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Mark Doyle

Mark Doyle

Winners and losers from around Europe's biggest leagues: Jose Mourinho makes a winning start to second spell at Benfica, Ansu Fati is back scoring goals but Diego Simeone is still struggling at Atletico Madrid

The latest round of action across Europe's elite leagues saw Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Porto maintain their winning starts to the 2025-26 season. However, while everyone expects Bayern to run away with the Bundesliga, Barca are hot on the heels of Madrid in La Liga, while Porto are presently processing the news that the most famous manager in the club's history has just taken charge of their hated rivals Benfica.