Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 741 i Match of the Day Magazine

FESTIVE FACE-OFF! Pick your Xmas faves from the options here! MESSI ☑ OR RONALDO ☑ MINCE PIE ☑ OR CHRISTMAS PUDDING ☑ SPROUTS ☑ OR TURKEY ☑ RUDOLPH ☑ OR SNOWMAN ☑ JINGLE BELLS ☑ OR 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS ☑ LEO’S 2025 51 GAMES45 GOALS22 ASSISTS CR7’S 2025 42 GAMES 37 GOALS3 ASSISTS GOBBLE! GOBBLE! CATCH THE TURKEY! This feather-brained fella is hiding somewhere in this issue – can you find him? Answer on p45…

DEC-LAN RICE! (to the tune of Deck The Halls ) Dec-lan Rice with the Prem trophy, Fa la la la la, la la la la, Liverpool are looking ropey, Fa la la la la, la la la la!  He’ll have won the Prem by Christmas, Fa la la la la, la la la la, The end of 22 years of hopelessness, Fa la la la la, la la la la! WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRIS WOOD! (to the tune of We Wish You a Merry Christmas ) We wish you a Merry Chris Wood,We wish you a Merry Chris Wood,We wish you a Merry Chris Wood, And a Morgan Gibbs-White!  With Dychey’s goatee,And James McAtee,We wish…

Premier League Player of 2025 ERLING HAALAND MAN. CITY MORE THAN 50 goals for club and country this year – you’re looking at, unquestionably, one of the most prolific, unstoppable, unplayable strikers the game has ever seen. City may not have won a thing in 2025, but Haaland is our Player of the Year for his eye-popping strike rate! 2025 HIGHLIGHT Netting 14 goals in the first 11 games of this season! World Player of 2025 HARRY KANE BAYERN MUNICH KANE’S 2025 has been filled with goals, broken records AND silverware. He won the Bundesliga, the Golden Boot, was Bundesliga Player of the Season, became the fastest player to score 100 goals for a club playing in one of Europe's top five leagues and he fired England to next year's…

1 LEGENDARY LIONESSES! CHLOE KELLY was the Euro hero once again! CK’s thumping penalty saw England win a dramatic, nervy and tense penalty shootout against Spain in the Euro 2025 final – it sealed back-to-back Euro wins for Sarina Wiegman’s team! 2 NO SCOTLAND NO PARTY! SCOTT McTOMINAY’S overhead kick set Scotland on their way to North America in one of the most dramatic nights in Scottish history. Their rollercoaster 4-2 win over Denmark, thanks to three incredible goals, saw the Tartan Army qualify for their first World Cup since 1998! 3 CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE! PSG FINALLY cracked the code. After years of near-misses and heartbreak, the French giants secured their first-ever Champions League title – thumping Inter Milan 5-0 in the final at Munich’s Allianz Arena. It was a…

FINISH YOUR SPROUTS! 1 point for each fully completed question! 1 Player: Premier League 2025-26 goals: 2 Player: Bundesliga 2025-26 goals: 3 Player: La Liga 2025-26 goals: 4 Player: La Liga 2025-26 goals: 5 Player: Premier League 2025-26 goals: 6 Player: Premier League 2025-26 goals: YOUR SPROUTY FOOTY BRAIN YOUR SCORE  /6 ANSWERS! 1 Erling Haaland, 14 goals 2 Harry Kane, 14 goals 3 Kylian Mbappe, 13 goals 4 Robert Lewandowski, 8 goals 5 Bryan Mbeumo, 5 goals 6 Joao Pedro, 4 goals…

WHAT YOU NEED! Ruler Glue stick  Scissors  15-30cm of string/ribbon  Sticky tape  Card or paper BE CAREFUL! SCISSORS ARE SHARP Check with an adult before you start! WHAT TO DO! 1 Take your scissors. Choose a player. Carefully, cut out his head, the boots, the arms and the accessories. 2 Carefully cut out the green and red strips on page 47. You need ten strips in total for the body. Using one of the original strips as a template, trace it onto coloured card and cut it out. You will need to do this six times. 3 Take one of your strips and glue the two ends together to make a loop. 4 Take another strip and pass it through the first loop. Glue the ends and stick together. Repeat…