Robert Lewandowski has scored the 200th Bundesliga goal of his career, fittingly saving it for a potentially season-defining Der Klassiker against Borussia Dortmund.
The Bayern Munich striker punished a Dan-Axel Zagadou error in the 17th minute to double his side s early lead against his former employers at Allianz Arena on Saturday.
Lewandowski pounced on a turnover, strode through on goal, brilliantly dinked the ball over Roman Burki and stroked home into the unguarded net to reach the mark in style.
The 30-year-old s milestone strike fittingly arrived against the side at which he established himself as one of the most exciting strikers in European football, having joined Bayern from Dortmund in 2014.
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Runaway Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain will be confident of extending their unbeaten start to the campaign when they host winless bottom side Troyes.
Laurent Blanc s team have been in imperious form domestically this season, winning 12 and drawing two of their 14 top-flight fixtures.
Their tally of 38 points at this stage of the season matches the all-time best start to a Ligue 1 campaign and sees them head into the weekend with a 13-point advantage over second-placed Lyon.
Key to their early charge has been Zlatan Ibrahimovic, with his nine goals and five assists propelling them into such a commanding position.
The Swede enjoyed a return to hometown club Malmo in the Champions League in midweek, hitting the back of the net in a 5-0 victory…
Atletico Madrid have signed Joao Felix from Benfica, but he is not the only player moving across the border to the Spanish capital. One of the oddest moves of this summer transfer window is the arrival of Ivan Saponjic at Wanda Metropolitano. Serbian youngster is apparently part of the deal for Joao Felix and the worth of the transfer should be around one million euros.
Saponjic signed for Benfica back in 2016 from Partizan Belgrade, after winning U20 World Cup in 2015 with Serbia, but has failed to make an impression in the senior team. Last season he spent at Benfica B, playing in Portuguese second tier, scoring six goals in 28 league appearances. The player has already passed the medical in Madrid and some media in Portugal even claim Benfica will get 50 per cent of Saponjic…
Leicester City will offer Wes Morgan a new deal, as manager Brendan Rodgers has informed the club he wants the club captain to stay at the club.
Morgan joined the Foxes in 2012 from Nottingham Forrest and went on to wear the club shirt 292 times and score 12 goals in all competitions, and he was one of the stalwarts of the team which stunned the football world by winning the Premier League title in 2016. The likes of Shinji Okazaki, Danny Simpson and Christian Fuchs, who were also a part of that glorious journey, find themselves in the same boat, but their respective futures are yet to be decided on.
At 35 years of age, Morgan s current contract is set to expire at the end of this season, but despite being behind Harry Maguire and Jonny Evans in the pecking order at the…
French winger Florian Thauvin first set foot on a football pitch as a professional back in 2011.
A fledgling Grenoble starlet with loads of talent, Thauvin was quickly snapped up by Bastia who benefitted immensely from Grenoble suffering liquidation and relegation to CFA 2, to land themselves a boy that would go on to cover quite a distance – literally and metaphorically – to football prominence he is currently enjoying his second spell with Marseille less than eight years into his professional career.
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It takes a special kind of character – and professional guidance and counselling – for a young football star to be able to endure the heat of the moment and to remain level-headed amidst the sudden popularity often achieved overnight in modern-day foo…
Hoffenheim boss Julian Nagelsmann insists his team are not going to Borussia Dortmund just to make up the numbers on Sunday.
The Bundesliga strugglers, led by their 28-year-old head coach, won for only the third time in the league this season when they beat Mainz 3-2 last week and moved to within two points of Werder Bremen in the relegation play-off spot.
But Hoffenheim are up against a Dortmund team in magnificent form. Thomas Tuchel s men have won 13 of their last 14 home Bundesliga matches, drawing the other their longest unbeaten run at home for just over four years.
Dortmund also have the league s best defensive record in 2016 having conceded just once in five games. They have kept four Bundesliga clean sheets on the bounce for the first time since 2009 …