Premier League Match Week 10: what the stats say

The Premier League enters Matchweek 10 this weekend with a host of thrilling encounters.

Log leaders Arsenal travel to face Lyle Foster’s Burnley, while defending champions Liverpool will be desperate to rediscover their winning touch when they host an in-form Aston Villa side fresh off a statement win over Manchester City.

Here are the key stats and facts for all the upcoming fixtures.

BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION V LEEDS UNITED

Brighton have never lost in six Premier League meetings with Leeds (W3 D3), both the most they’ve faced a side without losing and the most the Whites have faced a side without winning in the competition.

Leeds are winless in their last nine away league games against Brighton (D3 L6), since a 3-0 victory in November 2009 in League One under Simon Grayson.

Brighton have kept a clean sheet in their last seven home league games against Leeds, their longest run without conceding against an opponent in their history. Meanwhile, Leeds have never gone eight away league games without a goal against another side (also 7 against Liverpool between March 1980 and August 1993).

Brighton’s Amex Stadium is the ground at which Leeds have played most often in their history in all competitions without winning (9 games). In their last seven goalless games there, 30 different Leeds players have attempted a shot without success, three of whom have appeared for the Whites this season – Jack Harrison (4 shots), Pascal Struijk (2) and Dan James (2).

Leeds are looking to record consecutive Premier League victories for the first time since November 2022. They’ve followed up their last six Premier League wins with a draw and five defeats since they last won consecutive games.

Brighton and Hove Albion have kept just one clean sheet in their last 21 Premier League matches and have only kept a clean sheet in 17 per cent of their games under manager Fabian Hürzeler (8/47), the lowest ratio of any of the four managers to take charge of the Seagulls in the Premier League.

Leeds had 26 more shots than their opponents in the Premier League during October (48 for, 22 faced), the third-best positive differential behind Arsenal and Man City (both 27). Despite this, the Whites conceded more goals (5) than they netted (3), with their opponents enjoying a 23 per cent shot conversion rate, while Leeds converted just 6 per cent of their attempts.

Substitutes have scored 16 Premier League goals for Brighton and Hove Albion in 2025 – only Brighton themselves in 2023 (20) have ever seen more goals scored via subs in a calendar year (excl. own goals).

Sean Longstaff has two assists in the Premier League this season for Leeds, only ever registering more in one campaign (4 in 2022-23 for Newcastle). Longstaff has created 2.5 chances per 90 minutes in 2025-26, comfortably his best in a season in the Premier League.

James Milner – who made his Premier League debut in November 2002 for Leeds – assisted Charalampos Kostoulas against Man Utd for Brighton. This was both the biggest gap in age between a player assisting a teammate (21 years and 146 days) and the first time in Premier League history a player had assisted another having made their debut before the scorer was born (Kostoulas b. May 2007).

BURNLEY V ARSENAL

Burnley have won just one of their 18 Premier League games against Arsenal (D4 L13), picking up a 1-0 victory at the Emirates in December 2020.

Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 11 away league games against Burnley (W6 D5) since a 2-1 loss in December 1973 under Bertie Mee.

Burnley haven’t scored more than once in any of their 18 Premier League games against Arsenal (9 goals in total), the most any side has faced another without scoring twice in a match.

Arsenal have won 23 of their last 24 Premier League games against promoted sides, including the last 13 in a row. The only exception in this run was a 1-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest in May 2023.

Burnley have won each of their last two Premier League matches – the Clarets haven’t strung three wins together in the top-flight since April 2022 under Michael Jackson, while manager Scott Parker last did so in April 2019 as Fulham boss.

Arsenal have won their last four Premier League matches, last enjoying a longer winning streak between April and August 2024 (8 in a row). Their last three wins have all been without conceding, last doing that in four in a row in April/May 2014, with Mikel Arteta starting all four of those wins.

Burnley have never won a Premier League match against a side starting the day top of the table in 12 attempts (D5 L7). Their last top-flight win against a table topping side was in October 1975, when they beat QPR 1-0 with a Frank Casper goal.

Arsenal have scored 11 set piece goals in the Premier League this season, two more than any other side, while these goals make up 69 per cent of their overall goals (11/16). Only Nottingham Forest (3), Leeds (4) and Wolves (4) have fewer open play goals than the Gunners (5).

Arsenal’s Eberechi Eze has been involved in eight goals in his last 13 Premier League appearances (6 goals, 2 assists), while against newly promoted sides the England international has six goals and four assists in his last 15 games.

