier League side Wolverhampton. It is understood that the transfer is worth in the region of $53 million.&nbsp;Jota, who was left out of Wolves' first two matches of the season, appears set to sign a five-year contract.

After completing&nbsp;a treble last season, Bayern&nbsp;Munich began the new Bundesliga season with a bang as they demolished&nbsp;Schalke&nbsp;8-0 on Friday.&nbsp;Serge Gnabry&nbsp;was the hero of the night with a hat-trick and set the tone for Bayern&nbsp;in just the 4th minute. Interestingly, 2 of his goals were assisted by&nbsp;Leroy Sane, who was playing his first game for German giants after a&nbsp;&pound;44.7m move from Manchester City. Sane then too managed to find the net on his Bayern&nbsp;debut in the 71st minute.&nbsp;It was in fact the second time Bayern managed 8 goals in a game this year, having smashed&nbsp;Barcelona 8-2&nbsp;in the Champions League quarter-finals.

Spanish professional footballer Thiago&nbsp;Alcantara&nbsp;signed up with&nbsp;Liverpool as he ended his 7-year-long Bayern Munich journey. The English club will pay&nbsp;&pound;20mn for Alcantara&nbsp;along with a potential additional amount of&nbsp;&pound;5m&nbsp;later.&nbsp;&nbsp;The 29-year-old who agreed upon a long term contract with Liverpool has won 7 consecutive Bundesliga&nbsp;titles with Bayern&nbsp;Munich&nbsp;and had also won the Champions League last month. He is the second signing of the club, earlier Liverpool also closed the deal with Olympiakos' Kostas&nbsp;Tsimikas&nbsp;last month.&nbsp;

Paris St Germain's Neymar has been handed a two-match ban following his brawl with&nbsp;Marseille's Alvaro Gonzalez in PSG's fiery 1-0 defeat in Ligue 1 on September 13.&nbsp;Neymar&nbsp;was one of five players who were sent off during injury time after he slapped Gonzalez for allegedly making racist remarks at&nbsp;the Brazilian.&nbsp;Marseille defender is also being&nbsp;investigated after&nbsp;Neymar's allegations against the&nbsp;Spaniard.&nbsp;Neymar&nbsp;was automatically suspended from Wednesday's 1-0 win over Metz&nbsp;after the red card. He will miss one more match and will now make his return on September 27.&nbsp;

The last Bundesliga season may have been completed behind closed doors due to the fear of Covid-19, but things will get a little normal in the new season. The organisers have decided to allow home fans back in the stadiums&nbsp;when the new season kicks off with champions&nbsp;Bayern Munich&nbsp;hosting&nbsp;Schalke&nbsp;on Friday.&nbsp;The German Football League&nbsp;will see 20% capacity allowed in, with no away fans present, no alcohol allowed and a ban on standing.&nbsp;However, if a 7-day infection rate in a home city is above 35 per 100,000, a game would be played in empty stadiums.&nbsp;Bundesliga&nbsp;became the first major football league to return amid the pandemic when it resumed on May 16 last season.

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