There were only eight games in the Premier League last weekend, because Liverpool and Newcastle United were in the EFL Cup promotion.
Arsenal took the opportunity to get closer to Liverpool at the top by beating Chelsea, albeit the Reds – who were defeated by Newcastle in Wembley Stadium – are still 12 points clear.
Behind the Gunners consolidated Nottingham Forest consolidated their place in the top four with an unbridled 4-2 victory in the wrestling city of Ipswich, who, like Leicester City, after their loss against Manchester United, are now nine points on Drift of Security are after the 2-1 victory of Wolves now the judge, whose whose whose bait has their fatee whose whose whose.
Manchester City pulled 2-2 with Brighton, when there it was the fastest player to reach 100 Premier League target.
Everton hit West Ham late, while Brentford and Fulham raised their European hope by beating Bournemouth and Tottenham respectively.
But which teams can consider themselves happy or unhappy according to the underlying statistics?
Unfortunate losers: Bournemouth
Bournemouth looked good a few weeks ago to challenge the Champions League qualification, but the Andoni Iraola team has not succeeded in winning one of their last four league matches, which lost three.
They continued on Saturday against Brentford, but did not succeed in building on their lead and the bees eventually continued their incredible record against Bournemouth, which they have not lost since 2014 in a league match.
Bournemouth, however, created an enormous chance of 1-1, with Antoine Semenyo against the crossbar from the six-year box on its way. Let later, David Brooks pricked directly at Mark Flekken, when it seemed as if it would have been easier to direct his attempt on both sides of Brentford's goalkeeper.
The Cherries ended with 1.67 expected goals, which was the third highest of each team at the weekend, while they also had 17 shots for Brentford's 10.
But Brentford converted 20% of their attempts, compared to the conversion rate of 5.88% of Bournemouth. The Thomas Frank team only registered 0.83 XG, but their expected goals on goal were at 2.22, with a high caliber of finishing.
Lucky Winners: Fulham
Sunday's meeting between Fulham and Tottenham in Craven Cottage lasted a long time, for a long time to come into life. In fact, it was only in the 69th minute that there was a real, clear chance – Dominic Solanke who shot up close.
Yet Marco Silva was able to celebrate his 200th game as a Premier League boss thanks to two goals in the room of 10 minutes late; Rodrigo Muniz finished Cool before the former Spurs -Man Ryan Sessegnon Ben Davies killed and a sensational strike curled.
In the first half of a Premier League match for the ninth time under Ange Postecoglou, Spurs could not register one shot in the first half of a Premier League match, more than their last two permanent managers combined (eight), but they had started clicking after the break.
And they limited Fulham to fairly little, as the XG competition appears. The hosts collected opportunities worth 0.97 xg, where tracks ended with 0.95 xg. There was really very little in it.
Fulham's XGOT, however, jumped to 1.76, a sign of how good those finishes were from Muniz and Sessegnon. Spurs, however, had a lower XGOT than their XG, at 0.44, where the visitors both missed big opportunities.
Bad losers: Leicester City
Leicester looks destined for the drop, and the 3-0 reverse of Sunday in the hands of United left them in the 19th with nine games to play.
The Foxes have now shipped 1,001 Premier League goals, while they became the first team in the English top-historical history that lost seven straight house competitions without scoring a single goal.
1001 – Leicester City has admitted 1,001 goals in their 679 Premier League matches, the 12th team that admits that many in the competition, while the foxes have taken the least competitions between those parties to reach that figure. Locks. pic.twitter.com/zxvvzvpae1
– Optajoe (@Optajoe) March 16, 2025
However, the Ruud van Nistelrooy team can regard as the underlying data of the underlying data.
They gathered a higher XG (1.05) than United (0.91), with Jamie Vardy and Facundo Buonanotte passing a number of gilded opportunities.
Only Man City (four) and Brighton (six) had more great chances than Leicester (three) at the weekend, but the failure of the foxes to convert cost them a lot.
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