Table of contents for 28-Jul-2020 in MATCH!

STEP 1 Start with the ball in front of your weak foot and roll the ball back onto your weak foot with your strong foot. STEP 2 Next, hop to flick the ball up with your weak foot then plant your strong foot on the ground. STEP 3 Kick the ball outside of your strong foot lightly using your strong foot. Make sure to bend your knee as you do this. STEP 4 Straighten your leg and kick the ball back across your body, changing the direction and executing the In-Air Elastico! Check out @streetpanna and @matchmagofficial on Instagram for loads of Jack’s sick skills, and keep reading MATCH every week for more top tutorials!…

HOW TO VOTE! Go to the MATCH Facebook page now and you’ll see two shortlists – one for Player Of The Month and one for Goal Of The Month. Then just vote for your choice. Well easy! ADAMS The Southampton striker scored his first goal for the club v Man. City with a top-quality long-range lob over the head of Ederson! WELBECK The Watford forward flung himself into the air to score a worldy overhead kick against Norwich! JIMENEZ The technique of the Wolves striker’s volley v Burnley was simply out of this world! ANTONIO July 2020 was probably one of the best months of the West Ham forward’s entire career – not just 2019-20! THE RESULTS! We’ll reveal the winners in next week’s issue!…

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TITLE RACE! It looked like there was gonna be a mega exciting title battle in 2019-20, with Rangers and Celtic neck-and-neck in November, but then The Bhoys raced ahead at the start of 2020! It’s likely to be another face-off between Rangers and Celtic at the top this season, with the men in green and white hoops hoping to bag their tenth league title in a row! If you’re looking for an outsider, Motherwell finished in third place at the end of 2019-20, but they were still 34 points below Celtic when the season was cancelled! GOAL MACHINES! Celtic’s Odsonne Edouard finished way ahead of the rest in the 2019-20 Golden Boot race with 22 goals – and he’s the fave for the award this season! Rangers’ Alfredo Morelos was…

We’ve got an incredible prize up for grabs this week, thanks to our mates at Edson! You can win a football shirt necklace on cord, with stones making up the colours of the UK! What’s more, it’ll be personalised with the winner’s name and shirt number. Get your head around that – literally! Edson have a range of high-end, elegant, football-themed jewellery for kids and adults. You can view their full collection at edson-jewelry.com and follow them on Instagram at @edsonjewelry HOW TO ENTER! WWW.MATCHFOOTBALL.CO.UK Then click ‘WIN’ in the navigation bar on the MATCH website. Full T&Cs are available online.…

34 This year’s title was the club’s 34th in history – an all-time La Liga high! 11 Super skipper Sergio Ramos scored 11 league goals in 2019-20 – the centre-back’s best-ever tally! 18 Thibaut Courtois became the first Real Madrid keeper to keep at least 18 league clean sheets since 1988! 21 Real Madrid ha 21 different scorers in La Liga in 2019-20 – more than any team in a single season this century! 5 With 21 league goals, Karim Benzema became Real’s fifth all-time highest scorer! THIAGO TUG-OF-WAR! Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago is expected to leave the club this summer, and spies say Liverpool, Man. City, Man. United and Juventus all want him! EXTRA SUBS! Teams will be able to make five substitutions in a match until the end…

DREAM TEAM SCOTTISH PREM XI You can build a sick FUT squad using only Scottish Premiership players! FIFA-LUTION Get a load of how Erling Haaland’s FUT card has improved over the last two years. Bonkers! FIFA’S FINEST–SCOTTISH PREM STARS Check out five heroes to snap up if you want to win the Scottish Premiership on Career Mode! JERMAIN DEFOE RANGERSH ★ ST The experienced striker may be heading towards the end of his career, but he remains a deadly poacher! Defenders can’t afford to give him a sniff of goal coz he won’t miss with his ace finishing rating of 84! Defoe also has really decent numbers for positioning, balance and acceleration which is why he’s a great option! SCOTT BROWN CELTICH ★ CDM If you like playing creative midfielders…

ABERDEEN v RANGERS Saturday, 5.30pm These two Scottish giants will be desperate to make a flying start to the new campaign – Rangers will have their eyes on the title, while The Dons will want to push into the league’s top three! Rangers haven’t won at the Pittodrie Stadium since February 2019 and, without their noisy travelling support, it’s a tricky start for Steven Gerrard’s men. JUVENTUS v ROMA Sunday, 8.45pm Juventus have been on fire since football restarted, with Cristiano Ronaldo’s scoring form showing no sign of slowing down – he’s trying to beat Lazio’s Ciro Immobile to the Serie A Golden Boot! The megastar will feel confident playing Roma this weekend after scoring in both the league and Coppa Italia quarter-final v them this campaign! DID YOU KNOW?…

