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Saturday’s top PL stats
- Updated: August 20, 2016
We pick out the best stats from Saturday’s Premier League games with the help of our friends at Opta.
Stoke 1-4 Manchester City
Sergio Aguero has scored eight times in seven Premier League appearances against Stoke City.
Aguero is the fourth player to score a penalty in each of the first two matchdays of a PL season (Duncan Ferguson in 01/02, Frank Lampard in 12/13 and Roberto Soldado in 13/14).
Kevin De Bruyne has 14 assists since debuting for Manchester City (all comps), four more than any other player at the club.
Ryan Shawcross is the first Premier League player to concede and win a penalty in the same game since Theo Walcott in August 2011.
Since his debut in August 2008, no player has given away more penalties than Shawcross (9, level with Sebastien Bassong).
Since the start of last season, Mike Dean has awarded more penalties than any other referee in the Premier League (16).
Willy Caballero has kept just five clean sheets in 24 games for Manchester City (all comps).
Kelechi Iheanacho has scored twice and assisted another goal in his last two Premier League games v Stoke.
Burnley 2-0 Liverpool
The Clarets won their first league game against Liverpool since September 1974, having gone seven without a win since then.
Sam Vokes became the first Burnley player to score a league goal against Liverpool at Turf Moor since Ray Hankin in March 1975 – they had failed in six games since then.
Burnley scored more in this game than they managed in seven previous home Premier League games (1).
Vokes scored his first Premier League goal in his 28th appearance in the competition.
Liverpool have only kept one clean sheet in their last 11 away Premier League games (6-0 v Aston Villa).
Since Jurgen Klopp took over, only Aston Villa (12) and West Ham (10) have had more errors leading to goals in the Premier League than Liverpool (9).
Burnley scored with their first two shots against Liverpool and their only two shots on target.
Liverpool posted the highest possession figure for a losing side in the PL since 2003/04 (80.6%).
Swansea 0-2 Hull
Hull are only the second promoted side in Premier League history to win their opening two matches of a season (Bolton in 2001/02 the other).
Shaun Maloney is the first Hull player in their Premier League history to score and assist in a game as a …
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