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Tyler’s stats: Doubles on debuts
- Updated: September 21, 2016
Who has scored a debut double? Who has profited most from penalties? Martin Tyler knows…
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Martin’s Starting Stats
On Friday night I was at Stamford Bridge to witness Liverpool’s fifth win in their last nine visits. In the last nine meetings home and away, there has only been one home win (Chelsea won 2-1 in December 2013).
David Luiz’s previous debut for Chelsea was a 1-0 home defeat to Liverpool in 2011- so it was déjà vu; a phrase he’ll surely be familiar with having lived in Paris for a few years.
There were a number of personal milestones on the night; Willian made his 100th Chelsea Premier League appearance and Cesc Fabregas made his 100th Chelsea appearance.
Victor Moses made his 50th Premier League appearance – it has taken him four years to do so – and Adam Lallana played in his 300th league game. Dejan Lovren scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool in his 54th PL game.
The final score evened out their Premier League head-to-head record. In 49 meetings of Chelsea and Liverpool they have now won 19 each.
Who needs the ball?
Have any other teams had less than 30% possession and scored four goals in a Premier League game, as West Brom did on Saturday? Kevin
MARTIN SAYS: West Brom had just 29 per cent of the ball in their 4-2 victory over West Ham, showing that possession isn’t always everything. They achieved something very unusual in football as they became just the second Premier League team since the 2003/04 season to score four goals despite having less than 30 per cent possession.
Opta’s possession stats only go back to 2003/04, but in that period Aston Villa are the other team to have achieved the feat when they drew 4-4 with Chelsea in a sensational game on Boxing Day in 2007. Martin O’Neill’s team enjoyed just 25.8 per cent of the ball but managed to get a result against the eventual league runners-up with Gareth Barry scoring a dramatic penalty in injury time to level up the match.
Bagging a debut brace
Islam Slimani scored a brace on his Premier League debut for Leicester – who …
