Luis Diaz paid tribute to Diogo Jota after scoring his first Bayern Munich objective to assist them to a 2-1 win over Stuttgart within the DFL-Supercup.
Bayern added to their trophy cupboard with victory on the dwelling of the DFB-Pokal winners, the Bundesliga champions taking the lead by way of Harry Kane within the 18th minute earlier than Diaz opened his account for the membership 13 minutes from the tip of regular time.
Kane fired into the bottom-left nook after Stuttgart did not clear a ball ahead from Michael Olise.
Diaz headed dwelling from shut vary from Serge Gantry’s lofted ball from the appropriate, and honoured the reminiscence of Jota by copying his former Liverpool team-mate’s celebration. Jota and his brother Andre Silva have been killed in a automobile crash in Spain final month.
Stuttgart pulled one again late on by way of Jamie Leweling, however his 93rd-minute effort was in useless.
Dier on course on Monaco debut
Eric Dier helped Bayern to the Bundesliga title final season, and the previous Tottenham defender marked his debut for Monaco in type after becoming a member of the Ligue 1 membership on a free switch.
Dier headed in Monaco’s second in a 3-1 win over Le Havre after they’d taken the lead by way of a Gautier Lloris personal objective.
After Rassoul Ndiaye pulled one again for Le Havre, Maghnes Akilouche made positive of the factors for Monaco within the 74th minute, tapping in after nice work from Dennis Zakaria.
Elsewhere in Ligue 1, financially troubled Lyon began with a victory as Georges Mikautadze scored in first-half stoppage time to safe a 1-0 win at Lens.
Kubo earns level for Sociedad
Many of the drama in LaLiga on Saturday got here as Mallorca had two gamers despatched off and Ferran Torres scored a controversial objective in Barcelona’s opening 3-0 win.
However the final membership apart from Barca or the 2 Madrid sides to win LaLiga was additionally in motion, as Valencia hosted Actual Sociedad on the Mestalla.
Diego Lopez gave Valencia the lead within the 57th minute, prodding dwelling from Dani Raba’s intelligent ball excessive.
However Takefusa Kubo earned a degree for Sociedad as he equalised three minutes later, discovering the bottom-right nook with an excellent strike from the sting of the realm.
The opposite sport in LaLiga noticed Alaves beat newly promoted Levante 2-1.
