It has been an entertaining week of soccer in Europe with huge golf equipment scoring huge wins whereas a couple of others tumbled. League leaders Manchester Metropolis, down by a participant after Rodri’s pink card, nonetheless managed to carry on to a 2-0 lead over Nottingham Forest. In an thrilling North London Derby, Tottenham and Arsenal shared factors after 2-2 draw. Manchester United, Liverpool, Brighton and Newcastle United additionally secured victories.
In LaLiga, Actual Madrid had their first league lack of the season (1-3) in opposition to derby rivals Atletico Madrid. Barcelona are nonetheless on prime after a outstanding comeback win in opposition to Celta Vigo.
Inter Milan additionally maintained their successful run this week in Serie Some time Bayern Munich scored seven previous VfL Bochum due to Harry Kane hat trick. Brest are on prime of Ligue 1 desk after their win over Lyon. PSG, third within the league, additionally secured victory over Marseille in Le Classique.
ESPN’s By The Numbers has one of the best stats from the weekend:
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Newcastle United grew to become the primary workforce in Premier League historical past to have eight completely different gamers rating in a single sport. They beat Sheffield United 8-0 on Sunday.
13 Chelsea failed to attain in 13 Premier League matches in 2023, greater than some other aspect. It is essentially the most occasions they’ve failed to attain in a single yr within the league since 1995 (14 video games).
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Together with his penalty in opposition to West Ham United, Mohamed Salah grew to become the primary Premier League participant to be concerned in objective involvements in 12 consecutive league matches for the second time.
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Son Heung-min grew to become the primary Tottenham participant to attain a brace away at Arsenal since John Hendry in a Premier League match in Might 1993.
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Actual Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti has suffered eight losses in opposition to Diego Simeone in all competitions — G21, W8, D5.
Solely in opposition to Luciano Spalletti (11) has he misplaced extra video games in his total managerial elite profession.
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Xavi data his fiftieth LaLiga win in 70 video games as supervisor of Barcelona. In response to Opta, solely Luis Enrique (63), Pep Guardiola (67), Helenio Herrera (68) and Ernesto Valverde (69) wanted fewer matches to succeed in 50 wins with the membership.
Solely Robert Lewandowski and Jude Bellingham have scored extra targets than Takefusa Kubo in LALIGA this season ⭐️ pic.twitter.com/TkECFBUc2d
– ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) September 24, 2023
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Barcelona grew to become the primary LaLiga workforce within the final 14 seasons to win when trailing by a number of targets getting into the eightieth minute.
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Atletico’s Antoine Griezmann grew to become the seventeenth participant to succeed in 175 targets in LaLiga, becoming a member of Karim Benzema (238) as the one French gamers with 175 targets within the league.
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AS Roma’s Romelu Lukaku has scored 59 targets in 100 video games in Serie A; solely 5 gamers have netted extra targets of their first 100 matches: Trezeguet (63), Montella (64), Shevchenko (64), Higuaín (65) and Cristiano Ronaldo (81 ).
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Inter Milan have gained all their first 5 matches in a Serie A season for the fourth time of their historical past after 2019/20 underneath Antonio Conte, 2015/16 underneath Roberto Mancini and 1966/67 underneath Helenio Herrera.
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Lazio’s Ciro Motionless has been concerned in 250 targets within the huge 5 European Leagues. Since 2012-13, he’s the primary Italian participant to take action, in addition to the eighth participant to succeed in this milestone with Messi, Ronaldo, Lewandowski, Suárez, Benzema, Kane and Salah.
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Harry Kane has been immediately concerned in 10 targets in his first 5 Bundesliga appearances (7G, 3A) – a brand new report for a participant in his first 5 league matches since detailed information assortment in 2004-05.
Harry Kane has hit the bottom working in Munich �� pic.twitter.com/5i6Ok6fOPn
– ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) September 23, 2023
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He has additionally scored 5 targets in his first 5 Bundesliga appearances for Bayern Munich, tying Gerd Mueller, Miroslav Klose and Mario Mandzukic for essentially the most targets scored within the first 5 league matches for the membership.
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PSG recorded their joint-biggest win over Marseille at dwelling in all competitions, with a 4-0 league victory on October 27, 2019 and a 5-1 win on January 8, 1978.
Messi-Ronaldo Watch
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It was week for Cristiano Ronaldo who scored twice in Al-Nassr 4-3 league win over Al-Ahli.
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In the meantime, injured Lionel Messi was substituted off throughout Inter Miami’s match in opposition to Toronto earlier than halftime for simply the eighth time in 937 profession begins in his senior profession.
(Stats courtesy: ESPN Stats and Data Group)