Tyler’s stats: Half-time table

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How would the Premier League table look if matches finished at half-time? Are Manchester City breaking goal-scoring records? Martin Tyler knows…

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Martin’s Starting Stats

I was at London Stadium for Sky Sports on Sunday. West Ham have now conceded two or more goals in 13 of their last 16 league games and they failed to score for the first time in 19 league matches since they lost 1-0 at Southampton in early February.

Charlie Austin scored his fifth goal in four games. Alvaro Arbeloa made his 100th English club appearance, seven years after he made his 98th with Liverpool.

Cuco Martina came on as a substitute on his 27th birthday and Oriol Romeu got a card a day late after his 25th birthday – a yellow card.

Southampton got their first away win/points under Claude Puel. In all competitions it was a fourth consecutive win with four consecutive clean sheets.

Keeping them waiting

How long was the wait between Paul Pogba’s Premier League debut and his first goal? Is this a record? Al

MARTIN SAYS: Paul Pogba scored his first Premier League goal for Manchester United against Leicester at the weekend, ending a wait of nearly five years since making his debut in the competition.

The French midfielder first appeared for United in the Premier League against Stoke in January 2012, but his four-year spell at Juventus in between meant he had to wait until his return to score in the English top flight.

That, however, is just the 78th longest wait between a Premier League debut and a first goal in the competition.

Damien Delaney owns that particular record having first appeared in the Premier League for Leicester in March 2001, before having to wait more than 13 years for a goal, which he scored for Crystal Palace in May 2014.

Former defender Craig Fleming had to wait almost as long, having first appeared for Oldham in December 1992 before scoring for Norwich in …

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