Archive November 4, 2025

In a battle between the European giants at Anfield, Liverpool’s Alexis Mac Allister scored a second-half winner to defeat Real Madrid. The team is grateful to goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for holding the score at a low level.

On his late-season return to Liverpool on Tuesday, Trent Alexander-Arnold received a hostile reception, and the home crowd roared the Reds over the line for what might turn the team’s season into a turning point.

From their first four league games, both teams are currently tied for ninth place.

Liverpool had lost six of their previous eight games, but Arne Slot’s team selection, which had been more tried and tested, was able to stop the rot with a Saturday victory over Aston Villa.

In the only change from the weekend, Cody Gakpo, who had been replaced, was replaced by Florian Wirtz, who Liverpool looked more like the team that won the Premier League title last year.

Since former Liverpool manager Xabi Alonso took over, Madrid had only lost once this season, winning 5-2 at Atletico Madrid, but they rely on Courtois to avoid a scoreline that was comparable to that of their only previous defeat.

When Los Blancos won the 2022 Champions League final with a man-of-the-match performance, the Belgian broke Liverpool’s hearts in Paris by winning 1-0.

Dominik Szoboszlai, who was a former Chelsea stopper, was a failure to beat the former Chelsea stopper from point blank range, which was the start of Courtois’ busy night.

A VAR review determined that Aurelien Tchouameni’s arm was in a natural position as he blocked a shot inside his own box, saving Madrid.

As Liverpool pressed for the opener, a thunderous Szoboszlai shot put Courtois on the line once more.

When he skewed wide from the edge of the box, Kylian Mbappe wasted the visitors’ best chance to equalize.

Madrid’s excellent campaign start has been largely due to Mbappe’s scintillating form. In his 17 previous games for the club and nation, the French striker had only managed to score once.

When Jude Bellingham jacked clear inside the box and fired a low effort that Giorgi Mamardashvili had blocked with his feet, Madrid’s star-studded forward line managed to pull one back in 45 minutes.

In a blistering opening half, Courtois continued to defy Slot’s men by denying Szoboszlai once more from a free kick as he deflected away powerful headers from Virgil van Dijk and Hugo Ekitike.

The giant Madrid number one was eventually defeated when Mac Allister fired in a header from Szoboszlai’s free kick after an hour-long battle between the English champions.

Nine minutes prior to the start of Alexander-Arnold’s first game since September 16 when he was injured in his hamstrings, a chorus of boos greeted him. In the hours leading up to the game, an Alexander-Arnold mural had been vandalized.

Conor Bradley, Alexander-Arnold’s once-deputy, performed well for Vinicius Junior despite the Spanish giants’ first goal of the season.

For their first Champions League clean sheet of the season, Courtois kept one more impressive stop from Gakpo for a raunchy finale, but Liverpool’s highly critical defense held on.

After the game, Mac Allister declared, “It was a good game against a really good team.”

We know it’s important, but we know it doesn’t mean much because we finished first in the Champions League’s first half last year and then came out a while early. Therefore, we must continue.”

Courtois argued that Madrid needed to play more composed and composed, not to mention making too many errors in the penalty area.

We need to improve against big teams away from home, he said, but “a match like this is determined by the small details.”

Bayern Munich defeated Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 away on Tuesday to show their credentials as early Champions League favorites thanks to Luis Diaz’s two goals and red card. The result was also noteworthy as Bayern Munich recorded 16 victories from 16 games this season.

On the stroke of half-time, the Colombian winger struck twice before being violently offended for a tackle on Achraf Hakimi.

After the break, PSG dominated possession but did not make it fully count, falling to their first defeat in the competition since last season’s quarterfinal second leg defeat Aston Villa.

Brennan Johnson was sent off after scoring the opener for Tottenham, but they still came out on top with a 4-0 win over Copenhagen.

In other matches, Bodo/Glimt defeated Atletico Madrid 3-1, Juventus held on for a 1-1 draw against Sporting, Olympiacos and PSV held on goal, and Monaco held on.

As Israeli restrictions continue to obstruct deliveries across the bombarded enclave, aid organizations are “in a race against time” to get food and other humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip, according to a UN official.

A senior UN official noted that aid deliveries have increased since Israel and Hamas’ ceasefire came into effect last month during a news briefing on Tuesday.

However, only two crossings into Gaza are currently open, which severely limits the amount of aid available to WFP and other organizations, according to Abeer Etefa.

“We require full access. Everything must move quickly for us. We are competing against time. Winter is upon us. She said that the needs are “overwhelming” and that people are still suffering from hunger.

Since the ceasefire broke out on October 10, WFP, which currently operates 44 food distribution centers throughout Gaza, has distributed food parcels to more than one million Palestinians.

However, Etefa told reporters that getting to northern Gaza, where the world’s top hunger monitor confirmed famine conditions in August, still takes time because the food flow into the country is still insufficient.

The continued closure of northern crossings into the Gaza Strip poses a significant challenge. She said aid convoys are required to follow a winding, challenging route from the south.

WFP requires all crossings to be accessible, especially those in the north, for it to scale. To ensure that food is transported quickly and effectively to where it is needed, it is also crucial to have full access to important roads throughout Gaza.

As part of the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli army withdrew to the so-called “yellow line” and thousands of Palestinians have since returned to their homes in Gaza’s north.

However, the majority of those who were bombarded by Israel for two years discovered that their homes and neighborhoods had been completely destroyed. Many families are still living in tents and other temporary shelters because of this.

Palestinian father-of-five Khalid al-Dahdouh returned to Gaza City to find his home in ruin. Since then, he has used rubble-recycled bricks to hold his family together and a small shelter.

He told Al Jazeera, “We tried to rebuild because winter is approaching.”

Since there is no cement, “we built a primitive structure out of mud,” according to the statement “we don’t have tents or anything else.”

As outlined in the ceasefire agreement, the UN and other aid organizations have been pressing Israel to allow more supplies into the Strip, especially given how harsh winter conditions are expected for Palestinians.

Between October 10 and October 31, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, 3, 203 commercial and aid trucks brought supplies into Gaza on average every day, or just 24 percent of the 600 trucks that are scheduled to enter daily as part of the deal.

In addition to destroying homes and other structures, the Israeli army has continued to attack Gaza.

After an Israeli quadcopter opened fire in the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City on Tuesday, one person was killed and one was hurt. A source at al-Ahli Arab Hospital also reported to Al Jazeera that a person had been killed by Israeli army fire in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.

Since the ceasefire’s implementation, the Gaza-based Ministry of Health has claimed that at least 240 Palestinians have died and 607 have been injured in Israeli attacks.

Hamas is accused of breaking the deal by not releasing all the bodies of Israeli captives who had died from the territory, but Israeli leaders have refuted criticism of those attacks and the ongoing restrictions on humanitarian aid.

Young voters are turning out to support Democratic and progressive New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in droves on Election Day. The election in the largest city in the US is expected draw a record turnout of two million voters Tuesday.