Table of contents for 6-Oct-2020 in MATCH!

FILIP KROVINOVIC Benfica toWest Brom Loan RUBEN DIAS Benfica to Man. City £62million LUIS SUAREZ Barcelona to Atletico Madrid £5.5 million MBWANA SAMATTA Aston Villa to Fenerbahce Loan DIEGO LLORENTE Real Sociedad to Leeds £23 million EDOUARDMENDY Rennes to Chelsea £22 million DALE STEPHENS Brighton to Burnley £1 million DIEGO GODIN Inter to Cagliari Free AARON HICKEY Hearts to Bologna £1.5 million NELSON SEMEDO Barcelona to Wolves £27.6million HARRY ARTER Bournemouth to Nottingham Forest Undisclosed JORDON IBE Bournemouth to Derby Free ALVARO MORATA Atletico Madrid to Juventus Loan ALEXANDER SORLOTH Crystal Palace to RB Leipzig £20million…

EMILE SMITH ROWE ARSENAL After a sick spell at Huddersfield, ESM could leave on loan again! DENNIS CIRKIN TOTTENHAM The highly-rated LB is third in Spurs’ pecking order, and could do with some Champo footy! HARVEY ELLIOTT LIVERPOOL A loan might be beneficial for Elliott – like it was for teammate Rhian Brewster! JOSH KING BOURNEMOUTH Will a Prem club make a late move for the Norway and Bournemouth goal king? EMI BUENDIA NORWICH The Canaries playmaker and chance creator could still be snapped up by a Prem side!…

MBAPPE STARS! In case you’ve been living under a rock all summer, PSG’s Kylian Mbappe is the face of this year’s epic new game – and we can’t wait to play with him! Unlike FIFA 20, which had three different cover athletes for each edition, the France megastar features on the cover of every edition of FIFA 21. Baller! VOLTA RETURNS! It was one of our favourite game modes on FIFA 20, and it’s back even better than before! EA have added some awesome new features like Volta Squads, which is a new way for you and your mates to play online together. Time to get those tekkers out! THE DEBUT! There’s also a new Volta gameplay mode called ‘The Debut’, which includes some massive names, including footy legend Kaka!…

ALF-INGE HAALAND Alf-Inge was a versatile footballer who could play as a defender or defensive midfielder! He spent ten seasons in England, and was part of the Leeds squad that reached the semis of the 2000 UEFA Cup. He was famous for saying how much he disliked Man. United and their players! FACTFILE! DOB: 23.11.1972 Country: Norway Caps: 34 Height: 6ft 1in Position: Defender/Midfielder Clubs: Bryne, Nott’m Forest, Leeds, Man. City & Rosseland ERLING HAALAND Just like his dad, Erling started out his senior career at Norwegian side Bryne but, unlike his dad – he’s a lethal net-buster! Last year, Erling mirrored Alf-Inge by busting net at Anfield against Liverpool–and by making his senior debut for his country! FACTFILE! DOB: 21.07.2000 Country: Norway Caps: 4 Height: 6ft 4in Position: Striker…

GEORGIA v BELARUS Georgia haven’t played Belarus in a competitive fixture since the 2012 World Cup! Both sides are on a similar level, so this could go to penalties! WATCH IT! Thursday, 5pm Sky Sports Football BULGARIA v HUNGARY Keep your eyes peeled for Hungary playmaker Dominik Szoboszlai in this match – he’s one of the most exciting talents in European football! WATCH IT! Thursday, 7.45pm Sky Sports Red Button ICELAND v ROMANIA Iceland defied the odds at Euro 2016 in France, and we’d love them to qualify again, but they’ve never beaten Romania in a competitive fixture! WATCH IT! Thursday, 7.45pm Sky Sports Red Button NORWAY v SERBIA Erling Haaland scored three goals during the last international break for Norway, but Serbia have attacking quality too in Tadic and…

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198 The Uruguay forward left Barcelona as their third highest scorer of all time with 198 goals! 109 As well as his net-busters, Suarez also assisted 109 goals for his Barcelona team-mates! 364 He was part of the famous MSN – Messi, Suarez, Neymar – frontline that scored 364 goals across three seasons. Epic! 13 Luis lifted 13 trophies while at Barcelona, including four La Ligas and one Champo League! 11 He scored 11 El Clasico goals – including a hat-trick v Real Madrid in the 5-1 thrashing in October 2018! 2 He scored the second goal in Barca’s 3-1 Champo League final victory over Juventus in 2015! 40 He hit 40 goals in the 2015-16 season to win the European Golden Shoe and end Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s…

12TH EURO TOP 20 RANK STADIUM FACTS TEAM: Atletico Madrid COUNTRY: Spain CITY: Madrid BUILT: 2017 CAPACITY: 68,456 RECORD ATTENDANCE: 67,942 v Real Madrid, 2019…

