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The 33 most astounding stats from the Premier League season

The Premier League season has thrown up some quirky stats - AFP/Rex Features
The Premier League season has thrown up some quirky stats - AFP/Rex Features

Chelsea won the league, Arsenal missed out on the top four and north east of England lost three Premier League participants.

But you know all that, don't you?

Here, we review the season in numbers, with plenty of surprising discoveries, so read on for 33 of the best stats from the past 10 months:

1. Tottenham's goal difference of +60 is the highest ever by a team who did not win the title.

2. Arsenal scored more headed goals than any other team, with 17.

3. Dimitri Payet created more chances than any other West Ham player and 10th most overall despite making his final appearance on January 2nd.

4. Diego Costa's goals were worth 15 points - more than any other any other player.

5. Hull City spent 1 day at the top of the Premier League, which is more than 14 teams, including Tottenham.

6. Arsenal's total of 75 points was the most for a team finishing fifth in the Premier League era.

7. An all-time low of 11.6 per cent of goals this season were scored from outside the box.

8. An all-time high 3.7 yellow cards per game were given out.

9. Jesus Navas had a third successive goalless season. He has now gone 115 matches and played more than 103 hours of football since he last scored a Premier League goal.

10. Only four players have scored more Premier League hat-tricks than Harry Kane, who is still only 23 years old. 

Players with the most Premier League hat-tricks

11. Harry Kane scored more goals (29) than Middlesbrough (27) from 241 fewer shots (110 versus 351)

12. Jermain Defoe scored 51.7 per cent of Sunderland's goals, a higher proportion than any other team and the third highest in any Premier League season.

13. Manchester United went on a 25-game unbeaten run between September 2016 and May 2017 – this was the eighth longest-ever unbeaten run within a single top-flight season.

Least impressive unbeaten runs in the Premier League

14. United drew 10 home games this season – the joint-most by a team at home in a Premier League season. Chelsea didn't draw any.

15. Arsenal inflicted the heaviest defeat suffered by the champions for the second successive season, beating Chelsea 3-0 after having beaten Leicester 5-2 last season.

16. Jason Puncheon had more shots without scoring than any other player, with 45.

17. Manchester United had the most shots by any team in a single game, with 38 at home to Burnley - a match they drew 0-0.

Man Utd vs Burnley shots on goal

18. Kevin De Bruyne hit the woodwork nine times - three more than any other player and more than five teams did in total.

19. Pep Guardiola and Craig Shakespeare became the second and third managers ever to win their first five games in the Premier League.

20. Jack Rodwell set a Premier League record for most consecutive games without a win, with 39.

21. Salomon Rondon scored the second-ever Premier League hat-trick of headers in West Brom's win over Swansea in December. The only other one was scored by Duncan Ferguson in 1997.

22. Harry Kane and Sergio Aguero became the fourth and fifth player to score 20+ goals in three consecutive Premier League seasons (after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy).

Harry Kane - Credit: AP
Harry Kane won the golden boot for a second successive season Credit: AP

23. Only the teams that finished in the top six had more shots than Southampton's 549 but only the bottom five scored fewer than their 41 goals.

24. United made more changes to their starting XI than any other team, with 120. West Brom made the fewest, with 49.

25. Tottenham had the youngest starting XI, on average, over the course of the season, at 25 years and 298 days. West Brom had the oldest, at 29 years and 322 days.

26. Arsenal spent just 157 days in the top four, just 20 days fewer than Tottenham.

27. Sunderland spent 92.6 per cent of the season in the relegation zone and 67 per cent bottom of the league.

28. Only Sunderland spent more time bottom of the table than Stoke, who spent 29 days bottom but finished 13th.

29. Christian Eriksen's goal against Hull had a longer sequence of passes leading up to it than any other goal, with 30.

Spurs 1 - 0 Hull (Christian Eriksen, 14 min)

30. Middlesbrough won only two points from losing positions all season.

31. Leicester lost only five points from winning positions.

32. Hull scored three goals and took just two points nine away games under Marco Silva

33. Watford hit the 40-point mark after 32 matches and then lost each of their last six games.

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