Liverpool: Won convincingly at Tottenham
Lacklustre Manchester United, brilliant Diego Costa and Liverpool's good use of little possession feature in our review of the weekend's stats.
We look at the stats from a Premier League weekend which saw Chelsea and Swansea City maintain the only remaining 100% records as Manchester City suffered a shock home defeat to Stoke City before Tottenham were convincingly beaten 3-0 by Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.
At the other end, QPR claimed their first win of the season and were replaced at the bottom by Burnley, who at least got off the mark with a credible 0-0 draw against Manchester United.
Burnley 0 Manchester United 0
Burnley had never drawn a Premier League game 0-0 before Saturday (this was their 41st game)
Burnley have kept only four clean sheets in the Premier League, but two of them have come against Manchester United.
This ended a run of 29 Premier League games without a clean sheet for Burnley.
Manchester United have gone four Premier League away games without a win for the first time since October 2010.
Two points from three games is United's worst start since 2007-08 (also two points from three games).
Six of Manchester United's seven shots in this game came in the second half.
Only Arsenal (twice) have restricted United to fewer shots in a Premier League game since the start of last season than Burnley managed.
Scott Arfield created two goalscoring chances, more than any United player in this game.
United have won only nine of their 22 Premier League games in 2014.
Manchester City 0 Stoke City 1
Stoke City scored at the Etihad in the Premier League for the first time.
Mame Biram Diouf scored in the Premier League for the first time since December 2010; there were 1,341 days between his two strikes.
This was only the second time in their last 71 Premier League home games that Manchester City have failed to score (0-1 v Chelsea in Feb 2014).
Manchester City had scored at least two goals in each of their last 10 Premier League games before failing to net in this one.
Stoke had played 12 Premier League games in Manchester (City & United combined) and lost all 12 before their shock victory.
Stoke kept a clean sheet in a Premier League away game for the first time since last December (at Hull City).
The last three away managers to keep a clean sheet at the Etihad are Mark Hughes, Jose Mourinho and Alex McLeish.
Both Manchester clubs failed to score in the league on the same day (when both played) for the first time since 10/11/10, when a Manchester derby ended 0-0. Before that, the last time they both played and failed to score was 13/12/08.
Newcastle 3 Crystal Palace 3
Crystal Palace scored the earliest first-half goal (Gayle), the earliest second-half goal (Puncheon) and the latest (Zaha) goal of the 2014-15 Premier League season so far.
Indeed Dwight Gayle's strike was the first goal scored in the opening minute in the top-flight this term.
Gayle has now scored eight goals in his last six games in all competitions, including four in his last two.
Daryl Janmaat is the third player from Netherlands to score for Newcastle in the Premier League, after Patrick Kluivert and Vurnon Anita.
Rolando Aarons became the second youngest player to score in the Premier League for the Magpies, after James Milner (both 18).
Rolando Aarons is alphabetically the first name of any player to score in Premier League history, displacing Gary Ablett.
Crystal Palace have conceded two or more goals in each of their last six Premier League matches.
Mike Williamson scored his first Premier League goal in his 106th appearance in the competition.
There has been a goal in second-half stoppage time in each of the last three meetings between these sides at St James Park.
Wilfried Zaha scored his first competitive goal since the 2012-13 play-off semi-final, when he scored twice for the Eagles against Brighton.
Queens Park Rangers 1 Sunderland 0
Charlie Austin scored QPR's first Premier League goal of the season, meaning the R's became the 20th and final team to net this term.
Austin has scored nine goals in his last nine league games at Loftus Road (including play-offs).
Sunderland have only kept one clean sheet in their last 13 Premier League away games.
Harry Redknapp picked up only his third home win in 15 Premier League games at Loftus Road as QPR manager (D5 L7).
QPR won a Premier League game while also keeping a clean sheet for the first time since a 1-0 win over Chelsea in January 2013.
QPR have scored 38 goals in 40 Premier League home games since August 2011.
Swansea City 3 West Bromwich Albion 0
Gylfi Sigurdsson was involved in Swansea's first four Premier League goals this season (one goal, three assists) and has either scored (one) or assisted (four) five of their six overall.
Indeed in three games this season, the Icelandic midfielder has already equalled his assist tally in 58 Premier League games for Tottenham Hotspur (four).
Wayne Routledge has scored more goals against the Baggies than any other Premier League side (three).
After scoring his first ever Premier League goal for Swansea at Villa Park, Routledge's last eight in the top-flight have come at Liberty Stadium.
