Real Madrid Net Eight, Lampard Goal = Man City & Chelsea Draw, Leicester Shock Man United, Juventus Edge Milan

It simply had to be, right?

Holy Insanity, Batman! What a weekend! You could not have written the script better for Super Frank Lampard as Chelsea's all-time leading goal scorer, on loan to Manchester City from New York City FC, comes on as a late sub and scores the tying goal to deny Chelsea a victory at the Etihad. Similarly, down 1-3 to Manchester United after 62 minutes, few would have predicted a Leicester City Comeback/Manchester United Meltdown that would result in a final score of 5-3 to the home side. Wow. Oh, and Real Madrid put eight past Deportivo de La Coruña, West Ham beat Liverpool, and Crystal Palace won at Everton. Let's get to the reports and analysis, beginning in England.

Monday Morning Hangover

Premier League Playback

10 Talking Points

10 Things We Learned

Heroes and Villians

Chris Kamara's Weekend Review

Peter Berlin: EPL Notes

West Ham 3 - 1 Liverpool: Dominic Fifield at Upton Park

Miguel Delaney: Three Points: Liverpool haven't made it yet

Leicester City 5 - 3 Manchester United: Stuart James at King Power Stadium

John Brewin: Three Points: Man United fall apart at Leicester

Michael Cox: Leicester win duel of the diamonds against a stunned United

Kyle Bonn: Foxes complete comeback for the ages (includes highlights)

Jamie Jackson: How Van Gaal’s tactics were exposed by Leicester’s Nigel Pearson

Manchester City 1 - 1 Chelsea: Phil McNulty at the Etihad Stadium

Manchester City 1 - 1 Chelsea: Daniel Taylor at the Etihad Stadium

Richard Jolly: Three Points: Lampard rescues Man City against Chelsea

Barney Ronay: Touré’s meaty display for City does not disguise loss of appetite

Team of the Weekend

Garth Crooks's Team of the Week

Let's move on to the Continent, shall we? In particular, Spain and Italy. Here are Five Things we learned in La Liga this weekend. Not enough? OK, La Liga and Serie A weekend roundups. More? Fine. Here's some additional Serie A where Juventus won at Milan and Roma cruised past Cagliari. More tomorrow with the Scribes!

There was action in the United States this weekend. What did we learn? We learned at the very least Five Things. Power Rankings? Yes, Jeff Carlisle can provide those.

Not terribly pleased with Pardew...

Last Weekend In Europe

This is pretty great. A lot of German footy fans are not pleased that Red Bull's RB Leipzig was created simply to market the brand in 2009. Supporter input and influence are not encouraged, and the team operates more or less solely as a marketing wing of Red Bull. This weekend in Berlin, Leipzig were met with 15 minutes of silence from 20,000 Union Berlin fans.

The Guardian is taking a very close look at Jorge Mendes: From Diego Costa to Angel di María, the Portuguese super agent is responsible for the biggest deals in football but is also in apparent breach of Fifa regulations.

Like a rock...not.

Good grief! We'd better terminate things there.

Onward!!

-SSN

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