It has been another exciting weekend of football across Europe’s top leagues. Arsenal maintained their winning streak and are now six points clear at the top of the Premier League, while Liverpool snapped their losing streak with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa.
Manchester City also won its match against Bournemouth, while Chelsea overcame the challenge against Tottenham.
In the Spanish League, Real Madrid continues to lead the standings after defeating Valencia 4-0. Barcelona also won its match against Elche.
Leader Bayern Munich beat Leverkusen in the German League, while Napoli dropped points in the Italian League after a goalless draw with Como. Milan beat Roma to occupy third place behind Napoli and Inter Milan.
ESPN’s By The Numbers brings you the best stats from this weekend’s soccer games:
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Erling Haaland became the third player ever to score more than two goals in four or more consecutive home games in the Premier League, after Robbie Fowler (4 in 1995/96) and Luis Suarez (5 in 2013).
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Haaland scored 12 goals in the English Premier League this season. The only players to have scored as many or more in their team’s first 10 games of a season in the competition are Les Ferdinand (13 in 1995-96) and Haaland himself (15 in 2022-23).
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Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah now equals Wayne Rooney (276 for Manchester United) for the most Premier League appearances for a single team (188 goals and 88 assists for Liverpool).
He also scored his 250th goal for Liverpool (all competitions), the third player in the club’s history to do so after Ian Rush (346) and Roger Hunt (285).
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Arsenal have won seven successive matches without conceding in all competitions for only the second time in the club’s history, previously between September and October 1987.
Arsenal won all their matches in October, and entered November with a 12-game winning streak, finishing first in the Premier League without conceding a goal.
The Gunners were unstoppable pic.twitter.com/MZcwgl7jYw
– ESPN Club (@ESPNFC) November 1, 2025
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Arsenal have scored eight league goals from corner kicks this season, the most ever for a team in their first 10 Premier League matches.
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Wolves have failed to win any of their first 10 league matches in the last two seasons (draw 2, L8 this season, and draw 3, L7 in the 2024-25 season).
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Manchester United’s Amad Diallo scored 10 goals in the English Premier League during his career, 6 of which came in the last 10 minutes + stoppage time.
Since the start of last season, only Salah (10) has scored more Premier League goals in the 80th minute or later.
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Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal has scored 17 goals in 80 La Liga matches. Only Kylian Mbappé (23) has scored more goals before turning 19 in Europe’s top five leagues in the 21st century.
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Mbappe scored 13 goals in 11 league matches in 2025/26. Only Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more than 13 goals in his first 11 matches of a season in the competition for Real Madrid in the 21st century (13 in 2011/12 and 20 in 2014/15).
Kylian Mbappe was presented with the Golden Boot at the Santiago Bernabeu before starting today’s match against Valencia.
He even invited all his teammates on the bench to join the photo pic.twitter.com/rATlsosZvB
– ESPN Club (@ESPNFC) November 1, 2025
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Antoine Griezmann scored his 200th goal in the Spanish League, becoming the 11th player and the sixth foreigner after Lionel Messi (474), Cristiano Ronaldo (311), Karim Benzema (238), Hugo Sanchez (234) and Alfredo Di Stefano (227) to reach this milestone in the history of the competition.
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Barcelona’s Marcus Rashford has 11 goal contributions (G6, A5) in all competitions since the start of August. He is behind only Mbappé (Group of 18, A2) and Julian Alvarez (Group of 8, A4) among players participating in La Liga.
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Bayern Munich won 15 official matches in a row.
Since their promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965, the team has achieved this only once before, winning 23 in a row under Hansi Flick in 2020.
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Borussia Dortmund kept their sixth clean sheet this season in the Bundesliga, a joint best record in Europe’s top five leagues with Arsenal, and a new club record after nine league games.
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AC Milan extended its unbeaten streak in the Italian League to 9 matches. Only Atletico Madrid (10) has a longer streak in Europe’s top five leagues.
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Inter Milan defeated Hellas Verona with an own goal scored by Verona player Martin Freeze in the 90th+3 minute. This is the first time a Serie A team has won a match with an own goal by the opponent in stoppage time since November 2022, when Milan beat Fiorentina 2-1 with a Nikola Milenkovic goal (90’+1).
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Excluding newly promoted teams, Napoli are one of two teams (Monaco) in the top five European leagues who are unbeaten at home in 2025.
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Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi were involved in scoring goals in their respective matches. Ronaldo scored two goals in Al-Nasr’s win over Al-Fayhaa, while Messi scored in Inter Miami’s 2-1 loss to Nashville.
Cristiano Ronaldo adds another goal to his name, approaching 1,000 goals in his career
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– ESPN Club (@ESPNFC) November 1, 2025
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For the 25th time with Al-Nasr, Ronaldo scored several goals in a match, his first since September 20 against Riyadh.
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Messi has scored 4 goals in his last 3 MLS Cup matches. Messi has 10 goals in 6 career games against FC Nashville, the most against any MLS opponent (including MLS regular season and MLS Cup).
(Information from ESPN’s Global Sports Research contributed to this report.)
