
Paderborn and Leipzig wins, Arsenal wins over Everton, and anticipation for the Clásico match between Yamal and Mbappe
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Football stars prepare for the Ballon d'Or ceremony in London, while Barcelona and Real Madrid compete in the Spanish League.
The Paderborn team achieved a difficult victory against its guest, Hamburg, with a score of 1/0, on Saturday, in the seventh round of the German Football League.
Frenchman Ryan Philippe scored the only goal of the match, which came in the 88th minute, after a pass from Felix Goetze.
Paderborn benefited from this victory to reach the eighth point in twelfth place, while Hamburg's score stopped at 9 points in tenth place.
Hamburg had achieved a valuable victory in the last round over Stuttgart, while Paderborn had tied with Werd Bremen.
Bardborn will play in the eighth round next Saturday, against its host Borussia Mönchengladbach, while Hamburg will be a guest at Eintracht Frankfurt the next day.
In the city of Cologne, Schalke settled for a goalless draw with its host Cologne in the same round.
The draw raised Köln's tally to eighth point, two points ahead of Schalke.
Augsburg also tied with its guest Union Berlin, with a goal for each team, in a match that witnessed two expulsions.
Berlin's Felix Odukhay received a red card in the first half, before Augsburg's Juma Bah followed him off the field in the 63rd minute.
Frenchman Han-Noah Massingo opened the score for Augsburg in the 71st minute, before Yannick Haberer equalized for Union three minutes later.
The draw raised Augsburg's score to the ninth point, while Union Berlin reached the sixth point.
At the Red Bull Arena, Leipzig honored its guest Elfsberg with a white quartet, all of which came in the second half.
Frenchman Tidiam Gomez opened the score in the 48th minute, before Brazilian Romelu Cardoso added the score in the 66th minute, and then Austrian Christoph Baumgratner added the score in the 84th minute, before Cardoso returned and scored his second and fourth goal for Leipzig in the fourth minute of stoppage time.
The victory raised Leipzig's score to 12 points, temporarily advancing to fifth place, while Alvesberg's score froze at 10 points, and became threatened with losing its eighth place.
Finally, in Mainz, Werder Bremen returned from its host stadium, Mainz, with a valuable 2/3 victory, bringing Bremen its score to 12 points, two points ahead of Mainz.
Arsenal defeated its guest Everton with two unanswered goals, on Saturday, to level with Manchester City at the top of the English Premier League table after 8 rounds of the competition.
Arsenal owes this victory to the two centre-backs, Ezri Konsa and Gabriel Magalich, who scored the goals in the 7th and 68th minutes of the match that was held among its fans in the stands of the Emirates Stadium in the capital, London.
The London team achieved its third victory in a row, raising its score to 21 points, equal to Manchester City, which suffered its first loss in the league this season after losing 1-2 to Aston Villa earlier, Saturday.
But City, led by Italian coach Enzo Maresca, is ahead of defending champion Arsenal on goal difference.
On the other hand, Everton, led by its veteran coach, David Moyes, continued to reel after a second loss in a row, and the bleeding continued after 3 draws in the last six rounds, leaving its score frozen at 10 points in ninth place.
This victory raises the morale of Arsenal and its technical director, Mikel Arteta, before a difficult test in the next round when they visit Liverpool at Anfield on the first of November.
As for Everton, they will face a new heavy confrontation away from home when they visit Newcastle United.
Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé are hoping to win the Ballon d'Or on Monday evening, as they are expected to attend the ceremony that will be held in London to award the most prestigious individual award in world football.
But just one day before the ceremony, the two stars seek to shine in a direct face-to-face confrontation in Barcelona.
Real Madrid, led by Mbappe, is visiting Barcelona, the Yamal team, and is six points behind them, as Barcelona, the holders of the Spanish League title in the past two seasons, leads the standings after nine rounds, and therefore, the pressure is on Madrid, which occupies third place behind Atletico Madrid, not to move away further than that, to say the least.
Although journalists' voting for the Ballon d'Or ended last September, the fans' focus was increasingly focused on the award in the period leading up to Monday's ceremony, and this makes the "El Clásico" match an ideal stage for Yamal and Mbappe to present their concluding arguments before the court of public opinion. Other notable candidates for the award include last year's winner Ousmane Dembélé, Harry Kane and 39-year-old Lionel Messi.
Yamal is off to a great start this season after helping Spain win the World Cup last July, defeating Mbappe's France in the semi-final, and Messi's Argentina in the final. The 19-year-old has scored 10 goals and provided 10 assists in the Spanish League and the Champions League, in addition to four other goals with Spain so far this season.
At the same time, Mbappe appears as decisive as ever in front of the net, as the striker has scored 12 goals in the same number of matches, and he, along with Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, is contributing to keeping an unstable Madrid in close pursuit of Barcelona.
Hate is a strong word, even in football. But if there's one person Barcelona fans don't like very much, it's Jose Mourinho, who begins a second spell with Madrid this season.
In his first spell with Madrid (from 2010 to 2013), the Portuguese coach led the rivalry between the two biggest clubs in Spain to new heights thanks to his team's aggressive tactics and his own verbal skirmishes with Barcelona's coach at the time, Pep Guardiola.
Mourinho even resorted to physical contact with himself, in the famous incident when he poked the eye of the late assistant coach Tito Vilanova during a quarrel between the two sides.
All of this means that we can expect to hear more booing than usual when Real Madrid takes to the field on Sunday.
Barcelona had won all 11 matches it played this season until it collided with incandescent Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Tuesday, and a late double by the European champion led to Barcelona being defeated 4-2 despite Yamal scoring another wonderful goal.
Otherwise, German coach Hansi Flick's team presented a series of terrifying offensive performances.
Brazilian star Rafinha scored 14 goals in his new role as a striker, while the team scored 50 goals in total to top the list of top-scoring clubs in Europe, including scoring five or more goals in six matches.
Given Mourinho's preference to rely on counter-attacks, taking advantage of Mbappe's speed, Barcelona is expected to control possession and press to score early and often.
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