Tyler’s top stats of the season

Who scored the fastest goal of the campaign? Which goalkeeper provided the first assist in 2015/16? What was the highest-scoring game of the season? Martin Tyler picks some of his favourite stats…

Martin’s Starting Stats

The very first Premier League goal of the season was an own goal scored at Old Trafford (Kyle Walker) and the last goal of the Premier League season was another own goal at the same end of the same stadium (Chris Smalling). Both of those games were refereed by Jon Moss.

Wayne Rooney completed his Old Trafford century in 185 home Premier League games and Man Utd fell short of 50 Premier League goals with 49. The last time they did that was 1989/90 when they went on to win the FA Cup final against Crystal Palace.

Their rearranged game against Bournemouth fell on May 17 – which is the 26th anniversary of the replayed FA Cup final win over Palace.

August

Of the 220 players who started the 10 Premier League games in the opening round of matches, just 88 of them were English, the previous low being 90 in 2014.

Chelsea’s opening-day draw with Swansea means they have not lost any of their 17 opening league fixtures dating back to a 2-1 defeat to Coventry in 1998, the longest run in the Premier League.

Bournemouth striker Callum Wilson’s treble at West Ham United was the last hat-trick scored by an away player at Upton Park.

September

West Ham’s three red cards in their first four games equalled the most undisciplined start to a Premier League campaign by Leicester in the 2003/04 season.

Claudio Ranieri took 11 points from his first five games in charge of Leicester. That makes him second only to Carlo Ancelotti’s Premier League record haul of 15 points from his openings five matches with Chelsea in 2009.

Steven Naismith’s hat-trick after coming off the bench for Everton against Chelsea made him just the sixth player in Premier League history to hit a treble as a substitute – but he was still sold to Norwich in January.

Alexis Sanchez’s hat-trick at Leicester made the Arsenal forward the 40th player to start his scoring for a Premier League season with a treble (Callum Wilson, who we mentioned earlier, was the 39th).

October

Man Utd conceded three goals at Arsenal in 20 minutes, live on Sky Sports; the quickest they have gone three goals down in Premier League history.

Sergio Aguero’s five-goal haul against Newcastle came in just 20 minutes, beating the previous record held by Jermain Defoe against Wigan in 2009 by 16 minutes.

Newcastle converted all their shots on target as they beat Norwich 6-2 at St James’ Park, live on Sky Sports, becoming the first team to boast a 100 per cent scoring record from six efforts on goal in a single Premier League game.

November

Jamie Vardy scored in his 11th match in a row against Manchester United on Sky …

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