15 Important Premier League Facts You've Missed This Year
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As the Premier League season takes a breather for another round of international football, we thought it a fine time to sift through our data and dish out some juicy stats and tidbits.
So, without further ado, here are 15 delightful nuggets from this season's footballing escapades.
Burnley, Everton, Luton, and Sheffield United all took a tumble in their opening three Premier League matches this season, marking the first time in the annals of English top-flight history that four different clubs stumbled right out of the gate.
Adapting to life in the Premier League is never a cakewalk, but it seems the challenge has grown steeper. While Everton managed to recover with two wins, the quartet of Burnley, Luton, and Sheffield United mustered just two victories in eight games since their promotion.This season has already witnessed five different teams reaching the summit of the Premier League table, including Newcastle, Manchester City, Brighton, West Ham, and Tottenham. That's a pair more than the entirety of the 2022-23 season when only Arsenal, Tottenham, and Man City took the top spot.
Is there a title race brewing? We dare say it looks promising! Surprisingly, Liverpool and Arsenal, the second and third favorites to win the title according to the Opta supercomputer, haven't even had a taste of the top yet. Could we be in for an exciting battle, or will City waltz away with another title? Time shall reveal all.None of the first 46 Premier League games this season ended in a tedious 0-0 draw, matching the record set back in the 2020-21 season.
Goals have been flowing, with only Bournemouth and Chelsea breaking the streak in their goalless tiff on September 17th. Since then, we've had two more, both involving Crystal Palace.The footballing gods were generous on September 2nd, with three players - Son Heung-min, Erling Haaland, and Evan Ferguson - bagging hat-tricks in a single day of Premier League action.
This treble of trebles matched the record set on September 23, 1995, when Alan Shearer, Robbie Fowler, and Tony Yeboah all netted thrice.Young Evan Ferguson, at a tender age of 18 years and 318 days, became the fourth 18-year-old to score a Premier League hat-trick, following in the footsteps of Michael Owen back in October 1998.
Chris Bart-Williams and Robbie Fowler complete this exclusive club of teenage hat-trick heroes.Phil Foden's opening goal against Nottingham Forest came at the end of a mesmerizing 46-pass sequence, making it the second-longest passing move in Premier League history, dating back to 2006-07. Only Nacer Chadli's goal for Tottenham against QPR in August 2014, involving 48 passes, tops this remarkable feat.
By the way, did you expect to see the name 'Nacer Chadli' when you opened this page?
Newcastle's 8-0 drubbing of Sheffield United made history as the first Premier League match where eight different players from one side scored. It was a historic away victory for Newcastle and a painful record for Sheffield United.
In that spectacular match, Sean Longstaff, Dan Burn, Sven Botman, Callum Wilson, Anthony Gordon, Miguel Almirón, Bruno Guimarães, and Alexander Isak all found the back of the net.
The evergreen Roy Hodgson, Crystal Palace's boss, achieved the remarkable feat of stringing together five successive unbeaten visits to Old Trafford, with three wins and two draws.
Is there anything Roy Hodgson can't do? After this feat, he also joined the elite group of managers to reach 400 Premier League games. The big 500 doesn't seem far off, does it?Liverpool found themselves in the record books for all the wrong reasons, receiving four red cards in their first seven games of the Premier League season.
This was an unwelcome record for a club that hadn't seen more than two red cards in any previous season during Jürgen Klopp's tenure.
Arsenal's Declan Rice broke Manchester United hearts with a 90th-minute winner, marking the third time in 2023 that United conceded a winning goal in second-half stoppage-time.
This was a rarity for a club that had only lost twice in the Premier League to 90th-minute goals between 1992 and 2022.In a thrilling match, Spurs managed an incredible comeback against Sheffield United, scoring in the 98th minute to snatch a 2-1 victory.
This marked the latest winning comeback in Premier League history, surpassing their own record set against Leicester City in January 2022. Dejan Kulusevski's goal, timed at 99 minutes and 53 seconds, also set a new record for the latest match-winning goal in Premier League history.Luton started off their Premier League journey on the wrong foot, becoming only the second team to lose their first four games, a dubious honor previously held by Swindon Town in the 1993-94 season.
Despite some improvement, their four points from eight games don't inspire much confidence in their survival prospects, though they're just outside the relegation zone, for now.Wolverhampton Wanderers can boast a quirky distinction this season, with their first three goals all coming from substitutes.
They're the first team in Premier League history to have their opening three goals of a campaign scored by substitutes. A peculiar stat that might elicit an amused "well, how 'bout that" from your lips.Erling Haaland reached an astonishing milestone with a hat-trick against Fulham, becoming the player with the quickest 50 goal involvements in Premier League history, achieving this feat in just 39 appearances.
His consistent goal-scoring prowess might even see him become the fastest player to reach 50 Premier League goals in a single season.Darwin Núñez's five assists for Liverpool in the Premier League have all led to goals scored by Mohamed Salah, a unique record in Premier League history where one player has provided all their assists exclusively for a single teammate.
While records are made to be broken, it's a testament to the budding partnership within Liverpool's attacking ranks.
