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Weekend in numbers

Bill Edgar

12
Years since a side outside “big four” won at Anfield and Old Trafford in one league season before Aston Villa: Martin O’Neill’s Leicester City

9
Years since previous Premier League day with two 3-3 draws (Bradford v Tottenham; Charlton v Man United)

Liverpool kept waiting for injury-plagued Aquilani

Bill Edgar

24: Points tally of Liverpool, who are closer to the relegation zone than the top of the table.

8: League minutes played by Alberto Aquilani; would be “fully fit” by early October, Liverpool said.

7: Years since Chelsea previously had six men booked in a league game (five were defenders on Saturday).

3: Years since Chelsea last lost consecutive matches (final game of 2005-06, 2006 Community Shield).

2: World Cup groups (among the other seven) stronger than England’s, according to Fifa rankings.

Weekend in numbers

Bill Edgar

35
Chelsea goals without reply in London — 30 in home games and five away to Fulham (0-2) and Arsenal (0-3).

10
Years since a side, before West Ham, scored and let in at least three in successive Premier games (Southampton).

7
Successive Manchester City league draws — equalling the top-flight record by any side — after 18 games without a draw.

33
Percentage of Premier League games drawn in October and November, after 6 per cent in August and September

41,000
Attendance for the match between Celtic and St Mirren, 14,000 smaller than any Celtic home league crowd last season.

Weekend in numbers

Bill Edgar

1

Strange series of results this season: Wigan 3 Chelsea 1; Chelsea 3 Tottenham 0; Tottenham 9 Wigan 1.

2

Tottenham players exceeding three goals in one of past four home league games. Also Keane, four against Burnley.


17

Defoe goals in his past 17 games for Tottenham and England.

2

Instances of eight goals or more in second half at White Hart Lane in two years — also 1-1 to 6-4 v Reading.

14

Years since a side (Tottenham, v Newcastle) trailed 2-0 then led at half-time in top flight (Hull, v West Ham, Saturday).

Arsenal pay price as van Persie's injury curse strikes again

 

Bill Edgar

52: Percentage of Arsenal league games started since summer of 2006 by Robin van Persie, now injured again

0: Times England have scored one goal in a match during Fabio Capello’s 21 games in charge

3: Left-footed Manchester City players in the England team against Brazil: Wayne Bridge, Joleon Lescott and Gareth Barry

35,000: Empty seats at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, for Greece’s World Cup play-off against Ukraine (39,045 were there)

3: Occasions that Huddersfield Town have scored six or more goals at home this season

United's woes continue against 'big four'

26: Goals in a row for Chelsea at home in all competitions, the same as in January-February 2007

1: Manchester United point from past six league games away to "big four" rivals

3: Scots who scored for Burnley against Manchester City: Graham Alexander, Steven Fletcher, Kevin McDonald

57: Years since City last had five top-flight draws in a row. It follows 18 games without a draw.

2: Wolves, against Arsenal, were the first side for six years to score two first-half own goals in the top flight

Spurs continue to be haunted by record at the top clubs

Bill Edgar

4: Successive Chelsea wins by at least four goals after none in their previous 57 games

5: Premier League games since mid-October in which two players have been sent off

3: Liverpool red cards in two league games after one in their previous 129

5: Comebacks from two goals down in the past two weekends in the Premier League.

65: Tottenham away league games against "big four" without a win since August 1993

Weekend in numbers

Bill Edgar

7
Red cards for Vidic (four) and Scholes (three) for Manchester United since the start of last season

1
Appearance by Darren Fletcher in United’s past eight defeats

2
Liverpool red cards in their past 130 league games — both for Javier Mascherano against United

Red cards on the rise in Premier League

 

Bill Edgar:Weekend in numbers

8: Red cards in past 29 Premier League games after two in first 56 this season

3: Successive Liverpool defeats without scoring after six wins in a row when scoring 18 goals

2: "Royal" scorers at Fratton Park: Ledley King for Tottenham, Kevin-Prince Boateng for Portsmouth

19: The number of Chelsea’s past 21 league defeats that have come away from home

9: Consecutive Chelsea games in league or Europe in which at least one of Didier Drogba or Nicolas Anelka have scored

Green makes unhappy history for England

Bill Edgar: Weekend in numbers

1: Robert Green was the first England goalkeeper to be dismissed

13: The minute of Green’s dismissal made it the earliest of England’s 12 red cards

9: Years since the previous penalty miss against England — by Malta

6: World Cup qualifiers in Europe that drew a smaller attendance than Bradford City’s 11,757 in League Two

50: Miroslav Klose’s goals for Germany, 18 fewer than Gerd Müller but one more than the England record