5 highest scoring fixtures in Europe's top divisions so far

Football is one of the most popular sports in the world, and there is no better feeling than watching your favourite club score a goal. But it would be wrong to say that football is all about scoring goals. It is much more than that. It is also about brilliant saves made, that are as important as scoring a goal, it is about the skilful dribbling, flawless passing and most importantly teamwork.

But, in the end, after the 90 minutes are over, all that can be seen is the scoreline. A measure of how many goals scored by each team. And we all can say that honestly, no one really wants to see a goalless draw. Everyone wants goals to be scored, and when it comes to goals, the more the merrier.

The new season of football has started all over the Europe and already we have had quite a few matches ending in draws. But there also have been some fixtures this season where it has been a goals galore . So, here's a list of fixtures with the highest number of goals scored so far.

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#5 Angers 3-4 Nimes

Nimes Olympique beat Angers in a 7 goal thriller in their first Ligue 1 fixture after promotion. Image Courtesy: ligue1.com

Nîmes Olympique, the newly promoted side in Ligue 1 had a thrilling start to their first division season on matchday 1. They played out a 7-goal thriller against Angers SCO, it was a high intensity match, which saw the deciding goal being scored in in the 88th minute.

It was a thrilling comeback for Nimes, who were not only 3-1 behind in the second half, but were also reduced to 10-men, with 12 minutes remaining on the clock.

And even after four gameweeks, this fixture remains the highest scoring game of the Ligue 1 so far.

#4 PSV 6-1 Willem II

PSV have scored the highest number of goals so far in the Eredivisie

In their latest Dutch league fixture, the defending champions PSV, absolutely destroyed the Willem II side. They scored 6 goals past the helpless defense. And Willem could only respond by scoring a lone consolation goal in the second half.

The Boeren, have been on a hot streak so far, winning all of their four games and scoring 14 goals in doing so. In this fixture though, their star player Lozano wasn't able to get on the scoresheet, which is surprising given how influential he is in the midfield.

But still this isn't the highest goal-scoring match of this Eredivise season. That fixture will be discussed later in this post.

#3 Sassuolo 5-3 Genoa

Sassuolo had a 8-goal showdown against Genoa at home

U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, secured a comfortable 5-3 win in this high scoring fixture, before the international break. The club now sit at second in the standings just below Juventus, thanks to this famous victory.

Having already scored 4 goals before half-time, the game was over. But Genoa didn't give up and managed to answer back with 3 goals. Thus making this the highest scoring fixture in the Serie A so far.

#2 SC Heerenveen 3-5 Feyenoord

Jens Toornstra scored a brace in Feyenoord's victory over Heerenveen

The Rotterdam based club scored 5 goals in the 8-goal thriller, while Heerenveen only managed to pull 3 goals back. This is the highest scoring fixture in the Eredivisie so far, that we talked about earlier in the article.

After loosing their first fixture to De Graafschap, they have managed to score at least three goals in each of their Eredivisie fixtures. With so many goals scored in the league games, it seems another high scoring fixture is on the cards in the Eredivisie soon.

#1 Barcelona 8-2 SD Huesca

Messi scored two and assisted two goals in the demolition of SD Huesca

Just Barcelona doing Barcelona things, because Messi was doing just Messi things. In the 10-goal game, SD Huesca were thrashed 8-2. But surprisingly, they did lead 1-0 at a point.

In the highest goal-scoring fixture so far in the top 5 European league, Messi was on top form. Scoring two goals and setting up further two. The Catalan giants were shocked to have been one goal down, but they never looked weak and were able to score 8 goals past the visitors comfortably.

It was not only the highest scoring fixture so far this season but is also one of the highest scoring La Liga fixtures in the history of Barcelona.