Gameweek 2, Day 2, Key Notes:

⏱️ Liverpool 3 – 1 Bournemouth

🔋Possession: 65% – 35%

⚙️ xG: 3.08 – 1.29

🔍Big Chances: 4 – 3

🚀 Shots (SoT): 26(10) – 13(5)

📜 Notes:

• Salah has now missed 3 of his last 5 penalties in the Premier League. He however scored from the rebound. Salah had 5 shots (3 on target) and created 2 assists in the match.

• There’s Mac Allister (nine career penalties scored from 10 attempts), Szoboszlai (15 from 16) and Darwin Nunez (£7.5m, 11 from 11) waiting in the wings, should Klopp decide to give someone else a chance.

• Diogo Jota fired 5 shots (2 on target), created 2 chances and registered a goal and an assist.

• Mac Allister will miss the next three Liverpool games.

• Antoine Semenyo , BOU’s goal scorer is a £4.5m forward in #FPL . That’s now two attacking returns in as many Gameweeks, after his assist off the bench on the opening weekend.

⏱️ Fulham 0 – 3 Brentford

🔋Possession: 54% – 46%

⚙️ xG: 0.46 – 3.80

🔍Big Chances: 0 – 5

🚀 Shots (SoT): 10(2) – 17(😎

📜 Notes:

• In the last seven Premier League games that Ivan Toney has missed, Bryan Mbeumo has scored eight goals & Yoane Wissa has scored six. No Toney: no problem!

⏱️ Wolves 1 – 4 Brighton

🔋Possession: 46% – 54%

⚙️ xG: 2.14 – 2.22

🔍Big Chances: 4 – 5

🚀 Shots (SoT): 16(5) – 16(😎

📜 Notes:

• Solly March fired 5 shots (4 on target) and scored 2 goals in quick succession (xG = 0.87).

• Kaoru Mitoma scored from his only shot in the match (xG = 0.51). He also created 4 chances (1 big chance) and registered an assist (0.67).

• Pervis Estupiñan scored a goal and registered an assist from an xGI of just 0.28.

• Since De Zerbi took charge as manager, no side have averaged a higher non-penalty xG per game than Brighton (1.97).

⏱️ Spurs 2 – 0 Man Utd

🔋Possession: 56% – 44%

⚙️ xG: 1.77 – 1.06

🔍Big Chances: 3 – 4

🚀 Shots (SoT): 17(6) – 22(6)

📜 Notes:

• Bruno Fernandes had 6 shots (1 on target) with xG = 0.74 and created 4 chances (2 big chances) with an xA of 0.54. He however missed from six yards to score against Spurs.

• Despite Spurs firing 17 shots in the match Richarlison who played as their striker failed to register even a single shot against Man Utd.

• Luke Shaw created more chances (6) than any other player in the match.

• Spurs have allowed 4.29 expected goals (xG) in their two matches so far

⏱️ Man City 1 – 0 Newcastle

🔋Possession: 60% – 40%

⚙️ xG: 1.09 – 0.29

🔍Big Chances: 1 – 0

🚀 Shots (SoT): 14(4) – 7(1)

📜 Notes:

• Phil Foden was at the heart of almost every Man City attack in the match. He created 7 chances (1 big chance) and provided an assist (xA = 0.53). Yhe next highest chances created figure in the game was 2!

• Alexander Isak after his brilliant performance last week had an awful outing against City. He had the least touches (13) out of any starting player, had 0 shots and created 0 chances.

• Julian Alvarez scored the goal from his only shot in the match. He had an xG of just 0.11.