Football action returned to Europe's top-flight after the international break and the it was a weekend of table-toppers reiterating their early dominance, particularly in England and Spain.
Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-0 to continue their winning streak and stay atop the Premier League table, while Manchester United's disappointing starts to the season continued in a draw with Tottenham Hotspur. Chelsea were among the goals while Arsenal got back to winning ways to stay second.
Over in LALIGA, Barcelona continued to blaze ahead with a perfect record and a terrific goal difference after eight matches while Real Madrid had their win marred by Vinícius Júnior's red card.
Bundesliga saw Bayern Munich held to another draw, this time by Augsburg as Freiburg led the league over Dortmund. Monaco continued to lead Ligue 1 while Inter Milan topped Serie A with Lazio behind on goal difference.
ESPN's By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from the weekend's football matches:
PREMIER LEAGUE
2.47
There were just two minutes and 37 seconds between Liverpool's red card and Manchester City's first goal.
8
Liverpool and City combined for 8 shots in the first half, the fewest combined first-half shots in a Premier League game between them since October 2021.
27
Erling Haaland has 27 career Premier League goals vs 'Big 6' clubs. This is 6 more than any other player since he joined City in 2022-23..
3+
Manchester City have defeated Liverpool 4 straight times, with 3 of those wins by a margin of victory of 3+ goals.
36, 115
At 36 years and 115 days, Jordan Henderson became Chelsea's oldest English goalscorer in the Premier League since John Terry in May 2017 vs Watford (36y 159d).
Henderson is now the third oldest Chelsea player to score and assist in a Premier League game, behind Gianfranco Zola (36yrs 127d) and Didier Drogba (36yrs 267d).
3+
Jordan Henderson (2 goals, 1 assist) is the 1st player 36 years or older with 3+ goal contributions in a Premier League game since Cristiano Ronaldo in April 2022.
3
Henderson also became the oldest Chelsea player with 3 goal contributions in a Premier League game, breaking the record set by Gianluca Vialli.
Indeed, he has 3 goal contributions in a Premier League match for the first time since April 2013.
83
83 seconds separated Jordan Henderson's (1:06) and Morgan Rogers' (2:29) goals for Chelsea against Bournemouth
4-5-3
Chelsea has scored 4 of the 5 goals in the opening 3 minutes of Premier League games this season.
35,117
At 35 years and 117 days, Pascal Groß is the oldest player to provide an assist in three consecutive Premier League games since Ryan Giggs in February 2012 (38y 68d).
9
9 of Bruno Guimarães' last 10 Premier League goals have either put his team ahead (7) or equalised (2).
4
Manchester United's 6 points are its fewest through 6 games in a league season since 1986-87 when it won 4 points.
Fun fact: In 1986-87, Manchester United started the league season 3-4-6 (W-D-L) under manager Ron Atkinson before being dismissed.... Then they brought in Sir Alex Ferguson.
4
This is the 4th time in club history that Tottenham Hotspur fails win any of its opening six games of a league campaign
6
Álvaro Arbeloa is the first Fulham manager to go winless in his first 6 Premier League games since Martin Jol in 2011.
LALIGA
1
This is the first time that Barcelona have won the first 9 games of a season in all competitions in team history.
33
Barcelona have scored 33 goals in their 8 LALIGA matches so far - their best through 8 matches.
+23
Barcelona's +23 goal difference this season is the best GD in a 9-win start to a season among teams from Europe's top 5 leagues in all competitions.
1.18
Anthony Gordon scored his first goal for Barcelona and at 1 minute, 18 seconds, it was the fastest goal of his career in all club competitions.
43
Lamine Yamal has 43 goal contributions for club and country in 2026, which is the third-most among players from the top 5 European leagues (Harry Kane 60, Michael Olise 55).
6
Yan Diomande scored his first career goal for Real Madrid, becoming the sixth African International player to score a LALIGA goal for the club.
3
Vinícius Júnior received his third career red card with Real Madrid in all competitions.
2
Vinícius Júnior is the second Real Madrid player red-carded in LALIGA this season after Dean Huijsen on got it in their last league match vs Atleti.
6
Real Madrid received 6 combined cards (5 yellow cards, 1 red card) - it's most in a LALIGA game this season.
5
Javi Hernandez has his fifth assist for Espanyol in LALIGA this season, no other player has more in Europe's Top 5 Leagues.
8/8
Alavés has converted 8 of 8 penalty kick attempts in LALIGA since the start of last season. Alavés is 1 of 4 teams with a 100% conversion rate on PKs since the start of last season in LALIGA.
1
Cristian Romero scored his first goal in 6 games played with Atlético Madrid this season. The only team he needed fewer games to score his 1st career goal with was Genoa (scored first goal in his second game).
SERIE A
41
Luka Modric is the first player 41 year or older to assist a goal in a Serie A game since at least 2010-11. In that span, the only players that age to score or assist did it for Milan (Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in 2023).
BUNDESLIGA
8 seconds
At 8 seconds, Augsburg's Robin Fellhauer scoresd the earliest goal in Bundesliga history.
3
Each of the last 3 goals conceded by Bayern Munich in the opening minute of a Bundesliga match have been against Augsburg.
10
Since 2010-11 (last 17 seasons), Augsburg has scored 10 goals in the opening minute, the most of any team in the Bundesliga.
1
With RB Leipzig (vs Eintracht) and Augsburg (vs Bayern) both scoring in the opening minute, it marks the first time that multiple teams score in the 1st minute of a Bundesliga match on the same day since October 2019.
2, 89
Joe Scally scored for Borussia Mönchengladbach, his second goal in the last 4 Bundesliga games. That ties the total amount of goals he scored in the previous 89 games.
3
Patrik Schick became the third Leverkusen player to score on each of the first five games of a Bundesliga season, joining 2005-06 Dimitar Berbatov and 2009-10 Stefan Kießling.
Information from ESPN's Global Sports Research contributed to this report.