Tabla de contenidos para 18-Aug-2020 en MATCH!

2003 It opened on 25 October 2003, with a friendly match between Benfica and Uruguayan club Nacional! 65,642 The stadium’s current capacity is 65,642, but a lot less people will be in the ground on Sunday night! 64,591 The record capacity in a official match happened in May 2017, when Benfica beat Vitoria Guimaraes! 2 The 2020 Champo League final will be the second CL final held at the ground – it also hosted Real Madrid’s victory over Atletico in 2014! 21 Portugal have played at the stadium 21 times, including for the final of the 2004 European Championship! 145 It cost around £145 million to build the jaw-dropping ground! 1 It was voted the most beautiful ground in Europe in a poll in 2014! 17 Since it first opened, over 17 million fans have watched a match…

GOAL GRABBER ALEKSANDAR MITROVIC Right at the start of the 2019-20 season, we said the Serbia striker was too good for the Championship – and he proved us right by scoring more goals than any other player! He top scored for Fulham when they were last in the Prem too, and will be looking forward to testing himself again! SKIPPER TOM CAIRNEY Fulham’s No.10 has been at the club since 2015, and played 186 times for The Cottagers since joining from Blackburn! Funnily enough, he actually took over the captain’s armband from his current manager Scott Parker – and he’s been their leader on the pitch ever since! SHOT-STOPPER MAREK RODAK As well as having the deadliest striker in the Championship, Fulham also boasted one of the sickest shot-stoppers in…

CHEEKY BABY Wolves winger Adama Traore has revealed his new trick to stop defenders pulling him to slow him down – he puts baby oil on his arms before and during games. Top trick! VAR UNITED! Man. United’s penalty against Leicester was their 14th of the 2019-20 season – that’s the most one side has ever won in a single campaign in the Premier League! GO AT MAS COT! Sunday League side Caversham United have got a GOAT mascot – no, not the greatest mascot of all time, but an actual farm-yard animal! They adopted ‘Skid’ after a social media promise. Well bonkers! ARE YOU TWO BROTHERS? David de Gea couldn’t believe it when he saw Ross County’s manager Stuart Kettle well on TV – they look well a like!…

Erik Lamela Does the Spurs star know that snorkelling is supposed to be done in water? George Baldock The Sheffield United full-back has been soaking up the sun with John Lundstram and new Norwich signing Kieran Dowell! Jadon Sancho The Three Lions winger got to chill out on his own raft. Bet you can’t stand up! Ben Godfrey The Norwich centre-back is gonna have bad tan lines with all those chains! Mohamed Salah That’s a cool photo of one Egyptian king standing in front of another! Lauren Hemp The Man. City forward even wears her kit down to the beach! Danny Ings The deadly Southampton striker deserves that feast after the season he had in 2019-20! Dele Alli England teammates Dele and James Maddison are big mates off the pitch…

STAR PLAYERS! LEANNE ROSS The 39-year-old has tons of experience, having made over 130 appearances for Scotland on the international stage! The club captain has been crucial throughout their domestic dominance over the last few years! PERNILLE HARDER The forward is undoubtedly one of the biggest talents in women’s football! The 27-year-old was named as UEFA’s Player Of The Year in 2018, and top scored in the 2018-19 Champions League. She loves this competition! TEAM NEWS Glasgow City gaffer Scott Booth will be hoping that awesome new signing Janine van Wyk can help his side stay defensively solid against Wolfsburg Glasgow have only reached the quarter-finals once before! The real headache for the German side's boss is deciding which of the attacking superstars to leave out of his XI! POSSIBLE…

10 LINA MAGULL BAYERN MUNICH The 26-year-old midfielder is in the peak of her career, and has been a key player for Bayern in recent years! Her vision and passing ability has already seen her win the Bundesliga, the DFB Pokal and the Champions League twice, but she’s still hungry for more. She’s already made over 40 appearances for Germany, too! 9 CHRISTIANE ENDLER PSG Endler is widely regarded as one of the top goalkeepers in the world – and it’s easy to see why! One of the highlights of her career so far came v Lyon in the 2018 Coupe de France final, as PSG ended Lyon’s streak of six titles. The 29-year-old just missed out on the 2019 FIFA Best Goalkeeper award as well! 8 JENNI HERMOSO BARCELONA…

STEP 1 Start with a weak foot stepover. STEP 2 Place your weight on your weak foot, point toes on your strong foot and prepare to come under the ball. STEP 3 Move your strong foot under the ball using the tip of your toes, keeping your leg bent. STEP 4 As the ball comes across your body, straighten your strong leg and reconnect with the ball, kicking it in the opposite direction. STEP 5 If you lean back while doing so, you can get height and lift the ball over the defender. STEP 6 Then control the ball and you are away! Check out @streetpanna on Instagram for loads of Jack’s sick skills, and keep reading MATCH every week for tons of top tutorials!…

ARSENAL DIEGO CARLOS Sevilla Centre-back ★ Age: 27 Transfer Fee: £54m Gaffer Mikel Arteta’s main objective this summer was making sure Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang stays – but he also needs to improve his defence! The Gunners have joined the race for top Liverpool target Diego Carlos, but are also keen on Lille’s Gabriel Magalhaes! DID YOU KNOW? A referee once kicked out at the defender before sending him off! CHELSEA NICK POPE Burnley Goalkeeper ★ Age: 28 Transfer Fee: £50m Frank Lampard is desperate to sign a new goalkeeper to help his side push for the title next season! With Kepa Arrizabalaga’s future at Stamford Bridge uncertain, the Chelsea boss has turned his attention to Pope. Burnley could be tempted to sell for £50m! LEICESTER FRANCISCO TRINCAO Barcelona Striker ★ Age:…

