With leagues around the world nearing their climax, there were pivotal results including Arsenal's 1-0 win over Manchester United which took them above Manchester City in the Premier League table, after City had strolled past Fulham. Real Madrid celebrated their LaLiga coronation with a 4-0 win over Granada, while Barcelona were left celebrating Girona's 2-2 draw against Alaves in the race for second.
Bayer Leverkusen continued their unbeaten streak in all competitions, taking it to a milestone 50 with a comfortable win over VfL Bochum. Over in Italy, Juventus and Bologna earned draws to seal their top four spots and thus qualification to the UEFA Champions League, while Kylian Mbappe's last home game for PSG ended in a 1-3 loss to Toulouse.
ESPN's By The Numbers brings you best stats from the weekend:
Premier League
27
Arsenal set a club record for most Premier League wins (27) in a single season. The previous mark was 26, done 3 times, including the 'Invincibles' in 2003-04 and in 2001-02 and last season as well.
4
With his winner for Arsenal against Manchester United, Leandro Trossard hit a career-high 4th game-winning goal in the Premier League this season. Since the start of 2024, the only players with more GW goals are Phil Foden, Erling Haaland and Cole Palmer (4 each). Trossard had scored 7 goals in his first 45 games played for Arsenal in all competitions in 2023. Since the calendar turned to 2024, Trossard has scored 11 goals in his last 22 games for Arsenal in all competitions
11
Arsenal's eleventh clean sheet of the season is just one away from the all-time Premier League record (12) set by Chelsea in 2008-09.
14
Kai Havertz has 14 goal contributions (8G,6A) in 2024 - only Cole Palmer has more (19) in the Premier League. This is Havertz's highest-ever tally since coming to England.
9
Manchester United's ninth home defeat of the season is their joint-worst in club history (also four times before in 1920-21, 1930-31, 1933-34, 1962-63, and 1973-74).
53
Manchester United have conceded 82 goals this league season, their worst record in 53 years (they conceded 82 in 1970-71).
-4
Manchester United now have a -4 goal difference. The last time the club finished with a negative goal difference in a league season was 1989-90 when they finished 13th. That was Sir Alex Ferguson's fourth season managing the club.
1
There was some succour for Manchester United fans after the club won the Women's FA Cup for the first time in the club's history. The 4-0 win over Tottenham was the largest goal difference in a final since 2005-06 (Arsenal 5-0 Leeds United)
33
Manchester City now have a 33-game unbeaten run in all competitions (last defeat was Dec. 6 at Aston Villa). The club's 21-game unbeaten run in the Premier League is the longest by any club since Liverpool went 27 straight unbeaten from Aug. 2019 to Feb. 2020
111
Kevin De Bruyne tied Cesc Fàbregas (111) for second-most assists in Premier League history. De Bruyne did this in 258 PL games while Fàbregas did it in 350. Only Ryan Giggs (162) has more assists.
48
Rodri has been unbeaten in his last 48 Premier League appearances for Manchester City (W39 D9). Only Sol Campbell (November 2002-October 2004) has ever had a longer unbeaten run (56 games).
101
Chelsea earned their 101st yellow card of the season against Nottingham Forest, which equals the all-time Premier League record set by Leeds in the 2021-22 season.
No defender has ever scored a hat-trick in the history of the Premier League.
Joško Gvardiol, who was on a brace vs. Fulham, decided to let Julián Álvarez take the spot kick when asked by Kyle Walker �� pic.twitter.com/73B89lztfD
- ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) May 11, 2024
LaLiga
29
Real Madrid's 29-game LALIGA unbeaten streak (23-6-0 W-D-L) is the club's longest single-season streak and one short of the club's longest in LALIGA history (30 in 1988-89)
19y 76d
Arda Güler is the youngest Real Madrid player (19 years, 76 days) to score 3 or more goals in a single LALIGA season since Raúl González in 1995-96 (19).
400
Diego Simeone earned his 400th win as manager of Atlético Madrid across all competitions. That is more than Real Madrid's all-time winningest manager (Miguel Muñoz - 357) and for Barcelona (Johan Cruyff 244).
158
Jan Oblak recorded his 158th clean sheet in LALIGA (6 away from tying Santiago Cañizares for 5th most all-time). Since Oblak joined Atlético Madrid in 2014-15, he has over 30 more clean sheets than the next GK in the top 5 European leagues (Ter Stegen - 124)
17
Athletic Club are unbeaten in their last 17 home games (W11 D6), equalling their best streak in a single campaign (1975/76 and 1977/78).
Serie A
1
Bologna confirmed their UCL spot after a 2-0 win away to Napoli. It will be the club's first UEFA Champions League appearance and 2nd European Cup appearance after featuring in the 1964-65 competition
5
Juventus have drawn 5 consecutive Serie A matches for the first time in 15 years (April-May 2009, also 5).
24 and 11
Christian Pulisic has 24 goal contributions in all competitions this season, just four short of the record set by an American playing in Europe's Top 5 leagues - Clint Dempsey for Fulham in 2011-12. Pulisic also brought up his 11th goal of the season, becoming the first AC Milan midfielder to score more than 10 (excluding penalties) since Kaka in 2005/06.
Bundesliga
500
Bayern Munich keeper Manuel Neuer made his 500th Bundesliga appearance (156 for Schalke, 344 for Bayern) - he is the fourth goalkeeper in Bundesliga history to reach this mark after Oliver Kahn (557), Eike Immel (534) and Uli Stein (512).
50
Bayer Leverkusen extended their record-breaking unbeaten run in all competitions to 50 games, which also meant they joined 1986-87 Bayern and 2012-13 Bayern as the only Bundesliga teams to complete a Bundesliga season unbeaten away from home (17 each).
Simply incredible from Bayer Leverkusen �� pic.twitter.com/gSXVMkt2w3
- ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) May 12, 2024
Ligue 1
26
PSG's 26-game Ligue 1 unbeaten streak came to an end in their 1-3 loss against Toulouse. It had been the club's third longest unbeaten streak in the top flight and longest since 2015-16 (36).
11
PSG have now gone 11 games without a clean sheet at home, their longest such streak in club history.
Messi-Ronaldo watch
The �� strikes again, bringing his count to 33⚽ in the SPL �� pic.twitter.com/ATZanMa8ym
- AlNassr FC (@AlNassrFC_EN) May 9, 2024
33
Ronaldo scored his 33rd goal of the season as Al Nassr earned a late 3-2 victory
0
Lionel Messi failed to contribute to a goal for the first time this season, after 12 appearances in all competitions. It ended the longest multiple goal contribution streak in MLS history (6), which Messi had earned last week.
(Stats courtesy: ESPN Stats and Information Group)