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The best Premier League stats and facts from Tuesday's games

Anthony Martial of Manchester United scores his team's second goal against Stoke
Image: Anthony Martial scores United's second goal against Stoke

With the help of Opta, we round up the best Premier League stats and facts from Tuesday's games...

Arsenal 0-0 Southampton

Fraser Forster denies Mesut Ozil in the first half with a point-blank save
Image: Southamptons' Fraser Forster denies Arsenal's Mesut Ozil

Arsenal have failed to score in three consecutive Premier League games for the first time since February 2009 (four goalless games in that run).

The Gunners last three top-flight games have produced a total of just one goal.

The north Londoners have now gone four Premier League games without enjoying a win for the first time since April 2014.

Arsenal 0-0 Southampton
Arsenal 0-0 Southampton

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Southampton have registered four consecutive clean sheets in the Premier League for the first time since November 2014.

Arsenal had 11 shots on target without scoring in his match, a league-high figure this season.

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Fraser Forster has kept four clean sheets in his four PL appearances for Southampton since his return from injury, saving all 12 shots he has faced.

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Leicester City 2-0 Liverpool

Jamie Vardy (L) shoots
Image: Jamie Vardy scored a wonder-goal against Liverpool

Liverpool prevented the opposition scoring with their first shot on target for the first time in 2016 in the Premier League.

Mahrez and Vardy have combined for 7 PL goals this season - the joint most with Ozil/Giroud and Ighalo/Deeney.

Jamie Vardy's first was his 22nd Premier League goal (all-time) but his first from outside the penalty area.

Leicester 2-0 Liverpool
Leicester 2-0 Liverpool

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Vardy has 18 league goals for the season, only one fewer than Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez.

Leicester have 50 points, only five short of their all-time top-flight record total (55 in 1999-2000).

Liverpool have conceded 13 goals in their last six Premier League away games.

Norwich City 0-3 Tottenham Hotspur

 Harry Kane celebrates scoring Tottenham's second goal
Image: Harry Kane rounded off Tottenham's 3-0 win over Norwich

Dele Alli has had a hand in 10 goals in his last 13 Premier League games for Spurs (six goals, four assists).

Alli has scored in consecutive games for the first time since April 2015 (in all comps), when he netted for MK Dons against Fleetwood and then Leyton Orient.

Alli's goal was the fourth quickest in the Premier League this season (1:36) and Tottenham's quickest in the Premier League since Boxing Day 2014 (Kane v Leicester, 0:57).

Norwich 0-3 Tottenham
Norwich 0-3 Tottenham

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Harry Kane has scored 14 goals in his last 15 Premier League appearances - this after scoring just three in his 17 PL apps prior to this run.

Tottenham have gone 11 games unbeaten away from home in the league for the first time since a run of 16 in 1985.

Norwich City failed to score at home in the league for the only the second time in their last 12 fixtures at Carrow Road.

Sunderland 0-1 Manchester City

Sergio Aguero of Manchester City and Jan Kirchhoff of Sunderland compete for the ball
Image: Man City's Sergio Aguero takes on Sunderland

Sergio Aguero has scored 56 Premier League goals for Man City under Manuel Pellegrini - 21 more than any other player.

This was Pellegrini's 100th Premier League match and his 65th win. Only Jose Mourinho (73) has won more of his opening 100 in the competition.

Aguero has 12 goals in his last 10 Premier League appearances.

Sunderland 0-1 Man City
Sunderland 0-1 Man City

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City have kept three clean sheets in their last four Premier League games, after only one in the previous eight matches.

City picked up three yellow cards in second half injury time, two of them for time wasting.

Man City had only six shots all game and only one in the second half. Six is their joint-lowest in a Premier League game this season (along with the match vs Man Utd in October).

West Ham United 2-0 Aston Villa

Michail Antonio of  celebrates scoring his team's first goal
Image: Michail Antonio celebrates after scoring West Ham's opener

There have been a Premier League high 9 red cards in West Ham games this season (four for them, five for the opposition).

Jon Moss has refereed three West Ham games in the Premier League this season and has given a red card in each match (one for West Ham, two for their opponents)

West Ham have 38 goals this season, one more than Arsenal.

West Ham 2-0 Aston Villa
West Ham 2-0 Aston Villa

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West Ham had 25 shots, it took 15 to open the scoring in the game.

West Ham's total of 25 is the most they have managed in a Premier League game this season and the most since 29 against Burnley in May 2015.

Villa have won only one of their last 23 Premier League games.

No team with 13 points or fewer from 24 games (based on 3pts/win) have ever avoided relegation.

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Crystal Palace 1-2 Bournemouth

Benik Afobe celebrates scoring Bournemouth's winner against Crystal Palace.
Image: Benik Afobe celebrates scoring Bournemouth's winner against Crystal Palace

Scott Dann scored his fourth goal of the season, double the number he managed in the whole of the 2014/15 campaign (2).

Seven of Palace's 25 goals this season have come from defenders, a league high.

Marc Pugh netted his fourth goal of the season (all comps) and Bournemouth's first in the fifteen minute period before half-time in the Premier League

Crystal Palace 1-2 Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 1-2 Bournemouth

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Wilfried Zaha assisted his first Premier League goal of the season and only his fourth in his 68th appearance in the competition.

Benik Afobe scored his third goal in four games since joining Bournemouth and scored in three consecutive games for the first time since April 2015.

After losing five of their first six away Premier League games, Bournemouth have lost just one of their last seven (W3 D3 L1).

Manchester United 3-0 Stoke City

Jesse Lingard (R) of Manchester United celebrates scoring his team's first goal against Stoke
Image: Jesse Lingard scored Manchester United's first goal

Jesse Lingard scored Manchester United's first 1st half goal at Old Trafford since they netted one against Wolfsburg in the Champions League last September.

United doubled their first half goal tally at Old Trafford in the Premier League this season in the opening 45 minutes, scoring twice to take their tally to four.

It was the first time since April 2015 against Man City that the Red Devils had scored twice in the opening 45 minutes of a Premier League game at home.

Man Utd 3-0 Stoke
Man Utd 3-0 Stoke

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Wayne Rooney netted his 99th Premier League goal at Old Trafford.

Rooney has now scored 12 Premier League goals on a Tuesday - only Alan Shearer (15) has more.

Rooney scored and assisted at Old Trafford in a Premier League game for the first time since Boxing Day 2014 against Newcastle.

Mark Hughes has lost his last nine league trips to Old Trafford as a manager after a draw and a win in his first two visits.

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West Bromwich Albion 1-1 Swansea City

Lukasz Fabianski of Swansea City makes a save
Image: Swansea's Lukasz Fabianski pulls off a save

Gylfi Sigurdsson netted his fourth goal in five games and his seventh Premier League goal of the season for Swansea.

Sigurdsson has scored in three consecutive away league games for Swansea (three goals), as many goals as he had scored in his previous 13 away trips.

This is the first time in 10 Premier League meetings that there has been a draw between the sides.

WBA 1-1 Swansea
WBA 1-1 Swansea

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Salomon Rondon scored his first Premier League goal since October 2015, ending a run of nine games without a goal.

Swansea conceded only their fourth goal in the final fifteen minutes of a PL game this season, a joint Premier League low (alongside West Ham and Man City).

The Baggies are unbeaten in four Premier League games at the Hawthorns for the first time since February 2014 (six games).

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