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Lamine Yamal dubbed best teenager in world football as three Chelsea wonderkids feature in top 10 of star-studded list

Lamine Yamal has been named the best teenager in world football as three Chelsea wonderkids featured in the top 10. The Barcelona and Spain prodigy topped the CIES Football Observatory rankings with a remarkable average rating of 97.7, narrowly edging out some of the world’s finest emerging talents. Yamal named top teenager globally Chelsea’s wonderkids…

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Rory Delap's long throw-ins terrorised the league when Stoke City were in their pomp in the late 2000s

Why the long throw-in is the Premier League’s favourite secret weapon again: How it revolutionised Liverpool, the THIRTY things you have to get right with every throw and the tricks teams are using to defend them

Only five Premier League clubs have refused to litter the opposition box with a single long throw-in this season. The kicker? Rory Delap’s son, Liam, plays for one of them. That is Chelsea, joined by Fulham, Manchester City, Sunderland and West Ham United as the quintet of clubs who must have missed the memo circulated…

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Who was the best player from Matchweek 2 action?

Who was the best player from Matchweek 2 action?

Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Joao Palhinha has been voted the Premier League Player of the Matchweek for Matchweek 2. The summer loan signing from Bayern Munich follows in the footsteps of his new Spurs team-mate Richarlison who won the honour for Matchweek 1. Palhinha secured 33 per cent of the vote in the official Premier League…

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Five newcomers to watch in Serie A

The 2025/26 Serie A season gets underway on Saturday when Napoli begin their league title defence at promoted Sassuolo. AFP Sport looks at some of the new faces to watch for ahead of the campaign as teams jostle to dethrone the champions: Advertisement Kevin De Bruyne (Napoli) The headline transfer of the summer, Kevin De…

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