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Opta stats: All the best from Saturday's Premier League games

Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge and Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers during the Barclays Premier League match v Aston Villa at Anfield

Who scored the fastest goal of the Premier League season so far? Which player netted with his 32nd shot of the season?

Can you name the players who scored and assisted in a Premier League game for the first time and how about the man who netted his first-ever goal in this division?

Here we take you through some of the best statistics from Saturday's action, courtesy of Opta...

Leicester City 2-5 Arsenal

Leicester's Jamie Vardy has scored in four successive Premier League games for the first time in his career.

Theo Walcott has netted 12 goals in his last 13 Premier League starts for Arsenal.

Theo Walcott of Arsenal celebrates scoring his team's first goal against Arsenal
Image: Theo Walcott has netted 12 goals in his last 13 Premier League starts

Since making his Premier League debut in August 2012, Santi Cazorla has provided more assists than any other player (32).

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Alexis Sanchez scored his first goal of the season with his 32nd shot in the Premier League this season. Indeed, after going 31 shots without a Premier League goal this season, he netted three of his seven shots against the Foxes.

Arsenal win thriller
Arsenal win thriller

Arsenal won 5-2 at Leicester with Alexis Sanchez scoring a hat-trick.

Only once in their 19 Premier League meetings have Arsenal failed to score against Leicester.

Mesut Ozil has provided three assists in his last five Premier League games.

Sanchez netted his first hat-trick in the Premier League.

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Jamie Vardy scored twice for Leicester but ended up on the losing side

Sanchez is the eighth South American to score a Premier League hat-trick.

Arsenal netted five goals against Leicester, as many as they had scored in their previous six top-tier games in total.

Liverpool 3-2 Aston Villa

James Milner scored his first goal for Liverpool in his eighth game for the club in all competitions.

Milner's goal, on 1min 6secs, was the earliest Premier League goal this season.

Liverpool's English midfielder James Milner celebrates after scoring against his old club
Image: Liverpool's James Milner scored against his old club Aston Villa

Only against Sunderland (5) has Milner bagged more Premier League goals than he has managed against Aston Villa (3).

Daniel Sturridge netted his first Premier League goal since March 22nd (v Man Utd).

Sturridge fires in Reds win
Sturridge fires in Reds win

Daniel Sturridge scored twice as Liverpool won 3-2 against Aston Villa.

There were 70 seconds between Rudy Gestede's first goal of the game and Daniel Sturridge's second.

Sturridge has now scored in four consecutive Premier League games against Villa.

Sturridge's last eight Premier League goals have all come at Anfield.

Rudy Gestede celebrates his second goal for Aston Villa against  Liverpool at Anfield
Image: Rudy Gestede scored twice for Aston Villa against Liverpool at Anfield

Since August 2013, Gestede has scored 21 headed goals in the league, six more than any other player in the English top-four tiers.

Liverpool have won 25 Premier League games against Villa, more than they have managed against any other side.

Manchester United 3-0 Sunderland

Sunderland have now lost 20 of their last 27 Premier League matches against Manchester United (W1 D6).

Louis van Gaal recorded his first win in nine games in all competitions over a side managed by Dick Advocaat since 1995.

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Wayne Rooney scored in Manchester United's 3-0 win against Sunderland

Wayne Rooney has now scored 171 league goals for United; level with Denis Law in the club's all-time league goalscorers chart.

Only two players - Bobby Charlton (199) and Jack Rowley (182) - have more league goals for United than Rooney (171).

Wayne Rooney ended a run of 1000 minutes without a Premier League goal.

Manchester United's Dutch midfielder Memphis Depay celebrates scoring their opener
Image: Manchester United ended Louis van Gaal's poor run against Dick Advocaat

Juan Mata has been involved in 11 Premier League goals in 2015; four more than any other Man Utd player.

Indeed, Mata has either scored or assisted in five of his last six Premier League appearances (four assists, two goals).

United go top
United go top

Manchester United went top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win over Sunderland.

Ashley Young has more Premier League assists in 2015 than any other United player (5).

After keeping three consecutive clean sheets in May, the Black Cats have conceded in each of their last eight Premier League matches.

The Black Cats are now on a 10-game winless streak in the Premier League (D4 L6); the longest current run in the competition.

Newcastle United 2-2 Chelsea

Newcastle United have won three and drawn one of their last four Premier League home games against Chelsea.

Jose Mourinho has never won a Premier League game at St James' Park (D3 L3) - the only other Premier League stadium he has not won at is the Emirates (D3).

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Branislav Ivanovic admits it was a difficult day for Chelsea at Newcastle

Chelsea came from 2+ goals behind to salvage a point for the first time in a Premier League game since 26th December 2007 (4-4 v Aston Villa).

The four goals in this game meant that 35 were scored in total in the Premier League today - the last time there was more was on 19th May 2013 (36).

Chelsea comeback
Chelsea comeback

Chelsea came from two down to draw 2-2 with Newcastle.

The last Saturday to see more Premier League goals than this was on 27th November 2010 (36).

Chelsea have conceded 14 goals this season in their seven Premier League games; just one shy of the total goals conceded by the Blues in their first PL season under Mourinho (15 in 38 games in 2004-05).

