Saturday Football Roundup

Nkwain Desmond August 14th, 2021, 11:23 pm

We take a look at the results accross Europe’s top five leagues as Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, PSG and Dortmund were all in action

Premier league
Manchester United 5:1 Leeds united
Manchester United put in a five star performance against Bielsa’s Leeds united with Bruno Fernandez bagging a hattrick and Paul Pogba providing four assists.
Fred and Greenwood were also on the score sheet and Ayling scoring the lone goal for Leeds

Chelsea 3:0 Crystal palace
Chelsea showed why they are European champions as they thrashed Patrick Viera’s Crystal palace 3 goals to Nil
Marcos Alonso opened the scoring with a beautiful freekick, Pulisic added another one later after a scramble in box then Youngster Chaloba got his first goal for the club with a well stroke shot outside the box and was inconsolable.

The youngster made his debut for the club in their super cup victory over Villarreal with a solid display.

Norwich 0:3 Liverpool
In form Mohamed Salah led the Anfield boys to victory with two assists and a goal
Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota were also on the score sheet for the Reds

Other results
Burnley 1:2 Brighton and Holve Albion
Everton 3:1 Southampton
Leceister city 1:0 Wolverhampton wanderers
Watford 3:2 Aston Villa

La liga
Alaves 1:4 Real Madrid
Real Madrid started their league campaign with a four nil thrashing of Alaves.
Benzema starts the league campaign with a brace.
New signing David Alaba recorded an assist for Real Madrid’s fourth goal
Vinicius Jr back on the score sheet
Hazard with promising display after recording an assist

Other results
Cadiz 1:1 Levante
Mallorca 1:1 Real Betis
Osasuna 0:0 Espanyol

Ligue 1
PSG 4:2 Strasbourg
PSG starts their league campaign with a hard fought victory over Strasbourg
New signings were presented to the crowd before kickoff

Icardi, Mbappe, Draxler and Sarabia were all on the score sheet.

Other results
Lille 0:4 Nice

Bundesliga
Borussia Dortmund 5:2 Frankfurt
Erling Haaland continued his fine run of form with a brace of goals and assist as Dortmund put five past Frankfurt. This means Haaland now has five goals this season after scoring three in their opening cup fixture.
Marcos Reus also scored a brace, Reyna also on the score sheet.

Other results
Arminia Belefield 0:0 Freiburg
Augsburg 0:4 Hoffenheim
Union Berlin 1:1 Bayer Leverkusen
Stuttgart 5:1 Gruether Feurth
Wolfsburg 1:0 Bochum