Apr 19, 2026, 11:50 PM ET<\/p>\n
It was quite the impactful weekend of football as Manchester City<\/a> defeated Arsenal<\/a> at home to reduce the gap to the Premier League<\/a> leaders to three points while still having a game in hand. Liverpool<\/a> scored a dramatic late winner in the Merseyside derby, while Manchester United<\/a> edged Chelsea<\/a> to dent their top five hopes. Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>, meanwhile, remained in the relegation zone after conceding an injury-time equaliser against Brighton & Hove Albion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n There was no LALIGA<\/a> action this weekend with the Copa del Rey<\/a> final taking place, as Real Sociedad<\/a> defeated Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> on penalties to claim the trophy. Over in Italy, Internazionale<\/a> all but sealed the Serie A<\/a> title with a 3-0 win over Cagliari<\/a>, as challengers Napoli<\/a> lost at home to Lazio<\/a>, with AC Milan<\/a> picking up a win to re-take second place, 12 points behind Inter with five games to go.<\/p>\n Bayern Munich<\/a> won the Bundesliga<\/a> title with four games to spare after a 4-2 win over VfB Stuttgart<\/a>, as Borussia Dortmund<\/a> lost in injury time away to TSG Hoffenheim<\/a>. Meanwhile in France<\/a>, Lyon<\/a> stunned Ligue 1<\/a> leaders Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> with a 2-1 win away from home, thus handing second-placed Lens<\/a> a lifeline after their 3-2 win over Toulouse<\/a> reduced the gap to a point.<\/p>\n ESPN’s By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from the weekend’s football matches:<\/p>\n 4, 6, 8<\/p>\n Erling Haaland<\/a> became the first player to score in 4 consecutive Premier League appearances against Arsenal since Diogo Jota<\/a> in March 2022. Haaland now has 6 goals in 8 Premier League games against Arsenal – only Sergio Ag\u00fcero (8 in 15 games) and Kevin De Bruyne<\/a> (8 in 16 games) have netted more in Premier League matches between Arsenal and Manchester City (for both teams).<\/p>\n 11<\/p>\n Erling Haaland has scored or assisted the winning goal in 11 of City’s 20 Premier League wins this season.<\/p>\n Manchester City now have a 11-game home unbeaten streak against Arsenal in the Premier League (8-3-0, W-D-L), with the last loss in January 2015 under Manuel Pellegrini.<\/p>\n 10 and 14<\/p>\n With 10 goals and 14 assists, Rayan Cherki<\/a> has become the first player to reach 10+ goals and 10+ assists for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Arsenal are on a four-game losing streak in the PL\/domestic cup competitions for the first time under Mikel Arteta, and first time overall since March 2018, a run which also included two losses against Man City.<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n Kai Havertz<\/a>‘s goal was his first in the Premier League this season. In fact, Havertz scored his first PL goal since February 2, 2025 against Manchester City.<\/p>\n 90+10′<\/p>\n Virgil van Dijk<\/a>‘s game-winning goal at 90’+10 is the latest Premier League goal in the history of the Merseyside Derby, overtaking James Tarkowski<\/a>‘s game-tying goal (90’+8) last season in the last Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n Liverpool have scored six 90th-minute winners against Everton<\/a> in the Premier League – the most one side has against any opponent in the competition’s history.<\/p>\n 9<\/p>\n In his final Merseyside derby, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah<\/a> scored his ninth career Premier League goal in the Merseyside derby, tying Steven Gerrard for the most in the PL fixture.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Beto<\/a> has 4 goals and 1 assist in his last 3 PL games after scoring 4 goals and 0 assists in first 30 league games this season.<\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n Matheus Cunha<\/a> has scored more Premier League goals against Chelsea (5) than any other side.<\/p>\n 18<\/p>\n The last player to provide more assists in a Premier League season than Bruno Fernandes<\/a>‘ 18 assists this season was Kevin De Bruyne (20) in 2019-20.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Chelsea have lost four straight Premier League matches without scoring a goal for the first time since February-March 1998, which included a home defeat to Man United. The only time in Chelsea’s club history that it had a longer such run was in November 1912 (5 consecutive losses).<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n Chelsea suffered their sixth home defeat in the Premier League this season, including each of their last three, only in 1994-95 have the Blues recorded more losses at Stamford Bridge in a Premier League campaign (7).<\/p>\n 15<\/p>\n Tottenham are now on a 15-game winless streak in the Premier League (0-6-9, W-D-L in 2026); Only 2007-08 Derby County (18) and 2002-03 Sunderland<\/a> (17) had longer winless runs to start a calendar year in the Premier League, with both getting relegated in those seasons.<\/p>\n 49<\/p>\n This is the first time Spurs are in the relegation zone this deep into a season (after 33+ league games) for the first time in 49 years, since being relegated from the top flight in 1976-77.<\/p>\n 19<\/p>\n Newcastle United<\/a> have conceded 19 goals in the last 15 minutes of the second half, more than any other team in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n 13<\/p>\n Bournemouth are unbeaten across their last 13 matches in the Premier League (W6 D7); both the longest current run without defeat in the top-flight and the Cherries’ longest ever unbeaten run in the competition.