Part 1 Special Feature: English Premier League statistics and figures
The latest round of the English Premier League matches have now come to a close with Manchester United still leading the league with an astounding five point lead. Manchester United won their last league match against Blackpool but their real strength lies
at Old Trafford.
At the Theatre of Dreams, since drawing with West Bromwich Albion in the middle of October, Manchester United have played eight matches and won all eight at their home stadium. Not only that, the Red Devils have scored 23 goals and only conceded 3 in their
last eight matches in the English Premier League season thus far.
Manchester United’s main star this season has been their Bulgarian starlet, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dimitar-Berbatov-c11254. Last season, Berbatov came under fire from various sections of Manchester United’s support for his lack of effort and performances on the pitch.
However in the 2010-2011 Premier League season, Dimitar Berbatov has been firing on “almost” all cylinders. In their latest match against Blackpool, Berbatov saved Manchester United from a humiliating loss as he netted two goals to spearhead Manchester United’s
2-3 victory over the Seasiders.
Despite his marvelous form in the Premier League, Berbatov has surprisingly not scored in 15 of the last 20 Manchester United matches. Regardless, the striker has 19 goals to his name in the current English league season.
At the weekend, Berbatov netted his third hatrick of the English Premier League season and joined the ranks of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ruud-van-Nistelrooy-c31966 and Alan Shearer to become only the third player to do so in a full Premier League season.
Another Manchester United player who has risen to the occasion this season has been Luis http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nani-c27299. The Portuguese winger has been a constant source of threat to the opposing teams, thus can be realized by the fact that the ex-Sporting Lisbon player has already
contributed with 11 assists to the Manchester United title charge this season.
On the other hand, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 has also been doing his part in Manchester United’s resurgent form of late as he has already assisted 9 goals this season making him the third highest English Premier League assist maker in the 2010-2011 season.
Close behind Manchester United in the English Premier League title race is Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal. Arsenal have been chasing like wild dogs behind Manchester United. Their league season hasn’t been as consistent as Ferguson’s men but Wenger’s boys have
been one of the best outfits in the Premier League without doubt.
Arsenal have now accumulated a total number of 32 points out of the total 39 available against teams which currently hold a place in the bottom half of the Premier League table. In their last league match against Wigan, one can be forgiven for expecting
that Cesc Fabregas should’ve had the highest pass completion rate.
However it was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Laurent-Koscielny-c21742, the Arsenal centre back who completed 94% of his total passes. Cesc Fabregas on the other hand has been in and out of the Gunners side this season. Despite that, the Spanish playmaker has created 3.5 chances per 90 minutes
of football for the London club. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Samir-Nasri-c32360 has been quite effective as well as his respective chance creation figure for each 90 minutes of football that he has played this season in the English Premier League is 2.25.
Manchester City is behind Arsenal in the third place spot in the Premier League rankings at this moment. City has played one game more this season than their immediate rivals but they suffered a fatal loss at the weekend against Aston Villa on Saturday.
Manchester City dominated the game at Villa Park against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gerard-c14664 Houllier’s men but failed to score a single goal which they needed to draw the game. At Villa Park, Manchester City had a total number of 13 corners coupled with domineering 69% possession.
Albeit the large amount of possession, Manchester City only managed to force http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Brad-Friedel-c7953 into couple of saves.
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