Arsenal's porous streak on their travels, Liverpool's away record & another unwanted Man Utd record feature in our look at the weekend's stats.
We take a look at the most interesting Opta statistics after a weekend which saw Chelsea, Tottenham and Swansea maintain their perfect starts to the season before Manchester City joined them by beating Liverpool on Monday evening.
Aston Villa 0 Newcastle 0
Six of Aston Villa's last nine Barclays Premier League matches have been 0-0 at half-time.
Aston Villa have been involved in 92 goalless draws in the Barclays Premier League, 14 more than any other team.
Including both home and away matches, only Everton v Liverpool (20) and Liverpool v Manchester United (15) have produced more red cards in the Barclays Premier League than Aston Villa v Newcastle United (13).
Aston Villa have won only nine of their last 32 Barclays Premier League home matches.
Newcastle drew one Barclays Premier League away match last season.
Villa had nine shots on goal (including blocked) but not one was on target. They have managed two shots on target in total in their last four Barclays Premier League fixtures.
Villa are without a win against Newcastle in their last seven Barclays Premier League matches (D3 L4).
Chelsea 2 Leicester City 0
Chelsea have failed to score a first-half goal in three of their last four Premier League games.
Eden Hazard created seven goal-scoring chances against Leicester, the most of any player in a Premier League game this season.
Diego Costa has netted two goals from just two shots on target in the Premier League this season.
The Blues have found the back of the net in 27 of their last 29 home Premier League games.
Cesc Fabregas has assisted three goals in two Premier League games for Chelsea and 51 goals in his last 105 Premier League appearances.
The Foxes have only ever won one of nine Premier League trips to Stamford Bridge (W1 D2 L6).
Chelsea have kept eight clean sheets in their last nine Premier League games at Stamford Bridge.
Kasper Schmeichel made eight saves against Chelsea, more than any player in a Premier League game this season.
Chelsea mustered 27 shots in this game (incl. blocked), eight more than any other side this season so far.
Crystal Palace 1 West Ham United 3
Mauro Zarate's last Premier League goal came 2324 days ago, for Birmingham v Everton on April 12, 2008.
Stewart Downing has bagged two goals in his last four games (in all comps) after failing to score in his 44 games before that.
Crystal Palace have conceded two or more goals in each of their last five Premier League matches.
Marouane Chamakh's goal was only his second in the Premier League from outside the box (two of 14 goals in total).
The Hammers bagged three or more goals away in the Premier League for only the second time in their last 44 games on the road.
Carlton Cole's goal was his first in 11 games in the Premier League.
Palace have won just four of their last 16 Premier League home games against fellow London sides.
This is only West Ham's second win in their last nine Premier League London derbies.
Southampton 0 West Bromwich Albion 0
There have only been 13 goals scored in the nine Premier League games between these two sides.
West Brom have scored a total of only two goals in their last 10 Premier League away games in August.
The Baggies have never won a Premier League game away from home in August.
Both sides in this game directed two shots on target, four shots off target and saw two of their shots blocked.
The Baggies have failed to score in each of their last three Premier League goals against Southampton.
The Saints have lost just one of their last six Premier League games at St. Mary's (W3 D2).
Swansea City 1 Burnley 0
Nathan Dyer has netted two goals in his last three games for Swansea.
Gylfi Sigurdsson already has provided two assists this season in the Premier League after failing to notch a single assist in 25 appearances in 2013-14.
Burnley have gone 29 Premier League games without a clean sheet, with their last shut-out coming in October 2009, 2-0 v Hull City.
Swansea have won three Premier League games in a row for the first time since August 2012.
This was only the Swans' second clean sheet in their last seven Premier League home games.
In their opening two games this season, Garry Monk's side have won 14% of the total points they managed in the whole of last season.
Wilfried Bony fired in three shots on target against Burnley. No player has managed more in a Premier League game this season.
Everton 2 Arsenal 2
Arsenal have now gone five games without a win against Everton, their worst such run in the Premier League.
In fact, it is the first time the Gunners have gone five league games without beating the Toffees in their history.
Since the start of 2013-14, Arsenal have conceded 22 goals in five away games at Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea & Everton.
No defender has scored more goals since the start of last season than Seamus Coleman (7).
The last time Arsenal shipped two first-half goals was away at Everton last season.
