Football t**s and bits - some assorted stats from the weekend matches
- Theo Walcott has scored as many goals in two matches as he scored in the whole of last season and the tally is already better that his 08-09 season. If he manages to score two more goals this will be the winger’s most prolific season ever.
- Despite his team Arsenal winning 6-0 Marouane Chamakh needed seven shots on target to finally beat Steve Harper to score his debut goal for the Gunners.
- In the match against Blackpool, Arsenal’s six goals were scored by six different players claiming the assist Abou Diaby, Jack Wilshere, Bacary Sagna, Andrei Arshavin, Marouane Chamakh and Robin van Persie.
- In the match against Arsenal, Blackpool only had one shot on target and that came from the courtesy of David Vaughan in the 10th minute of the game.
- Since 1996 Blackpool have not scored a single goal against Arsenal in the league.
- Despite losing the game 6-0, the seasiders managed a whopping 80% pass success in the match, which was better than Arsenal’s 78%.
- Bolton Wanderers have already secured a total of 4 points in the league and are unbeaten in the league after two matches, last season the Wanderers needed 5 games to accumulate the same number of points.
- Before the match on Saturday Johan Elmander had never scored two goals in a match since November 2008 against Sunderland.
- Jussi Jaskelainen made a staggering 7 saves against West Ham on Saturday but still could not help his side manage a clean sheet.
- In previous18 Premier League games that Didier Drogba played, he has either scored or assisted 26 goals.
- Chelsea have scored a staggering 30 goals since the time they last conceded a goal in the league.
- Salomon Kalou, Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka and Yossi Benayoun scored six goals from six attempts at the DW stadium.
- Tim Cahill has scored against the all but 9 of the teams that he has played against. In simple words he has now scored against 21 of his 30 opponents.
- Mikel Arteta’s pass success rate at the weekend against Wolves was an impressive 87%.
- David Stockdale has made more saves in two matches than any other goalkeeper in the Premier League so far.
- Of the last 13 matches that Mark Hughes has managed, he has drawn 10.
- Brede Hangeland has scored in each of the Premier League season since he joined Fulham in 2008.
- Last night Steven Gerrard had more shots on target than Fernando Torres and David Ngog combined.
- After another barren night on Monday, Torres has now not scored for club or country in the last ten games that he has played in.
- Jose Pepe Reina failed to make a single save against Manchester City last night.
- Manchester City along with Chelsea are the only two teams in the Premier League this season that have not conceded a single goal.
- Javier Hernandez and Dimitar Berbatov hit a total of 12 shots on goal against Fulham on Sunday without scoring a single goal.
- Paul Scholes’ goal against Fulham was his 150th for the Club. Out of the last 12 goals that he has scored, 10 of them were scored away from the Theatre of Dreams.
- The three-goal score by Andy Carrol against Aston Villa on Sunday was the English striker’s finest hat-trick ever in professional football, marking his achievement the first hat-trick Newcastle player in the Premier League since Michael Owen scored one in the ’05 season.
- Gareth Bale of Tottenham has now scored five goals in his last 8 matches for the club but the two he scored at the weekend was his very first brace of his career.
- 10 of the 18 players that travelled to Stoke-on-Trent for the match against Potters were English.
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