KuPS Overview

The 2025-26 European season is over, and it ended just as the 2024-25 did 12 months earlier, with Paris Saint-Germain lifting the European Cup at the end of the Champions League final. Saturday's win over Arsenal in Budapest was a much tighter affair than their thrashing of Inter in Munich, but was greeted with no less joy by the French giants and their supporters as they clinched a double having already won Ligue 1.

Antony has continued his remarkable career resurgence at Real Betis by matching a leading La Liga mark for the season set by Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe. The Brazilian winger found the net again in Betis' 2-2 draw with Real Sociedad, proving that his difficult spell at Manchester United is now firmly in the rearview mirror.

GOAL reviews the major takeaways from Americans playing in Europe, including several big goals and bigger results

Pellegrino Matarazzo became the first American coach to win a major trophy in a top-five league Saturday, as his Real Sociedad side beat Atletico Madrid on penalties. Matarazzo is in his second season at La Real, and has taken the San Sebastian side to their first major trophy since 2019-2020 in a dramatic back-and-forth contest.