Premier League Weekend's Quirky Facts

Liverpool defeated crystal palace 3-0 on Saturday 19th September 2021 to take their place at the top of the premier league

Titles rivals Manchester city could only draw at home to Southampton, but Manchester united and Chelsea subsequently joined Liverpool on 13 points.

Here are some of the more curious facts from across the premier league weekend.

1. Premier league first for African Reds trio at Anfield.

Sadio mane, Mohammed Salah and Nabil Keita scored Liverpool's goals in their win over crystal palace at Anfield.

It is the first time in the premier league that a game has ended 3-0 with three goals being scored by African players.

Mane ended the scoring with his 100th goal for Liverpool. The Senegalese forward has now scored in each of his Last nine league appearances against crystal palace, making him the first player in premier league history to score in nine straight matches against a single side.

All Three of Liverpool's goals came from corners. Not since Manchester City beat Westbrom in March 2015 has a top flight game ended 3-0 with all goals coming from corners.

2. Dave finally saves a penalty

There was a late drama at London stadium on Sunday as Manchester united joined Liverpool at the top the table, thanks to a 2-1 win over Westham united.

After Cristiano Ronaldo continued his fantastic start to his second united stint to drag the red devils level, Jesse Lingard came off the bench to break Westham united fans heart late in the game. Lingard has a fantastic spell with Westham united last season while on loan from Manchester united.

London stadium is the 66th different stadium that Cristiano Ronaldo has scored at, in matches played in Europe's big five leagues and he has scored at More unique venues than any other player since his united debut in 2003-2004, ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Lingard meanwhile, became the 47th player to score for and against Westham united in the premier league, excluding own goals. Westham united have had More players score for and against them than any other side in the league's history.

But it was David De Gea who proved to be United's hero, as he saved a last minute penalty from mark noble, who was brought on specially by Westham united coach David Moyes to take the spot kick.

De Gea's save ended a drought stretching back to April 23 2016,of 40 spot kicks faced without making a single save for both club and country. In the process helping Manchester united claim a dramatic win at London stadium.

Of those penalties,11 were scored by Villarreal players in May's Europa league final, with De Gea ultimately missing the decisive kick in the Red devils shoot out defeat to Villarreal.

The 30 year old Spanish international did keep out a Jordan Ayew penalty in last September's league meeting with crystal palace, but that was retaken and scored by Wilfred Zaha after De Gea was deemed to be off his line.

3. Veteran Silva helps Chelsea demolish spurs at white hart lane.

Aged 36 years and 362 days, Thiago Silva became the second oldest Chelsea player to score in the premier league behind Didier Drogba, who scored against Leicester city aged 37 years and 49 days in April 2015, when the Brazilian headed Thomas Tuchel's side ahead at Tottenham.

N'golo Kante's deflected effort made it 2-0.The midfielder scored for the first time in 49 league appearances, having Last found the back of the net against Manchester city in November 2019.Three of his last four top flight strikes have come from outside of the box.

Antonio Rudiger condemned Spurs to a second successive 3-0 defeat. They have lost consecutive premier league matches by 3+ goal margin for the first time since their opening two games of the 2011-2012 campaign.

Harry Kane, meanwhile, cut a forlorn figure up top for Nuno Espirito Santo's side. He had failed to score in his first four premier league appearances of the season for the first time since 2015-2016 season, attempting just four shots so far.

4.. Super-sub Bailey Burst Benitez's bubble.

Everton's unbeaten start under Rafael Benitez came crashing to a halt as Leo Bailey starred with a blistering cameo in Aston villa's 3-0 win.

Bailey came on from the bench and had an instant impact with Matty cash's first premier league goal for Aston villa, having put Villa ahead, the Jamaica forward whipped in a corner that Lucas Digne turned into his own net.

Digne has now scored three own goals in the premier league, level with Younes Kaboul for the French player to have done so on the most occasions.

Villa were not finished there, however Bailey Burst clear to lash home his first premier league goal. Moments later, he went with an apparent thigh injury, becoming only the second villa player to come on as a substitute, score and then be substituted in the premier league match, after Julian Joachim against Derby in September 2000.

5. Farke's losing streak rolls on, Toney at the top.

Ivan Toney scored and assisted another as Brentford defeated Wolves 2-0 on Saturday September 19 2021.

Since the start of last season, Toney is the outright leading goal scorer in the top four tiers of English football (excluding the play off matches) with 33 strikes to his name for Brentford.

Another promoted club, Norwich City suffered their fifth defeat of the season. In total, the canaries have now Lost each of their last 15 premier league games, meaning Daniel Farke is the manager with the longest losing run in top flight history.

Mick McCarthy (14) was the last manager to go close to almost as long as Farke without a top flight tier win, though that was back in 209.