Premier League stats: The best match facts from Sunday's games
Sunday 20 September 2015 20:13, UK
With the help of Opta, we round up the best stats and facts from Sunday's Premier League games...
Liverpool 1-1 Norwich City
- Lucas Leiva made his 200th Premier League appearance today - only three South Americans have made more (C.Tevez, A.Valencia & N.Solano).
- Daniel Sturridge made his first Premier League start in nearly six months (first since March 22nd 2015).
- Danny Ings scored just 2:54 after coming on as a half-time substitute in this match. It was his first touch in the game.
- Russell Martin now has three Premier League goals this season; the top scoring defender in 2015-16 (ahead of Kompany & Ward - two each).
- Martin has scored as many goals in his last five Premier League games (3) as he did in his previous 86 apps in the competition.
- Liverpool are on a 11 match unbeaten run against the Canaries in the Premier League, winning nine and drawing two.
Southampton 2-3 Manchester United
- 14 of Graziano Pellè's 16 Premier League goals for Southampton have come at St. Mary's Stadium (88%).
- Only against Newcastle has Pellè scored as many Premier League goals as he has versus Man Utd (both 3)
- Manchester United have not kept a clean sheet in any of their last eight Premier League games against Southampton.
- Anthony Martial is only the third player to score in both of his first two Premier League apps for Manchester United alongside Louis Saha & Federico Macheda.
- Manchester United have come from behind to defeat Southampton on eight occasions in the Premier League - more often than any other team against any single opponent.
- There were 45 passes in the build-up to Juan Mata's goal (Man Utd's third) - this is the most before a Premier League goal since 48 for Nacer Chadli's goal for Spurs v QPR in August 2014.
- Southampton have won just two of their last 12 Premier League matches (W2 D4 L6).
- All five of the league meetings between Ronald Koeman and Louis van Gaal have ended as away wins (Eredivisie and Premier League combined).
- Manchester United scored with all three of their shots on target in this game - this after scoring with all three in their last PL game against Liverpool; so they have scored with each of their last six shots on target in the competition.
Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Crystal Palace
- Spurs' starting XI in this game had the youngest average age of any team in a Premier League game so far in 2015/16 (24y 118d).
- Son Heung-Min became the seventh different player from Korea Republic to score in the Premier League.
- He is the first player from Korea Rep. to score for Spurs in the PL, meaning that players from 39 different nationalities have scored a Premier League goal for Tottenham.
- 12 of the 15 goals scored in Premier League games involving Palace this season have come after half-time.
- Crystal Palace have won just four of their 23 Premier League games in the month of September (W4 D7 L12).
- Harry Kane has scored just two goals in his last 14 Premier League appearances; this after netting 17 in 15 PL apps prior to this run.
- Spurs have lost just one of their last eight Premier League matches (W4 D3 L1).
- Spurs had 22 shots (inc. blocked) in this match - the most they've had in a PL game since Feb 22nd v West Ham (27).
- This was Alan Pardew's 11th Premier League away game as Crystal Palace manager, but only the third that he's lost (P11 W8 D0 L3).
