Facts: Which summer signing has already broken a Premier League record?
By Joe Brewin
published It's your weekly dosage of Premier League factoids...
Arsenal 2-2 Man City
- Aaron Ramsey now has 3 assists and 4 goals in his last 8 Premier League games.
- Since the start of last season, no Arsenal player has provided more Premier League assists than Aaron Ramsey (9).
- Jesus Navas collected his first away Premier League assist.
- Sergio Aguero has scored 9 goals in his last 11 away Premier League appearances.
- Laurent Koscielny made 9 interceptions, more than any other player this weekend.
- Wojciech Szczesny made more saves (6) than any other keeper this weekend.
Chelsea 4-2 Swansea
- John Terry now has 3 Premier League own goals for Chelsea, a joint-high alongside Steve Clarke, Michael Duberry and Frank Sinclair.
- Cesc Fabregas is the first player in Premier League history to assist a goal in 6 consecutive games.
- Diego Costa is only the second player in Premier League history to score in each of his first 4 games (along with Micky Quinn).
- Costa is the second-highest scorer after 4 games of a Premier League season (after Rooney with 8 in 2011/12)
- Costa has scored with 7 of his 10 shots on target this season.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Burnley
- The Eagles are unbeaten in 10 home league meetings with Burnley (W4 D6, 7 clean sheets), a run that goes back to December 2001.
- This was the first time that Crystal Palace have taken a point from Burnley in the top flight.
- Crystal Palace have never won a Premier League home game in September (D4 L5).
- Burnley kept an away clean sheet for the first time in the Premier League.
Southampton 4-0 Newcastle
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- Graziano Pelle has scored 3 goals in his last 2 Premier League appearances after bagging 50 in his final 2 seasons in Holland.
- Dusan Tadic has provided 4 assists in his last 6 league games.
- Jack Cork has scored 2 goals in his last 3 games (all comps) after a run of 125 without a goal.
- Morgan Schneiderlin has already scored more goals this season (3) than he did last term (2).
Stoke 0-1 Leicester
- Leonardo Ulloa has now scored in 3 of his 4 Premier League appearances.
- Leicester kept their first clean sheet in 12 Premier League games.
- Stoke are the only Premier League side yet to net in the first half of a game this season.
- No player had more shots off target than Peter Crouch (4) this weekend.
Sunderland 2-2 Tottenham
- Nacer Chadli has 3 goals in 3 Premier League appearances this season after netting in just 1 of 24 last term.
- Sunderland have only won 3 of their last 15 home league games (D5 L7).
- Tottenham hit the woodwork twice – they only did so 12 times in the whole of 2013/14.
West Brom 0-2 Everton
- Romelu Lukaku scored his first Premier League goal for a club that owns him; his previous 32 had all been out on loan.
- Everton managed only their second clean sheet in 9 Premier League trips to The Hawthorns.
- Leighton Baines now has 2 assists this season, halfway to his total for 2013/14.
Liverpool 0-1 Aston Villa
- The game produced just 2 shots on target, with the second effort coming in the 11th minute.
- Liverpool had only 1 shot on target in 1 game last season – also against Villa (at Villa Park).
- The Villans have scored 4 goals from just 6 shots on target this season. They have had fewer shots on target than any other side in the division.
- Paul Lambert’s side didn’t manage a single effort on goal in the second half.
- Only Arsenal (76% vs Crystal Palace) have had more possession in a single game in the Premier League this season than Liverpool had in this match (74%).
Man United 4-0 QPR
- Ander Herrera made more tackles (8) and completed more passes (77) today than he did in any La Liga game in 2013/14.
- Daley Blind attempted 112 passes on his debut, the fifth-highest total by a player in the Premier League this season.
- Wayne Rooney scored his 175th Premier League goal, meaning he is now joint-level with Thierry Henry in the all-time goal list.
- Juan Mata has now scored 8 goals in his last 10 league appearances for Manchester United.
- 8 of QPR’s 9 shots came in the second half.
- United recorded a pass completion of 91%, the highest in a single game this season.
- Angel Di Maria’s goal was the first from a direct free-kick in the Premier League this season.
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Joe was the Deputy Editor at FourFourTwo until 2022, having risen through the FFT academy and been on the brand since 2013 in various capacities.
By weekend and frustrating midweek night he is a Leicester City fan, and in 2020 co-wrote the autobiography of former Foxes winger Matt Piper – subsequently listed for both the Telegraph and William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards.
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