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Alex Iwobi celebrates scoring the 2nd Arsenal goal against Watford

Alexandre Pato became the sixth Brazilian to score on his Premier League debut but who are the other five?

Which team has won the most points from losing positions and which one has dropped the most points from winning positions?

All that and more as we pick out the best of Saturday's Opta stats and facts…

Arsenal 4 Watford 0

Alexis Sanchez scored his first goal at the Emirates since scoring a brace against Manchester United in October.

Sanchez scored and assisted in the same Premier League game for the first time since April 2015, when he did so against Liverpool.

Alex Iwobi scored in back to back games for Arsenal after failing to score in any of his 13 previous appearances in all competitions.

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Hector Bellerin celebrates with teammates after scoring Arsenal's 3rd goal against Watford
Image: Hector Bellerin continued his fine season by scoring against Watford

Hector Bellerin has been involved in four goals in his last three Premier League games (one goal, three assists).

Arsenal have won seven of their last eight meetings with Watford.

Only Crystal Palace (3) have gained fewer points than the Hornets in 2016 (8).

Watford conceded four goals in a league game for the first time since May 2014 against Huddersfield Town.

Aston Villa 0 Chelsea 4

Ruben Loftus-Cheek bagged his first Premier League goal in his 11th appearance.

Alexandre Pato is the sixth Brazilian to score on his Premier League debut, following Geovanni, Robinho, Gilberto, Ilan and Willian.

Oscar assisted Pedro's first goal within a minute of entering the field at half-time.

Only Diego Costa (11) has scored more Premier League goals than Pedro (6) for Chelsea this season.

Alex Pato scored his first goal for Chelsea
Image: Alexandre Pato scored his first goal for Chelsea in their win over Aston Villa

Two of the five occasions Aston Villa have lost by four goals or more at Villa Park in the Premier League have come in 2015/16 (also 6-0 v Liverpool).

Guus Hiddink remains unbeaten in the Premier League since he returned as Chelsea boss.

Chelsea have now set the longest unbeaten run of any team in the Premier League this season, going 15 games without a loss.

Villa have lost seven consecutive games for the second separate time this season.

Bournemouth 0 Man City 4

Fernando bagged his first goal since March 2015 when he scored against West Brom.

Only Sergio Aguero (17) has scored more Premier League goals for Man City this season than Kevin De Bruyne (6).

David Silva (11) is second only to Mesut Ozil (18) for assists in the Premier League this season.

Fernando of Manchester City scores his team's first goal during the Barclays Premier League match between A.F.C. Bournemou
Image: Fernando of Manchester City scored his team's first goal at Bournemouth

Man City have scored seven first half goals against Bournemouth this season.

Bournemouth conceded nine goals in their two games against City this season, scoring just one in return.

Man City scored more goals in today's game (4) than they managed in their previous four away league games combined (3).

Liverpool 1 Tottenham Hotspur 1

Harry Kane has now scored more goals in a Premier League campaign than any other Spurs player (22).

Christian Eriksen has now recorded more assists in 2015/16 than in any other previous campaign for Spurs (9).

After going seven Premier League games without scoring, Philippe Coutinho has now scored in back-to-back games for Liverpool.

Daniel Sturridge provided an assist for the first time in the Premier League since setting up Lazar Markovic against Spurs in February 2015.

Tottenham striker Harry Kane (right) celebrates after scoring against Liverpool
Image: Tottenham's Harry Kane scored his 22nd Premier League goal of the season

Liverpool have won five and lost none of their last seven Premier League meetings with Tottenham.

Tottenham have won just one of their last 22 Premier League visits to Anfield.

Tottenham have recovered the most points from losing positions in the top flight in 2015-16 (19), while Liverpool have dropped the most from leading positions (17).

Norwich City 3 Newcastle United 2

Newcastle have lost each of their last eight away games in the Premier League - their longest run without a win on the road in the league since a nine-game run between May and October 1977.

Norwich recorded their first win at Carrow Road in the Premier League in six attempts.

There were just 130 seconds between Aleksandar Mitrovic's first equaliser and Dieumerci Mbokani's goal.

Mitrovic has scored as many Premier League goals in his last two games as he did in his previous 18 combined.

Martin Olsson (2nd R) of Norwich City celebrates scoring his team's third goal against Newcastle
Image: Martin Olsson scored a late winner in Norwich's game against Newcastle

Mbokani scored his first Premier League goal in nine games.

Newcastle have conceded in 15 of their last 16 Premier League matches.

Timm Klose scored his first ever Premier League goal in what was his ninth league appearance for Norwich.

Stoke City 2 Swansea City 2

Stoke are unbeaten in five Premier League home games against Swansea City.

Gylfi Sigurdsson is the first Icelandic player to score 10+ goals in a Premier League season since Eidur Gudjohnsen in 2004/05.

Ibrahim Afellay scored his first Premier League goal at the Britannia Stadium. It was also Stoke's 200th Premier League goal at the Britannia Stadium.

Alberto Paloschi (right) of Swansea celebrates scoring with his team-mate Leroy Fer against Stoke
Image: Alberto Paloschi scored Swansea's equaliser against Stoke in their 2-2 draw

Bojan's last three Premier League goals for the Potters have arrived at the Britannia Stadium.

Marko Arnautovic, who assisted Afellay's opener, has been involved in more Premier League goals this season than any other Stoke player (15).

Swansea have kept just one clean sheet in their last 17 Premier League away games.

Sunderland 0 West Brom 0

Sunderland's 22 total shots (including blocked shots) was their highest number of attempts in a Premier League game this season.

For the seventh time this season, West Brom failed to record a shot on target in a league game.

Jonathan Leko made his first Premier League appearance for West Brom - aged 16y 344d. He is the first player to play in the Premier League born in 1999.

Lamine Kone of Sunderland and Jonathan Leko, who made his Premier League debut, compete for the ball
Image: Jonathan Leko (left) made his Premier League debut for West Brom at Sunderland

Tony Pulis' side have won just one of their last ten Premier League away games.

West Brom recorded their 11th clean sheet of the season.

West Brom have lost just one of their last 13 Premier League meetings with Sunderland (W8 D4 L1).

West Ham 2 Crystal Palace 2

Crystal Palace have scored the most goals by defenders in the Premier League this season (9).

Only Southampton (6) have been shown more red cards than West Ham (5) in the league this season.

Damien Delaney's first half strike for Crystal Palace was the 800th goal scored in the 2015/16 Premier League campaign.

Dwight Gayle of Crystal Palace scores his team's second goal past Adrian of West Ham
Image: Dwight Gayle of Crystal Palace ended a Premier League goal drought at West Ham

Dwight Gayle ended a run of 20 Premier League games without a goal, scoring for the first time since January 2015.

Dimitri Payet has been directly involved in 23 goals in all comps this season; 13 more than any other West Ham player.

Crystal Palace remain the only team in the top four tiers who are yet to win a game in 2016 (D2 L9).

Manuel Lanzini scored in back-to-back league games for the first time since November.