PREMIER LEAGUE (HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HEADLINES)
Divock double sends Silva packing. Seven straight for flying Foxes. Clarets suffer City backlash. Chelsea arrest mini-slide at the Bridge. Solskjaer summarily sweeps aside predecessor. Gunners meltdown continues, but Seagulls on the up. Hammers back down to earth at Molineux. Magpies hand home defeat to Blades. Ten men Palace crush Cherries. Ryan helps Ralph to three points in basement battle.

Liverpool lead grows as Guardiola gives up on title. Jamie scoring jamboree rolls on as dogged Foxes stay in the hunt. Derby delight for Ole as he takes an improbable six from six. Big Dunc delivers on debut. 2-2 a Propper result despite Diogo double. Supersonic Spurs’ find a new gear. Wingbacks galvanized by half-time hairdryer. Nine minute burst lifts lethargy for Ljungberg. No victor in Vicarage Road stalemate. Newcastle comfortably nested in mid-table.

LA LIGA WEEK 16 HIGHLIGHTS
Yet another Messi hat-trick and an exquisite backheel from Luis Suarez saw Barcelona to a comfortable win over Mallorca, but Real remain level on points thanks to a French double that continued Espanyol’s desperate run of form. Sevilla slipped up at El Sadar as Osasuna began reconstructing their fortress. Valencia won their second city derby in a week against Levante, while Villarreal recovered from that loss to hold draw kings Atletico to a goalless stalemate. Sociedad achieved the same result in Valladolid. The other three Basque teams all lost, however, as Granada rediscovered their form against Alaves, Getafe won at Eibar and Athletic fell at the Villamarin. At the bottom, Leganes picked up a key win over Celta, who couldn’t quite recover a three-goal deficit.

SERIE A WEEK 15 HIGHLIGHTS
Racism reared its ugly head again, this time in the printed press, as Smalling and Lukaku’s reunion ended goalless. This extended Inter’s lead at the top, as Lazio made it seven straight wins with victory over the defending champions after Cuadrado’s pivotal red card. Cagliari fought back again to snatch a last-minute equaliser at Sassuolo to stay fourth, while Atalanta came from behind twice against Hellas to win and close the gap. Napoli continue to sleepwalk through the season dropping points in Udinese. Il Diavolo lie just a point behind them now after a win over Bologna in the Mihajlovic derby. Torino and Parma are sandwiched between the two sleeping giants after wins over Fiorentina and Samp. At the bottom, Brescia leapfrogged SPAL as Balotelli bagged their winner. Genoa remain alongside them in the bottom three after throwing away a two-goal advantage and picking up two reds at Lecce.

BUNDESLIGA WEEK 14 HIGHLIGHTS
The Foals weathered a first-half Bavarian storm to eventually claim a last gasp victory that keeps them top and drops Bayern to a lowly seventh. Leipzig stayed right behind them, though, as Werner and Sabitzer were on target once again against Nagelmann’s former side. Reus and Sancho were much too hot for Fortuna to handle at Signal Iduna Park with Dortmund running out 5-0 winners. Freiburg and Leverkusen climbed up the table with narrow home victories over Wolfsburg and Schalke, while Union’s impressive home form clinched another three points at Koln’s expense, who now sit bottom. Klinsmann got his first point since returning at Frankfurt, despite letting a two-goal lead slide, Augsburg put an end to Beierlorzer’s impressive start at Mainz, and a last-minute winner helped Paderborn win in Bremen and move off the bottom.

LIGUE 1 WEEK 16 HIGHLIGHTS WEEK 17 HIGHLIGHTS
PSG picked up a couple of comfortable wins with the new trio of Mbappe, Neymar and Icardi beginning to hit their stride as a unit. OM are doing an admirable job of staying as close as possible after seeing off both Angers and Bordeaux. Lille move up to third thanks to 1-0 wins over OL and Brest, with fourth-placed Rennes also winning both their matches this week. At the other end, the bottom four were as bad as the top four were good with Toulouse, Metz, Nimes and Amiens all failing to register a single point. Of these, the Crocodiles had the most distressing week scoring none, conceding ten and receiving two red cards.