This week (22 and 23rd August): Arsenal 6 Blackpool 0, Wigan 0 Chelsea 6, and the latest, most shocking and most unexpected: Newcastle 6 Aston Villa 0.
You dig what I'm getting at here?
Amazingly, this has never happened before in the history of the Barclays Premier League. The last time there were these many trashings was in 2007, and that didn't happen in the space of a week. This?
This is not football.
Of the four matches, the were 3 hattrick heroes (Drogba - Chelsea, Walcott - Arsenal, and Andy Carroll - Newcastle) while the Wigan - Chelsea game saw two players hit doubles (Anelka and Kalou). At the same time, only Arsenal won by that scoreline with the opposition down to 10 men.
These are some other stats I got from a football analysis:
1. The shortest gap between Premier League 6-0 wins before the four in nine days this season was 56 days in Sep-Oct 2007.
2. After 18 PL games in 2010-11, 6-0 is the most common scoreline (4 times) ahead of 2-1 (3 times).
3. 15% of the 6-0 wins (3 of 20) in Premier League history have come this weekend.
Urgh. Much I hope Liverpool does the same thing tomorrow against Manchester City, I think this will more of spoil the beauty of the game. Getting trashed means either one side is too weak for the other, or luck is just not with the trashed side.
Or maybe that's the beauty of the game? Fingers crossed. XD
~eNd~
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