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Everyone connected with Brighton and Hove Albion would have savoured Saturday’s 3-1 win over West Ham - and that victory will go down in the annals for a different reason.
Goals from Glenn Murray, Pascal Gross and Jose Izquierdo secured the triumph at the Amex Stadium - in what proved to be the 10,000th game in Premier League history.
Sportsmail takes a look back at some the landmark moments during this time in the top flight…
Manchester United took revenge on the Tractor Boys for their 3-2 win earlier in the season as they ran riot at Old Trafford. Andrew Cole scored five as Sir Alex Ferguson’s side recorded their biggest league win in 103 years. This victory matching the nine-goal winning margin they recorded in a 10–1 win at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers on October 15, 1892.
This was an 11-goal thriller that saw a staggering six of those scored in the last 20 minutes. It was 2-2 at half-time before Portsmouth built up a lead. The scoreline could have been greater had Portsmouth goalkeeper David James not denied left back Nicky Shorey from the penalty spot.
With nine different scorers, the encounter also holds the record for the most goal scorers in a Premier League match, jointly held with Arsenal’s 5–4 win at Tottenham in 2004–05.
Ferguson’s 1,500th and final game in charge of United before retirement ended up being a classic. The then-champions were 3-0 up at one point before a Romelu Lukaku hat-trick, as a substitute, inspired a Baggies comeback as United conceded three goals in the space of five minutes.
Despite the crazy finish at The Hawthorns, United ended the season 11 points clear of Premier League runners-up Manchester City as Ferguson bowed out of management to a standing ovation from all four corners of the ground.
The 41st anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster was met with a gluttony of goals as the United class of 1998-99 hit Nottingham Forest for eight. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored a record four as a substitute as the Red Devils took a big step on their way to winning one third of the Treble that season.
One Comeback from 4-0 down - Newcastle 4-4 Arsenal (February 5, 2011)
Happier days for Newcastle fans, this. A woeful first-half display saw them trail 4-0 at home to Arsenal before Alan Pardew’s side staged one of the most remarkable comebacks in history. Joey Barton scored twice from the penalty spot, either side of a Leon Best strike, before the late Cheick Tiote sparked mass pandemonium with a stunning 30-yard left-foot volley from outside the penalty area.
What more can be said that hasn’t already about this team? This was a historic campaign that is unlikely to ever be repeated again. Arsenal played 38 Premier League games and lost none as they marched to unprecedented league title. The iconic 4-4-1-1 formation of Jens Lehmann; Lauren, Sol Campbell, Kolo Toure, Ashley Cole; Freddie Ljungberg, Patrick Vieira, Gilberto, Robert Pires; Dennis Bergkamp; Thierry Henry will never be forgotten.
Forty nine games and out… - Manchester United 2-0 Arsenal (October 24, 2004)
Ruud van Nistelrooy and Wayne Rooney goals saw Arsenal’s unbeaten league run end one game short of the half-century landmark.
The hostilities of the match bubbled over at full-time with the now infamous ‘Battle of the Buffet’ which included Cesc Fabregas launching a pizza slice at Ferguson.
Manchester United feature heavily in this article - and not always for the right reasons. That’s true again here as Sheffield United forward Brian Deane scored the first ever goal in the Premier League, which came against them. His fifth-minute strike was an easy header from point blank after United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel was caught out of position.
There have been 888 own goals to date with former Manchester City defender Richard Dunne leading the way with 10 of those during his career.
Ex-Liverpool centre back Martin Skrtel has scored the most in a single season with four (2013-14).
Harry Kane is being touted as a threat to breaking Alan Shearer’s Premier League goalscoring record but the Tottenham talisman has a long way to go before he’s even close to achieving the feat.
Shearer scored a staggering 260 goals during a glittering individual playing career at Blackburn and boyhood club Newcastle.
The unique Uruguayan is the only player in Premier League history to score a hat-trick of goals all from outside the box. This came in a 5-2 win at Norwich for Liverpool - with the former a side he used to torment on a regular basis.
Only once have two players from the same team scored hat-tricks in a single match. The names in question? Jermaine Pennant and Robert Pires who both achieved the feat for Arsenal against Southampton.
It’s safe to say they both had different career trajectories after this landmark.
Scoring a hat-trick on your Premier League debut is a dream for all strikers - however, only one has ever achieved the feat. Middlesbrough legend Fabrizio Ravenelli did so against Liverpool in an entertaining 3-3 draw at the Riverside Stadium.
