The opening weekend of the Premier League has been completed, and what a weekend of goals galore, promoted sides winning, and the occasional surprise. So to wrap up some of it is our Premier League GW1 Results and Barely Interesting Stats.
Each week we take a look at the barely interesting results, hopefully that haven’t been picked up already and make it look like we have stolen someone’s else work.
Plus we throw in some interesting visuals to see the games through a different way.
So enjoy our Premier League GW1 Results and Barely Interesting Stats .
Premier League GW1 Results
Sunday
Newcastle 2 – 4 West Ham
Tottenham 1 – 0 Man City
Saturday
Man Utd 5 – 1 Leeds
Burnley 1 – 2 Brighton
Chelsea 3 – 0 Crystal Palace
Everton 3 – 1 Southampton
Leicester 1 – 0 Wolves
Watford 3 – 2 Aston Villa
Norwich 0 – 3 Liverpool
Friday
Brentford 2 – 0 Arsenal
Premier League GW1 Results – Barely Interesting Stats
Going Back to 2010 just three promoted sides have won their first game of the new Premier League season.
- 2017 Huddersfield beat Crystal Palace 3-0 away
- 2016 Hull beat Leicester 2-1 at home.
- 2012 West Ham beat Aston Villa 1-0.
No other season since 2010 has two promoted sides won on the first weekend like this season.
This season saw Liverpool open their season against a promoted side for the third straight season. They have won all three games.
Liverpool have also scored three or four goals in each opening weekend fixture for six straight seasons. 22 goals in those six seasons.
Manchester clubs have now won 12 matches in a row on opening weekend. Note: they did not play on opening weekend last season.
Southampton’s goal this weekend was their first opening weekend goal since 2016 when they drew 1-1 with Watford.
Same but worse for West Ham who hadn’t scored a goal since 2016 and lost their opening weekend games by a combined 15-0 in four games heading into this season.
Sunderland were the last team to score an opening week goal v Manchester City before Spurs.
Manchester City have yet to win at Spurs’ new home. Or score a goal.
Despite an ordinary result to kick off their season, Arsenal topped the Chances Created and Shots stat for GW1. West Ham equalled Manchester United for Shots on Target.
Premier League GW1 Results – H2H Stats Comparisons
We have assembled some of the key stats from the biggest or most interesting games from the weekend. Sometimes proving that stats don’t equal the end result. Aka the Brighton effect.
For this weekend’s results we feature Arsenal v Brentford, where Arsenal’s stats hold up, but so does Brentford’s clean sheet. West Ham v Newcastle was a lot of fun to watch, so threw those stats in. And some for the biggest game of the weekend in the traditional Sunday timeslot.
BRENTFORD v ARSENAL
SPURS v MANCHESTER CITY
NEWCASTLE v WEST HAM
