The English domestic season is wrapped up now, and so is half of the last Serie A matchday of the season. Here, then, are the best numbers of the day.
FA Cup
Arsenal beat Chelsea thanks to a brace from their captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and naturally he features heavily.
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Aubameyang is the first African captain in the competition's history to lift the FA Cup trophy.
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Mikel Arteta is the first Arsenal manager to win a major trophy in their first season in charge of the club, since George Graham in 1986-87.
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In the past 50 years, only three players have scored a brace in both the semi-final and final of a single FA Cup campaign -- Alan Taylor (1975, West Ham), Ian Rush (1986, Liverpool), and now Aubameyang. The Arsenal skipper is the first in the PL era to achieve the feat.
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Mateo Kovacic is the sixth player to be sent off in an FA Cup final, the last two have been Chelsea players (Kovacic, and Victor Moses v Arsenal in 2017).
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Arsenal have won the FA Cup for the 14th time -- the most of any team. They are also the first side to beat the same opponent on three separate occasions in an FA Cup final.
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More Auba magic. Since making his debut for Arsenal in Feb 2018, he has scored more goals (all competitions) than any other PL player -- 69 (one more than Mohamed Salah).
Serie A
Saturday involved the majority of the top half playing each other, and while there was no meaningful impact on the final table, there were some interesting numbers that popped up.
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Just how dominant have champions Juventus been over the past few years in Serie A? The last time they lost consecutive league matches was five years ago, August 2015!
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The stat of the weekend. Ciro Immobile has ended this season with 36 goals in Serie A this season, equalling the record of goals scored in a single league campaign set by Gonzalo Higuain in 2015-16. Immobile has won the European Golden Shoe, beating Robert Lewandowski (34 goals) and Cristiano Ronaldo (31 goals). Since you asked, Lionel Messi was fifth on the charts (25 goals).
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the oldest player to score 10 or more goals in a single Serie A campaign (38 years and 302 days). And he has been there for just half the season -- his 10 goals came in 18 games.
78
This has been a high-scoring Italian season, point-wise. Just to give you an idea of how high, Lazio's 78 points means they have picked up the most points in a single Serie A campaign (78) without ending the season in the top three.
82
More in the same vein -- Inter picked up 82 Serie A points this season, equalling their performance in 2009/10, under Jose Mourinho. It is the first time that Inter have earned 79+ points in a single season without winning the Scudetto in the three points-for-a-win era
(Stats courtesy: ESPN Stats and Information Group)