Tottenham scored three targets with out ever trying like profitable, and Liverpool broke file after file. Listed here are eight standout stats from a really loopy Premier League sport.
On Sunday afternoon, Tottenham and Liverpool performed out one of many least thrilling nine-goal video games you may think about.
After Liverpool went forward within the twenty third minute – and with hindsight, most likely even sooner than that – there was solely ever one winner.
Even when Spurs introduced it again from 5-1 to 5-3 with seven minutes to go, any hope of a grandstand end was swiftly banished when Luis Díaz scored Liverpool’s sixth simply two minutes later.
In all, it was about as one-sided a sport as a 6-3 may very well be.
It could not have been the thriller the scoreline might need urged, but when it was to be described as something, ‘loopy’ could be an satisfactory and becoming adjective.
And from a loopy sport got here a hell of loads of loopy statistics. Right here, we’ve put the very best of them collectively.
Salah the Aim and Help Machine: Half 1
Mohamed Salah has scored and assisted in seven totally different Premier League video games for Liverpool this season, already the joint-most by a participant in a single marketing campaign within the competitors.
In order for you standout stats, you want look no additional than Mohamed Salah’s begin to 2024-25.
With out taking part in at his greatest (Díaz was given man of the match and Dominik Szoboszlai might need felt aggrieved to not have been), Salah had 5 photographs by the 18th minute (with out scoring) earlier than racking up two targets and two assists from the forty sixth minute onwards.
It was the seventh sport already this season through which he has each scored and arrange a objective, which equals the Premier League file for an entire season. A reminder that Liverpool are solely 16 video games right into a 38-game marketing campaign.
If Salah fails to do it once more this season, he’ll stay high alongside Alan Shearer in 1994-95, Thierry Henry in 2002-03, Robin van Persie in 2011-12, and Bruno Fernandes and Harry Kane in 2020-21. It’s very seemingly these gamers will drop into second, although.
Salah the Aim and Help Machine: Half 2
Mohamed Salah is the primary participant in Premier League historical past to achieve double figures for each targets and assists for a season earlier than Christmas.
Salah now has 15 targets and 11 assists for 2024-25. He’s the primary participant within the Premier League period to achieve 10+ in each columns earlier than Christmas Day.
He has additionally equalled Harry Kane’s file because the joint-quickest by way of appearances by a participant to hit double figures for each in a single marketing campaign, with the previous Tottenham ahead doing it in 2020-21 (when the season’s begin was delayed resulting from COVID-19 so he didn’t handle it by Christmas).
Salah the Aim and Help Machine: Half 3
That is the sixth Premier League season through which Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has each scored and assisted 10+ targets; probably the most of any participant within the competitors’s historical past.
Salah reaching double figures for each targets and assists in a season is nothing new. He’s performed it extra instances than another participant in Premier League historical past, additionally doing so in 2017-18, 2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
Wayne Rooney (5) had beforehand held the file, however as lengthy as Salah extends his keep in England past this season, he’s more likely to additionally prolong his lead.
Slot’s Report-Breaking Begin
Arne Slot has 21 wins from his first 25 aggressive video games as Liverpool supervisor – greater than anybody else has managed of their first 25 matches as a Premier League supervisor
Prime of the league at Christmas, an ideal file within the Champions League, and into the EFL Cup semi-finals; no one may have predicted this begin for Arne Slot, however they only carry on going.
He has now acquired extra wins from his first quarter-century of matches in command of a Premier League crew than anybody else has ever managed. Antonio Conte is the one different supervisor who has achieved as many as 20, and he didn’t have Champions League soccer to take care of when he joined Chelsea.
Liverpool are the favourites to win each the Premier League and the Champions League based on the Opta supercomputer.
No Dwelling Comforts for Tottenham
Tottenham have conceded the opening objective in 14 totally different house video games within the Premier League in 2024; the joint-most ever by a crew in a calendar 12 months.
To interrupt this file, it’s a must to concede plenty of targets. However you can also’t concede so many that you simply get relegated.
So, you might be more likely to be a relegation-threatened crew who survive however then begin the next season badly, too.
It truly is one thing for Tottenham to have equalled a file additionally held by Crystal Palace in 2017 and Ipswich and Spurs themselves in 1994 when additionally harbouring hopes of getting again into the Champions League and ending their trophy drought. However that is Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham, and they’re right here to entertain.
It’s truthful to say they’re doing simply that.
Postecoglou’s Report Aim Provide
Tottenham’s Premier League matches below Ange Postecoglou have seen a median of three.6 targets scored per sport (each groups mixed). Amongst these to take cost of fifty+ video games within the competitors, that is the very best goals-per-game price by any supervisor.
“Are you not entertained?” Postecoglou requested after Tottenham practically threw away a three-goal lead of their eventual 4-3 EFL Cup win over Manchester United on Thursday night time.
Effectively, sure, Ange, after all we’re. And with a median of three.6 targets per Premier League sport throughout his 18 months as Tottenham supervisor, there could be no justification for calling his matches something aside from entertaining.
The one downside is, manner too a lot of these targets are getting into on the improper finish so far as Spurs are involved.
Tottenham’s Logic-Defying Goalscoring
Tottenham are the highest-scoring crew within the Premier League this season and solely three groups have a greater objective distinction. They’re additionally eleventh.
Spurs have outscored everybody else within the Premier League this season. With 39 targets in 17 video games, they’ve scored at the very least 10 targets greater than 14 of the opposite 19 groups, together with Manchester Metropolis, Newcastle, Brighton and Aston Villa. In addition they have the very best objective distinction exterior the present high three (+14).
They’ve now scored 3+ targets in additional Premier League matches this season (9) than another crew. They’re additionally within the backside half of the desk.
The bottom place that the top-scoring crew in a Premier League season has ever completed is fourth (Blackburn in 1992-93 and Metropolis in 2015-16). Spurs may very well be heading in the right direction to smash that file.
Report-Breaking Likelihood Creation for Liverpool
Liverpool’s xG whole of 5.63 on this match is their largest ever recorded in an away Premier League match.
Liverpool tore Tottenham aside on Sunday, creating possibilities price 5.63 anticipated targets. It’s their highest whole in an away Premier League sport on file (since 2015-16), and probably the most by any crew in a match this season.
Salah alone had possibilities price 2.38 xG. Szoboszlai racked up 2.11 xG. Spurs managed 1.27 in whole.
This actually was as one-sided as a sport that ended 6-3 may have been. The stats show it was as loopy as they arrive, too.
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