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French Newspaper L’Equipe Headline for Mason Greenwood & Marseille- “Unconditional Love” & “OM, Sweet Home”

French newspaper L’Equipe had an interesting headline today (August 27, 2024) covering Mason Greenwood and his start at Olympique Marseille. The former Manchester United youngster joined OM earlier this summer for a 30 million euro fee and has already scored 3 goals for his new club, prompting L’Equipe to run an article on him.

The French paper’s cover page had the headline “OM- Greenwood, L’Amour Sans Condition” (Marseille & Greenwood, Unconditional Love”). The article inside had the subheadline “OM, Sweet Home” (a play on Home, Sweet Home using OM)

Greenwood L'Equipe 2024

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Premier League Team of the Week GW2 (2024/25)- Media Outlet roundup for TOTW

At the end of Game Week 2, four teams remain unbeaten in the new 24/25 Premier League season- defending champions Man City, Brighton, Arsenal and Liverpool. Of these four, Arsenal and Liverpool are yet to concede a goal. The Gunners and LFC both won by identical 2-0 margins over the weekend, but the nature of those victories- they didn’t really dominate or stand out, meant that the two teams didn’t have any representative in the official BBC and PL TOTW.

Click here for Week 1 TOTW Premier League 24/25 season

BBC Team of the Week for Round 2 2024/25

Deeney’s TOTW: Raya, Kilman, Romero, Van de Ven, Smith Rowe, De Bruyne, Madueke, Palmer, Son, Haaland, Joao Pedro

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xG Stats Brighton vs Man Utd 2024 Garnacho chance Zirkzee Offside | BHAFC 2-1 MUFC

Here is a look at the xG (expected goals) stats from Brighton v Manchester United (official crowd attendance of 31,537). BHAFC won the game 2-1 thanks to a late goal from Joao Pedro.

United were left ruing a huge missed opportunity at 1-1 when Garnacho had an empty net to shoot at, but team mate Joshua Zirkzee ended up making contact with his shot, leading to the goal being disallowed for offside.

xG Brighton 1.62-1.19 Man Utd shots map (Actual score BHA 2-1 MUN)

1-0 Welbeck goal vs Man Utd xG 0.72
1-1 Amad Diallo goal vs Brighton xG 0.08
2-1 Joao Pedro header goal vs Man Utd xG 0.16

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