Late goals, corners and fine margins - Premier League trends

The Premier League play whitethorn lone beryllium 11 games old, but already it is shaping up to beryllium a thriller.

There are plentifulness of storylines and narratives. Liverpool's red-hot start, Manchester City and Arsenal's faltering signifier and Manchester United already having changed their manager, apical the agenda.

But what bash the stats say? With the 2nd planetary interruption of the play upon us, present feels similar a bully clip to excavation into the numbers.

The array is incredibly tight, with 13th spot Manchester United - who person endured their worst-ever commencement to a Premier League play - connected 15 points and conscionable 4 down Chelsea successful third.

The Premier League array has ne'er been this adjacent aft 11 matches.

At this clip past play the spread betwixt 3rd and 13th was 11 points, somewhat down from 12 successful 2022-23.

In 2021-22 the quality was 9 points, portion successful 2020-21 and 2019-20 the gaps were 8 and 10 points respectively. This season's four-point spread goes against the wide trend.

There person been 314 goals scored successful 110 Premier League matches this season, giving an mean of 2.85 goals per game.

While that fig is down from the 3.28 goals that were scored per crippled past season, this play is connected way to beryllium the joint-second highest scoring Premier League play ever, tied with 2022-23.

The fig of goals scored per crippled is mostly trending upwards. The apical 5 highest-scoring Premier League seasons person travel successful the past 7 years.

Tottenham are the Premier League's apical scorers this play with 23 goals, conscionable up of Man City and Brentford who person some scored 22.

Liverpool apical the Premier League array with 28 points aft 11 games, having won nine, drawn 1 and mislaid one.

Before this season, determination person been 11 occasions of a squad having 28 oregon much points aft 11 games, with 8 of those going connected to triumph the title.

The lone ones who didn’t were Newcastle United successful some 1994-95 and 1995-96, and Arsenal successful 2022-23.

The past clip a squad started a play amended was successful 2019-20, erstwhile Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool won 31 points from their opening 11 games connected their mode to winning the title.

Manchester United whitethorn good person had their worst commencement to a play successful 38 years, but erstwhile it comes to keeping cleanable sheets they are doing alternatively well.

United person unopen retired their opponents connected 5 occasions this term, with lone Liverpool bettering them with six. United kept 9 cleanable sheets successful the full of past season.

It's the 15th clip the Red Devils person kept 5 oregon much cleanable sheets successful their opening 11 Premier League games. In 7 of those seasons they went connected to triumph the title, and their lowest decorativeness was 5th successful 2015-16.

Across Manchester, rivals City person struggled to support their opponents astatine bay.

Guardiola's broadside person lone conceded 1 much extremity (13) than United (12), but they person kept conscionable 2 cleanable sheets successful their archetypal 11 league outings.

It's their fewest cleanable sheets aft 11 games since 2016-17 (two), which is the lone different clip a Guardiola broadside has kept 2 oregon less cleanable sheets aft 11 top-flight games.

While we're connected the taxable of defence, this play is the archetypal since 2014-15 successful which 5 of the erstwhile season's apical six (Manchester City, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea) person conceded an mean of much than 1 extremity per crippled aft 11 matches.

Set-pieces are successful vogue, and for that we mostly person Arsenal's Nicolas Jover to thank.

However, the proportionality of goals scored from set-pieces continues to inclination downwards.

Jover is the Gunners set-piece manager and they person scored 27 goals (excluding penalties) successful this mode since the commencement of past season, 4 much than immoderate different Premier League side.

Similarly, their 19 goals from corners implicit the aforesaid play is 4 much than anyone else.

So acold this play 20% of each goals scored successful the Premier League person travel from set-pieces (excluding penalties), a flimsy summation from 19.8% past season.

In 2021-22, 21.7% of goals came from set-pieces, but that fell to 21.3% successful 2022-23. A decennary ago, successful 2014-15, 23.2% of Premier League goals were scored from set-pieces.

This play is connected way to beryllium the 3rd lowest successful presumption of proportionality of goals scored from set-pieces. 2020-21 (19.2%) is the lowest.

It's a spot of a cliche to combat until the end, but determination is bully crushed to bash so.

There person been 24 comeback wins (from astatine at slightest 1 extremity oregon much behind) successful the Premier League this season, accounting for 21% of each matches.

That fig has been trending upwards since 2021-22 (11.6%), with 2022-23 coming successful astatine 15% and 2023-24 16.6%, the highest connected record.

If this play continues successful the aforesaid way, past season's fig is acceptable to beryllium smashed.