Last season was a bit of dazzler for the
English Premier League. It culminated in a back to back victory for Manchester City to give the Sky Blues their fourth league title overall.
It also ended with a best ever record in terms of total points scored by the top two teams… which for all you doubters out there was a combined 195 points ala Manchester City and Liverpool.
Goal Scoring Records and Clean Sheets
Along with youngest, strongest, oldest and best the Premier League 2019/20 was the season when the most goals - ever - was scored by 20 teams. According to the statisticians 1,072 goals were scored at an average of 2,82 per game!
Who can we thank for that? Three brilliant strikers in the form of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Pierre Emerick Aubameyang who happened to net exactly 22 goals apiece. As far as clean sheets go, Liverpool’s bulky yet equally agile goalkeeper Alisson Becker kept the ball out in 21 games!
Africa Rising in Muddy Old England
It was a season when 42 players from Africa did their thing - and quite a thing it was considering the awesome antics of the top goal scorers listed above. One of the few soccer loving African nations that was not represented on the water logged fields of England in 2018/19 was Zambia together with South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Senegal, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast provided England’s top flight with the most players with six, five and five players respectively. Togo, Kenya, Morocco and Benin were at the other end of the scale, with only one player apiece in the Premiership!
14 - Lucky for Some
If lucky numbers are anything to go by in the EPL season that is just past then the number 14 stands out prominently.
It was the magical number of matches in the longest winning run, the longest unbeaten run and the longest winless run by Manchester City, Liverpool and Huddersfield Town respectively. Only Fulham spoilt what could have been a perfect equation by registering the longest losing run in nine matches!
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Along with the biggest home win which Chelsea fans would rather forget was a 6 - 0 drubbing by the eventual champions; Manchester City also featured in the biggest away win with a low 0 - 5 blow against Cardiff City.
Premier League Managers in the Record Books
At 71 years and 270 odd days Crystal Palace’s Roy Hodgson became the oldest ever manager to do his stuff, knocking Sir Alex Ferguson off his perch.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer of Manchester United hit the win button in the first six league matches in charge of the club, a first-ever achievement that probably secured his tenure for the current season with the Red Devils.
Despite Maurizio Sarri’s unassailable unbeaten run in his first 12 league matches with Chelsea, the 60-year-old Napoli-born Italian left Stamford Bridge and joined La Liga club Juventus at the end of the season.
Youngsters Doing Their Thing
Young Trent Alexander-Arnold, the awesomely talented right-back for Liverpool did his reputation no damage at all by setting up 12 goals - an all-time record for assists by a defender in a single league season.
In a Premier League first the Irish forward for Southampton, Shane Long took just 7.69 seconds to score the opening goal against the rather leaden looking players from Watford.
Special mention goes to Harvey Elliot the young midfielder for Fulham who at 16 years and 30 days became the youngest player in history to compete in the league.
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