Napoli downed visiting Liverpool in their Champions League opener 2-0 in a tight match until the game slipped away in the final minutes.
Both sides looked evenly matched throughout with a box score to prove. Aside from a few offside calls and sloppy tackling by the Italian side, the team stats were all near identical.
Both keepers played phenomenal but Napoli’s Alex Meret would come away with the clean sheet in his Champions League debut.
First, we gotta get this out of the way: Christian Pulisic was an unused sub for Chelsea against Wolverhampton on Saturday.
But wait!
Before you leave, you gotta read about this insane Tammy Abraham statistic.
Abraham, Chelsea’s No. 9, became the club’s youngest player ever to score a hat trick. At 21 years and 347 days old, he is the youngest Englishman to score a hat trick in the Premier League since Raheem Sterling four years ago.
NISA (National Independent Soccer Association), the first major soccer league with a promotion/relegation system, kicked off its inaugural season recently, with the opening match between California United and the Oakland Roots ending in a thrilling 3-3 tie.
After an injury in Chelsea’s recent draw had sidelined midfielder N'Golo Kanté, the star decided to make an appearance at a fan’s family wedding.
According to the Sun, superfan Frank Khalid met Kanté at one of Khalid’s restaurants. He initially invited the French star to his daughter's wedding but Kanté had to turn the offer down due to a French national-team game.
But now that he is sidelined, why not go have some fun, dance and check out the open bar?
Eden Hazard won Europa League Player of the Season honors on Friday.
And it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
2018/19 #UEL Player of the Season!
Manchester United suffered its first loss of the season on Saturday to Crystal Palace, which notched its first win of the new season.
The defeat at home would not have been as embarrassing if the @ManUtd Twitter account did not play with fire ahead of the match.
Before the game, the club tweeted out this shot at Chelsea.
Christian Pulisic’s first Premier League start and Stamford Bridge debut wasn’t exactly the stuff of dreams. The 20-year-old American lasted 71 ineffective minutes against Leicester City before being swapped for Willian with the score level at 1-1, which is how it would end.
Pulisic spent his time on the pitch in the pocket of Leicester right back Ricardo Pereira. The Portugal international was Leicester’s Player of the Season last campaign, and with support provided by Ayoze Pérez out wide, Pulisic completed only one of five dribbles while getting dispossessed six times.
I don’t know about you, but there's been a burning question on my mind ever since a certain young American got transferred to a certain English club that wears the color blue: Does Christian Pulisic have a girlfriend, and should they get married?
Hmmm...
He’s living 4,000 miles away from home and his family and friends. The kid needs someone to keep him company, to hug him when he’s feeling down after losing or to hug him when he’s over the moon after winning.
Kick It Out, an organization that advocates for players who experience racial abuse within the footballing world, has issued a call to action to social media companies in response to the Twitter abuse that Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham has received over the past 24 hours.