Atletico Madrid lose to Alaves, Inter stay unbeaten as Daniel Maldini nets on first Milan begin – European round-up

Atletico Madrid’s La Liga title defence was dealt a blow as they suffered a shock 1-0 defeat at Alaves.

Centre-back Victor Laguardia’s fourth-minute header from a Ruben Duarte nook was sufficient for the hosts to safe their first win of the season as they moved off the foot of the desk.

Atleti huffed and puffed as they tried to discover a manner again into the match after such an early blow, however have been saved out by admirable defending from the hosts.

Marcos Llorente, Luis Suarez and substitute Angel Correa all went shut for the guests and Laguardia headed Kieran Tripper’s shot off the road.

Tomas Pina missed an excellent likelihood to double Alaves’s lead 9 minutes from time, however fired over when unmarked on the penalty spot – however his aspect held on to assert a primary victory over Atleti since 2003.

The outcome left Diego Simeone’s aspect second on 14 factors, two behind leaders Actual Madrid, who’re in motion in a while Saturday after they host Villarreal.

Valencia rallied late with 10 males to attract 1-1 with Athletic Bilbao, ending a two-game shedding streak.

Bilbao took the lead with a purpose from Inigo Martinez within the 69th minute however Marcos Andre equalised 5 minutes into stoppage time at Mestalla Stadium. The hosts had misplaced Maxi Gomez with a pink card within the 82nd minute.

Serie A – Inter stay unbeaten, Maldini scores on first begin

Inter Milan maintained their unbeaten document in Serie A with an entertaining 2-2 draw in opposition to Atalanta on Saturday that featured late drama, because the champions missed a penalty and the guests had a match-winning purpose dominated out.

A elegant Lautaro Martinez volley put Inter in entrance after 5 minutes, however Atalanta turned the sport on its head earlier than the break with targets from Ruslan Malinovskyi and Rafael Toloi.

Edin Dzeko pulled the hosts degree after 71 minutes, earlier than Federico Dimarco’s penalty got here off the bar with 4 minutes remaining and Roberto Piccoli’s last-minute strike was disallowed as a result of the ball went out of play within the build-up.

The outcome leaves Inter in third place on 14 factors, three forward of Atalanta in fifth however two behind league leaders AC Milan, who beat Spezia 2-1 earlier on Saturday.

Daniel Maldini scored for Milan on his first league begin for the membership. The 19-year-old adopted within the footsteps of his father Paolo and grandfather Cesare, two Milan greats, by scoring in Italy’s high flight with a Forty eighth-minute header, which despatched the Rossoneri high of the desk.

Daniele Verdes’ closely deflected strike drew the house aspect degree on the Stadio Alberto Picco, however a late purpose from substitute Brahim Diaz scored the winner for Milan 4 minutes after approaching.

Bundesliga – Gladbach beat Dortmund

Hosts Borussia Monchengladbach shocked 10-man Borussia Dortmund 1-0 with a purpose from Denis Zakaria.

Dortmund, enjoying with out injured captain Marco Reus and high striker Erling Haaland, suffered their second lack of the season, dropping to fourth place on 12 factors, 4 off leaders Bayern Munich as Gladbach notched their second victory in six video games.

Zakaria struck within the thirty seventh minute after charging within the field, getting a fortunate deflection to maintain possession after which slotting in for the lead.

Issues bought worse for Dortmund, who host Sporting within the Champions League subsequent week, three minutes later when Mo Dahoud bought his marching orders following a second reserving, placing his group firmly on the backfoot.

The hosts had a string of fine probabilities within the second half on a irritating return to Gladbach for Dortmund coach Marco Rose, who had coached the Foals for 2 years, however left this season to hitch the Ruhr valley membership.

Rose’s group didn’t handle a single effort on purpose over 90 minutes, dropping to fourth, one off third-placed VfL Wolfsburg, who misplaced 3-1 at Hoffenheim, and Bayer Leverkusen. Gladbach transfer as much as eleventh on seven factors.

RB Leipzig thrashed Hertha Berlin 6-0 to lastly ease the stress that had been constructing on supervisor Jesse Marsch.

Christopher Nkunku chipped the ball over the Hertha goalkeeper within the sixteenth minute, then arrange Yussuf Poulsen for Leipzig’s second. Lukas Klostermann had a purpose dominated out as Leipzig racked up 9 efforts to the guests one within the first half, earlier than Nordi Mukiele made it 3-0 in harm time.

There was no let-up for Hertha as Emil Forsberg transformed a penalty on the hour mark, and Nkunku, who had been fouled for the penalty, scored from a free kick within the seventieth minute. Amadou Haidara accomplished the rout seven minutes later.

Florian Wirtz’s second-half strike was sufficient for Bayer Leverkusen to beat Mainz 1-0.

Cologne drew at Eintracht Frankfurt 1-1, Hoffenheim got here from behind to defeat Wolfsburg 3-1 and Kevin Behrens scored within the 88th to present Union Berlin a late 1-0 win over Arminia Bielefeld.

Ligue 1 – Good see off St Etienne

Good bounced again from their first defeat of the season with a complete 3-0 victory at St Etienne that lifted them as much as third within the Ligue 1 standings.

Amine Gouiri, Calvin Stengs and Andy Delort scored to place the aspect, who slumped to a 1-0 defeat at Lorient on Wednesday, on 13 factors from seven video games.

Good, who had conceded targets in two consecutive video games after beginning the season with 4 clear sheets, have been rock stable in defence and the expertise of their attacking gamers made the distinction at Geoffroy Guichard.

Gouiri discovered the again of the online after quarter-hour with a 30-metre strike that took a deflection off Mahdi Camara.

Stengs doubled the benefit 9 minutes into the second half after being performed by properly by Kephren Thuram earlier than Delort wrapped it up seven minutes from time from shut vary.