📊 The 5️⃣ most interesting Premier League stats of gameweek 23
The latest weekend of Premier League action saw Manchester City bounce back from their European collapse in impressive fashion, the top two continue winning and Nottingham Forest defeated in stunning circumstances.
Here are the five most interesting stats to emerge from the action.
Another match ball
Dango Ouattara becomes the first player from Burkina Faso to score a Premier League hat-trick 🇧🇫🎩
The 𝟰𝟳𝘁𝗵 nation to have a hat-trick scorer in the competition 🌍 pic.twitter.com/5lOGER6hYU— LiveScore (@livescore) January 25, 2025
It is now 47 different nations to have produced a Premier League hat-trick hero after Bournemouth enjoyed their second in succession after Justin Kluivert's efforts (his second of the campaign) the previous week.
Doing it all
No goalkeeper has more assists in the Premier League than Ederson 🧤👟
He set Erling Haaland up for @ManCity's second goal against Chelsea! pic.twitter.com/QDrkFMvMZk— Premier League (@premierleague) January 26, 2025
Truly a goalkeeper made for a Pep Guardiola team.
Winter blues
Tottenham's form since December 😳#BBCFootball #TOTLEI pic.twitter.com/MFZLNx8Pmb
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) January 26, 2025
Spurs are now on their longest winless run in the top flight (seven games) since 2008 when they went nine-in-a-row without victory.
Craven Cottage snoozefest
Fulham (0.67) 0-1 (0.21) Man Utd
— The xG Philosophy (@xGPhilosophy) January 26, 2025
Fulham v Man Utd was the lowest scoring xG game of the last two seasons.
— The xG Philosophy (@xGPhilosophy) January 26, 2025
Man Utd created just 0.03(xG) from open play against Fulham.
— The xG Philosophy (@xGPhilosophy) January 26, 2025
It was a miracle that Fulham-Manchester United still managed to produce a goal (for Lisandro Martínez) given those damning numbers.
What a start
🦅🏴✨| 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁, 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐂𝐇, 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐀𝐋!!!
Romain Esse just needed 2 min after being subbed-in to score his first goal with his first touch!😮💨
𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫!✨ pic.twitter.com/lhhKUetnBw— 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙨 ❄️ (@FBallerscout) January 26, 2025
It didn't take Romain Esse long at all to introduce himself to the Premier League following his arrival from Millwall.
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