The Swans have already claimed 21% of their entire points total from last season (9 of 42) in only three games.
Nathan Dyer has now been involved in more PL goals than any other Swansea player (25, 17 goals and eight assists).
Swansea have won five of their seven previous Premier League clashes with the Baggies (L2).
West Brom have failed to score in their last four Premier League away games (L3 D1).
West Ham United 1 Southampton 3
Mark Noble has now scored a Premier League goal in each of the last eight seasons that West Ham United have played in the top flight.
Indeed no player has scored in more Premier League seasons for West Ham than Noble (eight, level with Carlton Cole).
Mauro Zarate has scored one and assisted two in his last three Premier League appearances (includes one game for Birmingham)
Morgan Schneiderlin equalled his season tally for 2013-14 with his brace in this game.
None of West Ham's last 18 Premier League games have ended level (W8 L10).
Southampton won a Premier League away game having conceded the first goal for the first time since September 1994 against Coventry.
It was also their first top-flight away win from behind since New Year's Day 2002, when they won at Chelsea.
Everton 3 Chelsea 6
Chelsea are the first away team to score 6+ goals at Goodison in the PL since Arsenal won 6-1 on the opening day of 2009-10.
Diego Costa is the first Chelsea player to score in his opening three league games since Adrian Mutu.
The last player to score four goals in his first three Premier League games was Michu for Swansea.
Fernando Torres took 39 games to score four Premier League goals for Chelsea, Costa just three.
This match saw five goals being scored in 10 minutes and 34 seconds, between Chelsea's third and Chelsea's fifth.
Samuel Eto'o scored his 10th Premier League goal but the first not scored at Stamford Bridge.
Ramires assisted two goals and scored against Everton; he scored one and assisted two in 30 PL appearances last season.
Steven Naismith has now scored in all three of Everton's Premier League games this season.
Everton have scored the highest number of own goals in Premier League history (44).
Everton have scored a 45th minute goal in all three of their Premier League games this season.
Cesc Fabregas has assisted a goal in each of his last five appearances in the Premier League.
Tim Howard made his 300th PL appearance for Everton; only Leon Osman (323) & David Unsworth (302) have more.
Aston Villa 2 Hull City 1
Andreas Weimann has scored three goals in his last two matches against Hull.
The Austrian has also been involved in all three of Aston Villa's goals this season (scored two, one assist).
Hull have now scored in their last two games against Villa, having failed to find the net in any of their previous eight in all competitions.
Michael Dawson made 16 clearances - more than any other Hull player in a single match this season.
Brad Guzan became the eighth Aston Villa to be booked this season - more than any other Premier League team.
Nikica Jelavic scored in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time since October 2012.
Hull equalled their record from May to September 2009 of scoring in five successive Premier League away games.
Seven of Hull's nine attempts at goal came in the second half.
Tottenham Hotspur 0 Liverpool 3
After losing five consecutive Premier League away fixtures against Tottenham, Liverpool have won their last two (eight goals scored, none conceded).
Liverpool scored their 10th Premier League penalty against Tottenham. This took them clear of Manchester City against Aston Villa as the team with most penalties against a single opponent.
Javier Manquillo recorded six of Liverpool's 14 interceptions in this game
Etienne Capoue has attempted the most passes in the Premier League this season (301).
Liverpool against Spurs drew level with Liverpool against Newcastle as the Premier League fixture to contain the most goals (129).
Spurs produced one shot on target in this match - the only game in which they managed fewer than two last season was in the 5-0 home defeat against Liverpool.
Liverpool had 39.5% of possession; the only game in which they had less last season was in the 4-0 home win against Everton (39.1%).
Leicester City 1 Arsenal 1
Leicester have scored in all of their last 17 home league games.
Alexis Sánchez became the 100th different player to score a Premier League goal for Arsenal (not including own goals).
Nine Arsenal players attempted more passes in this game than the Leicester player with the most (Paul Konchesky, 39).
Aaron Ramsey (116) attempted the second most passes in a Premier League game this season, after Etienne Capoue's 123 against QPR.
Arsenal have only won three of their last 10 Premier League away games (D3 L4).
Leicester players produced 13 blocks in this game, Arsenal players produced just two.
No team managed to block more than 13 opposition shots in a Premier League match last season (it happened twice, both by West Ham).
Arsenal have recorded two of the three largest match possession shares this season (76% against Crystal Palace and 69% against Leicester).
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