Once again, the weekend European club football had its share of goals and drama. In the Premier League, Liverpool remained on top after their win over Crystal Palace while Arsenal and Manchester City also recorded crucial wins heading into the international break.
In the Laliga, Barcelona and Real Madrid secured victories to occupy top two spots respectively while Atletico Madrid drew against Real Sociedad. In Italy, Napoli continue to lead the table followed by Inter Milan, Juventus and Lazio. In the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich drew against Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen also shared points with Holstein Kiel.
ESPN’s By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from weekend’s football matches:
10
Tottenham’s loss against Brighton was the 10th time they have lost a Premier League game in which they led by 2+ goals.
Spurs also became the first club to hit double figures for this, and at least three more than any other side in the competition’s history.
8
With eight points so far, this is Manchester United’s lowest tally in their opening seven matches of a league season since 1989-90, when they went on to finish 13th under Alex Ferguson — his lowest league finish in charge of the club.
9
Arne Slot became the first Liverpool manager to win as many as nine of his first 10 games in charge of the club.
How the top of the Premier League table is looking before the international break ���� pic.twitter.com/21EsGrRVU8
– ESPN UK (@ESPNUK) October 5, 2024
43
Chelsea’s Cole Palmer now has more goal contributions (43) since the start of last season than Erling Haaland (42).
4
Kai Havertz has scored in 4 consecutive games for Arsenal for the first time in his career (across all competitions).
It’s his longest scoring streak since scoring in 4 straight across all competitions for Bayer Leverkusen from March to May of 2020.
42
With 2 assists against Southampton, Bukayo Saka has overtaken Robert Pires for the 7th-most assists in Arsenal’s Premier League history — 42.
Top of the charts is Dennis Bergkamp at 94, followed by Thierry Henry at 74 and Cecs Fabregas at 70.
546
Luka Modric made his 546th career appearance for Real Madrid against Villarreal, which is equal to Marcelo for the 12th-most in club history.
The only player born outside of Spain with more appearances for Real Madrid is Karim Benzema.
50
Robert Lewandowski has scored 50 LaLiga goals for Barcelona. He joined Lionel Messi (125), Luis Suarez (76), Cesar Rodriguez (65) and Quini (53) as the only Barcelona players to score at least 50 league goals after turning 30.
Lewandowski also became the first Barcelona player with a first-half hat trick in a LaLiga game since Lionel Messi did it against Eibar on February 22, 2020.
Barcelona’s front three are on a different level this season ���� pic.twitter.com/eBCUMkRCZA
– ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) October 6, 2024
8
Real Madrid’s Federico Valverde has scored the most goals — 8 from outside the box in all competitions since January 2022 among LaLiga players. He’s ahead of Antoine Griezmann (7) and Iago Aspas (7).
3+3
Romelu Lukaku has been involved in the most goals in his first five appearances for Napoli in Serie A since the Italian top-flight returned to 20 teams (since 2004/05). Six – three goals and three assists.
5
In Europe’s 5 big leagues including the second division, there are only two clubs with two players who have already scored 5 goals this season: Barcelona with Lewandowski (7) and Raphinha (5) and Schalke 04 with Moussa Sylla (6) and Kenan Karaman (5).
19
Monaco have 19 points after 7 matches in this 2024/25, their second highest total at this stage of a season in the top flight after 1960/61 (21, champions at the end of the season).
MESSI-RONALDO WATCH
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Cristiano Ronaldo scored a penalty for Al Nassr on Saturday. He has now netted 10 goals in his last 11 games for his club.
We are not stopping! �� Together! pic.twitter.com/y0NLf2by0P
– Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) October 5, 2024
This season, he has scored 8 goals and assisted twice in 9 games.
(Stats courtesy ESPN’s Stats & Information Group)