After scoring just once in 14 Premier League appearances for Man City this season, Mario Balotelli scored both of Milan's goals in his debut against Udinese. Balotelli and Stephan El Shaarawy (who form Milan's mohawk triumvirate with M'baye Niang) picked up where they left off with the Italian national team and both played a part in each of Milan's goals for the 2-1 win.

El Shaarawy earned a questionable penalty during injury time and Balotelli slotted in the ensuing spot kick to retain his perfect record there. Though the celebration that followed wasn't exactly on the same level as the shirtless flex he did at Euro 2012, it was the perfect punctuation to his defiant press conference earlier in the week.

Cristiano Ronaldo has already scored 21 times for Real Madrid this season and now he's scored once against his club. Like so many of the goals he scores on purpose, his own goal in the 22nd minute of Real Madrid's match against Granada was quite a nice header from a difficult angle off a corner kick.

Just one more thing that Ronaldo can do and Messi can't.

UPDATE: Granada won 1-0 without a single shot on target thanks to Ronaldo's own goal.

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Demba Ba was given a rare start by Rafa Benitez in his return to Newcastle and short of losing a thumb and forgetting how to read, it was pretty much as awful as it could've possibly been. Chelsea came back from 1-0 down to take a 2-1 lead in the second half but eventually lose 3-2 -- a result that would've been painful enough for Ba even without getting his nose broken before halftime.

Ba was kicked in the face by Newcastle defender Fabricio Coloccini, which referee Howard Webb didn't think was worthy of a booking. After receiving treatment for several minutes and getting the middle of his face covered with tape to hold back the bleeding, Ba made a valiant effort to carry on, knowing that Fernando Torres would come on if he couldn't continue. Ba was having trouble with his vision though, so he was replaced by Torres in the 42nd minute, after Jonas Gutierrez scored Newcastle's first goal.

Said interim Chelsea destroyer Rafa Benitez after the match (via the BBC):

"I think there were too many mistakes. I could see a red card that was not shown for Coloccini," said Benitez.

"So we had a chance, he [Demba Ba] had the ball, he received a kick and got a broken nose, it was bleeding. It was so simple, if it was in the middle of park you would go back and give a free-kick.

"It is very simple and very clear - penalty and red card because it was a chance. It's a strange rule and the penalty could have changed everything."

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.