After a cracking weekend of football action, Arsenal remained top of the Premier League despite a draw against Southampton. Manchester City remained in the hunt with a win over Brighton, while Chelsea and Manchester United played out a thrilling (ish) 1-1 draw. Tottenham's loss to Newcastle meant they ceded ground in the top four race, while Liverpool suffered a shock defeat to Nottingham Forest. Real Madrid remained top of LaLiga with a comfortable win over Sevilla, while Barcelona remain three points behind while thrashing Athletic Bilbao. Over in Italy, Napoli kept up their incredible run to top the table with a narrow win over Roma, while AC Milan and Lazio picked up wins to lead the chasing pack. Union Berlin remain top of the Bundesliga despite losing, while Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund closed the gap with comfortable victories. PSG opened up their lead atop the Ligue 1 standings to five points with a win over Ajaccio, with Lorient dropping points and Lens defeating Marseille.
By The Numbers has the best stats from the weekend action:
PREMIER LEAGUE
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Another day, another Erling Haaland record. The Norwegian's 17th goal in the Prem are the most by any player after 13 matchweeks, overtaking Les Ferdinand's 15 in the 1995-96 season. Haaland also eclipsed City's Prem top-scorer from last season, Kevin de Bruyne (15). In October. With 27 shots attempted in total. Incredible.
600
Haaland's second goal against Brighton was also the 600th Premier League goal scored by Manchester City under Pep Guardiola. They have a goal difference of +408 in that period.
1
Casemiro scored his first goal for Manchester United, and he tends to score important ones. Out of 43 career goals at club level, 8 of them were scored in the 80th minute or later and, out of the 8, 5 of them were game-winning/game-tying goals. This one against Chelsea was his latest goal (90'+4) at club level.
623
Casemiro's goal snapped a streak of 623 minutes without conceding a single goal for Chelsea's Kepa Arrizabalaga (in all competitions).
5
Chelsea and Manchester United played out their fifth straight draw in all competitions; the longest streak in the history of the rivalry.
0
Liverpool are winless (0-3-2, W-L-D) in away games this season in Prem. It's a far cry from when they ended the last season with a 9-game away unbeaten streak (7-0-2, W-L-D) and only lost 2 away matches all of last season.
16
Liverpool's tally of 16 points (4-3-4, W-L-D) from 11 games are their fewest in a Prem campaign since 2014-15 (14), when they started 4-5-2 (W-L-D).
9
Leeds's total of 9 points from 11 PL games this season is the club's fewest at this stage of a league season since 2003-04 (8), when they were last relegated from the Premier League.
LALIGA
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Real Madrid are unbeaten in LaLiga whenever Luka Modric scores (22-0-2 W-L-D). Not that he does it too often, he has already scored the same amount of goals this LaLiga season (2 in 10) as he did in all of last season.
4
Four of Federico Valverde's six goals in LaLiga this season have been from outside the box - the most of any player in the league this season. The last Real Madrid player to score that many long-range LaLiga goals is Karim Benzema (4) in 2020-21. No player scored more such goals in a season since 2015-16, when Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez each struck 5 times from outside the box.
5
Barcelona are on a run of 5 straight home wins with clean sheets in LaLiga, the team's longest streak since a club-record 7-game streak of shutout victories in 1996-97.
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Ousmane Dembele is the first Barcelona player with 3 assists and a goal in a LaLiga game since Luis Suárez on Dec. 21, 2019. The Frenchman joins Lionel Messi (19) and Kevin De Bruyne (16) as the only players from Europe's top 5 leagues with at least 15 assists in this calendar year.
16
Robert Lewandowski now has 16 goal contributions this season, tying Neymar for the second-most by any player from Europe's top 5 leagues. In a surprise to absolutely no one, Erling Haaland leads the way with 20 goal contributions. Lewandowski also equaled Barcelona's LaLiga top-scorer from last season, Memphis Depay, by bringing up his 12th goal.
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Edinson Cavani is the first Valencia player since Roberto Soldado in 2012 to score 4 straight goals for the club in LaLiga.
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ith 2 goals against Real Betis, Antoine Griezmann overtook Samuel Eto'o for the 17th-most goals in LaLiga history. The Atletico Madrid striker has already scored more LaLiga goals this season (5 in 11 games) than he did in all of last season (3 in 29 games).
SERIE A
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Napoli's win over Roma meant they extended their winning streak in all competitions to 11, equaling the best-ever run in the club's history (11 wins from April - September 1986 under Ottavio Bianchi).
LIGUE 1
10
With his tenth league goal against Ajaccio, Kylian Mbappe overtook teammate Neymar (9) and Lille striker Jonathan David (9) for the most goals in Ligue 1 this season. Mbappé had scored just 1 goal in his last five Ligue 1 games combined.
0
PSG remain unbeaten in all competitions this season, improving their record to 13-0-4 (W-L-D). Napoli, Real Madrid and Atalanta are the only other remaining unbeaten teams from Europe's top 5 leagues this season.
BUNDESLIGA
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Borussia Dortmund are the first team in Bundesliga history with 3 teenagers (Jude Bellingham, Giovanni Reyna and Youssoufa Moukoko) scoring in the same league match. Reyna's goal also meant he surpassed his father Claudio's career total of six Bundesliga goals.
19y, 115d
Jude Bellingham became the third youngest player (19 years, 115 days) to score in a Bundesliga match for Borussia Dortmund, after Jadon Sancho (18y 216d, in October 2018) and Daniel Simmes (18y 230d, in March 1985). Prior to his brace against Stuttgart, the English midfielder already had scored six times for Dortmund this season (4 in UEFA Champions League y 2 in DFB Pokal)
RONALDO MESSI WATCH
Er... To say Cristiano Ronaldo's been in the news is an understatement, but statistically at least, he never made it on to the pitch for Manchester United this weekend. As for Lionel Messi, he underlined his good form ahead of the World Cup with another stellar display, scoring once and assisting twice in PSG's 3-0 win over Ajaccio.
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Messi scored his 6th goal of the Ligue 1 season, equaling his tally from the 2021-22 season.
14
Messi has assisted Mbappe 14 times across all competitions - the 5th-most assists he has provided for a single player in his entire career.
19
With his two assists against Ajaccio, Messi now has 19 Ligue 1 assists in 2022, the most by any player from Europe's top 5 leagues. In his 49 games for PSG, he has contributed 44 goals across all competitions (20 goals and 24 assists).
(Stats courtesy: ESPN Stats and Information Group)