In many ways, football is a simple game: the team that scores the most goals, wins. Yet in every week, in every league and in every single match, there are intriguing statistical sub-plots that help make the beautiful game the fascinating spectacle that it is.

That's why, every week, we at FIFA.com take a look at the numbers behind the results, highlighting football's biggest winners and losers from the week just past. In this, the latest of our round-ups, we pay tribute to Bayern Munich's defensive parsimony, Cafu's longevity and the spectacular scoring streak that took Daniel Guiza to the top of the Spanish scoring charts.

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years on from their last and, until Saturday, only FA Cup triumph, Portsmouth returned to a new and vastly-different Wembley Stadium to repeat the feat and became the 23rd club to win the famous old trophy more than twice. Among the crowd at England's glistening new national stadium were a few veteran supporters who had stood on the terraces back in 1939, among them 89-year-old John Jenkins, who still works for the south coast club as a steward. At the other end of the age spectrum, meanwhile, Cardiff City substitute Aaron Ramsey became the second-youngest player to participate in an FA Cup final at 17 years and 143 days, beaten only by Millwall's Curtis Weston, who was a mere 24 days younger in 2004.

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years ago, Werder Bremen stormed to their second Bundesliga title and, in doing so, set a new top flight benchmark for the miserly defensive record on which their bid had been based. Werder's final tally - 22 goals conceded over a 34-game campaign - had never been achieved before and for two decades it stood as the finest collective achievement by a Bundesliga backline. However, Bayern Munich have made a habit of rewriting history this season and they did so again at the weekend, ending the season on 21 conceded to eclipse their northern rivals' record by a single goal. It proved a fitting end to a fantastic goalkeeping career, and yet Oliver Kahn will doubtless have been more than a little irked that he was just six minutes away from securing the umpteenth clean sheet of his illustrious career when Hertha Berlin claimed their consolation goal in a 4-1 win for the champions.

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days short of his 38th birthday, Cafu became the week's oldest goalscorer when he found the net in AC Milan's 4-1 final day win over Udinese. The well-taken strike, Milan's third, provided the perfect end to the legendary full-back's exemplary career at the San Siro, and came just two days after he had revealed that his long Italian adventure had come to an end. The most capped Brazilian player of all time will now return to his homeland after 11 years in Italy - six with Roma, five with Milan - and while contemplating retirement, he has left the door open to continuing his career in the Brazilian top flight. Already, that has led to an official declaration of interest from Palmeiras, who sold Cafu to Roma in 1997, with coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo claiming the full-back is in "a perfect position to sign".

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red cards in 10 matches, a record for a single round of games in the Argentinian Clausura, were flashed over the weekend as Matchday 15 went down in history as the most bad-tempered on record. Any sense of shock at this statistic is likely to be tempered, however, by the fact that this round of matches included four traditionally tempestuous derbies: Boca Juniors-Racing Club, Gimnasia-Estudiantes, Huracan-San Lorenzo and Indedendiente-River Plate. Prior to last weekend, Estudiantes had been the only team in Argentina this season without a dismissal to their name, but while Marcos Angeleri and Rodrigo Brana ended this record with early baths at Gimnasia's Estadio Juan Carlos Zerillo, a deadly double from Ezequiel Maggiolo secured a 2-1 win over their fierce La Plata rivals and ensured that his team-mates' indiscretions were quickly forgotten by the Pincharratas' fans. This, in fact, was the third successive derby Estudiantes have finished with fewer than 11 players - and they have won all three!

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goals in seven successive matches ensured that Real Mallorca's Daniel Guiza emerged, almost from nowhere, to finish season 2007/08 as La Liga's top scorer. The feat matched exactly the scoring streak on which Ruud van Nistelrooy embarked between April and June of last year, leaving the pair second only to one remarkable player in the history of the Spanish top flight. That player? Ronaldo, who during his spectacular and at-times unstoppable pomp with Barcelona, racked up an incredible 12 goals in ten straight matches in 1997. The season ended too soon for Guiza to emulate that mark, but the 28-year-old will be thrilled nonetheless with a tally of 27 goals that as well as taking him past Luis Fabiano to the Spanish scoring crown, has propelled him into Luis Aragones' squad for UEFA EURO 2008.