Manchester City success and Pulisic hat-trick

Wards of Josep Guardiola continue to pursue the departed Liverpool. In the 10th round, Manchester City defeated Aston Villa in its field and reduced the gap from the leader to three points. For the “townspeople” this success was the ninth in a row in the confrontation with the “lions”, and even the removal of Fernandinho in the 87th minute could not prevent them.

Rachim Sterling was again in the spotlight. This season, he performs at the highest level, which confirms its effectiveness. So, in the 46th minute, the midfielder opened the scoring and scored his 13th goal in the last 14 matches. It is enough to note that not a single Premier League player can boast of such achievements.

In the rest of the time, David Silva and Ilkay Gundogan were noted for accurate strikes, and Kevin de Bruyne gave the next transfer. For the Belgian, she was already the ninth in the championship, which helped him to become a leader in the goal + pass system (2 + 9). One point less for Jamie Vardi (9 + 1) from Leicester and his teammate Sergio Aguero (8 + 2).

However, the main character of the day on Foggy Albion was Christian Pulisic. In the match against Burnley, he burst out with three goals in 36 minutes and not only brought Chelsea a victory, but also set several achievements at once. So, he became the first American to distinguish himself in a T-shirt of “aristocrats” and the representative of the 36th country to ever score for a team. At the same time, only one representative of the United States made a hat-trick in the Premier League - in January 2012, this bar obeyed the former Fulham midfielder Clint Dempsey.

The advantage of the Londoners to crushing brought the exact blow of Willian, but in the very end Frank Lamparad wards allowed the owners to reduce the difference in the account. In four minutes, Jay Rodriguez and Dwight McNeil twice struck Kepa Arrisabalaga’s goal, but didn’t save the Burnley from defeat. After that, the team’s track record left one victory in 12 matches with the blue.

Juventus without Ronaldo and the goal of ex-soccer player Inter to his former team

In Italy, Serie A leaders simultaneously lost points in the ninth round. Juventus mentor Maurizio Sarri gave rest to the leader of his team Cristiano Ronaldo and instantly paid for it. “Old Signora” unexpectedly played very faded and could not beat one of the outsiders of the championship - “Lecce”.

Turinians delivered 25 shots on goal of Gabriel, but only four of them were on target. At the same time, the ball first appeared in the home net in the first half, but the goal of Gonzalo Higuain was canceled after watching a video replay. Thus, the Argentinean could not celebrate his 200th goal in the Italian Championship and the 100th for Juventus, and after the final whistle he was taken to hospital. As a result of a collision with an opponent's goalkeeper, he received a head injury.

“Bianconeri” could only distinguish themselves in the 50th minute. Paulo Dybala scored an 11-meter penalty for a hard foul against Miralem Pjanic at the free border. It is noteworthy that in this episode, the VAR system was also not without. The answer to Lecce was not long in coming. Six minutes later, Matthews de Ligt played with his hand in his own penalty area, and Marco Mancozu just struck from the “point”.

If successful, Inter could outperform its competitor and lead the standings, but failed to get the better of Parma. The main events unfolded from the 23rd to the 30th minute. Antonio Kandreva led the hosts ahead, after which the ex-footballer “Nerazzurri” Yann Karamo entered the stage. First, the striker scored a beautiful shot from outside the box, and then assisted Gervinho.

The status quo restored Romelu Lukaku. Initially, the goal was not scored, but the VAR system restored justice. Thus, the Belgian grenadier became the first Inter player in 10 years with six goals in the first nine matches in Serie A. The Argentinian Diego Milito succeeded for the last time.

The true hero of the day was Genoa coach Tiago Motta. Only on October 22, the mentor led the team, and five days later went down in history. So, in a meeting with “Brescia”, each of the substituting footballers in the Genoese team scored a goal, which has never happened before in Serie A.

The sensational defeat of Vitessa and the goal of the 17-year-old striker

The Dutch Vitesse under the leadership of Leonid Slutsky unexpectedly lost to one of the outsiders of the Eredivisi ADO Den Haag. In anticipation of this meeting, the hosts had a series of four victories, while the guests did not know the taste of success over the past five games.

The match ended 2-0 in favor of Den Haag, which took just 5 minutes 23 seconds to hit Remko Pasvera's goal twice. The last time the “herons” pleased with such a rate of fire on the road in 1965 in the confrontation with “Utrecht”. In the current match, the first ball in the net was sent by young Chrisencio Summerville, who became the youngest goal scorer in the history of Eredivisi. So, at the time of the meeting with Vitesse, he was 17 years old and 361 days old.

Failures of Leipzig and Bayer

The rival of Zenit in the Champions League group extended its unbeaten run in the German Championship to four matches. Away Leipzig was defeated by Freiburg, having conceded a decisive goal in the 90th minute. Its author was Niels Petersen, who became the new Bundesliga record holder for the number of goals after a substitution (22). Pill Julian Nagelsman wards a little sweetened the exact blow of Lucas Klosterman in the second compensated minute.

The opponent of “Locomotive” could not break the resistance of “Bremen”. Bayer stepped forward in the fourth minute, but then turned out to be catching up. It took Milot Raszyce and Davy Klassen eight minutes to take their team forward. Lucas Alario restored his balance, distinguished himself after the transfer of Karim Bellarabi. The German winger not only scored an effective pass, but also set a league record for the number of crossings per game (20).

Meanwhile, Robert Lewandowski was also a record. The forward of Bayern scored the winning goal in the game with Union and the first in the history of the Bundesliga distinguished himself in all nine starting rounds of the championship.

Lyon's first victory since August and Cloud confidence

In the same place, other rivals of Russians in the Champions League are beginning to come out of the crisis. So, the French “Lyon” interrupted the eight-match losing streak in League 1. In the 11th round, the “weavers” prevailed over the “Metz”, gaining three points for the first time since August 16.

Unlike the French, the Spanish Atletico did not win the national championship for three meetings. The long-awaited success came in a duel with Athletic from Bilbao. Saul and Alvaro Morata chalked up the goal, and Angel Correa twice acted as an assistant. Prior to this, only Koke managed to score two assists in one game in 2019.

Ian Cloud once again left his gate untouched. In recent meetings, he repelled 18 of 19 shots on his own goal, having missed only after a free-kick in the performance of the Valencia midfielder Dani Parejo.