Paris Saint-Germain suffered their first Ligue 1 defeat of the season as Lyon claimed a deserved 2-1 home victory on Sunday evening.
Ángel Di María fired the visitors in front after seven minutes but Moussa Dembélé equalised in the first half and then won a penalty early in the second which was converted by Nabil Fekir.
The result means PSG remain 10 points clear of Lille at the top of the table, with Lyon three points further back after a third straight win.
Karim Benzema scored his sixth goal in four games as Real Madrid beat Alavés 3-0 for a fourth successive La Liga victory which took the European champions to within eight points of the leaders, Barcelona.
The French striker knocked a cross from the Spanish left-back Sergio Reguilón into the net from close range on the half-hour mark. The Brazilian teenager Vinicius Jr sealed victory in the 80th minute and the substitute Mariano Díaz further stretched the home side’s lead in added time.
In Serie A Nicolò Zaniolo’s second-half goal rescued a point for Roma as they secured a 1-1 draw with Milan. At 19 he became the youngest player to score three goals for Roma in Serie A since Francesco Totti in 1995. Gennaro Gattuso’s Milan nonetheless kept their place in the top four. Krzysztof Piatek having earlier scored his first league goal for Milan after joining from Genoa last month.
Meanwhile Internazionale players left the field to deafening jeers from their own fans after they lost 1-0 at home to relegation-threatened Bologna to pile more pressure on their coach, Luciano Spalletti, amid speculation the club is preparing to replace him with Antonio Conte.