Stats: Records broken in the weekend's matches across Europe's top leagues
This weekend of football action saw a number of records being tumbled as heavyweights like Real Madrid and Manchester United succumbed to defeats in their respective leagues, with Barcelona failing to register a win even after being 2-0 ahead with less than 30 minutes to go in the match. For Arsenal, Mesut Ozil continued his scintillating run of form and added another assist to his name and Petr Cech became the joint highest clean sheet holder in the Premier League.
Here are the records broken in the English Premier League this weekend:
Arsenal ran out 2-0 winners against a hopeless Aston Villa side who have failed to register a win in their last 15 matches now. Giroud scored the opening goal for the Gunners and Ramsey scored the second goal, which was assisted by Mesut Ozil. This was the German playmaker’s 13th assist this season in the Premier League, five more than any other player in Europe’s top leagues. Ozil has equalled the maximum number of assists which players like Dennis Bergkamp, Juan Mata and Steven Gerrard mustered in a whole season, in just 15 games.
The record for the maximum number of assists in a Premier League season is currently held by Thierry Henry with 20 assists in the 2002-03 season.
Arsenal’s shot-stopper Petr Cech equalled David James’ record for most clean sheets earned by a goalkeeper in the Premier League, with 169 clean sheets in 349 matches.
Manchester United lost 2-1 to newly promoted Bournemouth on Saturday at Dean Court. This was the first time the Cherries have gained promotion to the Premier League, and they defeated both the defending champions and the 20-time English champions in back to back matches. This was also the first instance since 2010 that a Premier League team has defeated Chelsea and Man United in consecutive matches. Everton was the last team to do so.
Everton played out a 1-1 draw with Norwich City, but Romelu Lukaku’s goal scoring form saw no dip as he scored the opening goal for the Toffees. In doing so, he became the first Everton player since 1975 to score in seven consecutive matches in all competitions.
Liverpool held on to a 2-2 draw against West Bromwich Albion at Anfield, which saw Divock Origi score the equaliser late into injury time. Liverpool had 28 shots today which was their highest in Premier League matches since 2013 when they managed 32 shots against West Ham United.