Martin Tyler's stats: Have Brazilians scored for both teams in a Premier League game?

Have Brazilians scored for both teams in a single Premier League game before last Saturday? Are we on for a record season of hat-tricks? Read the latest stats from Martin Tyler...

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On Sunday, I was at the 17th league meeting of Southampton and Bournemouth - although the other 16 were all in the third tier of English football. Southampton maintained an unbeaten home record against Bournemouth in league and cup (eight win and four draws in all competitions).

Eddie Howe has now taken four teams to St Mary's - three times with Bournemouth and once with Burnley - and he has lost 0-2 on all four occasions.

Graziano Pelle scored his eighth goal in his last nine home Premier League games and Steven Davis, who is not known for his goalscoring, got his second of the season after scoring against Chelsea. He also scored twice in October to qualify Northern Ireland to Euro 2016 against Greece.

James Ward-Prowse came on as a substitute on his 21st birthday, while Dusan Tadic was ranked second in the Premier League for crosses (behind Jefferson Montero) going into the weekend and he crossed for Pelle's goal.

Ryan Bertrand made the first goal with a cross, almost nine years to the day after he made his debut in senior football FOR Bournemouth, in a 4-2 loss to Swansea, where he was on loan from Chelsea.

Finally, Bournemouth have used 13 English players this season in the Premier League - while Southampton have used 13 different nationalities.

Boys from Brazil

Ramires and Philippe Coutinho scored for Chelsea and Liverpool on Saturday. Is this the first time Brazilians have scored for two sides in the same Premier League game? Ali

MARTIN SAYS: What a perceptive question! Philippe Coutinho's double after Ramires' opener at Stamford Bridge was indeed a rare occurrence in the Premier League, with Brazilians netting for two sides.

Thanks to our friends at Opta I can reveal that it was only the second time in the league's history that this has happened. The first instance came on the final day of the 2007/08 season in Middlesbrough's 8-1 demolition of Manchester City.

An Afonso Alves hat-trick and Fabio Rochemback found the net for Boro while Elano's late strike acted as mere consolation for Sven-Goran Eriksson's City side at the Riverside Stadium.

Jamie and the magic touch

Jamie Vardy equalled Ruud van Nistelrooy's and Daniel Sturridge's record of scoring in eight consecutive Premier League games. But which of these players' goals yielded the most points for their team on those runs? Billy G

MARTIN SAYS: We should mention that Ruud van Nistelrooy scored in 10 consecutive Premier League games from March 2003 to August 2003 - and Vardy is still chasing that record. Van Nistelrooy also scored eight in a previous streak in 2001/02 and as requested, that's the run we shall assess here.

To answer this question we have altered the results for each eight-game scoring streak and calculated how many points each team would have lost without the striker's contribution.

I can reveal that Jamie Vardy's eight-game scoring streak, compared to Van Nistelrooy's and Sturridge's, yielded the most points.

His goal in the victory over West Brom, yielded the 11th point of this run. He has scored 10 goals in those eight games.

Liverpool would have been seven points worse off had Sturridge not found the back of the net 10 times during his streak between November and February in the 2013/14 season.

Van Nistelrooy earned Manchester United six points from his eight-game streak from December to January in 2001/02 with the Dutchman also scoring 10 goals during his goal glut.

Pain for Wayne?

Is this Wayne Rooney's worst goal-scoring start to a season at Manchester United? Mark

MARTIN SAYS: A lot depends of your interpretation of the word 'worst' and on what competition you look at.

In terms of the Premier League, Rooney's tally of two in 10 appearances is not quite his worst. He only scored once in his first 10 games of the 2010/11 Premier League season - against West Ham. However, Man Utd won the league by nine points that season and Wayne Rooney ended up with 11 league goals.

This is a long way from his heights of 2011/12 when he managed 10 goals in his first 10 Premier League appearances; he also managed seven goals in his first 10 games in 2006/07 and six in 2009/10. Last season he scored four times in his first 10 league games.

But if you include all competitions, the England captain's goal-scoring total for this campaign is not so bad. Rooney bagged a Champions League hat-trick against Club Brugge in August and struck against Ipswich in the Capital One Cup a month later, before Tuesday's goal against CSKA Moscow took his total for the season for United to seven in 17 games. He has also broken the England all-time goalscoring record in this period!

Eight times three

After Arouna Kone's hat-trick against Sunderland, have we ever seen so many hat-tricks scored so quickly in a Premier League season? Mickey Jones

MARTIN SAYS: The Everton striker's treble against Sam Allardyce's side on the first day of November was the eighth Premier League hat-trick of the season so far.

But it came four days too late to break the record for the Premier League season that has witnessed eight hat-tricks soonest.

That belongs to the 2011/12 season, when Robin van Persie scored the eighth treble of the campaign treble on October 29. The then-Arsenal striker scored three in a remarkable 5-3 Gunners' win at Stamford Bridge.

In fact, the 2011/12 season saw nine hat-tricks before November 1, as Newcastle's Demba Ba struck three times in a 3-1 win over Stoke City two days later on October 31.

It's a big contrast to last season when we only saw two hat-tricks before the start of November (Diego Costa and Sergio Aguero) and three before the turn of the year (Charlie Austin scored another in December).

The 2011/12 season was a bumper year for trebles overall, as it eventually ended up with a record 19, the last of which was scored by Fernando Torres against QPR on April 29.

How does that compare with the worst year for hat-tricks? Well, it's more than six times the three Premier League trebles scored in the record low 2006/07 season when only three hat-tricks were scored. That season the first hat-trick came on October 28 and was scored by Wayne Rooney.

Goal-crazy Gunners

Olivier Giroud scored the 2000th goal of the Arsene Wenger era last weekend - which club has conceded the most goals against the Wenger-led Gunners? Ashley Dixon, Lincoln

MARTIN SAYS: Arsenal have scored more goals against Tottenham than any club during Wenger's reign as manager - sorry Spurs fans!

Of the 2,003 goals netted in his 19-year spell as manager, 88 of those have come against their north London rivals - a stat which will be music to the ears of Arsenal fans ahead of the highly anticipated derby on Super Sunday.

Arsenal have won six of the last nine meetings between the teams, including two 5-2 hammerings in 2012. The game at the Emirates that year was especially memorable as Spurs raced into a 2-0 lead before the Gunners scored five goals in a 28-minute spell either side of half-time to turn the game on its head.

Next on the list is Everton (87), followed by Newcastle (80), Blackburn (75) and Aston Villa (74).