PREMIER LEAGUE (HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HEADLINES)
Late Mane magic robs Villans. Saints valiant in defeat. Jamie Vardy’s having another party. Frank’s kids keep doing the business. Emery in denial at Emirates. Sheffield going from strength to strength. King ends mini Manchester revival. Gulls soar as Canaries nosedive. Steve longs for Geordie love. Tragic varce to end all varces.

LA LIGA WEEK 11 HIGHLIGHTS WEEK 12 HIGHLIGHTS
Indifferent starts to the season continued for Real and Barca as they followed up 5-star performances midweek (Messi sublime) with dropped points at the weekend in home matches against Betis and Leganes. Sociedad did the opposite, losing at Levante before winning at Granada to move level on points with the big two. A rejuvenated Morata helped Atletico keep in touch as they and Sevilla lie just a point behind. Osasuna extended their incredible unbeaten run at El Sadar to a record breaking 31 games and lie ninth. At the other end of the table, it was a bad week for the bottom three with Celta, Espanyol and Leganes all losing both their matches. For Vigo, it is now four defeats in a row.

SERIE A WEEK 10 HIGHLIGHTS WEEK 11 HIGHLIGHTS
De Ligt made it four handballs in four games, two of which he has got away with. The weekend one in the Turin derby reeked of Calciopoli, and was compounded by the fact the culprit also scored the winner. Inter picked up two 2-1 away wins with Lukaku knocking in 3 of their goals to keep pace. A Zaniolo powered Roma moved third with 3 wins from 3 in a week, the most impressive being in the Derby del Sole 2-1. Lazio also picked up a couple of wins with Immobile in irresistible form, breaking their 30 year AC San Siro hoodoo in the process. Atalanta and Napoli both stumbled to a single point in a bad week for both, but Cagliari’s form continues to impress. Elsewhere, Lecce can’t stop drawing and Hellas Verona subjected Balotelli to yet more racist abuse, with the league once again doing absolutely nothing. Samp moved off the bottom thanks to a win at SPAL, who take their place at the foot of the table.

BUNDESLIGA WEEK 10 HIGHLIGHTS
Marcus Thuram (son of Lilian) kept up his sensational form to extend the Foals’ stay at the top to a fourth week and their lead to 3, as Leon Bailey saw straight red on his return from injury. Dortmund moved second as they made it a week to forget for Wolfsburg. Bayern’s indifferent form turned disastrous as Eintracht destroyed them 5-1, with Niko Kovac being shown the door. Their one was Lewandowski, though, who has now scored in every one of the first ten matches. Amine Harit secured Schalke 3 points late on in Augsburg, Hoffenheim’s hot streak continued and Leipzig are well and truly back at the races after dismantling Mainz 8-0 with a Timo Werner hat-trick the icing on the cake of a superb team performance. In the Rhine Derby, Fortuna ran out comfortable victors, but Union left it late to claim the historic first-ever Berlin Bundesliga derby 1-0. Elsewhere, Nils Petersen pegged back Werder twice to edge ever closer to becoming Freiburg’s all-time leading scorer.

LIGUE 1 WEEK 12 HIGHLIGHTS
Bottom stunned top as lowly Dijon defeated PSG, who nevertheless remain 7 points clear of their closest rivals, Angers, who took full advantage of Nantes’ loss to Girondins in the Derby de l’Atlantique to regain second spot. Marseille bounced back from their thumping in Paris to edge out Lille and move fourth, as Lyon made it two wins from two in Toulouse thanks to an exquisite last minute solo effort from Memphis Depay. Elsewhere, St Etienne saw off Monaco at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard and there were home wins for Nice and Amiens. Metz and Montpellier drew 2-2, while Rennes vs Nimes was abandoned due to heavy rain. Nimes now prop up the table.