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Padraig Whelan·29 October 2023
🗞️ Daily Digest: Manchester is blue, Ajax go bottom and Mbappé heroics

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Padraig Whelan·29 October 2023
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An Erling Haaland double helped fire Manchester City to a 3-0 victory over rivals United at Old Trafford in the standout Sunday fixture. Elsewhere, Liverpool cruised to a 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest with each of their forward line scoring, Everton picked up a huge 1-0 win away to West Ham, Aston Villa swatted Luton aside and Brighton shared the spoils with bogey team Fulham.
In Serie A’s early Sunday kick-off, we witnessed the best late fightback in league history. And don’t just take our word for it. Cagliari found themselves 3-0 down at home to Frosinone on 72 minutes and 3-2 behind in the 94th minute only for a stunning late Leonardo Pavoletti brace to give them their first victory of the campaign. It is the first time ever in Serie A that a team has won after trailing by three goals with 20 minutes remaining.
Ajax will be bottom of the Eredivisie in November, so bad has their start to the season been. It has already cost Maurice Steijn his job and despite leading 2-1 at half-time against PSV, they capitulated once more, a Chucky Lozano hat-trick sending them to the foot of the table as they lost five straight league games for the first time ever.
Kylian Mbappé scored the 250th club goal of an already glittering career on Sunday afternoon during PSG’s 3-2 win at Brest. He swept home at the near post on the counter-attack to also move up to 11th in the all-time Ligue 1 scorer charts with 173 goals. Reminder: he is only 24.
Ahead of next weekend’s clash with Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund came back from the brink twice away to Eintracht Frankfurt to earn a draw. They fought back from 2-0 down and then 3-2 behind in the closing stages to maintain their unbeaten start to the campaign.