Premier League Matchday 27 By Numbers

Matchday 27 featured eight games, and in all honesty, it wasn't the most exciting weekend of football.

Matchday 27 was considerably quiet compared to Matchday 26. There wasn’t as much action, no real big standouts from the weekend. It was a straight-forward weekend of Premier League football.

To highlight the mediocracy of the weekend, we have five stats from it. The last one of which is literally just thrown in because, well, why not.

 

14

Goals scored this weekend. It is the lowest amount of goals scored collectively over a weekend this season.

Four teams did not play, meaning there were only eight games played instead of the usual 10. But there had been five instances before MD27 of only eight games being played, and not one of them came anywhere close to only 14 goals.

The highest-scoring game of the weekend was Leeds United vs Tottenham, finishing 4-0 to Spurs.

 

21.7

Expected goals for the weekend. To make things that much worse for how boring a weekend it really was in terms of goals scored, the teams collectively over the weekend were almost eight goals under what they were expected.

The worst offenders for not meeting their xG were Manchester United, who had a 2.9 xG yet finished with zero goals in a goalless draw with 19th- placed Watford.

Tottenham were the only team to be more than a full goal above their xG. They scored four goals on an xG of 2.4.

 

87%

Save percentage for Jordan Pickford in Everton’s 1-0 defeat to Man United. There were two keepers in good form this weekend, but both unfortunately came in losing efforts.

David Raya from Brentford had a save percentage of 81.8%, saving nine of the 11 shots on target from Newcastle. The two conceded were unsavable for any keeper, though, so he can take that away.

For Pickford, he was really unlucky to concede. He was fantastic throughout the game, stopping seven of Man City’s eight shots on target,

The one he didn’t save was barely his fault. The ground cross in from Bernardo Silva took a deflection, and Michael Keane, the defender in front of goal scorer Phil Foden, couldn’t get his feet moving. The ball fell right to Foden, who took one touch before sending the ball home from roughly a men's size 12 shoe out.

 

86%

Pass accuracy in total in the Leeds vs Tottenham game. This game as a whole from the stats was pretty even. The deciding factor was that Spurs were more clinical in front of goal.

But there can be no complaints about the passing. Leeds made 392 of their 471 total passes, giving them 83% pass accuracy. Spurs were slightly better, making 427 of their 488 total passes, giving them 88% pass accuracy.

And those two numbers together and divide by two and you will get a solid 85.5% pass accuracy between the two sides. But sometimes I like to roundup, and this is one of those times. So it's 86%.

 

31,475

Attendance at the American Express Community Stadium in Brighton. It is the highest attendance for a Brighton home game this season. 

If Wikipedia is to be believed, the full capacity of the stadium is 31,800. So, with 31,475 fans in attendance on Saturday, The AMEX was at 98.98% capacity.

But those 31,475 fans witnessed Brighton lose 2-0 to Aston Villa. Not the best game to have the most fans in attendance for the season. 

Why is this stat here? Because there wasn’t much else from this weekend. It was a rather quiet weekend of Premier League football, and this felt like a decent enough stat to point out.

And in all honesty, there are many numbers for attendance for this game, as well as the actual capacity of The AMEX stadium. This number is taken from FBRef, so blame them if it's wrong