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Evening all, and welcome to ... EVEN MORE FOOTBALL.

La Liga / Matchday 2
Estadio Municipal de Butarque / 27.08.2016
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Kevin Coulson

Updated 27/08/2016 at 22:07 GMT


12'
Kevin Keatings and Gerry Armstrong are both surprised that Kevin Gameiro didn't make the France squad this summer - forgetting for a moment that Didier Deschamps was their manager, so all bets are off. Griezmann breaks the line and takes a beautiful first touch, botching his attempted chip, Rooney-style - but he was offside.
10'
This has been an assured start from Leganes - though against Atleti, that doesn't exactly matter.
9'
Leganes Twitter are absolutely all over this, and rightly so.
8'
Juanfran, who has developed a yen for attacking, wins a corner down the right. But Koke hits the cross much too deep, and eventually the ball runs out of play.
7'
Leganes have added extra seating, so their ground now holds in the region of 11,000.
6'
Naturally, as soon as the game starts, technical mithers mither - that's the nauseating news - but the better news is that we've missed nowt.
21:09
Talking of Celta, Toni Kroos' smartly taken late winner has given them another defeat, this time at the Bernabeu.
21:05
Leganes, meanwhile, did brilliantly to win at Celta last week - their first La Liga game ever. And that's often the way: promoted sides are full of confidence and enthusiasm, and are also settled. Not so many of their lot were at the Euros either.
21:02
It's an absolutely perverse, ridiculous and mortifying thing to say, but after their home draw last week, Atletico really must be winning here. To be four points off the other two, even after games, is not a good look.
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