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Premier League stats
- Updated: January 2, 2017
We round up the best stats and facts from Monday’s Premier League action, with the help of Opta…
Middlesbrough 0-0 Leicester City
Leicester have collected just 21 points from their opening 20 PL games, the worst return by a reigning Premier League champion.
Middlesbrough are winless in their last 14 league games against Leicester (D8 L6), since a 1-0 win at the Riverside Stadium in March 2002.
Indeed, Middlesbrough’s 14-game winless run against Leicester is their longest current winless streak against any team.
Leicester’s return of three points from their first 10 away games of the season is the joint-worst total by a defending top-flight champion (assuming three points for a win).
Indeed, the Foxes are winless in their last 12 Premier League away games, drawing five and losing seven.
Wes Morgan has played each of Leicester’s last 81 Premier League games, the longest current run by a player in the top-flight.
This is the third time Leicester have failed to score in an away Premier League game since the start of 2016.
Brad Guzan kept consecutive clean sheets in the Premier League for the first time since January 2015.
Everton 3-0 Southampton
Everton are unbeaten in their last 12 home Premier League games against Southampton (W9 D3), conceding just six goals in that time.
Enner Valencia’s goal was his first in the Premier League since January 2016 (when he netted a brace against Man City for West Ham).
Leighton Baines became the third defender to score 30 Premier League goals after John Terry (40) and David Unsworth (38).
The Toffees have scored at least two goals in five of their last six Premier League games, failing to score in the other (0-1 vs Liverpool).
Southampton have lost three consecutive Premier League games for the first time since December 2014 (a run of four).
Romelu Lukaku has been involved in 15 Premier League goals this season (11 goals, 4 assists) – at least 10 more than any other Everton player.
Indeed, since his debut for Everton in September 2013, only Sergio Aguero (77) and Harry Kane (59) have scored more Premier League goals than Lukaku (54).
Ronald Koeman became the first manager to field two teenagers in a Premier League game (Calvert-Lewin and Davies) since Louis van Gaal for Manchester United against Bournemouth in May (Borthwick-Jackson and …
