Aug 22, 2025, 04:56 PM ET<\/p>\n
Friday in European club soccer featured several intriguing matchups. In the Premier League<\/a>, all eyes were on London Stadium, where Chelsea<\/a> dominated West Ham United<\/a> 5-1. Lucas Paquet\u00e1<\/a> opened the scoring for the hosts, but the world champions took over from there, with Jo\u00e3o Pedro<\/a>, Pedro Neto<\/a>, Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, Mois\u00e9s Caicedo<\/a> and Trevoh Chalobah<\/a> all getting on the score sheet.<\/p>\n Friday also marks the start of the Bundesliga<\/a> season, and big-name clubs were chosen to start the new campaign off right. Bayern Munich<\/a> kicked off 2025-26 against RB Leipzig<\/a>, and made light work of one of Germany’s strongest clubs, Harry Kane<\/a>‘s hat trick powering the reigning champions to a convincing 6-0 win.<\/p>\n Finally, Champions League holders Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> took on Angers<\/a> in Ligue 1<\/a> and emerged with a narrow 1-0 victory. Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9<\/a> missed a first-half penalty, but Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz<\/a> netted the eventual winner five minutes after the interval.<\/p>\n Relive all the highlights and big moments from the day’s action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 22, 2025, 04:56 PM ET Friday in European club soccer featured several intriguing matchups. In the Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-366395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115076215905633141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}