INFOGRAPHIC: The Battle of Manchester

FOOTBALL – Manchester City and Manchester United will clash for the 139th time in the English top flight on Sunday, 2 November. Click on the picture to see the infographic in full size.

THE WAVE: Real Madrid – FC Barcelona

FOOTBALL – After Barcelona’s (blue) early goal, the wave shows a pressing Real Madrid (red). After Barça’s second ‘wave’ around the 30th minute it was all Real Madrid, resulting in three points for them.

REVIEW: Higuaín scores second hat-trick of year

FOOTBALL – Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat-trick for Napoli as Napoli defeated Verona 6-2 in Serie A on Sunday.

Cristiano Ronaldo joins elite group of players

FOOTBALL – Cristiano Ronaldo scored from the penalty spot in Real Madrid’s 3-1 win over FC Barcelona. It was his 14^th goal in El Clásico, which sees him join an elite group of players. Click on the continue reading button to see a list of El Clásico’s all-time top scorers.

INFOGRAPHIC: Messi eyeing La Liga goalscoring record

FOOTBALL – Lionel Messi is on 250 goals in La Liga and needs one more to equal Telmo Zarra’s all-time record of 251 league goals. Click on the picture to see the infographic in full size.

ANALYSE THIS: A Statistical Breakdown of El Clásico

FOOTBALL – On Saturday 25 October Real Madrid and FC Barcelona will go head-to-head in the 229th edition of El Clásico. At the moment, Real leads with 91 victories against Barҫa’s 89 wins (48 draws). Real Madrid’s biggest advantage over Barcelona came in 1965: 48 wins for Real, 32 wins for Barҫa. In the last 50 years FC Barcelona have made an impressive comeback in El Clásico, reducing Real’s lead to only two to this day.

Casillas surpassing and equalling all-time records

FOOTBALL –  Real Madrid captain Iker Casillas made his 143th appearance in the Champions League, equalling all-time record holder Xavi (Barcelona). He surpassed Xavi by claiming his 85th win in the Champions League. The Barcelona player recorded 84 wins.

RECORD: Luiz Adriano scores five goals in CL match

FOOTBALL: Luiz Adriano scored five goals in a CL match to equal Lionel Messi as only players to have achieved this. But Shakhtar’s Adriano set a few other landmarks on his way to scoring a handful of goals. 

The Wave: BATE Borisov – Shakhtar Donetsk

The Wave shows an exploding first half for Shakhtar Donetsk who scored six goals in the first 45 minutes. BATE Borisov barely showed anything in this match.

 

RECORD: The 140,000th English top flight goal

FOOTBALL – Daley Blind has scored the 140,000th goal in the English top flight in tonight’s Premier League match between West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United. Click on ‘Continue Reading’ to see which teams have scored the most goals since the first ever matchround in the English top flight on 8 September 1888.