Everton's winning streak and the continuation of Rodriguez's successful debut
Everton continues to amaze all football in England.
Carlo Ancelotti's wards were the first to win four wins in four rounds and single-handedly topped the standings, waiting for Leicester and Liverpool to try to do the same.
This time the Merseysides beat Brighton.
Already in the 16th minute, the scoring was opened by Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who realized a corner.
For him, this is the ninth goal this season in all competitions, among the players in the five main European championships, no one has scored so much.
In the Premier League, he scored for his fourth straight game, something that none of Everton's English players have done for 20 years.
In the 41st minute, Neil Maupe was able to level the score due to the mistake of Jordan Pickford, who dropped the ball from his hands, but even before the break, Ancelotti's men took the lead.
Everton's newcomer James Rodriguez took a free kick, after which Jerry Mina brought the ball into the goal.
In the second half, the Colombian scored again, scoring two goals on his own.
For his second match in the Premier League, Rodriguez managed to participate in five goals of his team.
Brighton managed to score a locker room goal in stoppage time, which did not affect the final result.
Including their league Cup performances, Everton won their seventh straight win.
At the start of the season, this happened to the Mercisidians only for the second time in their history after 1894.
Chilwell's effective debut and two penalties by Jorginho
Chelsea were behind Crystal Palace in the standings for three rounds, which is quite unusual for one of the annual favorites of the Premier League.
Frank Lampard's wards were able to correct this misunderstanding by defeating the Londoners in their field with a score of 4: 0.
All goals in this match were scored in the second half.
Shortly after kick-off, defender Benjamin Chilwell joined another Chelsea attack in time and scored the first goal of his debut game for the team.
After 16 minutes, he made the first assist.
His pass allowed Kurt Zuma to excel.
Completed the defeat of Jorginho, who was allowed to do so by the referee of the meeting.
The Italian midfielder twice received the right to shoot a penalty and took advantage of it both times.
Crystal Palace have managed to deliver only four shots to the opponents' goal and have allowed Chelsea to leave them intact for the first time this season in the Premier League.
Long wait for Moreno and 35 shots on goal
Leeds and Manchester City met on the pitch for the first time since 2013 when they crossed paths in the FA Cup.
Returning to the Premier League, the club did not allow the vice-champions of the country to score three points and achieved a draw with the favorite.
The match turned out to be extremely entertaining.
The teams struck 35 shots on goal for two.
This season this is the best result among all the games in the English championship.
True, the vast majority of dangerous moments were never translated into goals.
In the 17th minute, Raheem Sterling opened the scoring, as if aiming from the middle of the penalty area.
Leeds were unable to level the score until Spanish striker Rodrigo Moreno entered the field.
It took him only three minutes to distinguish himself after a blunder from goalkeeper Ederson.
The last time Moreno scored in a Premier League match was back in 2011 when he played for Bolton Wanderers.
Thanks to this draw, Leeds entered the top six of the English championship, while Manchester City are only in the middle of the standings with four points.
Eintracht's strong-willed victory and leadership in the Bundesliga
While Bayern are in the middle of the standings with one defeat, other teams have begun to fight for the leadership in the Bundesliga.
In this regard, the status of the central match of the third round was acquired by the meeting between Eintracht and Hoffenheim.
The beginning of the meeting was left to the guests, who once again scored Andrei Kramarich.
Taking into account last season, the Croatian striker “Hoffenheim” has chalked up ten goals in four games.
True, this time his performance was not enough to win.
Frankfurt responded with two goals in the second half.
Both of them had a hand in Bas Ven.
The Dutchman first gave the pass to Daichi Kamada, and then delivered an accurate blow himself.
The victory allowed Eintracht Frankfurt to score seven points after three matches.
The team from Frankfurt am Main is in the lead together with Leipzig.
True, on Sunday, both of them could be bypassed by "Augsburg" if they win the third match in a row.
Reina's assistant hat-trick and Holland's second double
An equally important event of the day in Germany was the match between Freiburg and Borussia Dortmund, which after two rounds was in the table lower than its opponent.
But Zenit's rival in the Champions League was able to improve their standings, having won 4-0.
The hero of the meeting was 17-year-old Giovanni Reina.
He handed out three assists, of which two were directed to Erling Holland.
The young American began to delight fans last season, and now he has one goal and four assists in his last five Bundesliga matches.
His father, US team player Claudio Reina, has given the same number of assists in just 105 games in the English Premier League.
Holland, on the other hand, set off in pursuit of Kramaric in the German championship scorers' race.
This is his second double this season, and now the Norwegian is second behind the Croat, who has scored six goals.
Borussia, thanks to the performance of Holland and Reina, were able to approach the leaders of the standings by one point at the end of Saturday.
Third defeat for Schalke and first place for Leipzig
A real catastrophe is happening at Schalke now.
After defeats in the first two rounds, head coach David Wagner was dismissed from the team, who did not manage to win a single victory in the last 18 games of the German championship.
He was replaced by Manuel Baum, but it didn't get any better.
In the third round, the Gelsenkirchen team lost to Leipzig with a score of 0: 4.
Schalke conceded three of four goals in the final third of the first half.
After Jan Bozdogan's own goal, Angelinho and Willie Orban scored with accurate shots within 16 minutes.
Marcel Halstenberg, who gave the pass to the Hungarian defender, then converted the penalty himself.
Leipzig caught up with Eintracht in points and even surpassed it in additional indicators, while Schalke, with a goal difference of 1:15, was firmly entrenched at the very bottom of the standings.
Roma's first victory and Shomurodov's disrupted debut
Sassuolo became the unexpected leader of the Italian championship.
While the recognized grandees of Serie A were losing points or waiting for their turn to play the matches of the third round, Roberto de Dzerbi's charges won another victory and scored seven points, becoming the leader of the standings after Saturday's games.
For the second time in a row, Sassuolo beat the rival with a score of 4: 1, this time defeating the modest Crotone, who have not yet gained a single point.
The double was scored by Francesco Caputo, who had three goals canceled at once in the previous defeat of Spice.
Roma won their first win of the season on their third attempt.
It happened after the meeting with “Udinese”, which started even worse and did not gain points at all.
The outcome of the match was determined by the only goal performed by Pedro Rodriguez in the 55th minute of the match.
On Saturday, the first match in Italy was also scheduled for Eldor Shomurodov, who moved from Rostov to Genoa.
However, even on the day of the transfer, it became known that his new team would not play in the third round with Torino.
The reason was an outbreak of coronavirus that occurred in the new club of the Uzbek striker.
Isolated cases of infection on Saturday were also detected in Juventus and Atalanta.
Betis at the top and Atlético's second goalless draw
Another sensational leader in the top five European championships was the Spanish "Betis".
After two defeats in a row, the Sevillians beat Valencia away, and that was enough to rise to the first place.
Three points for Betis brought goals from Sergio Canales and Cristian Tello.
Valencians responded with just two shots on target, which did not affect the final score.
Leadership of Betis is largely due to the fact that they have played five matches, while other Spanish teams could enter the field only two or three times.
For this reason, for example, Atlético is not at the top of the standings.
However, Madrid in their three games themselves did not score enough points to be higher.
Diego Simeone's charges played a goalless draw with Villarreal, a repeat of their previous meeting with Huesca.