Man City's big men step up vs. Man United; lucky Liverpool; Madrid's ref deja vu; more

European nine shot returned with plentifulness of play and excitement aft the September planetary break, truthful let's review. In the Premier League, we got a Manchester City rout of their rivals Manchester United successful the derby, arsenic good arsenic a 93rd-minute punishment for Liverpool to assistance them to triumph astatine Burnley and support their 100% grounds to unfastened the season. Phew.

Elsewhere, Juventus racked up an awesome 4-3 triumph implicit Inter Milan to instrumentality complaint of Serie A successful the aboriginal going, and Real Madrid's triumph implicit Real Sociedad was dominated post-game by much vexation (from Los Blancos) implicit the refereeing ... again. We besides had talking points galore for Barcelona (who are thankful they didn't fto Fermín López permission this summer), Arsenal (who stomped Nottingham Forest with a new-look attack), Milan (and a prima crook by the ageless Luka Modric), and Chelsea (whose Cole Palmer dependency is simply a problem).

It's Monday morning, truthful what amended clip for Gab Marcotti's musings?

Big men travel up large arsenic City predominate Manchester derby, but determination is country for improvement

Erling Haaland scored twice, could person had different two, and these days looks similar the devastating unplayable man-child we saw 2 years ago.

Newly arrived Gianluigi Donnarumma (greeted by Pep Guardiola stating the evident that "he's conscionable truthful large ... Really, truly big") made conscionable 2 saves, but 1 -- disconnected Bryan Mbeumo successful the 2nd fractional -- was the benignant that turns games. Or, alternatively it prevents games from turning, due to the fact that City were 2-0 up astatine the clip and thing other than his instant reflex one-hander mightiness person reopened the match.

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