5 teams to have scored the most goals in a single Premier League season
For much of this season, it seemed an inevitability that Manchester City would break the record for the most goals scored in a Premier League season. Their prolific rate of scoring has decreased slightly in recent weeks but it remains eminently achievable.
Pep Guardiola’s side have scored 93 goals and have five games remaining. They need another 11 to surpass the record total set by Chelsea eight years ago.
To put their goal scoring into context, Manchester City have already matched their own Premier League record set when they won their first title in 2012. But there are teams they are yet to catch.
Here are five sides that have scored the most in a single Premier League campaign.
#5 Manchester City - 2011/12 (93 goals)
Had Manchester City scored 92 goals they would not have been champions. But they didn't. They scored 93, the last of which came from the boot of Sergio Aguero in the final seconds of the final game of the season against QPR.
It led to Martin Tyler's famous commentary and to scenes of delirium in the Etihad stands. The 3-2 win gave Manchester City the title, ahead of rivals Manchester United, by virtue of goal difference.
Their proficiency in goal proved crucial: they scored four more than Alex Ferguson's Manchester United and that, in the end, was the difference.