Quilindschy Hartman has four assists in his last four Premier League appearances for Burnley, though allfour assists have come away from home. It’s the most assists any Clarets player has in the Premier League without setting up a goal at Turf Moor.

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CRYSTAL PALACE V BRENTFORD

Crystal Palace have won just one of their eight Premier League games against Brentford (D5 L2), a 3-1 home win in December 2023.

Having been winless in their first six Premier League meetings with Crystal Palace (D5 L1), Brentford achieved the league double over the Eagles last season (2-1 home, 2-1 away).

The first two Premier League meetings between Crystal Palace and Brentford finished 0-0. Since then, both teams have scored in all six meetings between the sides.

Crystal Palace have lost two of their last three Premier League matches (D1), as many as in their previous 19 games combined (W9 D8). They are unbeaten in their last 10 at Selhurst Park, however (W5 D5).

Brentford have scored eight Premier League goals via throw-ins since the start of last season, five more than any other side. The two sides that have put the most long throws into the opposition penalty area this campaign are Brentford (47) and Crystal Palace (38).

Since the start of last season, Brentford have won seven Premier League matches in which they also conceded at least twice – three more than any other side; they beat Liverpool 3-2 on MD9.

Only Burnley (17.1 per cent) has played a higher share of their passes long in the Premier League this season than Crystal Palace and Brentford (both 14.9 per cent). It’s Brentford highest per centage in a season since 2022- 23 (16.6 per cent), while for Palace it’s their highest since 2019-20 (14.9 per cent).

Excluding own goals, none of Brentford’s last 42 Premier League goals have been scored by an English player – only Wolves (75) are on a longer current run without an English scorer.

Igor Thiago has netted six goals in his nine Premier League starts for Brentford this season, while his ratio of one goal every 152 minutes is the best of any Bees player in their Premier League history.

Under Oliver Glasner, Jean-Philippe Mateta has scored 21 goals in 27 home Premier League starts for Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Since the date of his first home appearance under the Austrian, only Erling Haaland (23) has more home Premier League goals.

FULHAM V WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS

Fulham won 2-1 at Molineux in their last league meeting with Wolves – only once in their history have they ever won consecutive games against Wolves, doing so in the second tier in October 1908.

Wolves have won eight of their 18 Premier League games against Fulham (D6 L4), only beating Tottenham and Southampton (9 each) more often in the competition.

Fulham have lost each of their last four Premier League matches, with no current side on a longer losing run. The Cottagers haven’t had a longer losing streak within the same season since losing nine in a row between February and April in the 2018-19 campaign.

Wolverhampton Wanderers are the only side yet to win in the Premier League this season (D2 L7). Wolves failed to win their opening 10 games last season (D3 L7) and no side in top-flight history has started consecutive seasons with 10 winless matches.

Fulham conceded a 90th-minute winning goal in their 2-1 loss to Newcastle United, their third of 2025. Overall, the Cottagers have conceded 23 winners in the 90th minute of Premier League matches, with only Spurs (27) and Aston Villa (26) ever conceding more.

Wolves are looking to avoid going 14 consecutive league matches without a win for the first time since a run of 15 winless matches between February and August 2012.

Fulham haven’t won any of their last five home Premier League matches against sides starting the day in the relegation zone (D3 L2), with one of those seeing them lose 4-1 to Wolves in November last season.

Wolves manager Vitor Pereira has gone 13 Premier League matches without a victory (D3 L10), the longest run by a manager since Gary O’Neil went 13 without a win also at Wolves between May and November 2024. Chris Wilder was the last manager to go 14 games winless, doing so between February and May 2024 with Sheffield United.

Jørgen Strand Larsen has scored in 13 Premier League matches for Wolves but he’s ended on the losing side in six of those (46 per cent) – among players to score in at least 13 games in Premier League history, only Hal Robson-Kanu (54 per cent, 7/13), Danny Dichio (53 per cent, 9/17) and Heidar Helguson (50 per cent, 13/26) have lost a higher per centage.

Raúl Jiménez is looking for his first Premier League goal against Wolves since leaving them for Fulham in 2023 (3 apps) – indeed, the Mexican never scored in four games against Fulham for Wolves, with his seven games without scoring in this fixture his joint second most in any fixture, behind eight games in Man Utd v Wolves.

