📆 21 years ago today, 17-year-old Lionel Messi made his Barcelona debut 💫

He'd go on to score 672 goals, and make 269 assists in 778 games for Barca 👑

8 players. 8 World Cup winners. What a photo 🏆🌎📸

Mikel Merino has scored more goals in 2026 World Cup qualifying than:

- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Kylian Mbappe
- Rasmus Hojlund
- Lautaro Martinez
- Julian Alvarez
- Raphinha
- Bryan Mbuemo

Arsenal are currently having their best defensive start to a Premier League season (3 goals conceded after 7 games) 🧱👏

Liverpool's players had a productive international break:

Gakpo ⚽️⚽️⚽️🅰️
Salah ⚽️⚽️
Mac Allister ⚽️⚽️
Szoboszlai ⚽️⚽️
Van Dijk ⚽️🅰️
Ekitiké 🅰️
Robertson 🅰️

In protest of Barcelona vs Villarreal being played in Miami, Real Oviedo and Espanyol players stood still for the opening 20 seconds of their match last night.

Other La Liga teams are planning to do the same ⛔

Two of Chelsea's last three Premier League goals have been scored by a 19-year-old and an 18-year-old.

Estêvão and Josh Acheampong ⭐

Following their loss to Chelsea, Nottingham Forest have sacked Ange Postecoglou.

Erling Haaland has scored in his 11th match in a row for club and country.

That's now 23 goals already this season 🤯

Only three times has a player scored 10+ goals in the first eight games of a Premier League season:

Erling Haaland (2022/23)
Erling Haaland (2024/25) 
Erling Haaland (2025/26)

One of the greatest goal scorers English football has ever seen 👏

Harry Kane now has 400 goals in club football 🔥

Bayern Munich: 104
Tottenham Hotspur: 280
Leicester City: 2
Millwall: 9
Leyton Orient: 5

One of the most complete strikers of his generation 👑

Coventry City continue to go from strength to strength under Frank Lampard...

🔝 Ten unbeaten and sitting top of the Championship
⚽️ 29 goals scored (more than any other side)
🧱 Just seven conceded with five straight clean sheets

The Sky Blues are on course for a Premier League return over 25 years in the making 🩵

Cristiano Ronaldo after becoming the first player in history to score 800 club goals 🐐🥶

38-year-old Lionel Messi put in this performance to finish the MLS season with the most goals (29) and assists (16) 🍷

Antony now has more goal contributions for Real Betis (18 in 32 games) than he managed at Man United (17 in 96 games). Resurgence 📈💚

It took just 65 seconds for Bryan Mbeumo to give Man United the lead at Anfield 😳

Man United beat Liverpool at Anfield for the first time since 2016 🤯

Ruben Amorim has won back-to-back Premier League games for the first time as Man United manager 👏

What a way to do it 🤩

23-year-old Senne Lammens in his first two appearances for Man United kept a clean sheet vs Sunderland and made FIVE saves at Anfield 🧤

Harry Maguire's last six Man United goals:

- 89th minute equaliser vs Grimsby
- 121st minute winner vs Lyon
- 47th minute winner vs Ipswich
- 93rd minute winner vs Leicester
- 91st minute equaliser vs Porto
- 84th minute winner vs Liverpool

When he scores, it's clutch.