Last weekend, the battles of the 2017-2018 English "Premier" League season began, and in Europe, two out of the five strongest continental leagues have already started their fights for the local championship trophy. There were interesting fights in both the first round of the "Premier" League and the second round matches in the "Ligue 1" championship, and Eurofootball.com presents all the results of the strongest European leagues and the most interesting facts of the weekend. <... "Premier" League The first round of the "Premier" League started last Friday, when the teams of "Arsenal" and "Leicester City" tested their strengths. In an intriguing seven-goal drama, Arsene Wenger's protégés celebrated victory, breaking their opponents 4-3 thanks to two late goals. On Saturday, there were even more first-round matches. All the favorites failed to finish the first round without losses: both "Liverpool," which played 3-3 away at "Watford," and "Chelsea," which unexpectedly lost 3-2 at home to "Burnley," shared points. The "Manchester City" team also faced a tough match, breaking through the defense of the "Brighton" team only in the second half and securing a 2-0 victory. On Sunday, there were no surprises in the "Premier" League, and victories were celebrated by both "Tottenham Hotspur" (winning 2-0 away against "Newcastle United") and "Manchester United" (triumphing 4-0 at home against "West Ham United") teams. All "Premier" League first round results: "Arsenal" 4 : 3 "Leicester City" "Watford" 3 : 3 "Liverpool" "Chelsea" 2 : 3 "Burnley" "Crystal Palace" 0 : 3 "Huddersfield" "Everton" 1 : 0 "Stoke City" "Southampton" 0 : 0 "Swansea" "West Bromwich Albion" 1 : 0 "Bournemouth" "Brighton" 0 : 2 "Manchester City" "Newcastle United" 0 : 2 "Tottenham Hotspur" "Manchester United" 4 : 0 "West Ham United" Interesting facts after the first round of the "Premier" League: Debuting in the "Premier" League, Alexandre Lacazette immediately broke two records. The "Arsenal" newcomer, scoring in just 94 seconds, became the fastest goal scorer in the opening match of the season and also received the title of the fastest debut goal scorer; The "Arsenal" and "Leicester City" teams, scoring seven goals, participated in the most productive opening match of the "Premier" League; To score his first goal in the "Premier" League, A. Lacazette needed just two touches of the ball. By the way, the first touch came at the very beginning of the match, with the Frenchman easily beating the ball from the center of the field; "Chelsea" became the first "Premier" League champions to concede 3 goals in the opening match of the next season; In order to score 3 goals away, the "Burnley" team had to play 790 minutes in their opponents' field last season, and this achievement was only reached by the team in January. This season, "Burnley" scored 3 goals away for the 43rd minute of their first match; All 18 players registered for the "Tottenham Hotspur" team were also part of the team last season. The team did not have the opportunity to sign new players, as they had not acquired any new players during the summer. ...
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