The weekend is right here people and what a weekend it will likely be. We have Europe’s spectacular triumph within the Ryder Cup forward of us (sorry CBS, rent British writers and that is what you get) in addition to a bunch of huge soccer video games internationally. I am James Benge, your information for a way greatest to spend your weekend.
📺 Footy repair
All instances U.S./Japanese
Friday, Sept. 26
🇩🇪 Bundesliga: Bayern Munich vs. Werder Bremen, 2:30 p.m. ➡️ ESPN2
🏴 Championship: West Bromwich Albion vs. Leicester Metropolis, 3 p.m. ➡️ Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
🇺🇸 NWSL: San Diego Wave vs. Orlando Delight, 10:30 p.m. ➡️ Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
Saturday, Sept. 27
🏴 Championship: Coventry Metropolis vs. Birmingham Metropolis, 7:30 a.m. ➡️ Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
🇪🇸 LaLiga: Atletico Madrid vs. Actual Madrid, 10:15 a.m. ➡️ ESPN Choose
🇮🇹 Serie A: Juventus vs. Atalanta, 12 p.m. ➡️ CBS, Paramount+
🇺🇸 USL Championship: Pittsburgh Riverhounds vs. Las Vegas Lights, 7 p.m. ➡️ Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
🇲🇽 Liga MX: America vs. Pumas UNAM, 11:15 p.m. ➡️ Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
Sunday, Sept. 28
🇮🇹 Serie A: Roma vs. Hellas Verona, 10 a.m. ➡️ Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
🏴 Premier League: Newcastle United vs. Arsenal, 11:30 a.m. ➡️ USA Community
🇮🇹 Serie A: Milan vs. Napoli, 2:45 p.m. ➡️ Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
🇺🇸 NWSL: Seattle Reign vs. North Carolina Braveness, 8 p.m. ➡️ Paramount+, CBS Sports activities Golazo Community
⚽ The Ahead Line
🇮🇹 Juventus, Atalanta leads an enormous week in Serie A
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You will not should look far to seek out among the best video games of the weekend come Saturday lunch time, when Juventus’ conflict with Atalanta might be accessible reside on CBS stations (in addition to Paramount+ in fact). It guarantees to be an intriguing conflict and if the hosts can sustain a few of the ludicrous scoring kind they’ve proven of late, you will not be quick modified on the purpose entrance both. The Previous Girl of Italian soccer might need been one of the vital achingly boring sides in Europe for a lot of final season, however to this point in 2025-26 they’ve reduce free, scoring 4 in an exhilarating win over Inter earlier than repeating the trick at dwelling to Borussia Dortmund within the recreation of the Champions League to this point.
Igor Tudor’s facet have definitely made a vibrant begin to the season, and sit simply two factors off league leaders Napoli after three wins and a draw from their first 4 video games. Tudor, a participant within the all-conquering Juve sides of the late Nineteen Nineties and 2000s, was appointed in March after a faltering run of kind beneath Thiago Motta and sparked a reasonably swift revival that appears to have continued by means of into this season. Certainly, as Khephren Thuram explained when he hopped onto Morning Footy this week, Juventus have been additionally capable of take advantage of a 4 recreation stand on the Membership World Cup as they sought to construct momentum:
- Thuram: “We’re having a reasonably good begin, we all know the coach effectively as a result of he’s with us final 12 months and on the [Club] World Cup. The World Cup was essential for us to all be collectively, to learn to work collectively as a bunch. It is fairly good what we’re doing as a bunch proper now however we nonetheless have work to do. We hope it’ll get higher.”
Fourth within the desk, Atalanta did not burst out of the traps fairly like Juventus did, drawing their two openers, however in Serie A play there are indicators of progress from this much-changed outfit. A summer season of gross sales is par for the course in Bergamo but it surely wasn’t simply the league’s prime scorer Mateo Retegui who left. After 9 years of nice success with Atalanta Gian Piero Gasperini was lastly snared by one in all Italy’s historic golf equipment, taking the reigns at Roma and leaving former Southampton boss Ivan Juric to step into the fray. He took time to get going however the final two video games have seen Lecce and Torino brushed apart by two purpose margins.
This recreation may additionally afford us a possibility to see how two probably key figures within the USMNT fare. Weston McKennie and Yunus Musah have began one Serie A recreation between them this season, thought each did get prolonged minutes from the off within the Champions League. Musah also joined us previous to this weekend’s recreation, the place he defined why he had made the transfer from AC Milan to Atalanta, a mortgage which features a purchase possibility for La Dea.
- Musah: “I am at a time in my profession the place it is essential for me to concentrate on in that [central midfield] place and develop as a lot as I can in that space. Additionally, Atalanta they’re within the Champions League, and having performed within the Champions League in previous seasons, I needed to hold that on. That was one thing enormous that actually caught my consideration.”
