Opta: Weekend in numbers

Take a look at the best stats from the third week of Premier League action, including all the facts from Sunderland’s trip to Southampton.

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10 – Jermain Defoe has scored 10 goals in his last 10 appearances away from home in the Premier League.

6 – Defoe has scored in six successive away appearances in the Premier League. Only Robin van Persie has a longer run in PL history (nine away games in 2010-11), while four other players have managed a sequence of six in a row (Vardy, Kane, Sturridge, Drogba).

5 – Sunderland made five changes to their starting XI from their previous match (MD2 v Middlesbrough); the most changes made by a team in the Premier League this season from one game to the next.

1 – Jay Rodriguez scored his first Premier League goal since March 2014.

6 – Sunderland have failed to win a game in their opening three matches of a Premier League season in each of the last six Premier League campaigns.

1 – The Black Cats have won just one of their 20 Premier League matches in the month of August since 2010-11 (W1 D10 L9).

Weekend in numbers

42 – James Milner has scored in 42 Premier League games without losing (W34 D8); only Darius Vassell (46 games) has scored in more without defeat in Premier League history.

6 – Eden Hazard has scored six goals in his last eight Premier League games, having scored six in 44 games prior to that.

30 – Antonio Conte is now unbeaten in his last 30 home league matches as a manager (W28 D2).

100 – Claudio Ranieri has secured his 100th Premier League win as a manager, becoming the 5th non-British/Irish manager to reach this landmark.

20 – Palace have now failed to win 20 of their 22 games in 2016. (W2 D6 L14).

1 – Rashford is the first teenager to score a Premier League goal for a team managed by Jose Mourinho.

21 – The Hornets have now used 21 different players in the Premier League this season, with 17 different nationalities represented.

79 – Ahmed Elmohamady has appeared in every one of Hull City’s 79 Premier League matches since the start of 2013-14.

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