No English players scored for the first time in the history of the Premier League in history in GameWeek one of the 2025-26 season.
The top flight was back in full swing in recent days when teams started their campaign, with a lot of drama across the board.
But in data provided by OPTA, it can be revealed that despite the fact that 24 goals came in within 10 games, one of these was not scored by an Englishman in what is unprecedented statistics and a 33-year-old first in the history of the competition.
The issue of a lack of English stars playing in the top flight is well documented, in which former Lions -Baas Gareth Southgate has regularly discussed his concerns and it is unlikely that he will be surprised by Het Laatste Nieuws.
Southgate's replacement Thomas Tuchel had first-hand experience this weekend, in which the German gave the 4-0 victory of Man City on Wolves, where goals were scored by a Norwegian (twice), a Dutchman and a French star.
He then looked at the 1-0 victory of Arsenal in Man United on Sunday afternoon when the Italian Riccardo Calafiori yielded the winner.
Last season three Englishman scored on the opening weekend, while it was eight and seven respectively in 2023-24 and 2022-23.
The dip this time can be led by the fact that the will of Ivan Toney, Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham, all of whom were in Tuchel's last team, float their trade abroad, while Marcus Rashford came to Barcelona in the summer.
Dominic Solanke van Tottenham recently returned from an injury and was introduced as a late replacement in their 3-0 win against Burnley.
It could also not have taken place if the free kick of Ebereechi Eze for Crystal Palace against Chelsea was not excluded after countryman Marc Guehi intervened with the defensive wall.
Nevertheless, it is still worrying and the number of English opening carers has generally decreased since a record high of 22 in the inaugural Premier League campaign in 1992-93.
2021-22 is the only time in the past 15 seasons that double digits were reached when 11 stars scored.
In the meantime, data from the past 10 seasons show that the most productive star in the opening weekend is Jamie Vardy.
Vardy has scored seven times, but the Leicester -legend is currently without a club after leaving the King Power Stadium at the end of last season.
Behind Vardy is Callum Wilson with five, but the 33-year-old could not add that when he debuted his West Ham from the bank against Sunderland during the defeat of the Hammers 3-0.
The four goals of Raheem Sterling in the past 10 seasons mean that he is the third most productive Englishman when opening weekend luminaires during that time frame.
Elsewhere, another worrying statistics that emerged was the 77 Englishmen who were shown during the opening weekend, a record low.
That number fell from 93 last season and a highlight of 197 in 1992-23.