NOTTINGHAM FOREST V MANCHESTER UNITED

Nottingham Forest have won their last three league games against Manchester United, last winning four consecutively against the Red Devils between February 1909 and September 1910.

Manchester United have lost their last two away league games against Nottingham Forest, last losing three in a row at the City Ground between August 1965 and October 1967.

Nottingham Forest have lost six of their last seven Premier League matches (D1), including the last four in a row without scoring. Forest haven’t lost five in a row since October 2022, while they last suffered five league defeats in a row without a goal back in January 2004 in the second tier.

Manchester United have won their last three Premier League matches, their best winning run in one season since a run of four in February 2024. The Red Devils were one of three sides to win 100 per cent of their games in October, along with Arsenal and Aston Villa.

Nottingham Forest scored three goals from seven shots in the first half of their opening Premier League match this season against Brentford (43 per cent conversion). In their 17 halves of football since then, they have scored just two goals from 93 shots (2 per cent).

From MD3 onwards, only Arsenal (16) have picked up more Premier League points than Manchester United (15 – W5 L2), while the Red Devils are the leading scorers in the division in that time (14).

Sean Dyche has seen his teams fail to score in 10 of his last 14 Premier League games in charge (9/13 with Everton, 1/1 with Nottingham Forest). Among managers to take charge of 150+ games in Premier League history, Dyche has the lowest goals per game ratio (323 goals in 334 games, 0.97 per game).

Only Erling Haaland (19 goals, 3 assists) and Mohamed Salah (15 goals, 7 assists) have been involved in more Premier League goals in 2025 than Bryan Mbeumo (14 goals, 6 assists), with Mbeumo scoring or assisting in each of his last three games for Man Utd (3 goals, 1 assist).

Nottingham Forest played 16.9 per cent of their passes long in Sean Dyche’s first Premier League match in charge on MD9, far higher than their average under Ange Postecoglou (8.5 per cent). Goalkeeper Matz Sels played 25 long passes versus Bournemouth, the most by a Forest player in a game this season.

Matheus Cunha notched his first Premier League goal for Man Utd last time out against Brighton. The Brazilian has been involved in seven goals in his last four appearances against sides starting the day in the relegation zone (3 goals, 4 assists), all for Wolves between April 2024 and April 2025.

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR V CHELSEA

Spurs have won just one of their last 13 Premier League games against Chelsea (D2 L10), losing the last four in a row since a 2-0 home win in February 2023.

Chelsea have won five of their six Premier League games against Spurs at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (L1), earning more victories at the ground than any other visiting side.

Tottenham Hotspur have won five of their nine Premier League matches this season (D2 L2), as many as they won in their last 26 games under Ange Postecoglou last season (D4 L17).

Chelsea have lost three of their last five Premier League matches (W2), more than they’d lost in their previous 16 combined (W10 D4 L2). In just two of their previous 30 seasons have they had four defeats in their opening 10 games of a season, doing so in 2015-16 (5) and 2023-24 (4).

Only Arsenal (7) and Chelsea (6) have scored more Premier League goals from corners this season than Tottenham (5), while in the last two seasons, only the Gunners (21) havescored  more than Spurs (15).

Chelsea have won four of their last seven away Premier League matches (D1 L2), having gone eight winless on the road beforehand. The Blues’ two away wins this season have been against managers no longer in the Premier League – 5-1 against Graham Potter’s West Ham and 3-0 against Ange Postecoglou’s Nottingham Forest.

Tottenham manager Thomas Frank has lost just two of his eight Premier League games against Chelsea (W3 D3). However, all three of those victories have come at Stamford Bridge, with the Dane winless in his four home games against the Blues (D3 L1).

Five of Tottenham’s 17 Premier League goals this season have come via headers (29.4 per cent), with those goals coming in two games (2 v West Ham, 3 v Everton). It’s their highest per centage of headed goals in a season since 1998-99 (16/47, 34 per cent).

Excluding own goals, each of Chelsea’s last 101 Premier League goals has been scored by players under the age of 30, the eighth-longest run in Premier League history.

Micky van de Ven netted twice on MD9 for Tottenham against Everton, becoming the first Spurs defender to score twice in a Premier League game since Jan Vertonghen in March 2013 against Liverpool. His next appearance will be 50th in the competition, with Spurs averaging 1.7 points per game in games that feature him compared to just 1.11 without him since the start of 2023-24.

