10 Things We Learned This Weekend

Football super God Lionel Messi was diagnosed with a torn knee ligament that will keep him out for up to eight weeks. Bad news for their upcoming La Liga and Champions League games but hopefully for Barça he could make it for El Clássico.

Surprisingly the team from tiny Vila-Real is top of La Liga. After a draw against Betis in the first match they are on a run of five wins.

Arsene Wenger on the slow start of Alexis and the lack of goals after Copa America: “Physically he is not completely ready, coming out of a big achievement and that takes time”. Well, the Chilean showed the following day he was physically prepared and he's now the first player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A.

Red Devils fans will be pleased that United are at the summit of the Premier League again. With Champions League coming up at Old Trafford this week it's a good time to be a United fan again.

It's now three losses in four for Manchester City. Juventus must have left something dodgy in the form of a hex as City have lost both Premier League games since the Italians' visit.

Dortmund should have taken all three points at home to newly-promoted Darmstadt, especially in the week leading up to Der Klassiker with Bayern, but all credit to the visitors. It may have knocked BVB's confidence, though.

After scoring five goals against Wolfsburg earlier in the week, Robert Lewandowski hit two more at weekend and became the fastest foreigner to score 100 Bundesliga goals - he did it in 168 matches.

Schalke are on fire. It's the best start to a Bundesliga campaign for 44 years with 16 points from a possible 21.

It felt like Fiorentina were the home side when they came to Milan and cheekily took a 4-1 result home with them. Both clubs now share the top of the table.

Juventus are now ten points behind leaders Fiorentina and Inter as they slumped to yet another loss at weekend, to Napoli. It's three losses in six games for Juve and just five points from a possible 18.