Stats: Messi first-ever to 1300 with Ronaldo on 1213; Eze scores PL’s 400th; Bayern lead with 41

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Sunaadh Sagar

Nov 24, 2025, 10:55 AMOpen Extended Reactions

The weekend gone by witnessed a blockbuster return to club football with derbies galore. Arsenal increased their Premier League lead to six points after a 4-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the North London derby. Manchester City and Liverpool both suffered defeats, which saw Chelsea leapfrog them to second place.

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In LaLiga, Real Madrid‘s winless run continued after a 2-2 draw away to Elche, while Barcelona‘s 4-0 win over Athletic saw them reduce the gap to one point. AC Milan climbed above rivals Inter to go second in the Serie A table after a 1-0 win in the Derby della Madonnina, as Roma‘s victory saw them open up a two point lead at the top.

Bayern Munich returned to winning ways in the Bundesliga with a 6-2 thrashing of Freiburg, as RB Leipzig kept the gap to six points with a win. Marseille briefly went top of Ligue 1 with a 5-1 win away to Nice, only for PSG to reclaim their position with a 3-0 win over Le Havre.

ESPN’s By The Numbers brings you the best of stats from the weekend’s football matches:

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Eberechi Eze scored the first-ever Premier League hat-trick in the North London derby, and the fourth all-time after Terry Dyson for Tottenham (Aug 1961), Ted Drake (Oct 1934) and Alan Sunderland (Dec 1978) for Arsenal.

23 and 400

Eze’s hat-trick was the first of his career as well as the 400th hat-trick in the history of the Premier League. He became the 23rd different player to score a hat-trick for Arsenal in the league – no other club has more.

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Arsenal’s three-goal margin of victory was the club’s joint-largest over Tottenham in Premier League. Including the First Division, Arsenal’s biggest win in a North London derby is a 6-0 victory in 1935.

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Arsenal are unbeaten in their last seven matches against Tottenham in all competitions (6-1-0 W-D-L), the club’s longest streak since 21 between 2000 and 2008.

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Leandro Trossard leads Arsenal’s goal contributions this season (10). He also scored his 49th PL goal with the opener against Spurs.

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Richarlison‘s goal for Spurs was from a distance of 35.3 meters (38.6 yards), the farthest distance for a goal this season in the Premier League. The previous longest goal was by Dominik Szoboszlai, also against Arsenal on Aug. 31 (31.8 mts).

0.07

Tottenham’s xG of 0.07 against Arsenal was the lowest recorded in the league this season. Spurs also have the second-lowest xG recorded – 0.1 against Chelsea.

One Wednesday morning in August, Tottenham were confident of finalising a deal for Eberechi Eze after reaching an agreement with Palace — and personal terms with Eze.

Arsenal eventually hijacked Tottenham’s pursuit of the England international and signed him to a deal worth up… pic.twitter.com/Lf82umPNOv

– ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) November 23, 2025

12 and 2489

Newcastle ended a run of 12 games without a win against Man City in the Premier League (0-3-9 W-D-L). They had last defeated City on January 29, 2019 – a gap of 2489 days between the wins.

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Harvey Barnes became the