The weekend's footballing action saw plenty of thrilling upsets and goals, causing plenty of change in the standings. Liverpool's win saw their lead atop the Premier League extended as Manchester City suffered a shock loss and Arsenal dropped points, although Manchester United won. Barcelona also saw their winning run end against Sociedad in an away defeat, while Real Madrid dismantled Osasuna.
Serie A's title race is incredibly tight with the Top 6 separated by two points, thanks to Inter holding leaders Napoli to a 1-1 draw. Over in Germany, Bayern Munich extended their lead with a win as Leipzig dropped points against Gladbach. PSG also increased the gap to the chasing pack in Ligue 1 with a win, as Marseille lost.
ESPN's By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from weekend's football matches:
PREMIER LEAGUE
4
Pep Guardiola lost 4 consecutive matches for the first time in his managerial career. He'd also 'lost' four consecutive games with Bayern, but the last of those was on penalties, and is technically considered a draw.
4
This is Manchester City's worst losing run since Apr.-Aug. 2006, when they also lost four games in a row.
75
Erling Haaland has scored 75 goals in 77 PL games, setting the record for fewest games to score 75 PL goals. This was also the first time that Manchester City lost a Premier League game in which Erling Haaland scored - in 47 such occasions.
100
Bruno Fernandes brought up his 100th goal contribution in the Premier League (56 goals, 44 assists), the 5th-most in the PL since his arrival in the league (2019-2020). Only Mohamed Salah (165), Son Heung-Min (127), Harry Kane (116) and Kevin De Bruyne (113) have more in that period. Fernandes (170 games) also only took one more game than Cristiano Ronaldo (169) to reach that milestone.
1585
Manchester United scored two goals from outside the penalty area (Bruno Fernandes & Alejandro Garnacho) vs Leicester - this was their first time scoring multiple goals from outside the penalty area in all competitions since July 9, 2020 (vs Aston Villa in Premier League) - 1585 days ago.
28
Arne Slot has won the most points of any manager in Premier League history in their first 11 games (28 - tied with Guus Hiddink's at Chelsea). Liverpool's haul of 28 points from the first 11 games of the season is their best since 2019-20 (31).
10 and 10
Mohamed Salah is the first player this season with 10+ goals and 10+ assists in all competitions on teams from the Top 5 European leagues. Last season, there were NO players that did this before the start of January.
LALIGA
4
Vinícius Jr. scored his 4th career hat trick for Real Madrid in all competitions (2nd in his last 4 games). He now has eight career goals vs Osasuna, and they are now tied with Valencia as the opposition the Brazilian has scored the most against.
22
Real Madrid extended their unbeaten streak vs Osasuna in all competitions to 22 games, their best-ever streak against the cluba and tied for 7th longest in team history vs a single opposition
1/13
Jude Bellingham scored his first goal in 13 games this season in all competitions; the Englishman had 13 goals in his first 13 games last season.
7
Barcelona saw their run of winning games by multiple goals in all competitions come to an end. At 7 games, it was the club's longest such streak in a single season since 2015-16 (also 7 straight)
0
Barcelona had zero shots on goal vs Sociedad - the first time they failed to have a shot on target in a LALIGA match since Sep. 24, 2014, vs Málaga (0-0). It was also Barcelona's first loss where they failed to score in LALIGA since February 26, 2023 vs Almería (also 1-0).
50%
Barcelona's record without Lamine Yamal since his debut in April 2023 is 4-0-4 (W-D-L) in LALIGA
1
Real Sociedad ended an 8-game winless streak vs Barcelona at home; this was their first win vs Barcelona at Reale Arena since April 9, 2016 (also 1-0).
299
Diego Simeone brought up his 299th LALIGA win as head coach, 1 shy from becoming the 3rd coach with 300+ wins (Luis Aragonés, Miguel Muñoz)
166
Jan Oblak earned his 166th clean sheet in LALIGA, 7 short of tying Víctor Valdés for the 4th-most in LALIGA history (173)
SERIE A
1
Moise Kean scored his first career hat trick in all club competitions (237 games played). He's got 6 goals in his last 3 Serie A games played for Fiorentina (since Oct. 27). That is the most goals in that span by any player in the Top 5 European Leagues.
1
Hakan Calhanoglu missed his first Serie A penalty, after converting all of his last 17 attempts.
BUNDESLIGA
33.5
Jamal Musiala's goal from 33.5 yds is his longest career goal for club or country - he now has 6 goals in his last 5 games.
26
Vincent Kompany's Bayern have picked up 26 points from the first 10 Bundesliga games, the most of a Bayern head coach's first 10 games
5
St. Pauli have gone five games without scoring at home to start the season, breaking the record for the longest in Bundesliga history. The promoted side's last home Bundesliga goal came in an 8-1 loss to Bayern in May 2011.
MESSI - RONALDO WATCH
While Cristiano Ronaldo was largely peripheral in Al Nassr's return to winning way, Lionel Messi was right in the midst of the action, scoring in Inter Miami's shock playoff defeat to Atalanta United.
3
Lionel Messi loses 3 games against a single team in a calendar year for the first time in his career. Atlanta United is also the first team to hand Messi 2 losses at home within the same calendar year.
850
Messi's goal was his 850th for club and country. He is the fastest player (1081 games) and youngest player to ever do so, beating Cristiano Ronaldo by 98 games.
(Stats courtesy ESPN Stats & Information Group)