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The best Opta stats and facts from Saturday's Premier League games

Lazar Markovic opened the scoring against Watford on Saturday.

Which Premier League ground has seen the most goals this season? How does Paul Clement's win percentage compare to other Swansea bosses? Here are Opta's best stats and facts from Saturday's Premier League games.

Bournemouth 4-0 Middlesbrough

Benik Afobe celebrates scoring Bournemouth's second goal with team-mate Josh King
Image: Benik Afobe celebrates scoring Bournemouth's second goal with team-mate Josh King

No ground has seen more Premier League goals this season than the Vitality Stadium (57, level with Anfield and the Liberty Stadium).

Bournemouth have scored 31 home Premier League goals this season, a number only four sides can better (Tottenham 43, Everton & Liverpool 41, Chelsea 39).

Middlesbrough have failed to score in 10 Premier League away games this season, more than any other side.

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Boro are also winless in 16 Premier League away games, their longest ever such run in the competition.

Only Romelu Lukaku (14) and Harry Kane (12) have scored more Premier League goals in 2017 than Josh King (11).

Josh King (11) has scored five goals more than Middlesbrough in the Premier League in 2017 (six).

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Bournemouth 4-0 Middlesbrough highlights

Gaston Ramirez was sent off for two bookable offences after just 20 minutes - the fastest in a Premier League game since Chico Flores for Swansea against Chelsea in April 2014 (16 minutes).

Middlesbrough have conceded four+ goals in consecutive away top-flight games for the first time since 2004 (1-5 v Portsmouth, 3-5 v Arsenal).

Hull 2-0 Watford

Sam Clucas celebrates after ten men Hull City take a 2-0 lead
Image: Sam Clucas celebrates after Hull City take a 2-0 lead

Since Marco Silva's arrival, only Everton (21) and Tottenham Hotspur (21) have recorded more points at home in the Premier League than Hull City (19).

In fact, Silva has not lost any of his last 41 home league games as a manager (W34 D7 L0), with his last defeat coming on March 30, 2014 (Estoril v Rio Ave).

Watford have seen their opponents have a man sent off in three of the last 10 Premier League games, with Hull receiving three red cards themselves in their last 10.

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Hull have claimed 28 points in home games this season, compared to five points away, accounting for 85 per cent of their total (28/33).

Anthony Taylor has given five red cards in the Premier League so far this season - level with Mike Dean.

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Hull 2-0 Watford highlights

In fact, Taylor has already handed out as many red cards this season as he did in the 2015/16 Premier League campaign.

Only in one previous Premier League campaign have Hull City recorded more wins than the nine they have this season (10 in 2013/14).

Swansea 2-0 Stoke

Fernando Llorente celebrates scoring the opening goal in the game against Stoke
Image: Fernando Llorente celebrates scoring the opening goal in the game against Stoke

The Swans have won four of their last six home Premier League games, having won just two of their first 11 at the Liberty Stadium this season.

There were just 60 seconds between Marko Arnautovic's missed penalty for Stoke and Tom Carroll's goal for Swansea.

No player has scored more headed goals than Fernando Llorente in the Premier League this season (6 - level with Romelu Lukaku and Michail Antonio).

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Swansea 2-0 Stoke highlights

Only Kevin De Bruyne (13) has more Premier League assists than Gylfi Sigurdsson this season (12 - level with Eriksen), while the Icelandic international has provided more from set plays than any other player in the competition (7).

Stoke have failed to score in six successive away league games for the first time since August 1997 (a run of nine).

Tom Carroll's goal was his first in the Premier League since Boxing Day 2015, when he scored for Spurs in a 3-0 win against Norwich.

Paul Clement has the best win percentage of any Swansea manager in the Premier League (40 per cent - six wins from 15 games).

West Ham 0-0 Everton

Jonathan Calleri is challenged by Ashley Williams at The London Stadium
Image: Jonathan Calleri (left) is challenged by Ashley Williams at The London Stadium

West Ham are without a win against Everton in their last nine Premier League home games (D3 L6) - with their last win coming in April 2007 thanks to a Bobby Zamora goal.

This was the first Premier League game to finish 0-0 at the London Stadium.

This is just the second time that these two sides have drawn 0-0 in the Premier League in 42 meetings - the other coming in March 2003 at Goodison Park.

Everton failed to find the net for just the second time in their last 17 Premier League games.

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West Ham 0-0 Everton highlights

For the second time this season, Everton have failed to have a shot on target in a Premier League game - a joint-worst record with Middlesbrough.

This is the first time in Romelu Lukaku's Everton career that he has failed to score against West Ham - having scored in each of his previous nine appearances against the Hammers.

In fact, Lukaku failed to have a shot on target in this match - the third successive away game the Belgian striker has failed to do so. It is the longest run without a shot on target away from home in the Premier League.

Adrian kept his fourth clean sheet of the season; the same number that Darren Randolph has kept but the Spaniard has played 10 games fewer (12 games).

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