TANGUY NDOMBELE Spurs signed Ndombele for record bucks last summer, but he hasn’t settled at all! He only just broke into double figures for starts for the club in 2019-20, and seems to have fallen out of favour with Jose Mourinho. Gossips say Bayern, PSG and Barcelona could offer him a way out, with Barca also said to be keen on Ryan Sessegnon! JADON SANCHO This transfer saga already feels like it’s been dragging on all of 2020! MATCH spies have heard The Red Devils are readying a £109 million take-it-or-leave-it offer for Dortmund – and we reckon the Bundesliga club are gonna accept. It could be the biggest deal of the summer! LAUTARO MARTINEZ Real Madrid and Barca have spent the last 12 months battling it out on the…

Club legends are given their own mosaic artworks at the City Football Academy! The club debuted the kit in their FA Cup semi-final match against Arsenal! The mosaic pattern only covers the front of the shirt – the back is all blue! YOURSAY! You can rate the shirt out of 10 on our Facebook page now! CAMPEONES, CAMPEONES! La Liga champions Real Madrid were selling their ‘Campeones’ jerseys before they’d even officially won the title! Good job they didn’t bottle it, then PUZZLED PEPE! Nicolas Pepe must have a massive boot collection – he’s constantly changing cleats! He wore New Balance’s Furons v Spurs, before wearing Puma Futures against Liverpool RANGERS ARE READY! The Scottish Prem starts this week, and Rangers have revealed a cool new club crest to celebrate…

1 PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM OF THE SEASON GOALKEEPERS THE SHORTLIST Alisson, Liverpool Nick Pope, Burnley Ederson, Man. City Bernd Leno, Arsenal Dean Henderson, Sheff. United OTHER: Write on your voting form! CENTRE-BACKS THE SHORTLIST Aymeric Laporte, Man. City Virgil van Dijk, Liverpool Caglar Soyuncu, Leicester John Egan, Sheff. United Conor Coady, Wolves OTHER: Write on your voting form! WINGERS THE SHORTLIST Sadio Mane, Liverpool Adama Traore, Wolves Allan Saint-Maximin, Newcastle Mohamed Salah, Liverpool Riyad Mahrez, Man. City OTHER: Write on your voting form! FULL-BACKS THE SHORTLIST Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool Andy Robertson, Liverpool Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Man. United Ben Chilwell, Leicester George Baldock, Sheff. United OTHER: Write on your voting form! CENTRAL MIDFIELDERS THE SHORTLIST Kevin De Bruyne, Man. City Jordan Henderson, Liverpool Wilfred Ndidi, Leicester Oliver Norwood, Sheff. United Fred, Man. United OTHER: Write on your voting form! FORWARDS THE SHORTLIST Jamie Vardy, Leicester Sergio Aguero, Man. City Danny Ings, Southampton Marcus Rashford, Man. United Pierre-E. Aubameyang, Arsenal OTHER: Write on your voting form! 2 PREMIER LEAGUE…

#MyMATCHShirt! MATCH subscriber Oli sent us this photo of the favourite shirt in his collection – it’s Newport County! Terrific Trent! Check out this perfect poster of Alexander-Arnold – coloured-in by massive MATCH fan Phoenix! Epic footy tour! Olivia took MATCH on a tour of all the football clubs in the northwest of the UK – like Blackburn’s Ewood Park! Cool colouring-in! Olly loves to colour-in the posters in MATCH – and he even gives the clubs’ kits new colours and styles! Demon drawing! George drew three players that make up ‘The Ultimate Player’ – Kevin De Bruyne, Lionel Messi and Virgil van Dijk. Class! Kane superfan! Simon is a massive fan of Harry Kane, so he was pumped to see the striker’s poster in MATCH! SEND YOUR PICTURES TO……

20 Lionel Messi is the second player ever in Europe’s top leagues to bag 20 goals and 20 assists in a single season! 9 PSG thrashed Le Havre 9-0 in a friendly ahead of this summer’s Champions League! 41 Relegated Spanish side Real Mallorca conceded 16 penalties in 2019-20 – a joint-record in La Liga history. Ouch! David McGoldrick’s first Prem goal of 2019-20 came with his 41st shot of the season! 7 Aston Villa won a league game on all seven days of the week in 2019-20 – becoming just these second top-flight team to do so 2 The only other team to win on all seven days in one season on in top-flight English football was Tottenham in 1986-87! 39 It took Dominic Solanke 39 Premier League games to score his first…