<\/p>\n 3 and 12<\/p>\n Morgan Gibbs-White<\/a> is the third player to score a Premier League hat-trick for Nottingham Forest<\/a>, after Kevin Campbell in August 1996 and Chris Wood<\/a> (twice – Dec 2023 vs Newcastle & Feb 2025 vs Brighton). Gibbs-White has scored 12 goals this season, the second-most goal by an English player in a Premier League season for Nottingham Forest after Stan Collymore in 1994-95 (22).<\/p>\n 11<\/p>\n Ollie Watkins<\/a> has scored 11 Premier League goals this season. He has scored 10+ goals in all six of his PL seasons, only Sadio Man\u00e9<\/a> (8) has played in more seasons while scoring 10+ goals in each one in competition history.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Real Sociedad won their fourth Copa del Rey title in club history (also 2019-20 and 1986-87, after winning the title in 1908-09 as Club Ciclista)<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n Pellegrino Matarazzo became the first American manager to win a major title in Europe’s top 5 leagues; he is 10-6-3 (W-D-L) in all competitions since joining Real Sociedad<\/p>\n 14<\/p>\n Ander Barrenetxea<\/a>‘s goal scored in the 14th second of the game is the earliest goal in a Copa del Rey final<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n Mikel Oyarzabal<\/a> has scored in each of his 6 final appearances for club and country (including 2020 Olympics).<\/p>\n 130<\/p>\n Oyarzabal now has 130 career goals for Real Sociedad in all competitions, the second-most in club history (Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda Satr\u00fastegui is the club’s all-time top scorer with 163 goals). His 17 goal contributions in the last five Copa del Rey seasons (13 goals, 4 assists) are the most of any player in the competition in that span.<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n Atl\u00e9tico Madrid lost their first Copa del Rey final under Diego Simeone (won in 2012-13 against Real Madrid<\/a>). Simeone has finished as runner-up in 5 of his 11 final appearances as Atleti manager.<\/p>\n 21<\/p>\n Federico Dimarco<\/a> (6 goals, 15 assists) has become the first defender to surpass 20 goal contributions in a single Serie A season (data available since 2004\/05).<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Lazio became the first team in Serie A history to defeat Napoli in four consecutive away games.<\/p>\n 8 and 13<\/p>\n AC Milan have won eight games by a 1-0 scoreline – the most in Europe’s Top 5 leagues. Only Napoli (14) have won more matches by a single goal this season than Milan (13).<\/p>\n 34<\/p>\n Bayern Munich have won a record 34th Bundesliga title (35 top-flight titles including one pre-Bundesliga) and their 13th in the last 14 seasons. Only Real Madrid and Juventus<\/a> (36 each) have more top-flight titles among teams in Europe’s top 5 leagues.<\/p>\n 32<\/p>\n Harry Kane<\/a> has scored 32 goals this season in the Bundesliga, the most by a player in Europe’s top 5 leagues this season. This is Kane’s second-most prolific league season in his career after 2023-24 (36). The English striker has scored 51 goals in all competitions this season, the most in Europe’s Top 5 leagues since Erling Haaland in 2022-23 (52).<\/p>\n 28<\/p>\n Luis D\u00edaz<\/a> has 28 goal contributions in Bundesliga this season (15 goals, 13 assists), only his teammates Harry Kane (36), Michael Olise<\/a> (30) and Manchester City’s Erling Haaland (29) have more this season among players from Europe Top 5 Leagues. With D\u00edaz two goal contributions shy of 30 in Bundesliga this season, the last time a team from Europe Top 5 Leagues had 3 different players with 30+ G+A was 2015-16 Barcelona<\/a> with Luis Su\u00e1rez<\/a> (56), Lionel Messi<\/a> (42) and Neymar<\/a> (36). The 94 combined goal contributions between the trio (Harry Kane, Michael Olise and Luis D\u00edaz) are the most by a trio on record (since 1988) in the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n 14 and 50<\/p>\n Vincent Kompany became the 14th manager to win back-to-back Bundesliga titles and the eighth to do so as Bayern Munich manager (first since Hansi Flick in 2019-20 & 2020-21). Kompany brought up his 50th win in his 64 Bundesliga games (W50 D11 L3) – in Bundesliga history, only Pep Guardiola reached this milestone sooner (61st game).<\/p>\n 10<\/p>\n Only Lamine Yamal<\/a> (12 goal contributions – 8 goals, 4 assists) has been directly involved in more goals than Endrick<\/a> (10 goal contributions – 4 goals, 6 assists) among players aged 21 years or younger in Europe’s top five leagues in 2026.<\/p>\n 8<\/p>\n Folarin Balogun<\/a> became the first player to score in eight consecutive Ligue 1 games in a single season since Rony Lopes<\/a> in February-April 2018 (eight straight games, also for Monaco). The American striker thus equalled the longest scoring streak for a Monaco player in Ligue 1 history. Balogun has a long way to go to equal Serge Masnaghett’s record of scoring in 13 consecutive games (Dec. 1962 – Apr. 1963).<\/p>\n MESSI-RONALDO WATCH<\/p>\n 969 and 125<\/p>\n Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> scored the 969th goal of his career (club and country) in Al Nassr<\/a>‘s 4-0 win in the AFC Champions League Two quarterfinal over Al-Wasl. This was also Ronaldo’s 125th goal for Al Nassr in all competitions.<\/p>\n 15<\/p>\n Lionel Messi scored his first penalty since Oct. 18; he had scored 15 goals since his last penalty (club and country).<\/p>\n 20<\/p>\n Lionel Messi now has 20 games with multiple goals in the MLS<\/a>, extending the most in the league since his debut in 2023 (Denis Bouanga<\/a> is second with 17 such games).<\/p>\n Information from ESPN’s Global Sports Research contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 19, 2026, 11:50 PM ET It was quite the impactful weekend of football as Manchester City defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-401164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}