LIVERPOOL V ASTON VILLA

Liverpool have won six of their last seven Premier League home games against Aston Villa (D1), having been winless against them in four at Anfield before this (D2 L2).

Aston Villa have won just one of their last 15 Premier League games against Liverpool (D3 L11), a 7-2 victory at Villa Park in October 2020.

Aston Villa have won just one of their 30 Premier League away games against reigning champions (D5 L24), beating Man Utd 1-0 at Old Trafford in December 2009. The Villans have lost their last 11 such games, conceding 35 goals in the process.

Liverpool are looking to avoid losing five consecutive league matches for the first time since September 1953 – they are the first side in English top-flight history to win their first five matches in a season but then lose each of their next four.

While no side is on a longer losing run in the Premier League than Liverpool (4), no side is on a longer winning run than Aston Villa (4). The Villans could become the second side in top-flight history to win none of their first five games in a season then win five in a row, after Preston North End in 1936-37.

Liverpool have lost their last four Premier League matches, with Leicester in 2016-17 the only reigning champions to lose five in a row. In top-flight history, there have been seven occasions a reigning champion has lost five games in a row, and three have been Liverpool (in 1906-07, 1923-24, and 1947-48).

Liverpool’s opponents have played 571 long passes against them in the Premier League this season, the most any side have faced, while that works out as 20.5 per cent of their opponents’ passes coming via long passes, also the highest per centage any side has faced.

Having beaten Manchester City 1-0 last time out, Aston Villa could become the first team since Leicester’s title-winners in February 2016 to beat Man City and Liverpool in consecutive matches (2-0 v Liverpool, 3-1 v Man City). The last side to beat Man City and then Liverpool in that order were Sheffield Wednesday in November/December 1993.

Mohamed Salah has 275 goals and assists combined in the Premier League for Liverpool (187 goals, 88 assists), one behind the record for a single club, set by Wayne Rooney at Manchester United (183 goals, 93 assists).

Only Bournemouth (6) have scored more Premier League goals from outside the box this season than Aston Villa (5), with Matty Cash responsible for two of those, making the Villa full-back one of four players with multiple goals from distance this season (also Antoine Semenyo, Danny Welbeck and Moisés Caicedo on two).

WEST HAM UNITED V NEWCASTLE UNITED

West Ham have won just two of their last 12 Premier League games against Newcastle (D4 L6), with both of these victories coming away from home (August 2021, November 2024).

Newcastle have lost just one of their eight Premier League away games at the London Stadium against West Ham (W5 D2), and are unbeaten in their last six visits (W4 D2).

West Ham United have made their worst start to a Premier League season after nine matches (4 points), with 2006-07 their previous worst (5 points). The Hammers have never previously suffered as many as eight defeats in their opening 10 games of a league season.

Newcastle United are winless in their last seven away Premier League matches (D4 L3), failing to score in four of those games. They last had a longer away winless run between August and December 2021 (9 games).

West Ham have conceded the most goals in the Premier League this season (20) and have faced the second most shots (133) and have the second worst expected goals against total (15.2). It’s the earliest into a league season the Hammers have conceded 20 goals since 1967-68 (21 in eight games).

Seven of Newcastle United’s last 13 Premier League goals have been scored in the final 15 minutes of matches, with only one of their previous 34 scored beforehand in the 76th minute or after. Bruno Guimarães’ 90th-minute winner against Fulham on MD9 was their latest winning goal since March 2024 (Harvey Barnes v West Ham).

Nuno Espírito Santo has lost three of his first four Premier League games as West Ham boss, losing the last three in a row. It’s his sixth run of three defeats in a row as a Premier League manager (including across clubs) but he has never previously lost four consecutively.

Newcastle manager Eddie Howe has won seven Premier League matches against West Ham (D6 L4), only winning more against Aston Villa (8). He’s also won his last three against Nuno Espírito Santo, with those games producing 16 goals (5.3 on average per game).

Bruno Guimarães has three Premier League goals in eight games in 2025-26 for Newcastle, only two fewer than he managed in 38 games last season (5). He’s ended on the winning side in 19 of the 21 matches he’s scored in (90.5 per cent), the sixth-best ratio of any player to score in 20+ games in Premier League history.

This could be West Ham striker Callum Wilson’s first-ever Premier League appearance against one of his former clubs – he’s played 75 games since 2022-23 for Newcastle and West Ham, but never faced Bournemouth.

