⚽ 2024/25 Premier League Matchweek 1: Previews, Results, Stats, Live Updates and More

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Romeo Lavia’s game by numbers vs. Man City:

38/39 passes completed (97.4%)
6x possession won
4 duels won
3 tackles
3 interceptions
1 chance created

One of the bright sparks for Chelsea.

[Samuel]

There were more players from Chelsea’s 2020-21 Champions League winning side in Man City’s squad yesterday than Chelsea’s

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Bukayo Saka was the highest rated player in the Premier League from the opening weekend

(h/t @WhoScored)

[Samuel]

Man City pick up from where they left off! Their unbeaten run in the Premier League is now 24 matches

[Goodness]

Leicester make their Premier League return against Spurs

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Leicester XI: Hermansen, Justin, Faes, Vestergaard, Kristiansen; Winks, Ndidi; De Cordova-Reid, Buonanotte, Fatawu; Vardy.

Tottenham XI: Vicario; Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie; Bentancur, Sarr, Maddison; Johnson, Solanke, Son.

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𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Bruno Guimarães is Newcastle’s new captain. ©

@CraigHope_DM

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𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗙 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘:

Leicester City 0-1 Tottenham

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50 - Since the start of 2018-19, his debut season in the competition, no Premier League midfielder has been involved in more goals away from home than James Maddison (25 goals, 25 assists). Travels.

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Jamie Vardy’s strike earns @LCFC a point in their first match back in the Premier League

[Samuel]

37-year-old Jamie Vardy. Back scoring in the Premier League. Of course

[Samuel]

Jamie Vardy vs. Tottenham:

2 shots
4 touches in opposition box
0.8 XG
1 goal

Leicester’s fox in the box

[Samuel]

Erling Haaland has now been involved in 106 goals in his 100 appearances for Man City

[Samuel]

No player won more duels than Kobbie Mainoo (13) on the opening weekend of the Premier League

[Samuel]

One down, 37 to go.

[Samuel]

Back like he never left

Jamie Vardy’s goal against Spurs was his eighth in Matchweek 1

[Samuel]

What was the most eye-catching result of the opening weekend?

[Goodness]

1 - For a second consecutive year, Bernardo Silva has covered the most distance of any player on MD1 of the Premier League season:

12.6km vs Burnley in 2023-24
12.4km vs Chelsea in 2024-25

Duracell.

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6 - Including caretakers, Jamie Vardy has scored in his first Premier League game under six different managers (Ranieri, Shakespeare, Puel, Stowell, Rodgers, Cooper); only Darren Bent has ever scored in his first appearance under more managers (seven). Impression.

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50 - Liverpool had 50 touches in the opposition box against Ipswich on Saturday in Arne Slot’s first game in charge, the most in a manager’s first ever game in the Premier League that Opta has on record since 2008-09. Intent.