Domestic Leagues
THE NORTH LONDON DERBY AND THE CATALAN DERBY ARE PART OF THIS WEEKEND FIXTURES
This is how the last round ended in Europe’s top seven leagues:
🇩🇪 Heidenheim, Bayern Munich, and RB Leipzig are the teams with a perfect winning start after two rounds of the German Bundesliga, while RB Leipzig ended Leverkusen’s long unbeaten run in domestic football.
🏴 Manchester City and Liverpool are the only two teams in the English Premier League with 100% winning rate after three rounds.
🇪🇸 Barcelona were the big winners of the round, defeating Valladolid 7-0. Barcelona sits at the top of the league as the only team in Spanish La Liga with a perfect winning record with a 4-point lead in the title race.
🇮🇹 Four unbeaten teams are leading the title race in the Italian Serie A, each with 7 points: Juventus, Torino, Udinese, and the reigning champions, Inter Milan. Juventus dropped their first points of the season after a goalless draw with Roma.
🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain tops the French Ligue 1 table as the only team with a 100% winning record after three rounds. Lens, Marseille, Monaco, and Nantes are also unbeaten but have dropped points along the way.
🇳🇱 PSV Eindhoven have picked up where they left off last season. They are blasting through the league with comprehensive wins, leading the Dutch Eredivisie standings as the only team with a 100% winning record.
🇵🇹 Sporting CP, Porto, and Famalicao stayed on track with another win to make it 3/3 each. Sporting CP beat Porto to stay on course with their title defense season in the Portuguese Primeira Liga.
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There are NINE teams still looking to put a point on the league table:
🇫🇷 Angers and Saint-Étienne in the French Ligue 1.
Angers will be looking to earn their first points of the season when they face a Strasbourg side coming off their first defeat (4-3 against Lyon).
🇩🇪 Bochum, Holstein Kiel, and St. Pauli in the German Bundesliga.
Holstein Kiel will host Bayern Munich, while Bochum and St. Pauli will be away against Freiburg and Augsburg, respectively.
🏴 Everton and Southampton in the English Premier League.
Everton will be away against Aston Villa, while Southampton will host Manchester United.
🇵🇹 Farense in the Portuguese Primeira Liga.
Farense will face Porto for a chance to earn their first points. Porto will be looking to bounce back from their defeat to Sporting CP in their last league game.
🇳🇱 RKC Waalwijk will seek their first points in the Dutch Eredivisie.
RKC Waalwijk will be away against Willem II.
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THE HIGHLIGHTED FIXTURES
SEPTEMBER 13.
🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund vs. Heidenheim (german bundesliga)
🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne vs. Lille (french ligue 1)
🇵🇹 Arouca vs. Sporting CP (portuguese primeira liga)
SEPTEMBER 14.
🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain vs. Brest (french ligue 1)
🇮🇹 Empoli vs. Juventus (italian serie a)
🇩🇪 RB Leipzig vs. Union Berlin (german bundesliga)
🇩🇪 Freiburg vs. Bochum (german bundesliga)
🇩🇪 Holstein Kiel vs. Bayern Munich (german bundesliga)
🇩🇪 Hoffenheim vs. Bayer Leverkusen (german bundesliga)
🇳🇱 AZ Alkmaar vs. Heerenveen (dutch eredivisie)
🇳🇱 PSV Eindhoven vs. NEC Nijmegen (dutch eredivisie)
🏴 Liverpool vs. Nottingham Forest (english premier league)
🏴 Southampton vs. Manchester United (english premier league)
🏴 Aston Villa vs. Everton (english premier league)
🏴 Manchester City vs. Brentford (english premier league)
🇪🇸 Real Sociedad vs. Real Madrid (spanish la liga)
SEPTEMBER 15.
🇳🇱 Willem II vs. RKC Waalwijk (dutch eredivisie)
🇵🇹 Porto vs. Farense (portuguese primeira liga)
🇫🇷 Strasbourg vs. Angers (french ligue 1)
🇩🇪 Augsburg vs. St. Pauli (german bundesliga)
🇪🇸 Girona vs. Barcelona (spanish la liga)
🏴 Tottenham Hotspur vs. Arsenal (english premier league)
SEPTEMBER 16.
Games from Serie A, and a game from La Liga and Primeira Liga spill into Monday.
🇮🇹 Parma vs. Udinese (italian serie a)
🇮🇹 Lazio vs. Hellas Verona (italian serie a)
🇪🇸 Rayo Vallencao vs. Osasuna (spanish la liga)
🇵🇹 Estrela da Amadora vs. Boavista (portuguese primeira liga)
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🇳🇱 AZ Alkmaar is two points off the top of the Eredivisie table, and they are the only side in the league that hasn’t conceded a goal after four rounds. Up next for them is a home fixture against a Heerenveen side coming off their first win of the season.
🇳🇱 PSV Eindhoven is matching their pace from last season, with four wins from four. They will be aiming for win number five at home against NEC Nijmegen.
🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne will also be looking for their first league goal of the season in Ligue 1 when they host Lille for the opening match of the fourth round of the Ligue 1 season.
🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain will look to make it four league wins from four when they host a Brest side coming off their first win of the season, having beaten newly-promoted Saint-Étienne.
🏴 Manchester City and Liverpool are the only clubs in the Premier League with a perfect winning start. Next up for Manchester City is a home game against Brentford.
🏴 Liverpool is the only Premier League side yet to concede a goal. They are coming off a convincing 3-0 away win against Manchester United and will look to follow it up with a win at home against an unbeaten Nottingham Forest.
🏴 It’s a North London derby! Tottenham, coming off their first defeat of the season (2-1 at Newcastle), will host an unbeaten Arsenal, who just dropped their first points in a draw with Brighton.
🇩🇪 Heidenheim is one of three teams in the Bundesliga with a 100% winning start to their season after two rounds (Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig being the other two). Heidenheim is also one of the two teams that have yet to concede a league goal, with Borussia Dortmund being the other. Heidenheim will be in Dortmund, facing a Borussia Dortmund side that is coming off a goalless draw against Werder Bremen. Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig will look to take advantage of the result from the ‘Borussia Dortmund vs. Heidenheim’ fixture. Bayern Munich are away against newly-promoted Holstein Kiel, who are still searching for their first league point of the season, while RB Leipzig hosts an unbeaten Union Berlin.
🇩🇪 Bayer Leverkusen will be looking to bounce back from their first league defeat since the end of the 2022/23 season with a result against Hoffenheim.
🇩🇪 Bochum and St. Pauli will both be playing their next Bundesliga fixture as visitors. Bochum will be away against Freiburg, while St. Pauli will be away against Augsburg. Even if a win isn’t likely, both teams will be hoping to score their first league goal of the season.
🇮🇹 Juventus is the only Italian Serie A team that hasn’t conceded a goal so far. They will be away against an Empoli side that is also unbeaten.
🇵🇹 Sporting CP is also keeping pace with their last season, boasting four wins from four. They will be aiming for their fifth victory away against Arouca.
🇪🇸 It’s a Catalan derby! Barcelona will be away against Girona, a team that completed a league double over them with 4-2 wins last season. An unbeaten Barcelona, coming off four wins in four, will look to make it five in a row.
🇪🇸 Real Madrid remains unbeaten but is still searching for their first away win of the season. Their next match is an away fixture against Real Sociedad.