It was a weekend of big results across Europe's top leagues. In the Premier League, leaders Manchester City lost their match against Aston Villa while Arsenal and Liverpool overcame tricky challenges to take three points. Chelsea lost to Tottenham and Manchester United had to suffer more misery as they were comfortably beaten by Bournemouth.
LaLiga saw the famed Clásico on Sunday with Real Madrid handing Barcelona their first loss of the season thanks to a brace from Kylian Mbappé. Meanwhile in Serie A, the top four Inter Milan (22 points), Lazio (22), Roma (18) and AC Milan (18) are all still unbeaten after eight games.
In the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich beat Freiburg to maintain their top spot while second-placed Borussia Dortmund also won their match against Eintracht Frankfurt.
ESPN's By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from the weekend's football matches:
PREMIER LEAGUE
7
Manchester United have won just seven points from eight Premier League games this season (W1, D4, L3), their lowest at this stage of a league season since 1986-87 (4).
7
Since the 2023-24 season, no Premier League side has lost more home games by a margin of three or more goals in all competitions than Manchester United (7).
MANCHESTER UNITED NOW EIGHT MATCHES WITHOUT A WIN ��
Their last victory came nearly two months ago against Azerbaijani club Sabah �� https://t.co/k3MLubYTku
- ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) October 25, 2026
5
Bournemouth's Marcus Tavernier has been directly involved in five Premier League goals at Old Trafford (two goals, three assists). The only Englishmen with more there as a visiting player are Harry Kane and Steven Gerrard (six each).
4
Bournemouth's four-game unbeaten streak at Old Trafford is the longest in the Premier League since Liverpool had four straight wins from 2019-21.
35.6%
Liverpool's 35.6% possession against Brighton was their second lowest on record (since 2003-04) in a Premier League home win, and lowest in an Anfield league victory since November 2010 (35.3% vs Chelsea).
13
Arsenal scored their first set-piece goal in all competitions (excluding penalties) against Everton since May of last season, ending a run of 13 games without one.
3 and 4
Aston Villa became the first side to win three successive Premier League games against Manchester City since Liverpool in December 2016 and the first to win four successive home league matches since Tottenham in February 2023.
14
Since the start of March, Chelsea have lost more games in all competitions than any other side in Europe's big-five leagues (14).
LALIGA
107-106
Real Madrid broke a tie in the all-time Clásico head-to-head record -- 107-106 (52 draws). They have not been behind in the series since 2019.
8
Kylian Mbappé has scored eight goals in seven matches for Real Madrid against FC Barcelona across all competitions. This is the highest tally for a player in their first seven El Clásico appearances in the 21st century (Lionel Messi had six).
100
Mbappé became the fourth fastest player to reach 100 goals in all competitions for Real Madrid (116), behind Ferenc Puskás (99 matches), Cristiano Ronaldo (105 matches), and Alfredo Di Stéfano (116 matches).
This was Kylian Mbappé's first game-winner in ElClásico ��
He leaves Spotify Camp Nou with a smile ahead of the Ballon d'Or �� https://t.co/gPZFDWneM7
- ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) October 25, 2026
4
Mbappé has also scored four goals in two visits to Barcelona as a Real Madrid player. No player from Real Madrid has scored more times away from home against Barcelona since the 2013/14 season (also four by Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo).
5
José Mourinho has not lost any of his last five matches with Real Madrid against Barcelona in all competitions (3W 2D). Only two Real Madrid coaches have remained unbeaten in six or more El Clásico duels throughout history -- Miguel Muñoz between 1962 and 1965 (seven wins in seven games) and Vicente del Bosque between 2001 and 2003 (Seven games, two wins and five draws).
13
Raphinha is the top scorer in LaLiga with 13 goals this season, most by a player in their team's first 10 games of a season since Cristiano Ronaldo had 17 for Real Madrid in 2014-15.
343
Diego Simeone has 343 LaLiga wins as a manager, all with Atlético Madrid. He is only one win shy of tying for the most wins by a manager in the league history (Luis Aragonés, 344).
SERIE A
1
For the first time in Serie A history, as many as four teams (Inter, Lazio, Roma and Milan) have all remained unbeaten after the first eight matches of a single season.
3
AC Milan (five wins, three draws) have remained unbeaten in the first eight Serie A matches of the season only for the third time in the last 20 campaigns, after 2020/21 and 2021/22.
4
Luka Modric provided the most assists after turning 40 since Serie A returned to 20 teams (from 2004/05) -- 4, surpassing Zlatan Ibrahimovic at 3.
11
Since arriving in Serie A in 2024/25, no midfielder has scored as many headed goals in all competitions than Scott McTominay -- 11, followed by Casemiro and Tolisso with 10.
BUNDESLIGA
100
Serge Gnabry scored his 100th goal for Bayern Munich in his 267th Bundesliga match. Among all active players in the league, only Andrej Kramaric (141) and teammate Harry Kane (102) had previously reached the 100 Bundesliga goals milestone.
1000 and 200
Kramaric scored TSG Hoffenheim's 1000th Bundesliga goal and became the fifth player since detailed data collection began in 2004/05 to reach the mark of 200 direct goal involvements in the Bundesliga (201, 141G 60A).
13
Michael Olise has scored a goal and an assist in the same match 13 times since arriving at Bayern in 2024, the most in Europe's top 5 leagues in that span.
