Table of contents for 9-Jun-2020 in MATCH!

CRUNCH CURTA IN RAISER! This Thursday, La Liga returns with a BANG – massive city rivals Real Betis and Sevilla are kicking off the action! It’s easily one of the fiercest fixtures in the Spanish football calendar, with the match known as ‘The Great Derby’ due to their dislike for each other. It’s normally pretty action-packed, too – there have been 21 goals in their last four league clashes! TIGHT TITLE RACE! Just before lockdown began, the Spanish title race was really hotting up! Real Madrid beat massive El Clasico rivals Barcelona 2-0 in March, only to lose a week later to Betis. Barça are currently two points ahead of their rivals, but still have to face Atletico Madrid, who are in a mega-tight battle them selves for one of…

GOAL MACHINES! No current Premier League player has more goals than Man. City’s Sergio Aguero – on 180! He’s followed by Harry Kane on 136 goals and Jamie Vardy on 99 net-busters! 137 Nobody likes getting subbed off, but try telling that to Theo Walcott! He’s been taken off a Prem-record 137 times over his career with Arsenal and Everton! THE SPECIAL ONE! No current Premier League gaffer has more PL wins than Tottenham’s Jose Mourinho – he’s just two victories short of 200! He’s still wayoff Sir Alex Ferguson’s all-time record of 528 PL victories, though! RAMPANT RED DEVILS! They haven’t lifted the trophy since 2012-13, but Man. United are still top dogs when it comes to Prem titles! If Liverpool win the 2019-20 title, they’ll become the seventh…

BALLER BOSS! Bologna boss Sinisa Mihajlovic must have some expert free-kick tips for his players – he holds the joint-record for most set-pieces scored in Serie A, and once bagged three free-kicks in one match. Bonkers! JUVE’S SLICKSILVERWARE! Juventus arethe most successful club in the history of the Italian league! 8 Juventus became the first side in Europe’s top five leagues to win eight titles in a row in 2018-19! 102 They’re the only side to reach 100 points in a single Serie A season, setting the impressive record in 2013-14! 1,623 They’ve won more Serie A matches than any other club in history, with Inter second on 1,484! MOST ITALIAN TITLES 7 TORINO 7 PRO VERCELLI 7 BOLOGNA 9 GENOA 18 INTER 18 AC MILAN 35 JUVENTUS 44 Gianluigi…

AWESOME AJAX! Even though Ajax were top of the table when the 2019-20 Eredivisie season was cancelled, they weren’t awarded the championship! They’re still way in front of the chasers in all-time Eredivisie victories, though… MOST EREDIVISIE TITLES 2 AZ ALKMAAR 10 FEYENOORD 21 PSV 26 AJAX 9 Since the Scottish Premiership was founded as such in 2013, the highest fee a club has paid is the £9 million Celtic splashed out on Odsonne Edouard in 2018 from PSG! 123 Ferencvaros manager Serhiy Rebrov is still the joint-top scorer of the Ukrainian league with 123 net-busters! He also played over 100 times in England for West Ham and Tottenham. Cool! SIZZLING SPARTAK! The most-successful football team in Russia is Spartak Moscow – they’re the only side to have lifted 10…

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LOCK DOWN ACTIVITIES! JOAO SAYS: “I spent lockdown in Madrid. I have a gym at home, so I’ve been training here. I’ve been playing a lot of video games, too – I play FIFA online against other opponents! I’ve beaten my team-mate Felipe a lot, but Renan Lodi is more difficult!” JOURNEY SO FAR! JOAO SAYS: “I started out at Porto and I was there for eight years. Then my younger brother went to Benfica and I followed him! Everything went fine, I was already used to living alone. My special dream now is tow in the Champions League and Ballon d’Or!” SETTLING IN SPAIN! JOAO SAYS: “My team-mates made sure I was integrated and feeling good. We have a meal once or twice a month together. The better you…