Huge collection! Of things MATCH loves to see, this snap of Charlie’s massive collection is way up there! Banging boots! By the looks of this snap, Callum is a mega fan of adidas boots! Class kits! Ronan created two jaw-dropping kits for 2020-21 – they look proper professional! Kane coloured! Check out the great work from Senan to colour-in Prem goal grabber Harry Kane! Pog fan! Cillian drew a cool cartoon of one of his favourite players – Paul Pogba! MATCH Vote! We put a poll on our website asking whether Mason Greenwood will become a better player than Marcus Rashford… SEND YOUR PICTURES TO… Email: match.magazine@kelsey.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/matchmagazine Twitter: www.twitter.com/matchmagazine…

STAR PLAYERS! LEAH WILLIAMSON The 23-year-old baller made her debut for The Gunners in this competition against Birmingham aged just 17! She's been an ever-present for the club since – she’s already won everything there is to win domestically! MARIE-ANTOINETTE KATOTO The on-flames forward has made her way through PSG's academy, and is now one of their star players! She ended the 2019-20 season as the French league's top scorer for the second season in a row, and is their main threat! TEAM NEWS Arsenal boss Joe Montemurro will be hoping for some positive news on the injury front after missing a number of stars before the break – they missed the likes of Kim Little, Beth Mead and Lia Walti in their League Cup defeat to Chelsea in February!…

Man. United Home Shirt 2020-21 Mega brand adidas have taken threads from Man. United’s famous club crest and stitched them into the side’s 2020-21 home jersey – that’s what the cool pattern is! Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has spoken loads about recovering The Red Devils’ DNA, and the new home shirt goes hand-in-hand with the gaffer’s message! Price: £64.95 adidas.co.uk Valencia Home & Away Shirts 2020-21 Spanish side Valencia are known as ‘The Bats’, and they’re gonna be flying in 2020-21 with these cool kits! The white home shirt is classic Valencia, but it’s the bold orange away jersey that caught MATCH’s attention! Price: £65 each puma.com Man. City Away Shirt 2020-21 The new Man. City away shirt is a weird one – it almost looks more like a fancy wallpaper than a…

DE BRUYNE SAYS: “The Phantom GT is fantastic — it’s pretty much exactly what I need to help me play the way I do. The touch, the feel of the boot is the best I have worn in my career and I can’t wait to launch them. Nike has pretty much made my perfect boot!” DELTA DELIGHT! Feast your eyes on the brand-new Mitre Delta Max football, which will be used in the EFL in 2020-21. The bold ball has a hypnotic pink and blue pattern! LEO’S NEWBOOTS! Leo Messi is wearing a new pair of adidas Nemeziz – the right boot celebrates his early career with Rosario while the left boot is reserved for Barca! SIGNATURE SANCHO! Nike have handed Jadon Sanchohs first-ever signature boots! The vibrant blue upper…

KALVIN PHILLIPS LEEDS Phillips will now have the chance to prove himself in the top flight, and he deserves it after the season he’s just had! He’s picked up tons of rewards on FIFA 20 along the way, including an 84-rated card as part of a Squad Building Challenge and a 92 in the Team Of The Season So Far! WAYNE ROONEY DERBY Wazza gave The Rams a real chance of securing a place in the play-offs after their form improved drastically following his arrival in January! His latest Flashback card is one of the best in the Championship. The former England star’s wicked card has top-quality dribbling, shooting and passing stats! ALEKSANDARMITROVIC FULHAM Only Brentford’s Ollie Watkins kept up with the Fulham hero’s goalscoring form in 2019-20, but the…

STAR PLAYERS! TONI DUGGAN The ex-Man. City star played like a proper world beater in Atletico’s 2-1 win over her former club in the second leg of their last-16 tie! She will be desperate to win this comp after losing in the final for Barca last season! LIEKE MARTENS The 27-year-olof the best players in the ace is one women’s game! She won UEFA Women’s Player Of The Year and FIFA Women’s Player Of The Year in 2017 and also impressed as the Netherlands won the Euros! TEAM NEWS Atletico Madrid boss Dani Gonzalez will have a selection headache for this game – but for the right reasons! He’s strengthened his squad with tons of quality additions, including ex-Real Betis megastar Merel van Dongen! Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic is a doubt for…

STAR PLAYERS! NIKITA PARRIS With Lyon's star player Ada Hegerberg ruled out through injury, England's Nikita Parris has been given the chance to shine as their main striker! Can she prove she's up to the task on club football's biggest stage? We say yes! LINDA DALLMANN The former Essen forward has been ever-present for Bayern since joining last year! The 25-year-old will be in confident mood after netting for Bayern in their 3-0 win v her former club in the final game of 2019-20! TEAM NEWS Even with Hegerberg out injured, attackers Jodie Taylor, Shanice van de Sanden and Delphine Cascarino still might not start – it’s easy to see why Les Fenottes have been so successful in this competition! As for Bayern, their starting line-up could look very different…

53 Everton legend Leighton Baines is the only defender in Premier League history to provide over 50 assists! Frank Lampard’s fourth-place finish in charge of Chelsea is the highest finish by a debuting English boss since Frank Clark in 1994-95. Wowzers! 50 In Man.City’svictory against Norwichon the final day, Aymeric Laporte won his 50th Prem game in what was just his 59th game! 60 Laporte overtook Didier Drogba to become the quickest player to 50 Prem victories – the Chelsea striker took 60 appearances! 33 Kevin De Bruyne was directly involved in 33 Prem goals in 2019-20 – the most by a CM since Frank Lampard in 2009-10! 4 Tottenham hero Eric Dier has signed a new four-year deal to keep him at the club until 2024! 33 At 33…