A dribble, a shutout and a three-team club

• A Frenchman rambling quicker than Sylvie Guillem in Swan Lake
• A former lacrosse actor scoring a touchdown during a home of a 49ers
  
• Reggae service and dream debuts
  

43 matches: that is what Igor Akinfeev had left though a purify piece in a UEFA Champions League qualifier or compare until he helped CSKA Moscow win 2-0 during AEK Athens. The Russia captain’s prior shutout had been in a goalless pull divided to Arsenal, who fielded Cesc Fabregas, Robin outpost Persie and Thierry Henry, in Nov 2006, that was his sixth in period in a competition.

40 matches unbeaten: that was a implausible run that crashed to an finish for Partizan. Comorian brazen El Fardou Ben Nabouhane strike a double on his entrance to enthuse Olympiacos to a 3-1 win in Belgrade in a initial leg of their UEFA Champions League qualifier.

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matches is what is took a Reggae Boyz to finally kick El Tri outside of their homeland. Jamaica headed to a CONCACAF Gold Cup carrying mislaid 15 and drawn one divided from home in a fixture, scoring usually 4 and surrender 56 in a process. However, after a 0-0 pull during Mile High, Denver in a organisation stage, Jamaica dumbfounded Mexico 1-0 in a semi-finals during a Rose Bowl, Pasadena.

15 goals in his final 10 games is what Johnathan has strike in a K-League Classic – some-more than team-mate Santos netted when he became a final Suwon Bluewing to tip a scoring draft in 2015 (14 goals in 35 outings). The 27-year-old Brazilian requires 14 goals from a Bluewings’ remaining 15 games to mangle Dejan Damjanovic’s record for a season.

11 players have now represented AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus after Leonardo Bonucci suddenly chose a red-and-black uniform. Only 4 players had finished so within a initial 89 years of all 3 clubs’ existence, including Giuseppe Meazza and Aldo Serena, though 7 have in a final 19 years, namely Roberto Baggio, Edgar Davids, Christian Vieri, Patrick Vieira, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Andrea Pirlo and Bonucci.

6 changes of instruction in 4 seconds is what Anthony Martial done to beguile Dani Carvajal, Lucas Vazquez and Luka Modric and set adult a Jesse Lingard tap-in in Manchester United’s 1-1 pull with Real Madrid. The Red Devils afterwards edged a shootout in that usually 3 of 10 penalties were scored in a International Champions Cup in Santa Clara, California.

4 goals in 16 mins was what Sky Blue rattled home to renovate a four-goal necessity into relation opposite Seattle Reign – though it was deficient to save them from defeat. Megan Rapinoe finished her hat-trick late on to overtake Blue’s Sam Kerr during a tip of a scoring draft and waylay a Reign a 5-4 feat that tied a record for a highest-scoring compare in NWSL history.

3 CONCACAF Gold Cups is what Bruce Arena became a initial manager to win by running USA to feat over Jamaica in a final. Bora Milutinovic had won two, heading a USA side including Tony Meola, Marcelo Balboa and Eric Wynalda to excellence in 1991, and a Mexico group comprising Jorge Campos, Cuauhtemoc Blanco and Luis Garcia to a prize 5 years later.

3 goals is what Enner Valencia bagged on his Tigres entrance to assistance a bar record their best-ever start to a campaign. Starting with 7 foreigners and spearheaded by a vaunted VVG – Valencia, Eduardo Vargas and Andre-Pierre Gignac – a Gold and Blues smashed Puebla 5-0 to transcend a 4-0 victories with that they had began a Clausura 2000 and Apertura 2012.

0 goals is what Norway exited a vital general foe carrying scored for a initial time. They had found a net in their initial 20 campaigns – 10 UEFA Women’s EUROs, 7 FIFA Women’s World Cups™ and 3 Women’s Olympic Football Tournaments – until waste to a hosts, Belgium and Denmark during a Netherlands 2017.

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