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Premier League Stats Round Up

• Games: 10
• Goals 23 - average 2.3
• Yellow Cards 26
• Red Cards 1
• Attendances: 306,662 – average 30,662
• Home wins: 5
• Away Wins 4
• Draws: 1
• Teams taking the lead and winning: eight of the ten matches – Middlesbrough were the only side to take the lead and lose whilst Blackburn were held to a draw 

 

Portsmouth v Manchester United 

United pick up just their second win at Fratton Park in six visits as Pompey fail to score in this fixture for the first time

Overall United lead the series seven wins to three with just one match drawn 

Darren Fletcher scores in consecutive PL matches for the first time as he scored his ninth PL goal in 109 matches over seven seasons   

Pompey have now lost their last six PL matches and not won in seven

Pompey have failed to score in their last five matches and a total of 516 minutes 

Portsmouth have failed to score in their last four home PL Matches 

United scored in their last 26 matches since losing 1-0 at the Reebok back in November last year 

 

Wigan v Chelsea

Chelsea make it four straight wins at the JJB Stadium  and have won six out of seven of the meetings between the two

Wigan fail to score at the JJB for the third time in four matches against Chelsea 

Michael Essien and Frank Lampard have played in six of the seven matches between the two sides 

Deco makes it two goals in two games with his second long range strike of the season 

Chelsea have now gone 23 PL Matches without defeat

 

Manchester City v West Ham United

Mark Noble becomes the second player to be sent off in this fixture after City’s Steve Lomas 

Micah Richards was making his sixth appearance against West Ham, second only to Richard Dunne’s record for this fixture 

Third lowest ever crowd at Eastlands in the PL , 36635 

City now unbeaten in five matches v West Ham with four wins and a draw 

City have six home wins in this fixture now compared to West Ham’s one win and two matches have ended all square  

Danny Sturridge scores his second PL goal and is the youngest scorer this season to date aged 18 years 358 days 

Elano’s double give him three goals for the season and he now has 11 goals in 36 matches for City 

 

Blackburn v Hull

 

Richard Garcia first ever Premier League goal – made his PL debut on News Years Day for West Ham v Leeds 2002

Jason Roberts 20^th Premier League goal – last goal was v Derby last May – and his 8^th PL goal for Rovers   

 

Tottenham v Sunderland 

Kieron Richardson’s 9^th Premier League goal in 72^nd PL appearances 

Djibril Cisse scores on his Sunderland debut against Tottenham just like he did for Liverpool  - his 14^th PL goal scored 13 for Liverpool in 49 appearances

Only Sunderland’s fifth win in 39 visits to London in the Premier League 

First ever Sunderland win at White Hart Lane against Tottenham in the PL after seven straight losses

First win for the Black Cats at White Hart Lane since 1969

Jermaine Jenas 17^th Premier League goal for Spurs and 26^th overall including his goals for Newcastle in the top flight 

 

Newcastle v Bolton

Owen scores 137^th Premier league goal now got 8 goals in last 10 Premier League matches – 19 of them for Newcastle in 44 appearances 

Seven of his last 12 goals for Newcastle in the Premier League have come from headers 

United make it seven wins in 10 home Premier League games against Bolton and they lead the overall series 10 wins to seven with just two matches ending in draws

Lowest ever league crowd since the capacity was increased

 

Liverpool v Middlesbrough 

Fernando Torres’s eight match scoring run at Anfield comes to an end 

Steven Gerrard scores his 56^th PL goal for Liverpool and has now scored in the last 10 seasons   

It was Gerrard’s fourth PL goal v Boro – one behind Robbie Fowler’s record for this fixture   

Liverpool remain unbeaten at Anfield against Boro in the PL with nine wins and four draws with a fourth consecutive Anfield triumph    

Jamie Carragher was making a record 19^th appearance in this fixture

 

Stoke City v Aston Villa

Liam Lawrence scores the Stoke opener with a penalty – his first PL goal since the 2005/06 season when he scored three goals in 29 appearances for Sunderland – his last PL goal was against Chelsea back in Jan 2005   

Martin Laursen again on the scoresheet after Villa’s second goal – last season he got six goals and that was the second highest total by a defence, in his Villa career he has 8 goals 

John Carew makes it two goals in two games this season and notched his 18^th PL goal for Villa  

Ricardo Fuller makes it two in two matches

Mali International Mamade Sidibe scores his first ever PL goal in his first start 

This win ended an 11 match losing record for Stoke in the top flight of English football

 

West Brom v Everton

Everton end a two match losing run at the Hawthorns and it is two wins each in four meetings there – overall Everton lead the series four wins too two with one match drawn 

Leon Osman scores his 18^th PL goal and has now scored three goals in five matches against them  - his best return against any club in the PL

Yakubu scores his 100^th goal in English football and has now netted 71 times in the PL – including 17 times for Everton in 31 appearances 

Roman Bednar scores his first ever PL goal after coming on as a sub for the second week running 

 

Fulham v Arsenal

Fulham picked up just their second Premier League win over the Gunners in 15 matches with both wins coming at home

Only other win was 2-1 in November 2006 when they were 2-1 winners - none of the players who played for Fulham that day are still at the club 

Norwegian international Brede Hangeland scored his first Premier League goal on his 17^th start since joining last January 

Fulham’s first win over one of the Big 4 sides since beating Liverpool in May 2007 when they were 1-0 winners and ended an eight match run without a win against the top sides