That’s another matchweek done and dusted in Europe’s Top 5. This one saw upheaval at the top of the table as three teams from the Premier League Big 6 lost in the same matchweek, with Manchester City’s losing consecutive matches for the first time in over a year.
Over in La Liga, Barcelona continued in their merry, goal-scoring ways while the floods in Spain meant some matches were rescheduled. In Bundesliga, Bayern Munich were among the goals while title holders Bayer Leverkusen struggled. Juventus were back to winning ways in Serie A while Atalanta beat league leaders Napoli to cut their lead.
ESPN’s By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from weekend’s football matches:
91
The last time Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool lost on the same Premier League matchweek was back in February 2023. That’s 91 weeks ago.
1
Manchester City have lost back-to-back matches for the first time in over one year. The last time they lost consecutive matches in Premier League was September-October 2023 (to Wolves and Arsenal)
1
Bournemouth got their first win over Manchester City in any competition.
8
Arne Slot’s 8 wins in first 10 Premier League matches (8-1-1, W-D-L) as Liverpool manager are the most ever by a Reds manager in his first 10 top-flight matches in charge of the club.
164
Mohamed Salah has now scored 164 career goals in Premier League, breaking a tie with Robbie Fowler for 8th on the all-time top scorers list.
A brand new top six emerges in the Premier League ����
A combined 13 European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles in this group ���� pic.twitter.com/jHO7qSaQmf
– ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) November 3, 2024
4
Moisés Caicedo scored his 4th career goal in Premier League, 1 shy of tying Felipe Caicedo for the 3rd-most among Ecuadorian-born players in Premier League history.
12, 10
Spurs have conceded the opening goal of a Premier League home game on 12 occasions in 2024, that’s the most of any team this year. However, since the start of last season, Spurs have won 10 Premier League matches in which they conceded the first goal, which is the joint-most of any team, along with Manchester City.
40
Barcelona have scored 40 goals through 12 La Liga matches this season, which is the second-most through 12 games in the club’s history (after 42 goals back in 1950-51.)
11
Raphinha has scored 11 goal in 15 matches this season across all competitions. This is more than the total amount of goals from last season in double the number of matches (10 in 37 matches.)
99
Barcelona have caused the most offsides in all competitions this season across the Top 5 European leagues. This is at an average of 6.6 per game.
20
Giuliano Simeone, Diego Simeone’s son, scored his first goal for Atletico Madrid in his eighth match, 20 years less 2 days after his father scored his first in his ninth match.
Diego Simeone was all smiles as he watched his 21-year-old son Giuliano open the scoring for Atlético Madrid vs. Las Palmas ❤️
Giuliano and Koké held up a shirt following the goal with a message of support to everyone impacted by the floods in Valencia �� pic.twitter.com/8RWLeWt6Eo
– ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) November 3, 2024
30
Cristhian Stuani scored his 30th career La Liga goal off the bench, the most in league history.
48
Domenico Berardi is behind only Cristiano Ronaldo (63) and Ciro Immobile (52) in goals scored from penalties in the major five European leagues + II Divisions since his debut season in 2012/13.
4
Fiorentina have kept a clean sheet in at least four consecutive away games in Serie A for the third time in their history, after September to November 2007 (5) and between March and May 1966 (4).
125
Paulo Dybala has equalled Gonzalo Higuaín’s tally of 125 goals, reaching third place among the best scorers from Argentina in Serie- A , behind only Hernán Crespo (153) and Gabriel Batistuta (184).
50
FC Bayern have scored their 50th competitive goal under Vincent Kompany in their 14th game, becoming the first club from Europe’s five major leagues to reach the 50-goal mark this competitive season.
16 – Since detailed data collection in 2004-05, only one player has collected more direct goal contributions in the first nine matchdays of a Bundesliga season than Omar Marmoush and Harry Kane this season (16 each): Harry Kane in the previous season (17). Unstoppable. pic.twitter.com/L2QpN5vsxi
– OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) November 2, 2024
5
Nuri Sahin has won each of his first five Bundesliga home games in charge of Borussia Dortmund. He’s the second to achieve this after Marco Rose (who won his first seven).
10
Omar Marmoush is the first player in Eintracht Frankfurt’s club history to score 10 goals in the first nine matchdays of a Bundesliga season.
(Stats courtesy ESPN’s Stats & Information Group)