All the stats from around the grounds following the latest round of Premier League action.
Manchester City 2-1 Sunderland
16 – Jermain Defoe has scored in his 16th different Premier League season - the 8th different player to score in 16+ PL campaigns.
5 – Defoe has scored in five successive Premier League away appearances – only five players have scored in 6+ successive away apps in the competition.
8 – Only Alan Shearer (11) has scored more Premier League goals against Man City than Defoe (8 - level with Wayne Rooney, Robbie Keane & Ian Rush).
18 – Sergio Aguero is the top scoring player in the Premier League so far in 2016 (18 goals in 19 games).
4 – Aguero has scored four goals and assisted two more in his last four Premier League appearances against Sunderland.
3 – Pep Guardiola has now won the opening league game of the season as a manager in each of his last seven seasons (three for Barcelona, three for Bayern, one for Man City).
1 – Sunderland scored just one own goal in the whole of the 2015-16 Premier League season and equaled this tally on MD1 of 2016-17.
44 – Manchester City benefitted from an own goal in a Premier League game for the first time since April 2015 (44 games ago).
5 – Manchester City have won their last five Premier League meetings with Sunderland.
0 – Sunderland have never won away at Manchester City in the Premier League (W0 D2 L11).
Elsewhere in the Premier League
5 – Zlatan Ibrahimovic has now scored on his Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Champions League debut.
0 – Jose Mourinho has never lost an opening day fixture in the Premier League (W7 D1).
7 – Arsenal v Liverpool has seen more penalties missed than any other fixture in Premier League history (7).
1 – Leicester City were the first reigning top-flight champions to lose their opening game of the following league season since Arsenal in 1989/90 – the Gunners lost 1-4 away at Manchester United on 19th August 1989.
11 – West Brom’s last 11 Premier League wins have all been by a one-goal margin.
7 – Erik Lamela has had a hand in seven goals in his last seven Premier League appearances (three goals, four assists).
0 – Middlesbrough have never won on the opening weekend of a Premier League season as a newly-promoted team (D3 L1).
