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Bruno Fernandes’ 21 Assists Tell Us Something Assists Usually Hide
Bruno Fernandes finished the 2025/26 Premier League season with 21 assists. It was a new single-season competition record, surpassing the previous mark of 20. Premier League data confirms the scale of the achievement. But there is something unusual hidden inside that record. Fernandes did not simply create more goals than everybody else. He produced an…
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Aston Villa Were Not the Premier League’s Biggest xG Overperformers
Aston Villa finished fourth in the Premier League with 65 points and a positive goal difference of seven. Their expected-goal numbers told a very different story. Villa scored 56 goals from 48.46 xG and conceded 49 from 55.75 xGA. Put those numbers together and their expected goal difference was -7.29. Their actual goal difference was…
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The Premier League Running Table Is Not a Performance Table
Manchester City ran further than every other Premier League team in the available 2025/26 club-distance data. Across their first 27 league matches, City averaged 115.47 kilometres per match. Leeds were barely behind them on 114.75km, followed by Arsenal on 114.28km and Newcastle on 113.98km. At the opposite end, Chelsea averaged just 105.70km. Premier League physical…
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Does Premier League Travel Actually Hurt Away Performance?
Last August, FIVDA drew a map of the Premier League and found a striking imbalance. Newcastle United faced 3,428.1 one-way miles of domestic away travel across the 2025/26 season. Aston Villa faced only 1,835.9. Newcastle’s schedule required almost twice as much straight-line mileage simply because of where St James’ Park sits on the map. FIVDA…
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The Goalkeeper We Thought Was Leading the Premier League Finished Last
Three matches into the 2025/26 Premier League season, FIVDA published a goalkeeper leaderboard. Guglielmo Vicario was first. Using FBref-derived post-shot expected goals data, Tottenham’s goalkeeper had prevented approximately 2.2 goals more than expected. Brighton, meanwhile, sat at roughly -1.0 on the same early measure. FIVDA The numbers were accurate. The lesson we might have been…
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Are the 10 Most Expensive Premier League Transfers of Summer 2025 Worth It?
The summer of 2025 brought about quite a few transfers in the English Premier League. And in today’s world, when big players move, it also means astronomical transfer fees are paid. The top largest signings in summer 2025 amassed a combined total of£736 in transfer fees for Premier League clubs (transfers to Premier League clubs…