Last Sunday Juan Arango of Borussia Moenchengladbach scored the goal of the season in the Bundesliga and yet nobody outside of Germany has been talking about it.

Had it been Messi or Ronaldo in the Spanish Liga, Rooney in England's Premier League or Robinho in Serie A, it would have gone viral and made headlines around the sporting world.

The 32 year old Venezuelan scored his outrageous goal from fifty yards after reacting to a clearance by Mainz goalkeeper Heinz Muller who was stranded after rushing off his line to clear the danger.

His normally reserved Swiss coach Lucien Favre rushed onto

It was the morning after the night before. The Barcelona players had arrived back from Seville at 2am on Monday, all smiles as they left their plane after seeing Lionel Messi break Gerd Mueller's record of 85 goals in a calendar year with a brace against a well-organised Real Betis.

It may be a contrived statistic which most in Germany hadn't heard of until recently, but it made headlines around the world. Messi breaks goalscoring records by the week, but scoring more goals in a year than any other player was big news.

Most of the players had gone to bed at 3am, waking with their families at

The Unicredit bank in Mestre.

It was here that Gianni Vio worked, pushing pens and filing papers. Then in his early 50s, it was a job, not a passion. Football was Vio's real calling, specifically set-pieces.

His mind would presumably wander at work and he'd draw schemes and situations on the back of Unicredit letterheads, post-it notes or statements. There'd be penalty areas with dots and arrowed lines in different places, clusters and directions.

But these weren't idle doodles or senseless scribbles. They represented a body of work. Vio would host it on a website. He even wrote a book with

Manchester City's Sergio Aguero holds his head in his hands after missing a chance against Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium (Reuters)

Manchester City are this week's biggest losers with the Premier League champions counting the cost of a Champions League exit and a derby day defeat.

It has been a week to forget for Roberto Mancini's men, having been dumped out of Europe's premier club competition following defeat at Borussia Dortmund and then a loss against bitter rivals Manchester United in the dying moments of a highly-charged derby at the Etihad Stadium.

City's miserable last seven days are reflected in our rankings, where they are down 82 points from last week and fall a place to sixth. Their conquerors Dortmund

Saint-Etienne are a club moving in the right direction once again but their passionate support has been left frustrated by the team's continued impotence in what is, for them, the biggest fixture of all.

It is 31 years since Les Verts won the last of their 10 league titles, and 30 years since they reached a major cup final. But of more significance for Saint-Etienne right now is the fact that they have still not beaten bitter rivals Lyon at home since April 1994.

Sunday brought the 105th instalment of the Rhone derby, one of the most passionate in the French game, as bourgeois Lyon came up

Atletico Madrid superstar Falcao unsurprisingly leads the line in our European Team of the Week after plundering a remarkable five goals in Atletico Madrid's 6-0 win over Deportivo on Sunday.

"I scored five in a game when I was little in Bogota," said the Colombia international after his feat, "and I got four playing for Porto against Villarreal, but never five as a professional."

Alongside Falcao is Roma icon Francesco Totti, who claimed a brace in Roma's victory over Fiorentina, as well as providing an assist for the Italian club.

There are two rather less starry names in midfield, with

Twente coach Steve McClaren is stressing that Sunday's match with PSV Eindhoven at the Philips Stadion will not decide the destination of this year's Dutch Eredivisie title.

Leaders Twente and Vitesse Arnhem are one point ahead of Dick Advocaat's side after 15 league matches with PSV seeking to atone for a 6-2 home loss to McClaren's men in March under former coach Fred Rutten.

Twente led 4-0 at half-time and completed a crushing victory despite seeing central defender Douglas sent off early in the second half.

Former England manager McClaren is chasing a second title with Twente after

Team of the group stage

Lionel Messi unsurprisingly leads our team of the group stage after the Barcelona maestro's stunning performances so far in this season's Champions League.

The Argentine wizard is one of five Barcelona players to make the elite XI after six matchdays of action, during which the Catalan giants breezed into the knockout round with 13 points from Group G.

Andres Iniesta and Xavi form half of the midfield, while full-backs Dani Alves and Jordi Alba take their place in the back four.

Messi is joined up front by rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who helped Real Madrid through a tough 'group of death' which