The best Opta statistics from Saturday's Premier League games
Saturday 27 February 2016 21:41, UK
With the help of Opta, we round up the best Premier League facts and stats from Saturday's football...
West Ham 1-0 Sunderland
Michail Antonio has scored in each of his last three games at Upton Park in all competitions.
All nine of Antonio's goals this season have been scored in home games (four for Nottingham Forest, five for West Ham).
Vito Mannone has conceded in all 10 of his appearances this season in all competitions (18 goals).
Mannone's last clean sheet in the Premier League was in September 2014 - he has gone 13 games without one.
The woodwork was hit three times during the game, the joint-most in a Premier League game this season.
West Ham are unbeaten in their last 11 Premier League games at the Boleyn Ground (W6 D5).
The Hammers have made their best start to a Premier League season after 27 games, earning 43 points, one more than they had in 2005/06 (42).
West Ham have conceded just four goals in their last eight home games (all competitions), keeping five clean sheets in that spell.
The Hammers have a goal difference of +10, they have not ended a top-flight season with a positive goal difference since 1985-86 (23 seasons without one).
Leicester 1-0 Norwich
Leicester did not record a shot on target until the 58th minute, and scored their only goal in the 89th.
Leicester enjoyed the majority of possession in a Premier League game for only the third time this season (W2 D1).
Norwich's only shot on target in this game came in the 43rd minute.
Leicester have won four of their last five games.
Two of Leonardo Ulloa's three Premier League goals this season have come as a sub.
Norwich have taken one point from their last seven Premier League games.
The Canaries have gone 14 Premier League games on the road without a clean sheet.
Leicester have conceded only four goals in their last nine Premier League games.
Southampton 1-2 Chelsea
Cesc Fabregas completed the most successful passes (128) by any player in a single Premier League game this season.
Pedro's substitution today is the earliest seen in the Premier League this season (6:23).
Shane Long has scored in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time since he did so for Hull City in February 2014.
Long has scored four Premier League goals against Chelsea, his second favourite opponents behind Aston Villa (five goals).
Southampton have led in 10 Premier League home games this season, the joint-most along with Chelsea.
Fraser Forster conceded his first goal in 708 minutes of Premier League action, and the first he'd conceded since March 2015.
Cesc Fabregas scored just his third goal in his 40th appearance this season and his first away from Stamford Bridge since scoring at QPR in April 2015.
Diego Costa has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career and has the joint-most assists in the Premier League for Chelsea this season along with Willian (five).
Reigning champions Chelsea have won back to back games for the first time this season and the first time since May 2015.
Stoke 2-1 Aston Villa
Marko Arnautovic has scored six Premier League goals at the Britannia this season, twice as many as any other player.
Aston Villa are now winless in 13 Premier League away games, since beating Bournemouth on the opening day of the season.
The Potters have now won five of their last six league games against Aston Villa, losing the other.
Leandro Bacuna scored his first goal in 50 Premier League games, since netting against Cardiff in March 2014.
Bacuna's goal was Villa's only shot on target of the game.
Only Leicester (eight) have scored more Premier League penalties than Stoke this season (five).
Villa did not win a single corner in this game, the second time they've done this in 2015-16 (along with the home game vs Liverpool).
Stoke have won successive Premier League games after losing the previous three in a row, all of them by three goals to nil.
Watford 0-0 Bournemouth
Watford fired in just one shot on target against Bournemouth; only against Southampton (0) in August have they attempted fewer at Vicarage Road in the Premier League this season.
The Hornets have failed to score in five of their last seven Premier League matches.
Bournemouth have lost just one of their last eight Premier League away games (W3 D4 L1).
Troy Deeney made his 250th appearance for Watford today.
Watford recorded just their second clean sheet in 10 Premier League games.
Only Manchester United (five) have drawn more Premier League games 0-0 this season than Watford (four).
Heurelho Gomes made more passes than any other Watford player versus Bournemouth (37).
Bournemouth kept just their third Premier League clean sheet away from home.
West Brom 3-2 Crystal Palace
West Brom scored as many goals in the opening 20 minutes vs Palace (two) as they had in their previous five Premier League games.
WBA scored 3+ goals in a Premier League game for only the second time in their last 59 attempts.
In his 240th Premier League appearance, Craig Gardner has scored and assisted in the same game for the first time.
Connor Wickham scored more than once in a Premier League game for the first time since April 2014.
In this game Wickham doubled Palace's total of Premier League goals from strikers this season (from two to four).
Alan Pardew teams have only kept three clean sheets in his last 34 post-New Year games in the Premier League.
Thirty-eight per cent of the goals in the Premier League today came in this game.
Palace's two goals came from their only shots on target of the game.
Eight of WBA's 11 shots came before half-time.