ENGLAND v BELGIUM TALKING POINT Former Everton gaffer Roberto Martinez has so much talent at his disposal as manager of Belgium, and he always struggles fitting everybody in! If anyone can stop them scoring though, it’s England. The Three Lions have kept a clean sheet in five successive matches for the first time since another run of five ending in March 2017. Wowzers! WATCH IT! England v Belgium Sunday, Oct. 11 ★ 5pm Sky Sports Football THE GAME Belgium are currently sitting top of Group A2 after winning both of their games in September – including a 5-1 thrashing of Iceland! This is a tricky test for Gareth Southgate’s side, who have ambitions of winning the group themselves, so Jadon Sancho, Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane need to be on…

Germany gaffer Joachim Low is the longest-serving manager in international football 5 Brazil have won the World Cup more times than anybody else – they lifted the famous trophy in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. Wowzers! 5 England have kept a clean sheet in five successive competitive matches for the first time since March 2017! 40 Olivier Giroud scored his 40th goal for Franceas they beat Croatiaina 4-2 thriller in the Nations League in September! 17 Eduardo Camavinga became the youngest star to play for Les Bleussince 1914 at the age of 17 years and 303 days. Sick! In the 2002 World Cup, Oliver Kahn became the first and only goalkeeper to win the Golden Ball! The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be the first edition of the…

PLUS! 5 EPIC FIFA 21 POSTERS! WALES FAB FACT! With over 30 goals for The Dragons, Bale is the nation’s all-time record goalscorer! NORTHERN IRELAND FAB FACT! The former Man. United academy star won 23 caps for Northern Ireland’s youth teams! PORTUGAL FAB FACT! He’s the first European player to score 100 goals for his country, doing so in 165 games. Hero! REP. OF IRELAND FAB FACT! Brady scored twice in the Republic Of Ireland’s last Euro Championship tournament in 2016! SPAIN FAB FACT! He scored his first goal for Spain in their Nations League winover Ukraine in September 2020! ENGLAND FAB FACT! Sancho played eight times for England in 2019 in a breakthrough year for the winger! SCOTLAND FAB FACT! The Scotland captain has already made over 35 appearances for…

Scotland v Israel These two teams met in the Nations League last month, which was basically like a warm-up for this huge Euro 2020 play-off! Scotland went ahead thanks to a penalty from Ryan Christie, but lethal goal grabber Eran Zahavi struck a sweet strike in the second half. Scotland will still be favourites – especially at Hampden Park! LIKELY LINE-UP TEAM NEWS Lyndon Dykes made his debut for Scotland v Israel in September, and had a decent game. Kieran Tierney has been playing on the left of a back three for Scotland, but has struggled with an injury at Arsenal of late, so might not be fit enough! LIKELY LINE-UP WATCH IT! Scotland v Israel Thursday ★ 7.45pm Sky Sports Main Event Slovakia v Republic Of Ireland Stephen Kenny’s…

BOSNIA-HERZ. v N. IRELAND We haven’t been impressed with NI lately, so this could be difficult! MATCH SAYS 1-0 YOU SAY SLOVAKIA v REP. OF IRELAND ROI are desperate to get to Euro 2020, so they need to win this! MATCH SAYS 1-2 YOU SAY UKRAINE v GERMANY A tricky test for Germany, but they’re gonna pass this one… just! MATCH SAYS 1-2 YOU SAY REP. OF IRELAND v WALES We reckon The Dragons can pick up three points in this huge clash! MATCH SAYS 1-2 YOU SAY SCOTLAND v ISRAEL Israel showed last month that they won’t be a pushover here… MATCH SAYS 2-1 YOU SAY ENGLAND v WALES This is the perfect warm-up game for England ahead of two biggies! MATCH SAYS 2-0 YOU SAY SPAIN v SWITZERLAND…

Positive energy! Leicester fan Harry has already predicted where his side are going to finish on MATCH’s awesome 2020-21 Season Tracker. Nice! Cool collection! Matt has bundles of Panini Adrenalyn XL cards, so he needs somebody to swap them with! Top trophy! Huge Liverpool fan Nathan went to Anfield to see the Premier League trophy – and cheekily grabbed the handle! Colour-in king! Top marks to Eoghan for colouring-in MATCH’s Marcus Rashford poster! MATCH fan! Callum sent this snap of his brother Aiden with loads of his MATCH magazines. Keep collecting, pal! MATCH Vote! We asked our Twitter followers how many goals Gareth Bale will score for Spurs in 2020-21! Here were the results… SEND YOUR PICTURES TO… Email: match.magazine@kelsey.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/matchmagazine Twitter: www.twitter.com/matchmagazine…