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Football Night! Arsenal 5:0, Barcelona wins in stoppage time, AC Milan leads all four major teams to fail

8:26am, 24 August 2025【Football】

In the early morning of August 24, the Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga all started the second round of the competition, and Serie A also held the first round of the new season; as a result, the upset night was repeated. In addition to Arsenal and Barcelona, ​​teams including Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Leverkusen and Dortmund were all upset and failed to win.

The only two teams to win: Arsenal and Barcelona

Arsenal had a lot of gains in the summer window, and Eze's official joining in the second round; in the second round against Leeds United, who returned to the Premier League, the Gunners also showed good offensive firepower. The first one to stand out was the full-back Timber. In the 34th minute, he received a corner kick from Rice and scored the first goal; in the 45th minute, Timber broke through the opponent's defense line from the right, and Saka's offside shot expanded his advantage.

The second half was on the stage of the performance of Zhekelais. He cut in one-stop in the 48th minute and scored his Premier League first goal. Timber then scored another goal in the corner offense in the 56th minute; as a fullback, he shot 2 shots and 1 pass. In injury time, Tzekelish hit a penalty and scored twice in his own goal. He scored 2 goals in 2 leagues and tied for the first place in the scorer list with Haaland. The Gunners also surpassed Tottenham in the Premier League with their goal difference.

In comparison, Barcelona has made a lot of difficulties in winning. Against the newly promoted Levante, Barcelona was scored by Ivan Romero in the first half. Before the end of the half, Valde gave another handball point, Morales hit a penalty, and Barcelona fell behind 2 goals in the half. Fortunately, after the half-time break, Barcelona woke up from a dream. In the 48th minute of the second half, Pedri's long-range shot in the world wave sounded the counterattack horn; Ferran Torres continued to work hard and scored another goal to tie the score.

After forming a siege and failing to succeed in many subsequent attempts, finally in the 91st minute of the game, Yamal's cross was spinning in front of the goal, and Elgesaval accidentally made a mistake and made an own goal. Barcelona experienced a good game of two and three, and narrowly won two consecutive La Liga wins; it is worth mentioning that Barcelona finally won the La Liga matches where they were two goals behind in the last four games. Last season, they defeated Atletico Madrid 4-2, defeated Celta 4-3 and defeated Real 4-3. The teams that won were also in a striking and unlucky game without exception. In the first round of Serie A, AC Milan, who had been greatly strengthened in the summer window, was immediately beaten by the newly promoted player Cremonese. In the 26th minute, Zerbin made a perfect cross, and Baschiroto scored first; in the stoppage time of the first half, Esturpinian made a cross from the bottom and once assisted Pavlovic to help Milan equalize the score.

However, in the second half, Pulic and Fofana's shots were all resolved by the opponent's goalkeeper Odero without exception. In the 61st minute, Bonazoli hit a barb in the penalty area and broke through the goal guarded by Menion. In the end, Milan suffered a 1:2 black opening. Milan failed to win the first round of Serie A in six years, and even failed to defeat Cremonese in 29 years.

If Milan is not running-in with new players and the first game of the season just now, it is understandable, but Atletico Madrid failed to win in two rounds, which is somewhat inappropriate. After an unexpected loss to Espanyol in the first round, Atletico Madrid returned to home against Elche, who was of average strength. With Throot scoring the first goal in the first 8 minutes of the game, Atletico Madrid was finally tied by Elche, and only scored 1 point in two rounds, creating the worst first two-round result since Simeone coached. In addition to Barcelona's two consecutive victories, Atletico Madrid directly competed for the championship and opened a 5-point gap at the beginning of the season. In the Bundesliga, Tenghager, who just replaced Alonso as Leverkusen's new coach in the summer window, also messed up his debut. The pharmaceutical factory he led was reversed by Hoffenheim 1:2 at home. Dortmund was not much better. In the game against St. Pauli, Gilasi scored in the first half and lost penalty kicks. Even though Anton and Brandt scored later, Dortmund lost 2 goals in a row in 86 and 89 minutes while leading 3:3, and was tied by St. Pauli.