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There was a seven-goal thriller in Eredivisie this week as AZ Alkmaar beat Groningen 4-3 where the home side overturned a 3-1 deficit. AZ didn’t help themselves mind, as their often shambolic defending (and goalkeeping, let’s share the blame), gave them a huge uphill task.

Great scenes from Islecroft Stadium this week where Clydebank beat Dalbeattie 8-2 in the Lowland League West (the fifth tier of Scottish football). The hosts may have been truly thrashed but Clybebank forward Blair Rossiter took a humbling of his own from a slight bobble leading to this bizarre backpass(?).

Eight days after a diabolical stutter-step penalty miss in the first leg, Mount Pleasant’s Trayvone Reid has a second go in the Caribbean Cup semifinal against Sando. Surely he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice?

Walsall have made an unbeaten start to their League Two campaign and this week the Saddlers smacked Oldham Athletic 3-0 at Bescot Stadium. Walsall keeper Jed Ward provided the highlight of the rainy evening with a superb assist in the first half. A pass the world’s best midfielders dream of.

We’ve all seen many variations of the modern stutter-step penalty in recent years and this week Mount Pleasant’s Trayvon Reid might have just topped them all. This was a CONCACAF Caribbean Cup play-off semi-final too, so the manager would be forgiven for throwing Trayvon off the mountainside.

Last week we saw Michael Olise make a case for being one of the world’s best players so it’s from the sublime to the ridiculous for this week’s #ICMYI. The 2026 Copa Bolivia providing one of the most comically bad short corner routines you’ll ever see as Club Blooming take on Independiente Petrolero.

This week’s ICYMI is a simple, straightforward tribute to Michael Olise – France and Bayern Munich winger – who this week scored a sensational solo effort in Les Bleus Nations League match against Belgium. Without a doubt one of the best players in the world.

Club América came from 2-0 down to draw with Guadalajara in the Liga MX this week after Miguel Borja scored two goals in three minutes in the second half at Estadio Azteca. His opener is well worth a watch, a classic of the bicycle kick genre. Well done Miguel.

Argentinian forward Luis Vazquez joined Birmingham City from Anderlecht this summer and it’s been a fairly rough introduction to English football thus far. With limited minutes across the opening nine games of the Blues’ season, he’s managed precisely zero goals or assists and this atrocious miss against Derby County was the low point. The only way is up, surely?

When is a save not a save? In the MLS, that’s where. In the dying minutes of Vancouver Whitecaps’ win over LA Galaxy this week, LA ‘keeper JT Marcinkowski faced a late penalty from Bruno Caicedo, and got nearly everything right – dive the right way? Tick. Get a strong hand to it? Tick. Stop the ball from hitting the net? Tick. Sadly for him that wasn’t quite enough, and it resulted in one of the stranger penalty goals we’ve seen for a while…

Who’d be a goalkeeper? They’ve gotten a lot of stick over the years, as goalie blunders make up at least a third of our #ICYMI archive. And Harrogate Town vs Gateshead showed us once again the highs and lows of the crucial position. At the start of the second half, Heed keeper Pete Jameson somehow beat his opposite number from his own box. The good and the bad all in one.

We haven’t even reached the end of August and already we might have just seen the goal of the season. Dom Ballard’s back-heeled volley against Birmingham City this week – his first goal for Bristol City – was simply sensational. Can it be bettered?

An absolutely glorious finish this week from Amedspor’s Dia Saba against Turkish Süper Lig rivals Erzurumspor. Saba isn’t a name familiar to fans in this country, having spent most of his career in the Middle East, but this goal would grace any stage.

After putting the ball in the net for Cortiba against Chapecoense in the Brazilian Série A this week, Jacy Maranhão did what footballers often do: jumped the advertising hoarding to celebrate with his jubilant public. Jacy hadn’t read the ground’s safety assessment though and promptly fell down a comically placed black hole on the perimeter. Luckily for him he escaped with minor injuries, though VAR did rule out his goal. Ouch.

The South African Premier League got underway this week and TS Galaxy ‘keeper Sipho Maseti got off to an awful start. Luckily for him this brain fog in the 93rd minute didn’t cost his side the points against Siwelele FC. Pre-season cobwebs.

Washington Spirit went top of America’s National Women’s Soccer League this week as we reached the half-way point of the league stage. The Spirit took three points from a tight game at Audi Field against the visiting Denver Summit thanks to this top class effort from Sofia Cantore.

Legendary Polish forward Robert Lewandowski made his debut for MLS side Chicago Fire this week against Inter Miami. And despite being gifted an early lead – thanks to this blunder from Miami keeper Rocco Novo Rios – Lewandowski’s Fire side went on to lose 3-2 as both teams chase spots in the play-offs.

Santos keeper Gabriel Brazao is this week’s ICYMI figure of fun – in a moment of madness against Botofago in Brazil’s Serie A this week, Brazao decided to charge 40 yards out of his box in the 95th minute. His rush of blood to the head wiped out his recovering defender and handed all three points to Rio’s Black and Whites.. His rush of blood to the head wiped out his recovering defender and handed all three points to Rio’s Black and Whites.

While all eyes have been on the World Cup, #ICYMI whisks you to the other side of the world, and the Chinese second division clash between Dalian K’un City and Shenzhen Juniors, for a goal you might not have seen – a cracker from Liu Yun  – leaving the opposition keeper bamboozled…

Despite the best efforts of FIFA – with their outrageous ticket pricing and mid-game “hydration breaks” – people have actually managed to thoroughly enjoy World Cup 2026 so far. That’s thanks in part to welcoming locals but also some fantastic action on the pitch, with many a superb goal along the way.