After another weekend, where another round of European Top 5 league matches were played, European clubs are getting ready for a new week of football. After the intriguing battles, here are the 25 most interesting facts about the matches of the past weekend.
"Manchester City" won their thirteenth consecutive victory, equaling the record for consecutive wins in a season in the Premier League. The same number of wins were also achieved by "Preston" (1891-1892), "Arsenal" (2001-2002), and "Chelsea" (2016-2017); "Napoli" suffered their first defeat in Serie A after a nine-month break. They were defeated by Juventus, breaking Napoli's 26-game unbeaten streak in the league; Angelo Ogbonna scored his first goal in the European Top 5 leagues over 143 matches; Playing in Naples, Juventus kept a clean sheet against Napoli for the first time since 1997; In the last ten matches for Southampton, Charlie Austin scored seven goals in the Premier League; Barcelona played a second consecutive draw and lost two more points in La Liga. Before that, they had only dropped two points in the first twelve matches; Manchester United defeated Arsenal away in the Premier League match for the eighth time, more than any other team in the league; In Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain experienced their first defeat of the season in the seventeenth round. They unexpectedly lost 1-2 to Strasbourg, who were previously in 17th place; Manchester United scored more goals (2) in the first eleven minutes of the match against Arsenal than in the last eight away games against other top-six clubs (1); Borussia played a draw with Bayer in the Bundesliga, extending their winless streak to seven consecutive matches, matching their performance in the 2014-2015 season; Antonio Valencia scored his 21st goal in the Premier League, remaining unbeaten whenever he scores; Benevento earned their first point in Serie A in an impressive fashion by drawing with Milan in the fifth minute of added time, with their goalkeeper Alberto Brignoli scoring the equalizer; Arsenal ended Manchester United's twelve-game winning streak at home in the Premier League by defeating them away; Gonzalo Higuain, who played with a cast after a hand fracture and surgery last week, scored the only goal in the win against Napoli; Crystal Palace became the first Premier League team since Manchester City in 1950 to not score an away goal in ten consecutive matches; Sergio Ramos received a red card in the match, becoming the all-time record holder in La Liga with 19 red cards; In his Premier League debut with Everton, Sam Allardyce won his fifth out of seven debuts (1 draw, 1 loss); Alberto Brignoli became the first goalkeeper to score a goal in Serie A since Massimo Taibi in 2001; Lewis Dunk scored his third own goal of the season, closing in on the Premier League record of own goals in a season held by Martin Skrtel with four; Valencia faced their first defeat in La Liga when they least expected it, against Getafe, where they had numerical advantage but couldn't score, while Getafe did; Liverpool scored their second goal in just 79 seconds; The fourteenth round of La Liga was challenging for the top four teams. Barcelona, Valencia, and Real Madrid dropped points, while Atletico scored a winning goal in the 88th minute; Tottenham Hotspur, who kept four clean sheets in the first five matches, conceded only one goal in their last seven matches; Inter Milan overtook Napoli as the leaders of Serie A after this round; Alan Pardew became the fifth manager in Premier League history to take over the fifth-bottom team. He is still undefeated in his debut matches with West Bromwich Albion (3 wins, 2 draws).
