In the Premier League, Manchester United made English league history in Molyneux, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur find themselves at opposite ends of the table, while Liverpool and Chelsea share the spoils in full firecrackers. In LaLiga, there are six teams on seven points after the first three - the big two (Real Madrid and Barcelona) both won this weekend, with Atletico Madrid drawing. Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund have both won the Bundesliga, but it is Wolfsburg who lead the table. Oh, and guess who's leading in Ligue 1 with four wins in four?
-9
Arsenal are only the second team in England's top flight history to record 0 goals and -9 goal difference through their first 3 matches of the league season. Last time this happened? 1953–54, when Manchester City did so, and finished 17th out of 22 teams that season, avoiding relegation. Fourth match of that particular season? Man City registered a 5-4 win over Sunderland.
1
For the first time in top-flight history, Tottenham Hotspur have finished top of the league match at the same time as Arsenal finished bottom. In fact, it is the first time Arsenal are at the bottom of the English First Division (having played at least three league matches) since 25 October 1974.
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Tottenham won their opening 3 games 1–0, while Wolverhampton lost their first 3 PL games 0–1. This is the first time both have happened in the same season. Spurs are only the fourth team to open a top-flight English season after Man City in 1912–13, Huddersfield in 1920–21 and Liverpool in 2013–14 with three 1–0 victories. The Wolves, meanwhile, are the second team after Spurs in 1974–75 to start the season with three consecutive 1–0 defeats.
20
Mason Greenwood is now one of only four players in Premier League history, after Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Wayne Rooney, to have scored 20+ goals as a teenager. Great company, that.
28
Manchester United are now unbeaten in their last 28 PL away games (W18 D10) - a new record for the longest unbeaten run in English Football League history.
50
Michael Antonio, the PL's form forward, is the first player to hit 50 top-flight league goals for West Ham since Tony Cotti reached that milestone in the 1985–86 campaign.
100
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is now in charge of Manchester United for 100 PL games (W53 D28 L19). Of the last eight managers to reach milestones for the club in the top-flight, only Ernest Mangnall (1903–12) won more (54) of his first 100 in charge.
30,000
Chris Wood's strike was the 30,000th goal ever in PL.
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It's strange when Atlético Madrid dropped out of Atlético-D, but that's what happened when Villarreal came into town. Atleti had 23 shots on goal, Villarreal, 2. Score? 2-2. They are, in fact, the first team to score two or more goals with 100% of their attempted shots in a single LaLiga game against Simeone-led Atleti.
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Memphis Depay and Frankie de Jong jointly (Klaas Jan-Huntler and Arjen Robben) to score the first La Liga goal with a Dutch scorer and assist-bearer since March 2009, and the first for Barcelona since January 2004 (Patrick Kluivert and Giovanni van Bronkhorst)
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Juventus, currently 12th in the Serie A, have failed to win either of their first two Serie A matches of the season for only the third time in their last 52 top-flight campaigns (after 2010/11 and 2015/16).
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Pepe Reina has provided twice as many assists than any other goalkeeper in Europe's top-5 league since 2007/08 – his assist in Lazio's 6-1 demolition of Spezia was his sixth in this period.
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Olivier Giroud has become the 15th Frenchman to have found a net for AC Milan in Serie A - the club with France's highest scorer in the competition.
9
VfL Wolfsburg have collected nine points from their first three games of the Bundesliga campaign for the first time. They will top the table for the first time since winning the title in 2008–09 (minimum three games played).
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Robert Lewandowski equaled Bayern Munich's club record of 16 straight games with a goal, tying Gerd Müller's streak during the 1969–70 season.
15
As Bayern dethroned Hertha Berlin 5–0, Lewandowski clocked his 15th Bundesliga hat-trick (expanding his record). In fact, this is the third consecutive season that Lewandowski has scored at least one hat-trick in the first 3 league games.
301
The hat-trick means Lewandowski has scored 301 goals in all comps for Bayern. He is only the second player in club history to reach 300 goals in all comps. First? The great Gerd Müller, who scored 566 runs.
66
This was the minute Lionel Messi made his second club debut. Lionel Messi in France, playing for PSG. It will really take some time to get used to it.