Disaster happened to the team who gave the fastest goal

Champions league 2022-23 season, group stage, phase 3 (night 1 of 2):

Bayern - Viktoria 5:0

Scorers: 1:0 06 (06.15) Leroy Sane

               2:0 13 (12.26) Serge Gnabry

               3:0 20 (20.06) Sadio Mane

               4:0 50 (49.56) Leroy Sane

               5:0 59 (58.44) Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting

Olympique de Marseille - Sporting 4:1

Scorers: 0:1 01 (51 seconds) Francisco Trincao

               1:1 13 (12.57) Alexis Sanchez

               2:1 16 (15.58) Amine Harit

               3:1 28 (27.25) Leonardo Balerdi

               4:1 84 (83.58) Chancel Mbemba

- The visiting side had been stuck in traffic, they came late to the stadium, and therefore this game was delayed for 24 minutes than the original schedule.

- As Antonio Adan tried to catch the ball outside his penalty area, the Sporting goalkeeper deservedly saw a direct red card at 23 (22.34).

Club Brugge - Atletico Madrid 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 35 (35.20) Kamal Sowah

               2:0 62 (61.28) Ferran Jutgla

- On 76 (75.38) the Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann has hit the crossbar from 11 metres.

Porto - Bayer 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 69 (68.43) Zaidu Sanusi

               2:0 86 (85.59) Wenderson Galeno

- Bayer could have taken the lead at 44 (44.01), however the penalty from Patrik Schick was beautifully saved.

- At 88 (87.41) the visiting defender Jeremie Frimpong (Bayer) saw his second yellow card.

Ajax - Napoli 1:6

Scorers: 1:0 09 (08.37) Mohammed Kudus

               1:1 17 (17.11) Giacomo Raspadori

               1:2 33 (32.47) Giovanni di Lorenzo

               1:3 45 (44.41) Piotr Zielinski

               1:4 47 (46.21) Giacomo Raspadori

               1:5 62 (62.12) Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

               1:6 80 (80.15) Giovanni Simeone

- Dushan Tadic, the captain of Ajax, received his second yellow card on 73 (72.40).

Inter - Barcelona 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 45+1 (46.02) Hakan Calhanoglu

Liverpool - Glasgow rangers 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 07 (06.53) Trent Alexander-Arnold

               2:0 53-pen (52.39) Mohamed Salah

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Have to find another host

Because the infrastructure and facilities at Guinea are not ready, this country will not host the African Cup of nations in 2025. As it has lost the right to welcome the 24 best teams of the continent, on 01 October the confederation has announced that is in search for the new host by opening bids for the event. Without telling when the decision would be spoken, Algeria and Morocco have written themselves as two potential candidates for bringing edition number 35 on its soil.

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Middle phase

After the the penultimate team action for this year we are back to complete group phases of the European Cups (leagues). One consecutive tournament with unequal kick-off matches and two identical ones will entertain us in the middle of next week. New pairs are ahead at the following four nights with round number three where the layout would have to look like this:

Champions league...

Tuesday, 04 October at 18.45 CET: Bayern - Viktoria.

Tuesday, 04 October at 18.45 CET: Olympique de Marseille - Sporting.

Tuesday, 04 October at 21.00 CET: Ajax - Napoli.

Tuesday, 04 October at 21.00 CET: Club Brugge - Atletico Madrid.

Tuesday, 04 October at 21.00 CET: Eintracht Frankfurt - Tottenham.

Tuesday, 04 October at 21.00 CET: Inter - Barcelona.

Tuesday, 04 October at 21.00 CET: Liverpool - Glasgow rangers.

Tuesday, 04 October at 21.00 CET: Porto - Bayer.

Wednesday, 05 October at 18.45 CET: Rasenballsport Leipzig - Celtic.

Wednesday, 05 October at 18.45 CET: Red bull Salzburg - Dinamo Zagreb.

Wednesday, 05 October at 21.00 CET: Benfica - PSG.

Wednesday, 05 October at 21.00 CET: Chelsea - Milan.

Wednesday, 05 October at 21.00 CET: Juventus - Maccabi Haifa.

Wednesday, 05 October at 21.00 CET: Manchester city - Kobenhavn.

Wednesday, 05 October at 21.00 CET: Real Madrid - Shakhtar Donetsk.

Wednesday, 05 October at 21.00 CET: Sevilla - Borussia Dortmund.

... Conference league...

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Anderlecht - West ham.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Dnipro-1 - Vaduz (playing in Koshice, Slovakia).

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Lech - Hapoel Be’er Sheva.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Molde - Shamrock rovers.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Pyunik - Zhalgiris.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Silkeborg - FcsB.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Sivasspor - Ballkani.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Slovacko - Nice.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: AZ - Apollon.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Basel - Slovan.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Gent - Djurgarden.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Hearts - Fiorentina.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Koln - Partizan.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Rigas futbola shkola - Bashakshehir.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Slavia Praha - Cluj.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Villarreal - Autria Wien.

... and Europa league.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Crvena zvezda - Ferencvarosh.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: HJK - Ludogorets.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Malmo - Union Berlin.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Monaco - Trabzonspor.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Omonia - Manchester united.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Sheriff - Real Sociedad.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Sturm - Lazio.

Thursday, 06 October at 18.45 CET: Zurich - PSV.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Arsenal - Bodo/Glimt.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Braga - Union Saint-Gilloise.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Fenerbahche - AEK.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Freiburg - Nantes.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Midtjylland - Feyenoord.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Olympiacos - Qarabag.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Roma - Betis.

Thursday, 06 October at 21.00 CET: Stade Rennais - Dynamo Kyiv.

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Punishments for clubs

On the last Saturday in September the European football organization has penalized six clubs who participated at the international competitions, and the whole fault falls (only) on their spectators.

Next week Olympique de Marseille would have to play the Champions league match with Sporting at home without fans. With 100.000 euros is fined Koln who can not lead their spectators on the away games, whilst fans supporting Nice can not purchase tickets when the club is playing as a visitor. Six thousand seats will not sell Partizan because they have to close certain part of their arena of their own choice plus there was a fine of 70.000 euros that the team had to pay. Eintracht Frankfurt had to give 45.000 euros which are also are punished for conditionally closure of their stadium for the next duel of at least 1.000 seats. The cash box from Juventus was eased with 15.000 euros.

Reason behind all these penalties were objects throwing, pyrotechnics and introducing boxing skills into this sport from their previous games.

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Approved change of street and square

One of the best footballers and a legend from Bosnia and Herzegovina would get a street and a square that is going to be named after him in Austria.

Last Monday the Graz city officials have decided to honour Ivan Osim, who passed away on 01 May from stroke, and thus will give their fans something to remember him. The 80-year-old manager have trained the local club Sturm for eight full years and therefore the change had to happen.
From May 2023 the square before the stadium will carry his name, while later one part of Conrad-von-Hotzendorf strasse (street) would also do the same. Likewise, in front of the arena a sculpture is going to be placed of the great coach.

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