Presenting fascinating factoids from Opta about the weekend's Premier League games.
Arsenal 1-0 Tottenham
Since August 2012, only Santi Cazorla to Lukas Podolski (9 times) has been a more common assist/goal combination in the Premier League than Theo Walcott to Olivier Giroud (8).
All 14 of Giroud’s Premier League goals have come in London: 12 at The Emirates, 1 at West Ham and 1 at Fulham.
Arsenal have won 6 and lost just 1 of their 8 Premier League meetings with Tottenham at the Emirates.
In his 6 Premier League north London derbies, Walcott has scored 4 goals and provided 3 assists.
Only Everton (55) have attempted more shots (including blocked) than Tottenham so far this season (53). However, Andre Villas-Boas’ side are yet to score from open play.
Spurs had gone 6 hours and 20 minutes without conceding a PL goal before Giroud scored the opener.
Daniel Sturridge has scored 11 goals in his last 9 Liverpool appearances in all competitions.
This is the first time Liverpool have ever won their first 3 games of a top flight season and kept a clean sheet in each game.
Liverpool attempted just 2 crosses from open play in the game – their fewest ever in a Premier League game since Opta started analysing that data (2003/04).
This is the first time Man United have failed to score in back-to-back Premier League games since 2007: between 9th May and 12 August 2007 they failed to score in 3 on the spin.
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Manchester City haven't lost successive Barclays Premier League games since October 2010.
Man City have scored in each of their last 52 home league matches – the longest current run of its kind and the second-longest in Premier League history.
Alvaro Negredo has scored 7 headed goals since the start of last season. Only Leverkusen’s Stefan Kiessling has scored more in the top five European leagues (9).
Hull’s Ahmed Elmohamady saw the ball more often than any other player in this game (91 events).
Roberto Martinez has won just 1 of his last 11 games as a manager in the Barclays Premier League (W1 D6 L4).
The Toffees, who had 63% possession in this game, now have the highest average possession figure in the top flight this term (64.2%).
Ross Barkley had 4 shots in this game, the same number as the whole Cardiff team, but all were blocked. No-one has attempted more shots (13, including blocked) than Barkley so far this season.
Norwich's Leroy Fer had a pass completion of 94% and made more tackles (8) than any other player this weekend.
Southampton’s last 5 Premier League away games have produced a total of only 5 goals.
Pablo Osvaldo had both of Southampton’s shots on target, in the 49th and 51st minutes.
Southampton’s best passer was James Ward-Prowse with 92% (52 passes)
Nathan Redmond attempted more shots than any other player in this match (4), scoring his first Premier League goal with his first shot on target in the match.
West Ham missed the chance to keep three successive clean sheets in the Premier League for a 10th time. They have never managed more than three in a row.
After preventing Newcastle having a shot on target last weekend, West Ham failed to register one themselves vs Stoke.
This was Stoke's second clean sheet in their last 11 Premier League road trips.
Stoke’s pass completion of 78% versus West Ham is eight percentage points higher than their Premier League average last season.
