Daily Weekend. Bayer are champions, Arsenal and Liverpool let Man City fly free

Last weekend we learnt the first champion among the top 5 European leagues. In other countries, the outcome is still a long way off, but there were matches that could have a big impact on the outcome. Dailysports will introduce you to all the interesting things that took place in the world of sports and football, among other things, over the weekend.

Sensation without sensation. Bayer is the champion!

14 April 2024, Sunday, 19 hours, 19 minutes CET. This moment will forever go down in the history of German football, as it was then that the German championship got a new champion. For the first time, the silver (or maybe even golden) salad bowl went to Leverkusen, as for the first time in its history, the first place in the Bundesliga at the end of the season will go to Bayer.

Xabi Alonso's fairytale of a team did bring the Pharmacists one of three possible trophies this campaign, as they still continue to struggle in the German Cup and Europa League. In the championship match against Werder (5-0), Bayer not only dropped the nickname "Neverkusen", but also repeated the incredible series of Juventus Turin - 43 matches without defeat in all tournaments!

Interestingly, the famous hangover cure Alka-Seltzer is produced by the pharmaceutical company Bayer, so everyone in the team, not to get intoxicated by the success in the Bundesliga and not to miss the opportunity to win a kind of "treble", it will not hurt.

Arsenal and Liverpool have spun the championship race in the Premier League

And where there is still a long way to go to determine the champion is in the English Premier League, where matches of the 33rd round took place last weekend. The first of the top three to play was Manchester City, who on Saturday at home did not feel much resistance of Luton Town and defeated the debutant of the Premier League with a score of 5:1. All the most interesting things happened on Sunday.

After this game, Arsenal and Liverpool were two points behind Pep Guardiola's team. If both teams had won their games, Man City would have fallen back to third place. But, not everything is so obvious. Liverpool lost 0-1 to Crystal Palace and suffered two consecutive defeats at Anfield for the first time since 2017. And Arsenal also in their own walls dryly lost to Aston Villa with a score of 0:2.

Manchester City have thus gone into a two-point lead over their rivals, but all three teams have a match in hand.

Gordon is a threat to the big six clubs of the Premier League

Newcastle winger Anthony Gordon has scored ten goals this season, but six of them have been conceded by clubs in the historic 'big six' of the APL. For a complete package, the 23-year-old lacked a mark in the goal of Tottenham, which he failed to do in the game in London. But in Newcastle, where the Magpies defeated their rival with a score of 4-0 he scored.

Thus, in one season, Gordon has scored against Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and both Manchester clubs, something only Leicester legend Jamie Vardy managed to do in the 2017/2018 season.

Atlético set a disappointing streak for the first time under Simeone

Atlético Madrid this season is not given the role of a championship contender, the "matrasniki" only have to fight to get into the Champions League. But, Diego Simeone's team is having trouble in the current campaign, which happened in Saturday's match against Girona.

Yes, Atlético managed to beat the Catalans 3-1, but a goal conceded by Artem Dovbyk in the fourth minute set up an unpleasant series - Los Colchoneros conceded in the tenth match in a row. In the era of Cholo Simeone, who has been in charge of the team since 2011, this happened for the first time. The last time Atlético set such a streak was back in 2004.

The Union defender broke a record that had stood for more than 50 years

It took Kaiserslautern defender Dietmar Schwager nine whole years to set what seemed like an eternal record: 266 matches without a field player scoring in the Bundesliga between 1964 and 1973. But, there are no eternal records and Schwager's "achievement" lasted a little more than half a century.

He was surpassed by Union Berlin defender Kevin Vogt, who last scored in the Bundesliga as early as 18 November 2014 in a match against Borussia Dortmund while still with Cologne. After that, the player went on a drought of 267 games, which became a record in the history of the German league.