They may be England’s two most successful football clubs, but wow, Manchester United and Liverpool fell well short at the weekend.
A truly crazy day in the Premier League kicked off with Leicester suffering a surprise 3-0 home defeat to West Ham. However, the madness well and truly kicked in as the Red Devils’ clash at home to Tottenham started.
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Bruno Fernandes’ early penalty gave United the lead but their fortunes plummeted after that as Spurs romped to a 6-1 triumph.
The result sent social media into meltdown and United legend Patrice Evra threatened to leave his post as a Sky Sports pundit in the immediate aftermath.
Surely Liverpool’s clash at Aston Villa couldn’t possibly top that? Well…
The Premier League champions suffered a 7-2 spanking in a match that saw Ollie Watkins bag a first-half hat-trick.
It was one of Liverpool’s worst performances in living memory with one fan even calling talkSPORT demanding the club to sack Jurgen Klopp!
We’re still in disbelief these results happened and these Opta stats show just how bad Man United and Liverpool were on Sunday October 4, 2020.
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Liverpool stats
- Liverpool are the first reigning English top-flight champions to ship seven goals in a league match since Arsenal against Sunderland in September 1953.
- Liverpool conceded seven goals in a game for the first time since April 1963, in a 7-2 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
- Adrian has made five errors directly leading to opposition goals in his 21 appearances for Liverpool in all competitions; as many as counterpart Alisson has in 92 such matches.
- Ollie Watkins is the 10th player to score a Premier hat-trick against Liverpool, and the first in over a decade with Dimitar Berbatov last doing it in September 2010.
- Jack Grealish became the first player in Premier League history to have a hand in five goals in a single game against Liverpool (two goals, three assists).
Manchester United stats
- This was the earliest Man United have conceded two goals in a Premier League game since October 2015 against Arsenal (also seven minutes), which came on the fifth anniversary of that defeat.
- Tottenham are the first visiting side to score four first half goals in a league game away at Manchester United since Spurs themselves also did so in November 1957 in a 4-3 win.
- Anthony Martial’s red card within 28 minutes is the earliest any Man United player has been sent off in the Premier League at Old Trafford, with this their 16th such dismissal in the competition.
- Man United conceded four goals in the first half of a Premier League match for the very first time, with this their 1,079th match in the competition.
- Man United are the seventh side in Premier League history to concede a penalty in 3+ successive home games and the first since Arsenal in December 2016.
- Man United have conceded six goals in a single Premier League game for only the third time – with each coming in October (1996 v Southampton, 2011 v Man City, and v Spurs).
- Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham side equalled the biggest ever margin of victory (6-1) for a manager against a former club in the Premier League and the biggest since Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool beat Swansea 5-0 in February 2013.
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