Ayoze Perez celebrates the opening goal
Image: Ayoze Perez scored and assisted in a Premier League game for the first time

Ayoze Perez scored and assisted in the same Premier League game for the first time.

Jack Colback picked up his 16th yellow card in the Premier League since the start of last season - a tally that only Lee Cattermole can equal.

Kevin Mbabu became the 200th different player to make a Premier League appearance for Newcastle United.

Southampton 3-1 Swansea City

Southampton have lost only one of their seven Premier League games versus Swansea (W4 D2).

Southampton have won six of their last nine Premier League games at St. Mary's, losing two (D1).

Swansea have won just three of their 17 Premier League games in the month of September (W3 D4 L10).

Southampton forward Sadio Mane finds the bottom corner to make it 3-0 to Southampton
Image: Southampton forward Sadio Mane put his side three up against Swansea

Sadio Mane has scored or assisted eight goals in his last five Premier League appearances at St. Mary's (four goals, four assists).

Saints see off Swansea
Saints see off Swansea

Southampton secured only their second win of the season with the 3-1 defeat of Swansea.

Dusan Tadic has scored three goals in his last three Premier League appearances for Southampton on home soil.

Virgil van Dijk scored his first-ever goal in English football.

Virgil van Dijk of Southampton scores his team's first goal during the Premier League match v Swansea
Image: Virgil van Dijk scored his first-ever Premier League goal for Southampton

No Premier League side has scored more headed goals this season than Southampton (4) - level with Leicester. In fact, the Saints (4) have already scored more Premier League headed goals this term than in 2014/15 (3).

Swansea have failed to score in their last three Premier League games for the first time since May 2013 under Michael Laudrup.

Stoke City 2-1 Bournemouth

Jonathan Walters has scored in consecutive Premier League appearances for the first time since November 2014.

Twelve of Jonathan Walters' 14 Premier League goals since the start of 2014 have come at the Britannia Stadium.

Jon Walters celebrates after giving Stoke the lead
Image: Jon Walters gave Stoke the lead in their win over Bournemouth

Dan Gosling scored his first Premier League goal since November 2011.

Stoke sealed their first win in seven Premier League games, after losing three and drawing three of their previous six.

First win for Stoke
First win for Stoke

Stoke picked up their first win of the season as they beat Bournemouth

Mame Biram Diouf has netted five goals in his last seven Premier League appearances.

Bournemouth have kept a clean sheet in just one of their seven Premier League games this season.

Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Manchester City

Tottenham scored 4+ goals in a league game against Manchester City for the first time since September 1962 (4-2).

Spurs have now won three successive Premier League games - their best run in the competition since Feb 2015.

Man City have now lost two successive Premier League games, after having won the previous 11 in a row.

Manuel Pellegrini and Mauricio Pochettino walk out onto the pitch
Image: Manuel Pellegrini's Manchester City suffered a heavy defeat at Tottenham

Manchester City have lost consecutive Premier League games for only the second time under Manuel Pellegrini (other was a run of two games in April 2015).

The Citizens have conceded more goals in their last two PL games (6) than they had in their previous 11 combined (4).

Spurs stun City
Spurs stun City

Harry Kane was back among the goals in Tottenham's 4-1 win over Man City.

Man City conceded 3+ goals in a single half of a Premier League game for the first time since September 2013 (three goals conceded in the second half of a 2-3 defeat).

This was City's heaviest Premier League defeat (three goal margin) since a 0-3 defeat to Liverpool in April 2011.

Harry Kane ended his personal goal drought of 748 minutes (12 hours, 28 mins) in all competitions for Spurs.

Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur and Nicolas Otamendi of Manchester City compete for the ball
Image: Harry Kane ended his long wait for a Tottenham goal against Man City

Kane's goal was the 150th scored in the Premier League in 2015-16.

Since Erik Lamela made his Premier League debut on Sept 1st 2013, only Christian Eriksen (12) has more PL assists for Spurs than Lamela (10).

This was the first time that Lamela has scored and assisted in the same Premier League game for Tottenham.

West Ham United 2-2 Norwich

Robbie Brady netted his first Premier League goal in two years (since 28th September 2013, also v West Ham).

West Ham players have made four errors leading to goals in the Premier League this season; more than any other club.

Diafra Sakho of West Ham United celebrates scoring his team's first goal
Image: Diafra Sakho continued his fine form in the month of September

Diafra Sakho has now scored in five of his six Premier League appearances in the month of September.

Dimitri Payet has had a hand in 13 goals (four goals, nine assists) in his last 15 league appearances (Premier League & Ligue 1 combined).

West Ham snatch draw
West Ham snatch draw

West Ham scored a late equaliser to draw 2-2 with Norwich.

Nathan Redmond has scored in six of his last 11 appearances for Norwich City.  

Robbie Brady celebrates Norwich's first goal
Image: Robbie Brady netted his first Premier League goal in two years

Wes Hoolahan has assisted five and scored one of Norwich's 11 Premier League goals this season.

Norwich City have not won any of their last 14 Premier League away games in London (D6 L8).

The Hammers still have an unbeaten Premier League record against the Canaries at Upton Park (W2 D3).

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