GOAL US unpacks the main weekend storylines from the Premier League, La Liga and other top competitions in The Euro XI
Well, that was all a little bit disappointing. The opening weekend of European football was, in most ways, frighteningly predictable. The Premier League teams that should have won, did, indeed win. Man United looked good but lost to Arsenal (thanks, of course, to a free kick).
Man City are (maybe) back and they have a shiny new attacking midfielder to replace Kevin De Bruyne. Meanwhile, on the continent, PSG survived a scare, Barcelona showed that they are still excellent, while Diego Simeone offered some compelling evidence for him to just stick to stocky Spanish midfielders and stop faffing about with all of this “finesse.”
In fact, the real action happened a little below, lurking in the shallows, on the edge of the spotlight.
GOAL US presents The Euro XI, with 11 key observations from the weekend.