Joel Campbell made his Premier League debut for Arsenal 1100 days after signing for the club.
Arsenal have conceded from their first shots on target faced in both Premier League games this season.
Aaron Ramsey has netted in four of his last five Premier League games for Arsenal.
Everton have scored at least two goals in each of their last seven Premier League home games.
Olivier Giroud scored away from home, having gone seven Premier League games on the road without one. His previous six strikes had come at the Emirates.
No player has scored more headed goals in the Premier League since the start of last season than Olivier Giroud (Bony/Benteke also on 5).
Arsenal have not won their opening two league games since 2009.
Hull City 1 Stoke City 1
Stoke have lost just one of their last 11 games against the Tigers (W4 D6).
Hull have not won consecutive Premier League games since September last year.
Nikica Jelavic's goal was only his sixth in his last 49 Premier League appearances.
James Chester has scored a goal, conceded a penalty and been sent off in the 2014-15 Premier League season.
Chester's red card on 14 minutes was the first foul Hull had conceded in the game.
Ryan Shawcross has scored at least once in all seven Premier League seasons he has featured in.
Stoke hit 19 shots (inc. blocked), but only three of them were on target.
Hull did not have a shot on target in the second half.
Tottenham Hotspur 4 Queens Park Rangers 0
QPR have won just four of their last 41 Premier League games.
Tottenham have won five of their last six Premier League games.
Tottenham have won each of their last five Premier League home games, scoring 18 goals in the process.
Nacer Chadli's second goal saw a build-up of 48 passes. The longest sequence seen for any goal in the Premier League in 2013-14 was only 24 passes.
Eric Dier is only the fourth defender to score in his team's opening two games of a Premier League season (after Neil Clement for WBA in 2004-05, William Gallas for Arsenal in 2009-10 and Branislav Ivanovic for Chelsea in 2012-13).
In only two appearances, Dier has scored more PL goals than any Tottenham defender did in the whole of 2013-14.
Tottenham have scored 4+ goals in a Premier League London derby for the first time since drawing 4-4 with Arsenal in October 2008.
This was only the 24th time (from 850 games in the PL) that Tottenham had scored 3+ goals in the first half.
After assisting only one goal in his first 10 PL appearances for Tottenham, Erik Lamela assisted two goals in seven first-half minutes.
Erik Lamela was making his first Premier League start at White Hart Lane, 359 days after signing for Tottenham.
Rio Ferdinand conceded a foul in a Premier League game for the first time in 28 appearances.
Sunderland 1 Manchester United 1
Sunderland have scored at least once in 11 of their last 12 Premier League games.
Ashley Young has been booked three times for simulation in the Premier League since August 2008. Only Gareth Bale (7) has been booked more for diving in that period.
One point from two games is Manchester United's worst start to a league season since 1992-93 (0 points).
Manchester United have won only one of their last nine Premier League games played in the Sunday 4pm slot.
Manchester United have kept only two clean sheets in their last 10 Premier League games.
Juan Mata has now scored seven goals in his last eight Premier League appearances.
Jack Rodwell scored his first Premier League goal since May 2013.
Four of Manchester United's 10 shots in this game came after the 86th minute.
Robin van Persie did not manage a single shot in this game; he also didn't hit a shot in his final PL game of the 2013/14 season (v Southampton). It is the first time he has gone back-to-back PL appearances for United without a shot.
All seven of Mata's Premier League goals for Man Utd have come when he has played centrally.
Manchester City 3 Liverpool 1
Manchester City have scored two or more goals in each of their last five Barclays Premier League matches against Liverpool.
Sergio Aguero had been on the pitch for only 23 seconds before scoring Man City's third goal.
Aguero's goal is the fastest by a substitute in the BPL since Apostolos Vellios scored for Everton after 17 seconds against Chelsea in 2011-12.
Stevan Jovetic has scored four goals in two competitive matches against Liverpool (two for City, two for Fiorentina).
City have scored at least once in 69 of their last 70 Barclays Premier League home matches.
Aguero has scored two goals as a substitute already this season, matching his best total in a single BPL campaign.
This was Liverpool's first Barclays Premier League away defeat in 2014.
Liverpool's last three away defeats have been at Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester City.
City have now won 23 of their last 26 Barclays Premier League home matches (D1 L2).
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