Premier League data dive: Mane’s Anfield half a century, Grealish cleared in another Man City rout

Liverpool took the lead in the Premier League after a historic goal from Sadio Mane helped the Reds sink Burnley.

The Senegal striker struck for the 50th time at Anfield in the competition, becoming the fifth Reds star to do so in the Premier League era, as Liverpool won 2-0.

Danny Ings joined a notable company by scoring a stunning goal in Aston Villa’s victory over Newcastle United, while Manchester City scored five goals in one game, which becomes almost routine for champions Pep Guardiola.

Using Opta data, we take a look at key stats from four of Saturday’s standout fixtures.

Liverpool 2-0 Burnley: Mane joins Salah in Anfield 50-goal club

Mane’s goal against Burnley was his 50th Premier League home goal for Liverpool. The only players to have achieved this feat before were Robbie Fowler (85 goals), Steven Gerrard (69), Michael Owen (63) and Mane’s teammate Mohamed Salah (56).

Given their strong result last season, Jurgen Klopp’s side have won each of their last seven Premier League games. That’s all wins they’ve had in their previous 20 games in the competition (D5 L8) and their longest winning streak in the league since a streak of 18 ending in February 2020. Their fourth streak Clean sheets in the league is their longest since a streak of seven between December 2019 and January 2020.

Trent Alexander-Arnold’s assist for Mane was the ninth time he has scored a goal for the ex-Southampton man, four more than any other Liverpool player.

Virgil van Dijk made his 48th home appearance in the Premier League with Liverpool and hasn’t lost any of those games (W43 D5), with the squad’s decline last season coming due to his absence due to injury. Only Lee Sharpe has played more home games for a club in the competition without losing any (59 with Manchester United).

As Liverpool celebrated, Burnley had to heal his injuries after losing five consecutive Premier League games for the first time, the last time in any division in the 2008-09 league campaign. The Clarets have lost 11 of their 15 Premier League games against Liverpool (2 v., 2 n.), More defeats than they have suffered against any other team in the competition (10 losses against Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City).

Manchester City 5-0 Norwich City: a first for City, but a familiar result

For the first time in Manchester City’s 25 Premier League campaigns, their first goal of the season was a goal against his own side, unlucky Tim Krul.

But if it was irregular, the end result surely surprised very few people as the champions put the promoted Canaries at the edge of the sword.

Since Pep Guardiola joined Manchester City ahead of the 2016-17 season, there have been 49 Premier League games won with a margin of five or more goals, and the Catalan side have been responsible for 23 (47 percent). .

City have now won their last four home league games against Norwich in an aggregate score of 19-1 since a 3-2 loss in May 2013.

Jack Grealish became the first English player to score on his home Premier League debut for City since Frank Lampard scored against Chelsea in September 2014, when there was a collectible from Aymeric Laporte. The defender scored his ninth goal for City in all competitions, but it was his first to come to the Etihad Stadium.

Norwich got off to a rough start, with a 3-0 home loss to Liverpool followed by City being tortured away. In Premier League history, only Leicester City in 2001-02 (-9) and Wigan Athletic in 2010-11 (-10) have had a worse goal difference since their first two games of a season than the current -8 from Norwich.

Given their terrible end to the 2019-2020 season, Norwich have now lost 12 consecutive Premier League games, the second longest consecutive losing streak in the history of the competition, behind only Sunderland’s streak of 20 from 2003 to 2005.

Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle United: Diamond Ings shows his class

Former Southampton frontman Ings already looks like a smart signing from Villa, and his bike kick that stunned Newcastle was a special goal.

Going back to last season with the Saints, that means he has been directly involved in seven goals in his last eight Premier League starts, scoring six and assisting one. Ings also became just the fourth player to score in his first two Premier League appearances for Villa, following Dalian Atkinson in 1992, Dion Dublin in 1998 and Ross Barkley in 2020.

Villa haven’t lost in seven consecutive high-level games against Newcastle (W3 D4), doing so for the first time in a seven-game winning streak between 1955 and 1958.

The Magpies are going through tough times again, having lost their first two games of a league campaign for the fourth time in the last six seasons, having won or drawn at least one of their first two games in each of the 16 previous campaigns. this.

Their slow Premier League debut is becoming habitual and problematic, with Newcastle winning just two of their last 19 Premier League games in August (D6 L11), beating West Ham at home in 2017 and Tottenham away in 2019.

Leeds United 2-2 Everton: Toffees extend Premier League scoring record

It was Everton’s 70th 2-2 draw in Premier League history, and they have made at least 15 more appearances with the result than any other team in the competition.

If that was an all too familiar result, there was also a first occurrence of note for the Toffees. Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s first game was his 55th goal in all competitions for Everton, but his first penalty goal for the team now led by Rafael Benitez.

Demarai Gray scored his first Premier League goal for Everton, becoming the 34th different player to score both for and against the Toffees in the competition. Only West Ham (46), Aston Villa (42) and Liverpool (39) have had more players marked for and against them in the competition.

Mateusz Klich and Raphinha scored a point for Leeds. Klich has now scored two goals in his last three Premier League games for Leeds, more than in his previous 32 (one). Klich has now scored five Premier League goals in total, as many as all other Polish players in the competition combined.

Since the start of last season, only Patrick Bamford (17 goals, eight assists) has been directly involved in more Premier League goals for Leeds United than Raphinha (seven goals, nine assists).