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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.

'We're going to kill them' – Benfica release footage of Jose Mourinho's X-rated dressing room speech before first game back in dugout for Portuguese giants

Benfica have released behind-the-scenes footage from Jose Mourinho’s first game back at the club, with the outspoken Portuguese delivering an X-rated team talk to his players before heading into action against AVS Futebol SAD. The ‘Special One’ is back where it all began for him, having returned to his homeland, and has clearly lost none of his passion for his game.