Sadio Mane has been a revelation at Liverpool since he joined, but prior to that he shone for a Southampton side that would love to have him in their ranks now. The Senegal forward is the only player in Premier League history to score a hat-trick in under three minutes - as Aston Villa would testify!
Bournemouth’s injured striker Jermain Defoe has aspirations of making England’s World Cup squad for this summer and to catch the eye again he may have to repeat his heroics of nine seasons ago. Then playing for Tottenham, the diminutive forward scored five goals in a single half as Spurs thumped Wigan.
Still to this day, no player has scored five in that period of time.
Tottenham’s 2-0 win over Manchester United at Wembley on Wednesday saw 81,978 fans watch from within the ground - the highest attendance in Premier League history.
The lowest? Wimbledon attracted just 3,039 fans at Selhurst Park as they lost 3-1 at ‘home’ to Everton.
And the Most Common Scoreline?
For all of its talk as being the ‘most entertaining league in the world’, a 1-0 victory is the most regular scoreline at full-time of a Premier League game. There have been 1,827 of them, in fact.
A 2-1 scoreline is second on the list with this result having occurred 1,187 times.
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored on his Arsenal debut, Manchester City dropped points for only the fourth time this season and Tottenham were awarded two penalties in a dramatic draw at Liverpool.
But who shone enough to make my team of the week? Read the thinking behind my team below and have a go at picking your own.
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Ederson’s save from Ben Mee, as Manchester City drew 1-1 at Burnley on Saturday, was fabulous. However, I have to take you back to the 38th minute of the game.
Nicolas Otamendi plays the ball back to Ederson, who is immediately put under pressure by Burnley’s Ashley Barnes. The Brazilian goalkeeper, unconcerned by Barnes bearing down on him like a train, casually passes it to Vincent Kompany.
He moves the ball slightly more quickly to Kyle Walker, who flicks it around the corner to Bernardo Silva, who passes to Ilkay Gundogan. He turns, gives the ball to Kevin de Bruyne, who then carries the ball for 10 metres before firing an Exocet missile in the direction of Burnley’s Nick Pope.
It was a most glorious move and it all started with Ederson. Is it any wonder that Manchester City are light years ahead of anything else the Premier League has to offer? Manchester United fans must cry themselves to sleep having realised that they got the wrong manager.
It was a deft touch from Jack Stephens that produced a quality finish for Southampton against Brighton in midweek. At West Brom, it was a very different goal, not to mention performance, that provided his manager Mauricio Pellegrino with a stay of execution.
It was a wonderful glancing header matched only by Stephens’ movement towards the ball against an Albion side starting to run out of road.
The Saints, however, on the back of a fabulous 3-2 win, must decide whether they are a feeder club for the top-four sides or are going to try to win something themselves. An FA Cup triumph, perhaps, or even a period in Europe, will provide stability.
They have certainly produced the players over the years to do both. What they are doing - and have done for far too long - is flirting with relegation. When you flirt with relegation, the inevitable always happens.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was gracious enough to state in his post-match press conference that Burnley are the most British of the Premier League teams.
Roughly translated into the words of Lance Corporal Jones from Dad’s Army, City “don’t like it up 'em!”
There were many Burnley players on Saturday who “put in a shift”, to use manager Sean Dyche’s expression. The stand-out player wearing claret and blue, for me, was Ben Mee.
The defender was as effective in his own penalty area as he was threatening, especially from set-pieces, in City’s box.
Burnley might not be the most attractive side in the world but, like Dad’s Army, they have the ability to produce they own brand of cold hard steel.
When Danilo picked up the ball at Turf Moor, the space was there for him to exploit. All too often, full-backs don’t utilise the space in front of them because they can’t; they simply don’t have the ability.
Not so Danilo. The Brazilian knew exactly what he was doing and planted the ball emphatically past Nick Pope - it was jaw-dropping.
Dani Alves was another Brazilian player who loved to rampage forward with one eye on goal. So too was the legendary German full-back Paul Breitner, who made a career out of scoring spectacular goals.
Chelsea have Marcos Alonso and Victor Moses, who have made scoring from full-back positions an art form. The last English player I can remember with this ability was Everton’s Leighton Baines. What a pity more English players don’t have the nerve.
I liked Henrikh Mkhitaryan at Borussia Dortmund, I liked him at Manchester United and I adored what he did for Arsenal against Everton.
Mkhitaryan was used and abused at United but, under more of an ‘artistic director’, the Armenia captain looks as if going to be a big hit for the Gunners.
It is now patently obvious that Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, his former Dortmund team-mate, were having their own discussions to make sure that both would arrive at the Arsenal at the same time. One move clearly influenced the other.
As for Everton? Well, manager Sam Allardyce can complain all he wants about his team’s first-half performance. If the Everton manager insists on playing so many unfamiliar faces all at the same time in a new team set-up, what does he expect - a Picasso?
What he did get was a lovely looking, overly sweet, sickly tasting blancmange and that’s all he deserved. It takes months to create an effective team, not hours.
This lad is playing for the wrong team. Seriously. Mario Lemina is an Arsenal player if ever I have seen one.
For far too long in my opinion, Arsene Wenger has faffed around with the likes of Mohamed Elneny and Francis Coquelin. Wenger should have invested in Lemina during the summer and got in there well before Southampton did.
Lemina is wasted at St Mary’s. Sorry, Southampton fans, but you just do not have the class of player to bring the best out of this lad.
His performance against West Brom was immense. Admittedly, we have not seen enough performances like this - but you would if you put him in a proper outfit.
Arsenal’s 3-1 defeat at Swansea last Tuesday was a joke. Everton’s first-half performance against Arsenal four days later was even worse.
Just when I was expecting a sweet toffee, I got a sour taste.
Meanwhile, Wales international Aaron Ramsey would not have enjoyed being humiliated by the Swans but at least his hat-trick against a very poor Everton might make travelling home to the Valleys a little more bearable.
Leicester City may have found a new Riyad Mahrez, which is just as well because I cannot see the Algeria winger playing for them again.
Fousseni Diabate’s performance at Peterborough in the FA Cup was impressive - but that was Peterborough. Against a rejuvenated Swansea, he showed the same courage and mental strength Mahrez showed during the Foxes’ title-winning season.
There is nothing more exciting than seeing a player taking defenders on and Diabate does it for fun.
How tragic then that Leicester’s love affair with Mahrez has come to such a dramatic impasse. With a little bit of common sense, everyone would have won. Mahrez gets his move to Manchester City, Manchester City get the player and Leicester get a vast sum of money well in excess of what they paid for him.
Now they have a distraction that will dominate their every press conference until it is resolved. Well done, Leicester.
There are some goals you just have to applaud and Mohamed Salah’s second goal in Liverpool’s 2-2 draw at home to Tottenham was one of them. It was Maradona-esque.
Salah’s first goal was brilliantly taken too. Spurs paid the price from a shocking bout of stage fright, especially from Davinson Sanchez, who had never played at Anfield before, and Eric Dier, who had.
Spurs did recover after a very difficult first half. Nevertheless, they can count themselves extremely fortunate to have had Jon Moss, the best referee in the Premier League, on hand.
It was Moss’s interventions that saved Tottenham - and quite rightly - but it was Salah’s performance that blew everyone away.
The finish by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang against Everton on Saturday was pure class. But are the Arsenal fans or manager Arsene Wenger, for that matter, going to destroy another top-class player in order to play in a particular manner?
Alexandre Lacazette looks as if he has now become surplus to requirements because of Wenger’s insistence that two up front cannot work. Correction - two up front does not work for him.
Meanwhile, he is destroying strikers with every stroke of his Montblanc - ask Olivier Giroud. Let’s hope Aubameyang survives Wenger’s blame game.
Brighton do not have the greatest goalscoring record in the Premier League, but they will not give tuppence for that statistic. What will concern manager Chris Hughton is that when they do score goals, they win matches.
If ever a goal deserved to win a football match, then it was the one scored by Jose Izquierdo against West Ham. It was an absolute beauty.
Of course, you can’t win matches if you don’t score goals - but the real trick is not to concede when you do score. Can Brighton survive and stay up from this position? I hope so.
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A Southampton victory was not in the script. On an emotionally charged afternoon at The Hawthorns the club paid a classy tribute to Cyrille Regis, their trailblazer of a striker, who died of a heart attack last month aged 59. Tear-jerking video tributes were played and warm speeches made with a host of Regis’ family, friends, former colleagues and players he later inspired present at West Brom’s first home game since he passed away. Modern footballers are sometimes accused of not caring enough, but this defeat hurt West Brom’s squad to the core. At the final whistle they lingered on the pitch, hands on hips, heads bowed, some sat crestfallen on the turf. The anguish was etched on the face of experienced defender Gareth McAuley, the Baggies’ captain for the day in place of the injured Jonny Evans, before he even began to speak afterwards. “I don’t know what to say except we’re gutted for Cyrille’s family and everyone connected with him,” said the Northern Irishman.
“We’re gutted for Cyrille’s family and everyone connected with him” “On such an occasion as this we all wanted to win it for him. Cyrille was a huge figure around the place, he always spoke to the players when he was here and it’s gutting to stand here having lost on the day we celebrated his life and everything he did for football.” Albion had got off to a dream start when Chris Brunt curled in a corner and Ahmed Hegazi headed in but Mario Lemina equalised for Southampton with an unstoppable 30-yard screamer. A cute glancing header from Jack Stephens - his third goal in three - and James Ward-Prowse’s free-kick put Saints 3-1 up before Salomon Rondon nodded in. But the Baggies could not find a dramatic leveller. “We’ve lost 18 points from leading positions,” said McAuley, with West Brom now four points adrift at the bottom. “Even if we had taken half of those points, it would have made a hell of a difference to our season.
“It’s only a week since we won at Liverpool in the FA Cup, so this is not the time to panic. But it is time to roll up our sleeves and get our teeth stuck into the fight we’re in. “We’re going to need guts, determination, bravery – everything that makes you a professional footballer – and we need to drag that out of the group in the coming weeks. “Next up is Chelsea, but if you look back we’ve done well there in recent years and we’ve got to believe we can go there with a game plan, stick to it and come away with something because the games are running out and we need to put some points on the board.” Southampton’s victory was their first in the league in 13 matches and moved them out of the relegation zone. It also eased the pressure on boss Mauricio Pellegrino, who had been subjected to chants of “sacked in the morning” from the visiting fans at 1-0 down.
Saints midfielder Oriol Romeu claims the supporters had to change their tune after they kept their composure to fight back. “I had a coach when I was young who said whenever you open your mouth, they will shut it,” Romeu said about the response of Southampton’s players on the pitch to the calls for Pellegrino’s head. “We were calm and while we were not feeling well in our position, we have been playing good football. “Of course, we are not out of it, but it will be easier now. There will less pressure to play and we can enjoy our games. We have the quality to stay in the Premier League and we wanted to prove that.”
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A gripping weekend of Premier League football was rounded off by Liverpool and Tottenham playing out a thrilling 2-2 draw at Anfield on Sunday.
Watford host Chelsea on Monday but Sportsmail has collected the verdicts from fans of all sides to have been in action this weekend, where there were encouraging results for the likes of Arsenal, Southampton and Bournemouth.
What a performance. It certainly felt like a win once Johann Berg Gudmundsson had scored our equaliser.
It was very difficult at times, particularly in the first half against some of City’s breathtaking football. But we stuck at it, put them under pressure in the second half, and became the first team to come from behind to take a point from City since April last year. This Burnley team is very special.
Given our dominance for so much of the match and the chances we wasted, it was almost inevitable that Burnley would equalise late on. Our performance was pretty good for the most part, but too many final balls went astray, too many opportunities were squandered and we paid the price for not killing the game. The league is sewn up, but we need to be far more clinical in the Champions League and the two cup competitions. A week now without a midweek game hopefully helps us recover freshness and bodies.
A great second half comeback by Bournemouth. Stoke came to try to bully them off the pitch and while referee Paul Tierney offered little protection, Bournemouth dug deep and battled to set a club record of seven games unbeaten in the Premier League.
Lys Mousset was the game-changer and he now has his first Premier League goal. It’s been a great week for Bournemouth and credit to Eddie Howe who was brave to put Josh King on and change the shape, when Steve Cook hobbled off after just 11 minutes.
For the first 35 minutes of this match Stoke were excellent, playing some of the best football we’ve produced this season. New signing Badou Ndiaye was running the show.
Unfortunately, a football match doesn’t last 35 minutes and for the rest of the game Bournemouth were better. They scored twice in the final 20 minutes and we simply couldn’t do anything to save ourselves.
Defeats like this when you’re battling against relegation are crushing and we’re starting to run out of winnable games. It’s all getting extremely worrying.
Powerful performance and a vital win. This was a pivotal moment and it felt like win or bust. When the third went in, the relief poured out and The Amex was vibrant.
Our wingers both terrorised their full backs and our finishing was fantastic. Without doubt the most important result so far.
West Ham are paying for the lack of investment from the owners as their threadbare squad simply doesn’t have the guile and finesse in the final third to carve out enough chances to give even Brighton a competitive game.
David Moyes is playing against a stacked deck at the moment and he can only sit and wait for his key players to return from injury.
The players looked tired and devoid of any confidence and it’s frustrating to watch.
Lanzini and Arnautovic can’t return soon enough. Hopefully they won’t have too big of a hole to dig us out of.
With Mahrez nowhere to be seen Claude Puel’s Leicester City side were unlucky not to come away with all three points in a frustrating game.
Mahrez is under contract — a contract he was happy to sign. If the deal is right for both clubs, he can go with the fans’ blessing. But he is in danger of undoing all the hard work that has made him the player he is.
Diabate looks another find though!
Carlos Carvalhal has turned a squad full of sardines into a squad full of lobsters. Everyone is upping their game massively and showing their true qualities. It wasn’t a massively convincing performance at Leicester, however we dug in deep and fought for a really impressive point at a place where we hold a horrible record. A very welcome point which keeps us clear of the relegation zone.
United needed to respond straight away after that shocking performance at Spurs.
Great finish from Lukaku and I’m quickly falling in love with Sanchez, who keeps getting battered with fouls but refuses to give in.
The result we expected but a much more positive performance. We frustrated Mourinho’s men for large periods. Wagner played a third different formation in as many games and the compact shape meant the home side struggled to create too many clear cut chances. With more composure, Town could have had a goal of their own. After the break, the United onslaught proved to be too much, as the deadlock was broken, but there were positive signs heading into a crucial few games in our season.
We let Cyrille Regis down big time. A spineless performance. After an hour of wonderful build-up celebrating the life of Regis the players should have been right up for it. They were for about 10 minutes. Spineless in midfield and poor at the back. We’re going down without a fight. Lemina was the best player I’ve seen at The Hawthorns this season. Pardew needs to work a miracle.
The opening half hour followed the usual narrative of our recent fixtures, where we’ve started sloppy, uninspired and conceded early goals.
But with thanks to Pellegrino finally fielding an attacking line-up, we had players on the field that were capable of wrestling the game back and playing on the front foot.
Mario Lemina proved that he should be the heartbeat of the Southampton midfield and James Ward-Prowse once again displayed a clinical edge in the final third.
We’re out of the relegation zone and unbeaten in six, but we’re still just two points clear of Stoke in 18th. We can’t look back.
The Emirates was rocking on a cold wet afternoon as the fans welcomed two new stars and a freshly committed Ozil. All three combined to drop a world class performance, with Arsenal dazzling in a 5-1 destruction of Everton. Mkhitaryan delivered three assists, Ramsey three goals and Aubameyang hope that we’d finally unearthed a world class striker.
Allardyce needs to go. I’m sick and tired of having 11 men behind the ball, defending for our lives and we couldn’t even do that! Three down after 20 minutes? Doesn’t even look like he’s bothered at all. Why weren’t Sigurdsson or Rooney in that team? Was there anybody who was bothered about attacking at all? Walsh has tortured our club but Allardyce has helped him give the final, slow, painful blow to finish us off. Fed up.
Star man: The fans who bothered to turn up
Palace gave too much space to Newcastle in the first half and they duly took advantage.
The Eagles were a different side in the second. With more luck in front of goal we should have taken all three points.
After battling back from a goal down, a point against a side in a similar situation is not too disappointing.
The game was littered with plenty of questionable refereeing decisions.
An important point. Mo Diame impressed once again in midfield and is beginning to repay Rafa Benitez for the faith shown in him.
Sadly the same cannot be said for Dwight Gayle. His performance highlighted how important it is for Islam Slimani to hit the ground running.
Expect Newcastle’s other deadline-day addition Martin Dubravka to start the next game after a questionable second half from Karl Darlow.
What a game! First half Spurs played right into Liverpool’s hands by trying to out-macho them. Who can press higher? Who can beat the press better? Well, the answer was Liverpool.
But the second half saw the Scousers lower their intensity and Spurs ramp up the tempo, and by the time Victor Wanyama hit thunderbolt of the season there looked to only be one team going on to take three points.
Then, a madness! Kane won a penalty despite looking offside, hit it down the middle straight at a very brave Karius, then Liverpool scored what looked like the deciding goal before £75m Virgil Van Dijk kicked Erik Lamela up in the air leaving Harry to claim redemption and his 100th Premier League goal with the last kick of the game.
Breathless stuff and a great point for Spurs. Arsenal at home next. Three points please.
A draw was fair but the way it happened was anything but. What an absolute farce those two penalties were.
Liverpool didn’t play well but in Mohamed Salah they had an incredibly special player who can win games almost on his own.
His injury-time goal was worthy of winning any game but referee Jon Moss and his little helper ensured that wasn’t the case.
The draw isn’t a bad result for the Reds but Sadio Mane’s loss of form is beginning to give cause for concern.
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