Liverpool and Chelsea didn’t discover a remedy for his or her January blues because the out-of-form giants performed out a goalless attract Saturday’s headline Premier League conflict at Anfield.
Whereas Graham Potter’s guests went shut by £89million signing Mykhaylo Mudryk, the competition provided a stark reminder of why each groups are marooned in mid-table, although there was loads of intrigue to be discovered elsewhere.
Whereas Champions League-chasing Newcastle United didn’t make additional inroads in a stalemate of their very own at Crystal Palace, it was a day of contrasting fortunes on the backside.
West Ham clinched an enormous win over Everton as Leicester Metropolis have been pegged again by Brighton and Hove Albion, leaving each Frank Lampard and Brendan Rodgers underneath extreme strain.
Right here, Stats Carry out takes a have a look at essentially the most fascinating details to emerge from Saturday’s Premier League motion.
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Liverpool 0-0 Chelsea: Reds and Blues hearth one other clean
Followers of Liverpool and Chelsea have change into accustomed to goalless attracts when their sides meet. Saturday’s sport represented the third consecutive fixture between the groups to complete 0-0.
Liverpool have solely recorded an extended such run in opposition to an opponent as soon as of their historical past, taking part in out 4 successive 0-0 attracts with Everton in 1974 and 1975. Chelsea have by no means achieved so.
Jurgen Klopp would have been hoping to see Cody Gakpo hit the bottom working when he arrived from PSV earlier this month, however the Netherlands worldwide disenchanted as soon as once more at Anfield – since his Reds debut on January 7, no Premier League participant has had extra photographs with out scoring in all competitions than Gakpo’s 12.
Whereas Potter has now overseen 16 goalless attracts since making his Premier League bow within the 2019-20 season, at the very least twice as many as another supervisor in that point, Klopp was left to curse the identification of Liverpool’s opponents on a landmark event.
The German has now accomplished 1,000 video games as a supervisor – 411 with Liverpool, 319 with Borussia Dortmund and 270 with Mainz. Nevertheless, 10 of his 20 profession conferences with Chelsea have been drawn, greater than in opposition to another facet.
Leicester Metropolis 2-2 Brighton and Hove Albion: Foxes denied by in-form Ferguson
On the King Energy Stadium, Leicester appeared to be on the right track for an important victory when objectives from Marc Albrighton and Harvey Barnes put them on prime following Kaoru Mitoma’s gorgeous opener.
Barnes has scored extra Premier League objectives (seven) in 18 appearances this season than he did in 32 video games final time period (six), however the winger was to be outdone on the dying as Evan Ferguson headed a late leveller for Brighton.
With three objectives and two assists in his 5 Premier League appearances, Ferguson is averaging a purpose involvement each 40 minutes within the competitors – one of the best ratio amongst gamers to have performed at the very least 90 minutes this time period.
The outcome leaves Leicester boss Rodgers dealing with mounting strain, with the Foxes winless of their final 5 league video games (W1, D4) after successful 5 of their earlier eight.
Leicester 2-2 Brighton: Evan Ferguson scores his third purpose in simply his fifth Premier League look to win Brighton a degree.
The Seagulls keep within the prime six, plus they’ve one of many nicest gamers to look at in the entire league (Kaoru Mitoma, in fact). pic.twitter.com/JTkzdooa31
— Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) January 21, 2023
West Ham 2-0 Everton: Bowen on the double as Lampard’s woes deepen
On the London Stadium, West Ham struck an enormous blow within the battle to keep away from the drop, ending a run of seven league matches with no win (D1, L6) as Jarrod Bowen’s brace sunk Everton.
The England worldwide was readily available for 2 close-range finishes earlier than the interval because the Hammers escaped the relegation zone. With 21 objectives on the venue, Bowen is now stage with Michail Antonio because the joint-top scorer on the London Stadium.
Everton, nonetheless, are in disaster mode after gathering simply 15 factors from their first 20 video games of the season. Accounting for 3 factors per win throughout all seasons, that is the Toffees’ worst return at this level of a marketing campaign of their historical past.
Their run of eight league video games with no win (D2, L6) is the longest of Lampard’s managerial profession, casting additional doubt on his future at Goodison Park.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Newcastle United: Magpies showcase solidity at Selhurst Park
Newcastle’s failure to make the breakthrough in opposition to Crystal Palace is not going to have happy Eddie Howe, however a sixth consecutive Premier League clear sheet demonstrated the strong streak which has put them in top-four competition.
The Magpies’ run of six successive shutouts is the longest managed by a Premier League facet underneath an English supervisor since Steve McClaren’s Middlesbrough went seven video games with out conceding within the 2003-04 marketing campaign.
In the meantime, Newcastle’s sequence of 15 video games with out defeat within the Premier League (W9, D6) is now the longest of their top-flight historical past.
Having additionally drawn 0-0 within the return fixture at St James’ Park in September, Palace and Newcastle have tried 64 photographs between them with out scoring of their two Premier League conferences this time period – essentially the most of any two sides in a single season on file (since 2003-04).
16 – Newcastle haven’t conceded a primary half purpose in any of their final 16 Premier League video games; the longest such run by a group since Liverpool between January and April 2002 (additionally 16). Basis. pic.twitter.com/07ldC8mVx0
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 21, 2023