Some nuggets of interesting and not-so-interesting trivia relating to Premier League teams so far this season...
Arsenal are yet to lose this season in the 19 games they've played in the Premier League, League Cup and Champions League.
Aston Villa, though ninth in the Premier League table, are yet to win away from home this season.
Birmingham City have failed to score in five of their twelve Premier League games so far.
Blackburn Rovers have lost only one game all season and are still unbeaten away from home.
Bolton Wanderers have won just one of their twelve Premier League games so far, at home to Reading in August.
Chelsea remain unbeaten at home in the league after five matches and have conceded just two goals - both against Birmingham City in their first game of the season.
Derby have won just one game all season and are yet to win or score away from home. Their only win in the Premier League came at home to Newcastle in September.
Everton have drawn only one Premier League game all season - against Blackburn in August.
Fulham are yet to win a league game away from home all season, scoring only four goals in five games.
Liverpool have conceded only six Premier League goals all season - the joint best defence along with Manchester United's.
Manchester City have won all seven of their home games in the league this season - five them by a 1-0 scoreline.
Manchester United remain unbeaten at home in the Premier League and have conceded only one goal there all season.
Middlesbrough have won just two games out of twelve in the Premier League thus far and have lost five out of six away from home.
Newcastle United are yet to play an away game in London in the Premier League this season.
Portsmouth are on a run of seven consecutive unbeaten games in the Premier League and are second only to Arsenal in terms of goals scored.
Starting with their loss to Sunderland on September 15th, Reading are currently alternating between winning and losing games in the Premier League.
Sunderland's last Premier League win was that same 2-1 win over Reading on September 15th.
Tottenham Hotspur have won just one game all season (at home to Derby in August) and have conceded on average two goals in all Premier League matches.
West Ham United have managed to score more than one goal only once in their last six Premier League games.
Wigan Athletic have won just two games all season - both within the first three games of the Premier League campaign.
Friday, November 09, 2007
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If I had to guess, I'd say Boro, Wigan and Derby will get relegated this season. Though I wouldn't put any money on it, based on my "You Bet" performance....
This will be the end table:
1.Arsenal
2.Man Utd
3.Chelsea
4.Liverpool
5.Man City
6.Blackburn
7.Everton
8.Portsmoth
9.Tottenham
10.Aston Villa
11.Newcastle
12.West Ham
13.Reading
14.Birmingham
15.Fulham
16.Bolton
17.Sunderland
18.Middlesbrough
19.Wigan
20.Derby
"In their current spell in the top flight, West Ham have lost eight out of 10 away to teams who suffered defeat in their last home match but only 13/30 against those who didn't" ??1?
You can turn anything into a stat
Looks like Betfair make a living out of it, Dave...
Adam - I'd probably go along with two out of your three predictions there, but Boro (no matter how abysmal they sometimes seem) always seem to keep afloat when they have to. It might be a narrower squeak this season though...
Peter - Your table looks quite interesting. Spurs to finish 9th? I suppose it's likely even though at the moment it's hard to picture that! I'd guess that Bolton and Sunderland will finish higher than you've placed them with Birmingham and Fulham being lower than 14th and 15th.
Regardless of potential form, if you had to pick three teams to be relegated at the end of the season based on underachievement in the Premier League, who would you pick?
Derby, wigan and middlesbrough. the funny thing is middlesbrough have the quality to turn things round and stay in the premiership, but southgate is rubbish, spending 6million quid on ghary o'neil.
Wigan, I can't see being a premiership side mush longer with the poor players they have e.g bramble, sibierski, koumas, agahowa, heskey (even though he's injured) and M.Bent They do have some quality though such as valencia, kirkland, landzaat, granqvist, scharner and skoko.
derby- well enough said.
I'm inclined to agree with you about Wigan, Peter. A staggering lack of investment in quality players during the summer was a sure sign for me that they could end up struggling.
Middlesbrough like to hold onto their managers no matter how bad they are, so Southgate's going nowhere I fear.
I thought everyone was being very hard on Derby at the start of the season, but I guess even I now have to admit that their days in the Premier League are numbered.
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