It is not easy to analyze a team that has just changed its coach. The system changes, but the players do not. We looked at the players and their individual performances in the last two days. Each player has a certain template, they can't change it. We focused on this kind of analysis.
A spell working under Wayne Rooney at Derby County was the springboard to his first permanent head coach role at Hull City, where he spent two years before being hired by BlueCo club Strasbourg in the summer of 2024. When Chelsea pulled the trigger on Enzo Maresca's 18-month tenure last year, Rosenior was parachuted into the Stamford Bridge job, joining a club that is synonymous with a rapid turnover of managers, where long-term expectations can seemingly never be met.
Image source, Getty Images "Football obsessive." Ask people who know Steve Holland well how they would describe the former Chelsea and England coach and the same phrase is repeated. "Football is his life," a source told BBC Sport. "Whether it's Champions League, thoughts on players or something else, he has a hell of a brain when it comes to football detail."
Stat of the National League's opening weekend: Mayo kicked the same number of two-pointers in the first half in Salthill on Sunday - three - as they did across their six championship matches of 2025.
Lamine Yamal is one of the best players in the world right now; we need to limit his threat defensively and as a unit, but Barcelona doesn't rely on him alone - they've got Ferran, Lewandowski, Fermín, and Olmo, and their attack is phenomenal," he said.
A poor performance, a bad result and 4 losses on the bounce. Not many LFC fans would believe you if you had said that the Reds would be in this predicament, even one month ago. Arne Slot and his men fall to a 2-1 defeat at Anfield, allowing their biggest rivals to win their first successive games this season. It was an entertaining watch, with a lot of goalmouth action, some of which would not have been appreciated by the LFC fans and coaches.
Germany turned in its worst performance under Julian Nagelsmann (who was equally uninspiring) and fell to a hungrier, more aggressive, and more creative Slovakia side that might have lacked the star power, but made up for it with passion and a will to win. Many fans were disappointed with showing - as were pundits and DFB representatives, so let's try to unpack it all. Here are some quick hitters on the match:
