Monday, 8 June 2015

Top Premier League statistics for 2014/2015 season


Most touches of the ball:
Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea) 3331
Kieran Trippier (Burnley) 3093
Santi Cazorla (Arsenal) 3053

Most touches of the ball per game: 
Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea) 97.97
Yaya Toure (Man City) 94.31
Gael Clichy (Man City) 84.43 

Highest pass completion (not DF, min 20 games):
Mathieu Flamini (Arsenal) 91.2%
Fernando (Man City) 91.1%
Mousa Dembele (Tottenham) 89.3%
Ki Sung-Yeung (Swansea) 89.3%

Most goals:
Sergio Aguero (Man City) 26
Harry Kane (Tottenham) 21
Diego Costa (Chelsea) 20

Most shots without scoring:
Jesus Navas (Man City) 46
Fabian Delph (Aston Villa) 42
Tom Huddlestone (Hull) 38

Sergio Aguero finished on top of the goal-scoring chart.

Most shots:
Sergio Aguero (Man City) 148
Charlie Austin (QPR) 130
Graziano Pelle (Southampton) 123
Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal) 121

Most assists:
Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea) 18
Santi Cazorla (Arsenal) 11
Chris Brunt (West Brom) 10
Angel Di Maria (Man United) 10
Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea) 10

Most assists from open play:
Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea) 11
Angel Di Maria (Man United) 10
Santi Cazorla (Arsenal) 9
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) 9
Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea) 9

Most chances created:
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) 99
Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea) 91
David Silva (Man City) 91
Stewart Downing (West Ham) 84

Most chances created from open play:
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) 98
David Silva (Man City) 84
Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) 74
Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal) 71

Only one of Eden Hazard's 99 chances created was not from open play.


GOALKEEPING

Most saves made:
Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea) 137
Robert Green (QPR) 132
Adrian (West Ham) 129
Tom Heaton (Burnley) 128

Highest shot save % (min 20 games): 
Costel Pantilimon (Sunderland) 77.9%
Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea) 75.3%
Fraser Forster (Southampton) 74.4%

Lowest shot save % (min 20 games): 
Tim Howard (Everton) 61.1%
Allan McGregor (Hull City) 62.1%
Tim Krul (Newcastle) 63.8%

DEFENDING AND DISCIPLINE

Most tackles:
Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) 101
George Boyd (Burnley) 83
Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) 80

Most yellow cards:
Lee Cattermole (Sunderland) 14
Jack Colback (Newcastle) 12
Joey Barton (QPR) 11
Cesc Fabregas (Chelsea) 11

Ashley Barnes committed the most fouls over the course of the season.


Most fouls committed:
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) 74
Graziano Pelle (Southampton) 70
Victor Wanyama (Southampton) 68
Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester) 67

Most fouls suffered: 
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) 113
Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) 94
Sadio Mane (Southampton) 76
Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal) 72

ADDITIONAL STATS

- Didier Drogba (28) featured in more Premier League games than Diego Costa (26) this season.

- Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas and Danny Ings are only players to receive more than one caution for diving in the Premier League this season.

- Ander Herrera (Man United ) scored with six of his seven shots on target in his debut Premier League campaign.

- Sammy Ameobi (Newcastle) scored eight seconds after coming on as a sub vs Tottenham, the fastest goal as a substitute Opta have recorded in the Premier League.

- George Boyd (Hull and Burnley) became the 4th player to play for two relegated teams in the same Premier League season (along with Mark Robins in 94-95, Steve Kabba in 06-07 and David Nugent in 09-10)


Sadio Mane destroyed Aston Villa in less than three minutes.
- Sadio Mane's hat-trick for Southampton against Aston Villa took just two minutes and 56 seconds, the fastest ever seen in the Premier League.

- Gareth Barry (Everton) became the first player to pick up 100 yellow cards in the Premier League - to date he has 104.

- Lee Cattermole equalled a Premier League record by collecting 14 yellow cards in a single season.

- Harry Kane won his team 24 points with his goals this season, more than any other player. Kane became the first Tottenham player to score 30+ goals in all comps in a single season since Gary Lineker in 1991-92. Robbie Fowler (twice) & Chris Sutton are the only players to reach 20 goals at a younger age than Kane.

- John Terry became the Premier League's all-time highest scoring defender (39). Terry became only the second outfield player to play every minute for a Premier League title winning side (along with Gary Pallister of Man United in 1992-93).

- Diego Costa became only the fourth Chelsea player to reach 20 goals in a Premier League campaign (after Hasselbaink, Drogba and Lampard).

- Cesc Fabregas assisted 18 goals, only two short of Thierry Henry's single season record of 20 in 2002-03. Eighteen was a personal record for Fabregas after his previous best of 17 with Arsenal in 2007-08.

- Wayne Rooney became the first player to score 10+ goals in 11 successive Premier League seasons.

- Eden Hazard saw 23 opponents booked for fouling him in the Premier League this season.

- QPR's Rob Green made more errors leading to a goal than any other Premier League player (6)

- QPR's Richard Dunne became the first player to reach double figures for own goals in Premier League history (10).

- On the final day Petr Cech played his 333rd Premier League game for Chelsea; only two goalkeepers have played more for a single club (Jaaskelainen 379 for Bolton, Given 354 for Newcastle).

- With five in 2014-15, Stoke's Peter Crouch has scored 47 headed goals in the Premier League, more than any other player (passing Alan Shearer on 46).

- Santi Cazorla made 154 successful passes against Sunderland in May, the most by a player in a single Premier League game in 2014-15.

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