Thread by @btsportfootball

🤯 Fascinating stats and facts from the 2019-20 Premier League season 🤯

[A THREAD]

With thanks to the superb @OptaJoe, @Squawka and @WhoScored

1. Jamie Vardy is the oldest player in Premier League history to win the Golden Boot award (33 years of age)

Didier Drogba's 29 goals during the 2009-10 season at 32 years of age was the previous record oldest.

Like a fine 🍷

2. Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson recorded same number of Premier League assists in 2019-20 as Raheem Sterling (1).

Raheem Sterling scored 20 Premier League goals in a league campaign for the first time in his career 🙌

3. No English players scored for Wolves in the league this season

This is the fifth time in league history this has happened.

Stoke 2015-16
Arsenal 2006-07
Fulham 2005-06
Fulham 2001-02

🇲🇽(17 goals)
🇵🇹 (15 goals)
🇪🇸 (6 goals)
🇧🇪 (4 goals)
🇮🇪 (4 goals)
🇮🇹 (2 goals)
🇲🇦 (2 goals)

4. Mason Greenwood became the first English teenager to score 10+ goals in a Premier League campaign since Wayne Rooney in 2004-05.

Special talent 🌟

5. Kevin De Bruyne tied Thierry Henry's all-time PL assist record (20).

He also set a new Premier League record for most chances created from open play (104) beating Eden Hazard's previous record (98).

👑

Via @Squawka

6. Heung-min Son became the first player in Premier League history to score 10 goals, record 10 assists and complete military service in the same season 🇰🇷

7. Divock Origi's goal on the Premier League final day vs Newcastle was the first goal he's scored for Liverpool in all competitions during daylight since the Premier League final day in 2017 vs West Ham.

His 12 goals in between were all scored when it was dark.

8. Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in more goals since the Premier League restart than any other player (15).

8 goals
7 assists

Brilliant addition since January for Man Utd 👊

9. Since Leicester beat Southampton 9-0 in October 2019, the Saints earned more points in the league (44) than the Foxes (42) throughout the remainder of the season.

Southampton's final goal difference in the league this season was -9.

10. Carlo Ancelotti finished a league season in the bottom half for the first time in his 25-year managerial career. (Via @Squawka)

Everton club legend Leighton Baines retires from the game as the only defender in PL history with over 50 assists to his name (53 assists total).

11. Virgil van Dijk became only the fifth outfield player in Premier League history to win the title and play every single minute of the league campaign. The other four were...

Cesar Azpilicueta (16-17)
Wes Morgan (15-16)
John Terry (14-15)
Gary Pallister (92-93)

Via @OptaJoe

12. Man Utd scored 14 penalties during the 2019-20 league campaign, a record for a team in a single PL season.

13. Adama Traore > Raul Jimenez was the most frequent assist > goalscorer combination in the Premier League during 2019-20 with 7 goals.

Adama 🤝 Raul

Via @WhoScored

14. Man City scored 4+ goals in 11 Premier League games this season.

West Ham 0-5 Man City
Man City 4-0 Brighton
Man City 8-0 Watford
Burnley 1-4 City
Villa 1-5 City
City 5-0 Burnley
City 4-0 Liverpool
City 5-0 Newcastle
Brighton 0-5 City
Watford 0-4 City
City 5-0 Norwich

Wow!

15. For the first time in Premier League history, the top three scorers in the league didn't play for any team which finished in the top four.

Jamie Vardy: 23 goals, finished 5th
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: 22 goals, finished 8th
Danny Ings: 22 goals, finished 11th

Via @Squawka

16. Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool equalled Pep Guardiola's Man City Premier League record of most wins in a single top-flight season (32).

17. David Luiz gave away five penalties for Arsenal in the league during 2019-20, the most by a player in a single campaign in Premier League history.

Via @OptaJoe

18. Adama Traore set a new Premier League record for most take-ons (beating his man) in a single Premier League campaign (183) surpassing Eden Hazard's previous record (180).

Stat via @Squawka

Exhibit A.

19. Every winner of the Premier League's Playmaker of the Season award, given to the player with the most assists, is from Belgium.

2019-20: Kevin De Bruyne (20 assists)
2018-19: Eden Hazard (15 assists)
2017-18: Kevin De Bruyne (16 assists)

🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪

20. Man Utd recorded the same number of points as last season, scored one goal more and finished three places higher.

2018-19 season: Points won (66). Goals scored (65). Final league postition (6th)

2019-20 season: Points won (66). Goals scored (66). Final league position (3rd)

21. Only Nicolas Pépé created more chances for Arsenal (46) in the Premier League than Mesut Özil (39) this season.

Özil last featured in a league game for Arsenal on March 7th vs West Ham, 11 games ago.

22. Only three players scored both 10 or more goals and recorded 10 or more assists in the Premier League this season.

Mohamed Salah: 19 goals, 10 assists
Kevin De Bruyne: 13 goals, 20 assists
Heung-min Son: 11 goals, 10 assists

23. Sheffield Utd managed their largest points tally (54 points) and achieved their highest finish (9th) during their time in the Premier League.

Amazing job by Chris Wilder.

Listen to the Wilder episode of our new podcast series #TheGafferTapes here - open.spotify.com/show/6Dql4fE0O…

24. Frank Lampard's first season in charge of Chelsea and Derby saw the EXACT same number of goals scored and goals conceded in the league.

Chelsea 2019-20 season: 69 goals scored, 54 conceded

Derby 2018-19 season: 69 goals scored, 54 conceded

25. Since Bruno Fernandes made his Premier League debut, Man Utd have won more Premier League points (32) than any other team.

👊

Well that's all the stats and facts we found on the 2019/20 Premier League season.

We hope you enjoyed them! 🙌

Reminder: We have 26 games in 19 days in August as the Champions League and Europa League return.

It's going to be INCREDIBLE!!

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