It was a big weekend in European football with crucial derbies all around. The highlight was Barcelona's thumping away El Clasico win, thanks to their youth and veteran Robert Lewandowski's brace. Arsenal had to share spoils with Liverpool in a 2-2 draw as Manchester City continue to stay on top of the Premier League while Chelsea had a win to cheer and Manchester United had a day to forget in a stoppage-time loss to West Ham.
Over in Serie A, Inter Milan and Juventus were involved in an eight-goal thriller which ended up being a 4-4 draw while Bundesliga continued to be led by Bayern Munich, whose big win gives them the goal difference advantage and Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain were comfortable at the top.
ESPN's By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from weekend's football matches:
PREMIER LEAGUE
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Bukayo Saka scored his 50th career goal for Arsenal in the Premier League, becoming the 11th player in club history to reach there. He is also the first Arsenal player to score 50 PL goals before his 24th birthday... second on that list is Theo Walcott with 37 goals before turning 24.
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Bukayo Saka became the 16th player in Premier League history to score 50 goals before turning 24. Saka won't turn 24 until September 2025, and stands a good chance of cracking the top 10.
11
Mohamed Salah's 11 goals against Arsenal in the Premier League are tied with Firmino and Vardy for the third-most, behind only Harry Kane's 14 and Wayne Rooney's 12.
1
That's the first time Liverpool has conceded a first-half goal in the Premier League this season.
74
Erling Haaland scored his 74th Premier League goal in his 75th career Premier League game. Goal machine
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Since the start of last Premier League season, only Erling Haaland (38) has more goals than Cole Palmer (29). However, in that span, Palmer (45) has had more goal contributions.
3
West Ham has now won 3 straight home league games over Manchester United for the first time in 47 years (4 straight from 1974-77)
2
Jarrod Bowen (90'+2) is the second West Ham player to score a game-winning stoppage-time penalty kick goal in Premier League history after Mark Noble (90'+4) in 2008 vs Liverpool.
MAN UNITED LOSE 2-1 TO WEST HAM IN STOPPAGE TIME!!!
They only have one win in their last eight games in all competitions �� pic.twitter.com/YGuMmpshVR
- ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) October 27, 2024
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Casemiro scores his first PL goal in over a year (since August 26, 2023 vs Nottingham Forest).
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Casemiro now has more Premier League goals (6) in his first 3 seasons with Manchester United than he did in his first 3 LALIGA seasons (1) with Real Madrid.
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Jamie Vardy has scored 13 career Premier League goals since turning 35 years old. That ties a few players, among them the legendary Ryan Giggs and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, for 6th most all-time.
LALIGA
42 and 39
Not only did Barcelona snap Real Madrid's team-record 42-game unbeaten streak in La Liga, but also Real Madrid's 39-game home unbeaten streak in all competitions, which was their longest such streak since a 43-game streak from 2012 to 2013.
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Real Madrid's 4-goal loss is tied for its third largest home La Liga loss of all times; they have not had a larger home league loss since 1974 (which 5-0 vs Barcelona.)
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Kylian Mbappe had a career-high 8 offsides in the game. This is tied for most in one game in the last 15 LALIGA seasons (Jonathas for Elche vs ATH in May 2015)
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Mbappe's 6 offsides are tied for most in a half in the last 15 La Liga seasons.
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With an average age of 24.5 years, this is the second-youngest Barcelona lineup in El Clasico in the last 80 years (all competitions.)
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At 17 years and 105 days, Lamine Yamal became the youngest ever scorer in Clasico history in all competitions. Yamal's goal also made him the youngest player to score a La Liga goal at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Lamine Yamal has scored more goals (1) at the Santiago Bernabéu this season than Jude Bellingham (0) ��
Yamal's ElClásico goal also made him the youngest player to score a LALIGA goal at the Santiago Bernabéu �� pic.twitter.com/XvUJwIEXgS
- ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) October 26, 2024
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At the other end of the spectrum, Robert Lewandowski is the oldest player in La Liga history to have a multi-goal game against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu.
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Robert Lewandowski is also the 26th player to score 10 career goals against Real Madrid (all competitions).
368
Lewandowski now has 368 career goals in Europe's top 5 leagues, going past Jimmy Greaves for third in the all-time list.
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Barcelona's 37 goals through 11 La Liga matchdays are the fourth-most by any team in the last 80 seasons.
10
Real Betis snapped a 10-game winless streak against Atletico Madrid in La Liga, which was their second-longest active winless streak (after 12 straight without a win vs Sevilla.)
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This was Real Betis coach Manuel Pellegrini first career win against Atletico Madrid's Diego Simeone
SERIE A
8
The 8 combined goals between Juventus and Inter Milan are their most in any meeting between the two clubs since Juventus won 9-1 bac in1961 (all competitions).
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Mateo Retegui has 10 goals in his first 9 league games with Atalanta. Only Lewandowski (14) and Haaland (11) have more goals in Europe's top 5 leagues this season.
2
With 2 goals in 7 games this season (all competitions), Timothy Weah has already surpassed his scoring output for Juventus in 35 games last season (1)
BUNDESLIGA
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FC Bayern's Vincent Kompany has seen them score 26 goals in his first eight Bundesliga games - the most in a manager's first eight games in Bundesliga history.
3
This was Bayern Munich's third 5-goal win this season in the Bundesliga. No other team in Europe's top 5 leagues has more than one such win in league play this season.
13
Mario Gotze has scored in the last 13 Bundesliga seasons in which he's played. He scored his 64th Bundesliga goal in his 300th career appearance.
MESSI-RONALDO WATCH
Not much in section this week except a throwback as Lionel Messi assists Jordi Alba's goal.
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Messi has now scored or assisted in 6 straight home games for Inter Miami.
(Stats courtesy ESPN's Stats & Information Group)