Two of the 4 highest scoring sides in Italy, with US expertise on board and a battle on the prime of the desk? This has all of the makings of an absorbing match and that is solely the beginning of a weekend that can even see Inter journey to Sardinia the place they’ll face an intriguing Cagliari earlier than Milan wrap up the weekend in opposition to league leaders Napoli. You’ll observe all that and rather more throughout CBS Sports activities and Paramount platforms.
Dwell Tomorrow
🔗 Midfield Hyperlink Play
📝 Arsenal lock up celebrity expertise
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In the meantime within the Premier League it has been per week mild on on-field drama — all the massive groups coasted by means of the EFL Cup as you’d count on — with maybe probably the most vital information approaching Thursday morning, when CBS Sports activities reported that William Saliba is ready to signal a brand new 5 12 months contract at Arsenal. No exaggeration, it is a significantly vital little bit of enterprise, maybe extra vital than any of the numerous signings the Gunners made in the summertime.
Of the professional superstars in Mikel Arteta’s squad, Saliba had all the time appeared the almost definitely flight danger. That is not simply because within the years earlier than he established himself within the group Saliba and Arteta didn’t appear to have the very best public relationship. Much more it’s as a result of Actual Madrid have been doing that Actual Madrid factor, the murmurs within the Spanish press that they considered him as the subsequent celebrity to make the transfer. You would already envisage how the subsequent two years would possibly play out, no signal of a breakthrough in negotiations and Arsenal pressured to mull taking a cut-price deal or nothing in any respect when Saliba goes on a free.
As a substitute they’ve tied up the very best younger heart again within the recreation by means of to 2030. That follows on from Gabriel Magalhaes, with Bukayo Saka subsequent up, and absolutely a extra manageable negotiation given his publicly professed want to win silverware in Arsenal colours.
The information of Saliba’s extension may barely be bettered time, coming because it does earlier than the Gunners journey to Newcastle for the marquee fixture of the Premier League weekend. That has continuously been the case early on this season, maybe greater than Arteta would possibly like, and Arsenal may take the sector on Sunday eight factors off the highest of the desk if Liverpool win at Crystal Palace. The strain is excessive however the proof of the previous couple of seasons is that Saliba and firm are likely to ship in these moments.
🔗 Prime Tales
🧸 Meet the mascots: Introducing Clutch, Zayu and Maple: the triumvirate of World Cup mascots. It is essential that we’ve got a essential perspective of this summer season’s event, that we do not simply get swept away on a tidal wave of optimism by dint of the World Cup being in North America. Having mentioned all that: they’re so cool!
🇦🇷 Extra Messi magic: It was one other good efficiency from Lionel Messi on Wednesday night time, a burst of kind within the last quarter of the sport turning a one purpose benefit right into a 4-0 win.
📈 NWSL energy rankings: Gotham FC are on the up however is it time to fret about Racing Louisville? I am not the one who can reply that query for you, however Sandra Herrera can.
🇪🇸 Barcelona win an enormous recreation: The hole has closed on Actual Madrid after a 3-1 win at Actual Oviedo however do Barcelona have the muscle to remain the course in La Liga’s title race?
💪 Set piece shift: With reference to muscle, I used to be struck by how a lot larger and stronger Tottenham have been of their EFL Cup win over League One Doncaster Rovers, notably at set items. Is that this a worrying signal of additional imbalancing of the English pyramid?
🔴 Ex-Arsenal participant dies after on pitch incident: We finish with dreadfully unhappy information from England, the place Billy Vigar died on Thursday after an incident in a Chichester City match on the weekend. The intense mind damage is claimed to have come from colliding with a concrete wall.
🗣️ Thuram speaks: You may watch Morning Footy’s full interview with Khephren Thuram here as he displays on enjoying in opposition to his brother Marcus and his relationship with Thierry Henry.
💰 The Again Line
💵 Finest bets
- Premier League: Crystal Palace vs. Liverpool, Saturday, 10 a.m. ET
💰 THE PICK: Crystal Palace 1, Liverpool 1 (+600) – It is perhaps 5 wins from 5 to begin the brand new season for Liverpool however that has come courtesy of an terrible lot of late drama and tense wins. It’s honest to imagine that earlier than lengthy Arne Slot will get his group to click on collectively however at the moment they are going to be travelling to a facet who’ve lengthy since settled right into a groove. Crystal Palace have already had the higher of Liverpool in a single draw this season, 2-2 within the Neighborhood Protect, and also you’d fancy them to do not less than that effectively on dwelling turf.
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The Kings of Spain and France Meet 👀
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