The only player to have played for three or more clubs and made more appearances than Wilson (245) without facing a former side in Premier League history is Neil Sullivan (247).

MANCHESTER CITY V BOURNEMOUTH

Manchester City have won all eight of their Premier League home games against Bournemouth – in top[1]flight history, only Manchester United (16/16 v Luton) and City themselves (9/9 v Swansea) have a better 100 per cent home win rate against an opponent.

Bournemouth have lost 15 of their 16 Premier League games against Manchester City, with the exception a 2-1 win at the Vitality Stadium last season.

Manchester City have already lost three Premier League games this season – it’s the first time they’ve lost as many as three of their opening nine games in a campaign since 2013-14, when they went on to win their second Premier League title.

Bournemouth are on the longest unbeaten run of any current Premier League side, going without defeat in eight games since their opening day loss at Liverpool (W5 D3). Their 18 points from nine games is their best start to a top-flight campaign.

Manchester City are averaging 13.7 shots per game in the Premier League this season, their lowest average across a single campaign since 2007-08 (11.1).

Bournemouth have scored more goals from outside the box than any other side in the Premier League this season (6), with Marcus Tavernier scoring directly from a corner against Nottingham Forest last time out.

Manchester City are the only side in the Premier League this season to spend more than half of their game time in a winning position (51.3 per cent). However, Bournemouth have spent the fewest time trailing both overall (98m 13s) and as a percentage of game time (10.9 per cent) this season.

If he plays, this will be Phil Foden’s 200th Premier League appearance. He would be the 15th player to reach this milestone for Manchester City, and the youngest to do so for the club (25y 158d on the day of the game).

Erling Haaland failed to score for just the second time in the Premier League this season in Man City’s 1-0 loss at Aston Villa last time out. Meanwhile, of the 23 sides the Norwegian has faced in the competition, only against Newcastle (447) does he have a worse minutes-per-goal average than he does against Bournemouth, netting just once in 439 minutes against the Cherries.

19-year-old Eli Kroupi has scored in each of his last three Premier League appearances for Bournemouth. Only three teenagers have ever scored in 4+ consecutive games in the competition – Robbie Fowler (3 times in 1994-95), Nicolas Anelka (twice in 1998-99), and Francis Jeffers (August/September 2000).

SUNDERLAND V EVERTON

Sunderland lost both Premier League meetings with Everton the last time they faced in 2016-17, last losing more consecutively against the Toffees between November 2007 and May 2009 (4).

Having won four consecutive Premier League games at the Stadium of Light between August 2002 and May 2009, Everton won just two of their last eight visits to Sunderland (D4 L2). However, one of these was in their most recent visit in September 2016 (3-0).

Everton lost 1-0 at Leeds in their opening Premier League match this season. They last lost consecutive league games against promoted sides in the 2021-22 campaign, losing three in a row against Watford, Brentford, and Norwich.

Sunderland have 17 points from nine Premier League games this season, their best record at this stage of a top-flight campaign since 1999-00 (also 17). The Black Cats won their 10th game back then, 4-0 at Bradford City.

Sunderland have won five of their nine Premier League games so far in 2025-26 (D2 L2), just one fewer than they managed in the entirety of their last top-flight campaign in 2016-17 (W6 D6 L26). The Black Cats are looking to win three consecutive Premier League games for the first time since May 2014 (a run of four).

Everton have lost 2-0 against Man City and 3-0 against Tottenham in their last two Premier League games. They’ve not lost three in a row under David Moyes since October 2011, while they last did so without scoring under the Scot in October 2005 (6 in a row).

Coming into this weekend’s games, no side has won more points from losing positions in the Premier League this season than Sunderland (7). It’s already one more than the Black Cats earned from behind in their last top-flight campaign of 2016-17 (6).

Wilson Isidor is Sunderland’s top scorer in the Premier League this season (4 goals in 9 games), with no other player netting more than once for the Black Cats. Only four players have reached five Premier League goals in 10 or fewer appearances for Sunderland – Steven Fletcher (4), Kevin Phillips (6), Darren Bent (6), and Asamoah Gyan (10).

Only Chris Richards (10) has made more successful long throws into the box than Nordi Mukiele this season (8), with Mukiele’s long throw eventually leading to Sunderland’s equalizer at Chelsea last time out.

Everton winger Jack Grealish has won more fouls (28) and created more chances from open play (19) than any other player in the Premier League this season.