The new season of European football is heating up fast with big wins setting markers and shock results leading to unexpected early table toppers.<\/p>\n
The Premier League<\/a> saw Arsenal<\/a> and Manchester City<\/a> continue their perfect starting record with wins against Chelsea<\/a> and Coventry, teams on the opposite side of the table. Manchester United<\/a> was held by Everton<\/a> while Liverpool<\/a> got its first win of the season in the bag and Tottenham Hotspur’s woes continued.<\/p>\n Over in LALIGA<\/a>, Real Betis<\/a> handed a shock loss to a misfiring Real Madrid<\/a> while Athletic Club<\/a> got a huge win over Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> even as Barcelona<\/a> continued being dominant at the top.<\/p>\n Bayern Munich’s scoring and table-topping streak was snapped off by Schalke, no small feat that in Bundesliga<\/a>. Paris Saint German’s fate was worse in Ligue 1<\/a>, with a loss to table-topping Monaco after two draws. In Serie A<\/a>, Inter Milan comes back from 2 goals down to beat Napoli<\/a> and have a perfect start, as Roma leads the table.<\/p>\n ESPN’s By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from the weekend’s football matches:<\/p>\n 300<\/p>\n Erling Haaland<\/a> reached his 300th senior club goal in all competitions. So far, he has scored for Molde, Red Bull Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund<\/a>, and now Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n 384<\/p>\n Haaland reached 300 club goals in just 384 appearances. This faster than both Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> (398) and Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> (499) and slower than Lionel Messi<\/a> (365).<\/p>\n 24\/25<\/p>\n Haaland has now scored against 24 of the 25 teams he’s faced in the Premier League<\/a>; the only team missing on his card is Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n 10<\/p>\n Arsenal<\/a> extended their PL unbeaten streak against Chelsea<\/a> to 10 games, which is the team’s best unbeaten run against them since a run of 19 between 1995 and 2005.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n 21<\/p>\n Emiliano Mart\u00ednez<\/a> is the goalkeeper who has conceded the most goals to Arsenal in the last 6 Premier League seasons.<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n Kai Havertz<\/a> has now scored 3 goals in 3 Premier League starts against his former club Chelsea<\/p>\n 24<\/p>\n Manchester United<\/a> have hit the woodwork the most times of any side Since the start of last season. Among the players, Bruno Fernandes<\/a> is the joint-most times at 6 times (level with Haaland).<\/p>\n 8:42<\/p>\n At 8 minutes and 42 seconds, Alexander Isak<\/a> scored his earliest brace in the Premier League, and 12th overall. It’s also the earliest a Liverpool<\/a> player has scored twice in a Premier League game since Maxi Rodr\u00edguez in May 2011 vs Fulham<\/a>.<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n Spurs are one of three teams without a Premier League goal in 2026-27, along with Aston Villa<\/a> and Coventry. Spurs have failed to score in their opening three games in a league season for the first time since 1974-75.<\/p>\n 101<\/p>\n Malick Thiaw<\/a>‘s own goal and Harvey Barnes<\/a>‘ long-range goal for Newcastle were separated by only 101 seconds.<\/p>\n 19<\/p>\n Jos\u00e9 Mourinho’s 19-game unbeaten streak in LALIGA<\/a> came to an end as Real Madrid<\/a> suffered their first league loss this season, and the first since February 2013 (1-0 at Granada).<\/p>\n 3, 20<\/p>\n This is the third time that Real Madrid takes at least 20 shots without scoring in LALIGA since the start of last season. That’s the most of any team in that span.<\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n This was Manuel Pellegrini’s fifth career win against Jos\u00e9 Mourinho.<\/p>\n 5+<\/p>\n Barcelona<\/a> is the first team in LALIGA history with two road wins by a difference of 5+ goals in the first 4 LALIGA games of a season.<\/p>\n 3+<\/p>\n Lamine Yamal<\/a> is the second teenager since 2008-09 ( which is 19 seasons) to score 3+ goals within the first 4 matchdays of a LALIGA season.<\/p>\n The first? His former Barcelona teammate, Ansu Fati<\/a>, in 2020-21.<\/p>\n 50<\/p>\n Raphinha<\/a> scored his 50th career LALIGA goal, becoming the 36th different player to do it with Barcelona.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Raphinha joined Cesc F\u00e0bregas (4 in 2011-12), Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107 (4 in 2009-10) and Cayetano R\u00e9 (1964-65) as the only Barcelona players to score in each of the first 4 LALIGA games of a season. He is also the first Barcelona player to score in 5 straight LALIGA games since Robert Lewandowski<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Anthony Gordon<\/a> has 4 assists this season in LALIGA becoming only the 6th player to record 4 assists in the first 4 LALIGA matchdays of a season since 2008-09.<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n Atletico Madrid suffered a sixth 3-goal loss, the club’s most in a calendar year since 2011… Which is before Diego Simeone took over.<\/p>\n 2.24<\/p>\n Athletic Club<\/a>‘s first two goals against Atletico Madrid came in a span of just 2 minutes, 14 seconds.<\/p>\n 37,79<\/p>\n At 37 years and 79 days, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/a> became the oldest player since 2000 with a goal contribution in each of his first four appearances with a single club in LALIGA.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Aubameyang is first Deportivo<\/a> player to score in the team’s first 4 LALIGA games in a season since Walter Pandiani in 2004-05.<\/p>\n He is also the first LALIGA player to achieve the feat since Jude Bellingham<\/a> for Real Madrid in 2023-24.<\/p>\n 2+<\/p>\n The win against Napoli<\/a> was Inter Milan’s third Serie A<\/a> win in 2026 after trailing by 2+ goals – the most of any team in Europe’s top 5 leagues.<\/p>\n 134<\/p>\n Lautaro Mart\u00ednez<\/a> scored his 134th career Serie A goal for Inter Milan, which took him past Stefano Nyers for third place on the club’s all-time top scorers list in the competition. He is behind Giuseppe Meazza (197) and Benito Lorenzi (138).<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n Juventus<\/a> and Milan have drawn three consecutive Serie A matches for the first time since 1972-73.<\/p>\n 19,319<\/p>\n At 19 years and 319 days, Alphadjo Ciss\u00e8<\/a> is the youngest player to score in his first two AC Milan<\/a> road games in a Serie A season in the last 30 years.<\/p>\n 47<\/p>\n Bayern Munich’s 0-0 draw with Schalke saw their 47-game Bundesliga<\/a> scoring streak come to an end. This was their longest since a Bundesliga-record 87-game scoring run back in 2020-22.<\/p>\n 67<\/p>\n Bayern’s draw also meant that their streak of 67 straight matchdays leading the Bundesliga table was snapped. This is the first time Bayern is not atop the Bundesliga table since MD 2 in 2024-25.<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> has scored twice in the opening minute of a Bundesliga match since the start of last season, the most of any team.<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n Giovanni Reyna<\/a> has 2 goals in his last 5 club matches (all competitions), as many as he had in the previous 70 games COMBINED.<\/p>\n LIGUE 1<\/a><\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n Marquinhos<\/a> scored in back-to-back Ligue 1<\/a> games for PSG for the first time since 2017 (goal in consecutive games against Nice<\/a> and Bastia).<\/p>\n Information from ESPN’s Global Sports Research contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new season of European football is heating up fast with big wins setting markers and shock results…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-81876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}