LET'S TALK SOCCER. (FACTS, ANALYSIS & EVENTS)
English and Tottenham striker Harry Edward Kane is the only player in Europe's top five leagues to have scored 5+ goals with his right foot (9), left foot (9) and head (6) this season.
PHENOMENAL
Gareth Bale has now scored the first goal under three of the last four managers of the Welsh national team (Brian Flynn, Chris Coleman and Ryan Giggs).
Chelsea ran riot at Stamford Bridge with a 6-0 win over Arsenal on this day in 2014. Kieran James Ricardo Gibbs was wrongly sent off following Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain first-half handball.
It was Jose Mourinho's biggest Premier League victory as Chelsea manager and also the first time in Chelsea's history that they have scored six times against their London rivals. It was also Arsene Wenger's 1000th game in-charge of the Gunners.
Substitute Mohamed Salah completed the rout in the 71st minute(his first Chelsea goal).
Eidur Gudjohnsen and Damien Duff scored as Chelsea beat Fulham 2-1 in a Premier League game at Stamford Bridge on this day in 2004. This was the commencement of a home unbeaten streak that would last a total of 86 matches (an English record).
Arsenal, incidentally, were the last team to beat Chelsea at the Bridge before the start of the streak, with a 1-2 win on 21 February 2004.
The last match in that run was a 2-0 league win over Aston Villa on 5 October 2008. Liverpool finally ended Chelsea's home dominance with a 0-1 league win on 26 October 2008.
THE PENSIONERS
Nottingham Forest and Notts County played each other in the first-ever Trentside side derby on this day in 1866. It was also Forest's first official game.
Since then, the two teams have had a total of 96 meetings (Forest won 40, Notts won 30, 26 Draws).
The two teams last met on 9 August 2011 in a Carling Cup game. Forest won 4-3 on penalties after regulation time ended 3-3.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro has scored his 50th hat-trick in all competitions (club + country). The former Sporting CP winger scored four in Real Madrid's 6-3 bashing of Girona FC
After scoring the opener in an eventual 2-1 win over Leicester City in the FA Cup, Spanish Striker Álvaro Borja Morata Martín has now scored his first goal for Chelsea since December 2017 (vs Brighton and Hove Albion), ending a run of 13 games in all competitions without one.
After netting a hat-trick in a 5-0 win over his former employers Sampdoria, Inter Milan striker and club captain Mauro Emanuel Icardi is now the sixth-youngest player(25 years) to score 100 goals in Italian Serie A