1.07 Even though he’s now in Italy, Cristiano Ronaldo left a legacy in the Spanish league! He’s got the best goals-to-game ratio of anyone to bust more than 100 nets – 311 goals in 292 games. Wowzers! JAN’S THEMAN! Since becoming Atletico Madrid’s first-choice goalie in 2015-16, Jan Oblak has won La Liga’s Zamora Trophy – for the least goals-to-game ratio – every campaign! Can he make it five seasons in a row in 2019-20? CLEAN SHEETS BY SEASON AWESOME ADURIZ! Retiring Athletic Bilbao striker Aritz Aduriz is one of just three players to have scored in all of the last 15 La Liga seasons – Sergio Ramos and Lionel Messi are the other two!…

28 They’ve won more Bundesliga titles than any other side, including the last seven, and are set to win 2019-20 too! 365 Club legend Gerd Muller holds the record as the Bundesliga’s all-time top goalscorer! 12 Their 11-1 win over rivals Dortmund in 1971-72 is a joint-record for most goals in a single match! 91 Their tally of 91 points in 2012-13 is a German league record – they finished 25 points above second-placed Dortmund! 29 In 2012-13 and 2013-14, they won 29 league matches – a single-season high in the Bundesliga! 68 Their £68 million signing of Atletico Madrid defender Lucas Hernandez in 2019 is a German record!…

BERGWIJN 1 Which Eredivisie side did Tottenham sign him from – Ajax, PSV, Feyenoord or Willem II? 2 True or False? He busted net on his Prem debut for Spurs v Man. United! 3 How many caps has he won for national side Netherlands – more or less than ten? 4 Was he part of the Dutch team that beat England in the Nations League in 2019? 5 True or False? His wicked trademark celebration comes from playing FIFA! ANSWERS ON PAGE 60! MAGUIRE 1 In which English city was the centre-back born – Nottingham, Sheffield or Manchester? 2 Which EFL club did he play 54 league games for between 2014 and 2017? 3 He had a brief loan spell at another EFL side in 2015 – was it at…

438 He’s La Liga’s all-time top goalscorer with 438 goals, over 120 more than second-placed Cristiano Ronaldo! 174 As well as being La Liga’s best goalscorer, he’s also assisted more goals than anyone else! 50 He scored an incredible 50 goals in the 2011-12 season – an all-time record we doubt will ever get beaten! 347 He’s a natural and proven winner – he’s baggedmore La Liga victories than any other hero in history!…

HAT-TRICK HERO! Ex-Lille goal grabber Matt Moussilou scored a mindboggling five-minute hat-trick for the French side in 2005 – the quickest in French footy history! His side went on to demolish rivals Istres 8-0! 131 The 2002-03 season was statistically the dirtiest campaign in Ligue 1 history – there were a huge 131 sendings off and every team got at least one red card! 12 Current Ligue 2 side Sochaux hold the record for the biggest-ever win in the French top tier – they thrashed Valenciennes 12-1 back in the 1935-36 season! NINE’S FINE! Former PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic holds the joint-record for most Ligue 1 games scored in a row – he bagged in nine matches on the trot in the 2015-16 season! BIGBUCKS PSG! There’s a reason PSG are…

THIS WEEK… LOFTED PASS! Many young players struggle with the lofted pass, but it’s one of the most effective ways to switch play in a game! You can also use it to play a ball over the top of a defender to create an attack for your side, or as a clearance to relieve pressure for your team – just like Trent Alexander-Arnold does for Liverpool! Here are TopTekkers’ tips… Approach the ball slightly side on. Place your standing foot next to the ball. Strike the bottom half of the ball. Lean back when you make contact. Follow through with your striking leg. THE CHALLENGE… Now, start practising at home ASAP by taking on this week’s wicked TopTekkers Lofted Pass Challenge! Set up two squares, which are five large steps…

1 In which month did Maguire seal his mega move – July or August? 2 Did he cost United more or less than £75 million? 3 True or False? It was a world-record fee for a defender! 4 Who was the Premier League’s previous most expensive defender? 5 Howmany years did he sign for The Red Devils? 6 What number was Maguire given for the 2019-20 season? 7 Including Maguire, how many English players are in United’s first-team squad? 8 True or False? He got a red card on his PL debut for The Red Devils! 9 Who did he score his first PL goal for United against – Chelsea, Liverpool or Arsenal?…