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294 yellow cards in three years Xabi Alonso arrives at Cobham with a file on the desk. It has one colour all over it. Yellow. A great deal of yellow. Since Mauricio Pochettino turned up in July 2023, no Premier League club has been booked more often than Chelsea. 294 yellows. 14 reds. Three of…

10,000 seasons, and Inter win 3,510 of them Opta ran the 2026-27 Serie A campaign 10,000 times. Inter came out on top in 35.1% of them. Favourites, then, but nobody should be booking the parade. The season opens on 22 August with the champions at San Siro against newly promoted Monza. Cristian Chivu could hardly…

93.9, and a promoted side already in trouble Frank Lampard won the Championship by 11 points over Ipswich. His reward is the nastiest opening run in the division: five fixtures averaging 93.9 on Opta’s Power Rankings, softened only fractionally by the fact that two of them are away at last season’s top two. Coventry start…

A defender who never scores, and a goalkeeper with nothing to do Franco Negri had not found the net all season. In the 34th minute at BC Place on Wednesday, the Houston Dynamo defender picked his moment and bent a long-range effort into the top corner. One goal, three points, job done. Mateusz Bogusz started…

135 chances created, and a name most English fans have not worn out yet Christos Tzolis set up 135 chances in the Belgian top flight last season. That was 35 more than anyone else in the country, and 52 of them arrived from set pieces. Declan Rice, the man Arsenal usually hand that job to,…

An hour a man down, and one goal was enough Eight minutes. That is all it took Lucas Sanabria to collect two yellow cards and leave San Jose to play the entire second half with 10 men at Dignity Health Sports Park. LA Galaxy won it 1-0. Joseph Paintsil broke the deadlock in the 79th…

Kristoffer Velde scored once and created two more overnight in Portland. The 3-1 win over San Diego FC pushed the Timbers into the final Western Conference playoff place.

A two-hour storm delay, a late tackle from Robin Jansson, and Robert Lewandowski put Chicago back in front in Florida. The Fire have now won six in a row.

Two goals from Camilo Duran and a strike from Benjamin Nygren gave Celtic a 3-0 first-leg lead over LASK in Glasgow. The Champions League play-off tie now heads to Austria.