The Premier League made its return from the March International Break over the weekend and with it delivered another exhilarating round of fixtures.
Spurs appear to have bottled it again, Liverpool and Manchester City marched on in their neck-and-neck title race, Huddersfield were relegated and Chelsea grabbed all three points with yet another late winner.
With the weekend of fixtures also came a series of historic marks reached, records matched and broken, and a set of remarkable numbers, from the Terriers’ historic relegation to achievements set by Frank Lampard and David Beckham.
Here are the stats from the weekend…
Tottenham Woes
Tottenham’s Toby Alderweireld is the first player to score a match-winning own goal in the 90th minute or later of a Premier League game since Troy Deeney for Watford against Manchester United in November 2015.
Faulty Fulham
The Cottagers have conceded at least twice in their past 12 league games, the longest such sequence in the top flight since a run of 14 by Newcastle between May and October 1977.
Patient Blues
Chelsea have now scored 18 goals in the final 15 minutes of Premier League matches this season, no club in the competition has managed more.
Huddersfield Match Historic Mark
Huddersfield Town have been relegated with six games to play – the joint-earliest in terms of games in the Premier League era (Derby County – 2007-08 and Ipswich Town – 1994-95).
United Attackers Join Impressive Company
This is the first time since the 1995-96 season (Scholes, Cole, Giggs, Cantona) that Manchester United have had four players score 10+ goals in a single Premier League campaign (Martial, Rashford, Lukaku, Pogba).
Brighton Bundled
Brighton had 15 shots without scoring on Saturday; only twice before in the Premier League have the Seagulls attempted moreshots without scoring (21 v Watford in February 2019 and 16 v Watford in August 2017).
Anfield Automatic
Liverpool extended their unbeaten home league run to 37 games (W27 D10) – the joint-second longest such streak in Premier League history (level with Manchester City), behind only Chelsea’s 86-match run between 2004-2008.
Foxes Rolling
Leicester have won three consecutive Premier League games for the first time since a run of four ending in December 2017.
Luka Climbs The Leaderboard
Luka Milivojevic (22) is now the outright third highest goalscorer for Crystal Palace in Premier League history, behind only Wilfried Zaha (30) and Chris Armstrong (23).
Clumsy Cardiff
Cardiff City are only the third team in Premier League history to lose four consecutive matches against a particular opponent (Chelsea) despite opening the scoring each time.Six of the eight Premier League points Chelsea have won from losing positions this season have come home and away versus Cardiff.